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Forums - Sales - The Official December NPD 2008 Thread

johnsobas on 15 January 2009

hahaha, no. WoW subscriptions alone would be bigger than that number. That number does count retail WoW expansion sales though.



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alfredofroylan on 15 January 2009

The PSP exclusive titles Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and God of War: Chains of Olympus, which both launched in March, were the top two most popular titles of 2008 and sold a combined 1,313,893 units in 2008.

Combined sales Sony???? Wow ..... seriously wow



silverlunar777 on 15 January 2009

Man I was really thinking Wii would hit 3M+ oh well.



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FishyJoe on 15 January 2009
alfredofroylan said:
The PSP exclusive titles Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and God of War: Chains of Olympus, which both launched in March, were the top two most popular titles of 2008 and sold a combined 1,313,893 units in 2008.

Combined sales Sony???? Wow ..... seriously wow

 

It does make you wonder, who writes this stuff?



Kasz216 on 15 January 2009

Interesting NPD. It's fun to see people switch positions in the arguements.

Financials are coming up soon. Should be fun to see who is "right".

Nintendo apparently shipping less in Decemember then Janurary is... confusing... worrying about the Dollar to Yen transition makes sense... but holding on to stock would be worse. Were they shipped elsewhere who knows.



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fkusumot on 16 January 2009

I'm pretty disappointed that Wii Music only sold 488k copies. This can be explained by:

1. Recession
2. Media/Fanboy hate
3. Not getting a price cut

Considering those factors I think Wii Music did O.K.


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appolose on 16 January 2009

Hopefully this month won't have killed it's momentum.
Although that seems unlikely.



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JaggedSac on 16 January 2009
dolemit3 said:
The PC gaming is not in decline, its sales are simply shifting from retails to on-line digital distributions. MSFT and Sony better take notice.

You do realize that a Microsoft exec was quoted, in that very article, as saying that he did not believe that PC gaming was in a decline.

 



outlawauron on 16 January 2009
FishyJoe said:

I don't think NPD tracks Toys R Us either. I'm guessing Walmart is #1 and TRU is in the top 4 in terms of largest Wii Retailers. Best Buy and Gamestop are probably in the 2-4 range.

And neither does VGC. I hate how we use that against NPD being that VGC doesn't have that data either.



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FishyJoe on 16 January 2009
outlawauron said:
FishyJoe said:

I don't think NPD tracks Toys R Us either. I'm guessing Walmart is #1 and TRU is in the top 4 in terms of largest Wii Retailers. Best Buy and Gamestop are probably in the 2-4 range.

And neither does VGC. I hate how we use that against NPD being that VGC doesn't have that data either.

 

I wasn't using that against anyone. But it is a possible source of tracking error, whether it be NPD or VGC. That's why I always trust the financial reports above sampling.