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Forums - Sales - The Official April NPD Thread (Data at 6:30 PM EST)

Lostplanet22 said:
Last year numbers:

Last year APril: PSP 192.7K
PlayStation 3 187.1K
Xbox 360 188.0K
PlayStation 2 124.4K
Wii 714.2K
Nintendo DS 414.8K


The Wii/XBOX 360 and PS3 are doomed!

 

360 is down too.....



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Star Scream said:
Wii: April 2008 714K
Wii: April 2009 340K



That's a huge drop, is there a Wii shortage in US?

 

No there are stacks of Wii at every retailer...



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

Star Scream said:
Wii: April 2008 714K
Wii: April 2009 340K



That's a huge drop, is there a Wii shortage in US?

Nopers!

 



The Xbox Man said:
PSP is down by the most

No, Wii is.

And PSP had Crisis Core and GoW to carry it last part of the early year - Sony probably thought Resistance would carry a bit of that weight but it clearly failed.

 



April'09 April '08 March'09
DS 1004 415 563 78% 142%
PS2 172 124 112 54% 39%
360 175 188 330 -47% -7%
PS3 127 187 218 -42% -32%
PSP 116 193 168 -31% -40%
Wii 340 714 601 -43% -52%


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Star Scream said:
Wii: April 2008 714K
Wii: April 2009 340K



That's a huge drop, is there a Wii shortage in US?

Well Mario Kart Wii came out last year which caused that spike, while this year there wasn't anything big in April



Battlefield Bad Company 2 > Modern Warfare 2

GH:Aerosmith was on sale for $9.99 at many places. That could explain it charting

Last year GTA and Mario Kart came out in April. This year nothing of substance came out at all for any of the home consoles.



how can 360 be down after being $199, I find these numbers hard to believe

sorry



    

I'm thinking the recession has finally caught up with the industry.

Wii price cut this year, PS3 Slim, 360 Slim, book it.



There just has not been any major releases for the Wii.