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

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TheTruthProphet on 14 May 2009

This proves CONSOLE GAMING IS DEAD!!!

IpHONE is the new gamers platform of choice confirmed

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shio on 14 May 2009

April '09 compared to April '08:

360 -47%
PS3 -42%
PSP -31%
Wii -43%

DAAAAMMMNNNNN!!!!!!

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alfredofroylan on 14 May 2009

Official drops:

360 -47%
PS3 -42%
PSP -31%
Wii -43%

YAY Recession!!!!!!

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blackstar on 14 May 2009

CrazzyMan said:
It would be nice, if PS2 outsold x360...))

Overall, good sales for Sony console family, since, probably they are making a profit this month. =)

Anyway, recession?

Btw, probably Japan+NA PS3 > Japan+NA x360. =)

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Kenology on 14 May 2009

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

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

lol! C'mon Star Scream, no stealth trolling.

Last year, Wii had a huge March and April due to SSBB and Mario Kart Wii releasing. SSBB sold 2.7 million copies in March while Mario Kart WW sold 1.1 million units in April - both moved a shit ton of hardware. April 2008 saw the benefit of residual SSBB sales and Mario Kart Wii boost. April 2009 had nothing like that.

But you know this, stop playing dumb! You always do that.

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Lostplanet22 on 14 May 2009

nojustno said:

shio said:
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%

pretty sure those are wrong numbers for 08

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=3570

The second row are the numbers of last april but I don't get what the third row is =p;

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Ail on 14 May 2009

Last year April had 5 weeks too lets not forget that.
So 15-20% of the drop can be attributed just to that....

So if you take that into account, Xbox360 is actually up YoY.

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

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !