More sales charts... (US)

[London Geezer]

I know they're approximates, but if they're working by weeks, why not separate them into weeks? There's usually a good 4-5 days that are bundled into the wrong months in that case. Or, hell, depending how they divide them up, some could have damn near a dozen. And there certainly WILL be popular game launches caught in them. Why stack arbitrary date borders?

You just don't wanna thank me for a fabulous thread! FINE BE LIKE THAT!


They *probably* (i just don't know, i'm making assumptions) just add up the weekly figures, starting from the same day (probably Monday but could be different).
So for October they take the week from 2nd to 8th, all weeks in between and the last will be the one ending on the 29th (last sunday of October). It's not *accurate* but in the end it doesn't matter much cause their weekly reports are fine (they work by week number, say from monday to sunday)

 

[AlNom]

Not sure if the site reports sold number or shipped numbers.

hm....

39 Call of Duty 2 X360 Activision 12 31,500 1,215,000

I recall Activision mentioning that CoD2 hit the 1 million mark awhile ago. I would think they would be talking about sales instead of shipping, so maybe the list here (if the website is consistent) really is about sales?

edit:
Sales of Call of Duty 2 for the Xbox 360 Top One Million Units in the U.S.
Press Release -- This Content Was Not Created By GameSpot
Posted Sep 12, 2006 12:34 pm PT


http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/callofduty2/news.html?sid=6157488

I will. It's quite obviously sexual discrimination.

This is no laughing matter!

I guess a good upgrade to vB should be a spreadsheet function.

 

[London Geezer]

I guess a good upgrade to vB should be a spreadsheet function.

Can i marry you?

 

[AlNom]

Can i marry you?

Now now... let's just take it slow.

The save system is the way they wanted it to be. It was not a mistake in their eyes or a limitation due to the lack of time. Co-op would be nice though.

I know that, but that doesn't make it not suck

 

[scooby_dooby]

Thx for the great info!

Little boost for the 360, 244k in a 4week month, ~61k/week, so up about 20% from they're normal numbers, (was it a 4 week month?) PS2 continues to sell like crazy, no surprise there though given the quality games and low price.

 

[cthellis42]

Can i marry you?

I didn't think England had those kind of laws in place yet.

 

[London Geezer]

I didn't think England had those kind of laws in place yet.

Totally off topic, but yes we do I'm actually going to a gay wedding this sunday I'm the girl in the cake of course.

Little boost for the 360, 244k in a 4week month, ~61k/week, so up about 20% from they're normal numbers, (was it a 4 week month?) PS2 continues to sell like crazy, no surprise there though given the quality games and low price.

It was a 4 week month of course! It's just that the start and the end don't really coincide with the 1st and the 31st of the month, from what i can i see, which is fine, it just gives a wee bit more sales (2 or 3 days worth) to September and November.

 

[Sis]

It was a 4 week month of course! It's just that the start and the end don't really coincide with the 1st and the 31st of the month, from what i can i see, which is fine, it just gives a wee bit more sales (2 or 3 days worth) to September and November.

Some of the months have 5 week reporting in them, so it's often better to do a weekly average versus monthly sales.

 

[London Geezer]

Some of the months have 5 week reporting in them, so it's often better to do a weekly average versus monthly sales.

Yep.

I was gonna open a different thread, same info but with Japan figures. I'll think about it then. If i do it.

 

[pipo]

Update

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4343&Itemid=2

In its monthly report analyst Arcadia Investment says console sales in November topped 3.2 million units. Next-Gen has exclusive details of the report’s highlights including platform break-downs.

 

[Rangers]

vgcharts.com is owned/run a guy who's well known to be a little shady with his figures. He more or less attempts to take a variety of data (publicly available shipped numbers reported by the manufacturers, actual NPD numbers, etc etc) and attempts to extrapolate a games sales based on various correction factors he has derived one way or another. So yeah, in the end it's one guy's attempt at an educated guess at best, and nothing like true NPD figures.

Also, theoretically changing the numbers with his own secret sauce supposedly protects him from laswsuits by the NPD, which is what his US sales are really based on. Although frankly, I doubt if the NPD ever noticed him, that excuse would save him for a second. Basically for USA/NA he is just taking the NPD number and applying his own correction figure. But he cant admit that for trademark reasons.

His older Japanese figures have other sources, and could be even less reliable.

His numbers aren't useless mind you, just be aware that they are not exactly exact...
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[pipo]

Update updated

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=MSFT:US&sid=ag232h.W_PaU

Microsoft Corp., competing with new machines from Sony Corp. and Nintendo Co., may exceed its forecast to sell 10 million Xbox 360 video-game consoles by the end of the year, Vice President Peter Moore said.

Asked whether Microsoft is likely to beat the outlook, Moore replied ``Yes. All indications are that we came off a very strong Thanksgiving holiday.'' Moore, in an interview today, declined to provide a new forecast.

 

[scooby_dooby]

Has MS already shipped 10million consoles? The answer is yes according to this article:

Asked by the news service whether the company was likely to beat that outlook, Moore agreed, saying the Thanksgiving weekend was a stellar one for Microsoft and Xbox.


Numbers obtained by BetaNews seem to back up Moore's claim. Sources say the company sold as many as 100,000 consoles per day in the period surrounding Thanksgiving weekend. Numbers were on the high end of expectations, according to the data.


Additionally, Microsoft was helped out by weaker than expected sales of both the Wii and PS3 during the same period, indicating that shoppers looking for a next-gen console may have been opting for Microsoft's entrant over others due to availability.


While the most recent data shows six million Xbox 360 consoles sold as of September 30, internal data indicates Microsoft may have sold more than eight million units as of the end of November.

Reaching the 10 million goal is just now a matter of sales: about a week ago the company shipped its ten millionth console. And from the looks of things, hitting the mark may not be that difficult.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Has_Xbox_360_Already_Won_the_War/1165514003

 

[Farid]

http://www.vgcharts.org/welcome.php

Other than for the japanese numbers, most of the other data is "extrapolated" using an undisclosed methodology.
In other words, it's surely made up and shouldn't be of any interest to anyone who is genuinely interested in market evolution.

Well, anyway, I suspect that a very little number of persons are actually really interested in studying the evolution of a product or a set of products in the market. Some people act as if the reported numbers were a game score, and they are rooting for their favorite manufacturer so it can keep up to score and "win" the game...
Which is quite sad to behold.
Well, it's more amusing than sad to be honest, but I wanted to give a grave tone to my remark and all.

 

[pipo]

Just found this 'Weekly Tracker Next-Generation Consoles' thing: http://www.brandintel.com/brandintel.aspx?pageid=industries_gaming_tracker

It tracks 'Overall Consumer Perceptions'. Some of you might find it interesting...

 

[Platon]

Just found this 'Weekly Tracker Next-Generation Consoles' thing: http://www.brandintel.com/brandintel.aspx?pageid=industries_gaming_tracker

It tracks 'Overall Consumer Perceptions'. Some of you might find it interesting...

I am amazed with all the kinds of meassurements they have for everything, or that they atleast try to meassure such abstract things as perception and what not...

 

[Nesh]

Now now... let's just take it slow.

Thats how he likes it

 

[AlNom]

Square Enix took the top spot in November by selling 895,946 copies of Final Fantasy XII, while runner up Gears of War was sold 810,176 times. Factor in sales of the Collector's Edition and Gears of War was the best selling title of November, with a whopping 1,002,004 copies sold.

The best selling Nintendo Wii title, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, was sold 411,862 times to members of the United States public, making it the 4th best selling console title in November.

Third place was Guitar Hero 2 at ~500K

* 325,902 Xbox 360s were sold in the United States in November 2005.
* 511,261 Xbox 360s were sold in the United States in November 2006.
* 195,925 Playstation 3s were sold during the same time period.
* 476,186 Nintendo Wiis were sold, also during the same time period.

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/750/750603p1.html

Whole list at the link. I think it's a bit too long to post here . I'm fairly certain these are NPD. Ve3D's used them in the past.

Funny how almost everyone bought Zelda (not surprising).

 

[crazygambit]

I went WTF at this.

The worst selling Playstation 3 title, NBA Live 07, was sold just 130 times to members of the United States public, making it the 1234th best selling console title in November.

Flop anyone? Not that surprising considering there's a much better alternative. However this was a total shock to me.

The worst selling Nintendo Wii title, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent, was sold just 42 times to members of the United States public, making it the 1673rd best selling console title in November.

42 copies? I mean that's not even the family and friends of the guys that made the game
Is the game that bad? What the hell happened here?

 

[heliosphere]

I went WTF at this.

Flop anyone? Not that surprising considering there's a much better alternative. However this was a total shock to me.

NBA Live 07 (EA's game) was cancelled for the PS3, it never came out. I don't know what's going on with that number, maybe some stores got confused and marked down sales to the wrong title?

42 copies? I mean that's not even the family and friends of the guys that made the game
Is the game that bad? What the hell happened here?

Yeah, that's confusing. According to Metacritic it came out on the 27th though which is outside NPD's November window, maybe a few people got copies early or something.