NPD December 2007

[RobertR1]

Begin thy fairly tale analysis.

HW Sales
System December 2007 Annual 2007
PlayStation 2 1.1 million 3.97 million
PlayStation 3 797.6 K 2.56 million
PlayStation Portable 1.06 million 3.82 million
Xbox 360 1.26 million 4.62 million
Wii 1.35 million 6.29 million
Nintendo DS 2.47 million 8.50 million


Top 10 SW Sales
360 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION (CORP) NOV 2007 MATURE (M) *1 1.47 million
WII SUPER MARIO GALAXY NINTENDO OF AMERICA NOV 2007 EVERYONE (E) 2 1.40 million
PS2 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK ACTIVISION (CORP) OCT 2007 TEEN (T) *3 1.25 million
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA FEB 2007 EVERYONE (E) 4 1.08 million
360 ASSASSIN'S CREED UBISOFT NOV 2007 MATURE (M) *5 893.7 K
360 HALO 3 MICROSOFT (CORP) SEP 2007 MATURE (M) *6 742.7 K
NDS BRAIN AGE 2: MORE TRAINING IN MINUTES A NINTENDO OF AMERICA AUG 2007 EVERYONE (E) 7 659.5 K
PS2 MADDEN NFL 08 ELECTRONIC ARTS AUG 2007 EVERYONE (E) 8 655.2 K
360 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK ACTIVISION (CORP) OCT 2007 TEEN (T) 9 624.6 K
WII MARIO AND SONIC: OLYMPIC GAMES SEGA OF AMERICA NOV 2007 EVERYONE (E) 10 613.0 K


Top 10 SW Annaul
360 HALO 3 MICROSOFT (CORP) SEP 2007 MATURE (M) *1 4.82 million
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA FEB 2007 EVERYONE (E) 2 4.12 million
360 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION (CORP) NOV 2007 MATURE (M) *3 3.04 million
PS2 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK ACTIVISION (CORP) OCT 2007 TEEN (T) *4 2.72 million
WII SUPER MARIO GALAXY NINTENDO OF AMERICA NOV 2007 EVERYONE (E) 5 2.52 million
NDS POKEMON DIAMOND VERSION NINTENDO OF AMERICA APR 2007 EVERYONE (E) 6 2.48 million
PS2 MADDEN NFL 08 ELECTRONIC ARTS AUG 2007 EVERYONE (E) 7 1.90 million
PS2 GUITAR HERO 2 ACTIVISION (CORP) NOV 2006 TEEN (T) *8 1.89 million
360 ASSASSIN'S CREED UBISOFT NOV 2007 MATURE (M) *9 1.87 million
WII MARIO PARTY 8 NINTENDO OF AMERICA MAY 2007 EVERYONE (E) 10 1.82 million

*Includes Collector's, Limited, Legendary, Bundles (Guitars) Editions

Industry Totals
Dec-07 CHG
Video Games $4.82 billion 28%
Video Games Hardware $1.83 billion 17%
Console Hardware $1.3 billion 21%
Portable Game Hardware $525.7K 7%
Video Games Software $2.37 billion 36%
Console Software $1.8 billion 47%
Portable Game Software $574.9K 11%
Video Game Accessories $621.6K 37%

 

[iceberg187]

you got me, good show

 

[RobertR1]

haha it's been a rough year. Good battle!

 

[liolio]

Somebody know what are the cumulated sales for each systems? (since launch)

 

[AlphaWolf]

Overall Dec hardware sales much lower than I expected except for the ps2.

 

[liolio]

for reference her the vgchart estimates posted by Rangers on 16th


Weekly Hardware Sales and Totals for Five-Week December:
Platform 8-Dec 15-Dec 22-Dec 29-Dec 5-Jan Totals
DS 630,859 725,740 902,172 410,014 207,255 2,876,040
Wii 261,643 173,798 725,740 289,079 188,589 1,638,849
X360 282,001 337,538 384,290 180,900 104,427 1,289,156
PSP 214,208 251,689 277,965 140,154 76,869 960,885
PS2 194,185 253,824 289,279 141,134 73,342 951,764
PS3 163,222 194,214 228,579 119,483 69,298 774,796

 

[Dr. Nick]

They were dead on with the 1.2 million estimate for the 360. One of my friends told me that at his Gamestop the only 360s that really sold were the Plats and Elites. The Arcade only sold ever so often when the other systems were out of stock and no one bought the Halo 3 edition.

Absolutely couldn't keep Wiis instock. Most were sold out before the store even opened when they shipped the units. I'm surprised that the Wii numbers are some what lower than I was expecting then again if they had more units available they would have sold them.

Edit: Don't they have a longer software sales list going up to at least number 20? I was expecting to see Rockband higher on the list. I wonder how much it sold that month.

 

[Carl B]

Somebody know what are the cumulated sales for each systems? (since launch)

Although you could calculate it out by compiling the NPDs - and I would imagine that has got to be floating around somewhere - if you wait another week or two these folk will report their quarterly earnings and we'll get an updated worldwide volume picture

 

[Rangers]

360 was a little lower than I expected.


COD4 is an absolute software MONSTER. I am thinking when you add in worldwide and PS3 sales, it might be challenging Halo 3 sales. What a windfall for Activision. Good game also.

AC was also a monster seller overall.

So does this make Halo 3 the best selling title worlwide of 2007? Mario Galaxy only has ~1m in Japan so far.

Wait there is also Wii play and Wii sports? Those are both 2m+ sellers in Japan I believe, and also a lot in Europe I'm sure. Wii sports is packed in in USA so it's gonna be a bit tough to judge,

 

[liolio]

I wasn't clear my bad, I was speaking for US only.
I don't have all the NPD numbers, but I just wondering if somebody had already done the calculation

Lazy of me...

 

[AlphaWolf]

Somebody know what are the cumulated sales for each systems? (since launch)

For the US.

Xbox360 9151000
PS3 3244600
Wii 7370000

 

[iceberg187]

I've been wanting to buy an elite for two months and I can't find one when I go looking.

 

[djskribbles]

COD4 is an absolute software MONSTER. I am thinking when you add in worldwide and PS3 sales, it might be challenging Halo 3 sales. What a windfall for Activision. Good game also.

i think including PC and PS3 and the European numbers, CoD4 will have a comfortable lead over Halo 3.

 

[zed]

Somebody know what are the cumulated sales for each systems? (since launch)

xb360 9.16 million
wii 7.36
ps3 3.24

vgchartz overtraked the wii by ~21% + the xb360 ~2% + undertracked the ps3 by ~%3

 

[RobertR1]

Lets' leave VGchartz out of this please.

Wii = shortages capped the numbers. Good software sales also.
360 = decent numbers. Remember this year it's facing a $399 PS3 in full supply vs a Wii with immense hype and much larger shipments. Thus, good number. Not great but good. Hearing about premiums and elites out of stock propbably didn't help much. A software monster. Impressed that Halo3 did 740+ after being launched in Sept.
PS3 = Hard to tell. Clearly they're losing ground. The ratios look better but in volume they are 460k behind the 360 and another 90k more behind the Wii. Software is absent.

 

[liolio]

Here the cumulated sales for nintendo (wii+ds)

4 514 889 => vgchart
3 820 000 => NPD

The gap is consistant, especially if we consider that given MS and Sony PR we at least had some clue while nintendo was more the wild guess.
But they pretty much on track for the psp and ps2.
It would have been interesting to have theirs estimations one week ago.

 

[liolio]

For the US.

Xbox360 9151000
PS3 3244600
Wii 7370000

Thanks for your fast answer!

So at this point I'm no longer sure nintendo will ever catch up with MS!

That was the one million dollars bet some years ago MS consistantly leader in US

 

[iceberg187]

i think including PC and PS3 and the European numbers, CoD4 will have a comfortable lead over Halo 3.

I doubt it gets near Halo 3, at least not anytime soon.

 

[deepbrown]

At least the PS3 saw the biggest percentage rise...

 

[liolio]

I hope that not too many editor will start to think that 5 hours is actually the sweet spot for solo campaign... sarcasm inside