Nintendo ruled the roost again in the US in January, outselling all competition once again. Who said the Wii was dying? In total 465,000 Wii consoles were sold for the month and 422,000 DS systems during the period.
Head inside to hear Nintendo boasting once again!
Here are the NPD software sales for the month of December 2010. As you can see it wasn’t just Nintendo hardware that ruled the month. ‘New Super Mario Bros. Wii‘, ‘Wii Fit Plus‘ and ‘Wii Sports Resort‘ took the top three spots followed by ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2‘ on Xbox 360 and PS3. No sign of COD4: MW Reflex in the top 20 though!
1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) – 2.82 million units
2. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) – 2.41 million units
3. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) – 1.79 million units
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360) – 1.63 million units
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) – 1.12 million units
6. Wii Play w/ Wii Remote (Wii) – 1.01 million units
7. Mario Kart Wii w/ Wii Wheel (Wii) – 936.1 thousand units
8. Assassin’s Creed 2 (360) – 783.1 thousand units
9. Left 4 Dead 2 (360) – 728.5 thousand units
10. Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story (DS) – 656.7 thousand units
11. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS)
12. New Super Mario Bros. (DS)
13. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (DS)
14. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Wii)
15. Madden NFL 10 (360)
16. Scribblenauts (DS)
17. Mario Kart DS (DS)
18. Assassin’s Creed II (PS3)
19. Madden NFL 10 (PS3)
20. Just Dance (Wii)
Nintendo sold over 7 million consoles in North America in December so you would think that they would be rather pleased? Well, they are. In fact we have included their press release after the break to show just how pleased they are. Expect much gloating and sales record talk.
NPD data for June 2009 show sales of the Wii MotionPlus add-on in North America have come mainly from the ‘Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10‘ game bundle of which 205,000 from the 374,000 total sold were part of. That means 164,000 of the $20 peripheral were sold on their own.
This probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise seeing as Tiger is the best Wii MotionPlus enabled game out there and a solid EA franchise, however with the launch of Wii Sports Resort we imagine sales of the add-on will be boosted at a much higher rate than Tiger can achieve.
The excellent golf game sold a total 272,400 copies and only 67,400 of those were for the game on its own.
April 2009’s software sales for North America once again shows NIntendo’s domination and once again shows many games over a year old holding their places.
Wii Fit sits at the top having sold 471,000 copies, closely followed by Pokemon Platinum for DS with 433,000 and old favourites Mario Kart Wii, Wii Play, New Super Mario Bros. and Mario Kart DS help making up the remainder of the top 10 among Xbox and Playstation games.
For the full NPD breakdown of software sales, hit the jump. Read more…
With the launch of the Nintendo DSi in North America last month, Nintendo managed to shift over 1 million DS consoles on the continent, NPD Group sales data has shown. The new DSi moved about 827,000 units while the DS Lite managed 215,000. That’s a combined 31% of total industry unit sales for the month.
While the DS sold nearly double the total it did in March and over double the sales from the same month last year (414,800), sales of the Wii declined both on a month-to-month and year-on-year basis. Total sales for Wii in North America in April were 340,000.
The declining sales can be partly explained on the Wii by the lack of blockbuster game releases. This time last year Mario Kart Wii and Super Smash Bros. Brawl had just been released, helping to shift hardware.
Xbox 360 and PS3 were also down year-on-year meaning video game hardware sales for April 2009 totalled $391.63 million, a decline of 8%.
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