More sales data and this time for North America courtesy of NPD. The Nintendo DS leads the pack and broke its own record for monthly sales with a total of over 613,000. The previous best month the handheld had was back in February 2009 with 597,000 units.
Apparant shortages in the US of the Wii meant that the Xbox 360 took second place for the month and the Playstation family took up the last positions.
Nintendo DS 613.2K
Xbox 360 422.0K
Wii 397.9K
PlayStation 3 360.1K
PSP 133.4K
PlayStation 2 101.9K
Head inside for Nintendo’s press release regarding the months NPD figures.
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We all know that Nintendo have done well with the Wii, especially in western markets, but it’s not doing too bad in its homeland either. The company have just announced that the console has passed the 10 million mark sold in Japan.
Since the Wii launched in the region on 2nd December 2006, the last count stands at 10,009,736 units according to Enterbrain. In comparison the PS3 has sold 4,766,408 units and Xbox 360 1,235,049 units. However the Wii has taken slightly longer to reach the 10 million milestone than the PS2 which clocked that figure in 131 weeks compared to the Wii’s 170 weeks.
No doubt Nintendo can keep up this momentum atleast through 2010 with such a strong first and third party release schedule.
It’s not really that surprising to see Nintendo dominating with sales of Virtual Console games in 2009 seeing as most of the games on VC are Nintendo developed, but we thought you might like to see this sales analysis graph from Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE) anyway as not much data is released about VC and WiiWare games (and it’s a slow news day!).
As you can also see, Nintendo has much fewer profit from the WiiWare pie where most revenue is generated by third party devs. WiiWare had a good year last year as sales were up overall about 30% from 2008.
Don’t you just love sales graphs? No! Only us then!
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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!
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Hey when you’re doing well, it’s good to shout about it. That’s exactly what Nintendo were doing yesterday with their hardware and software sales.
For those who want exact details of just how well Nintendo are doing, hit the link to see their full gloating press release. Well done!
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Nintendo today announced its lifetime hardware shipment figures for the period between April 1st 2009 and December 31st 2009. These totals stand the Wii at 67 million and the DS (all three models) at 125 million.
In addition to the hardware numbers were software - 510 million Wii games have been shipped and a cool 688 million for the DS.
Head inside for the full region breakdown.
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Nintendo have let loose that ‘New Super Mario Bros. Wii‘ which released in Japan December 3rd 2009 has become the fastest selling Wii game to hit the 3 million sold barrier. The game sold 3,002,753 units in seven weeks and beat bohemoths ‘Wii Sports‘, ‘Mario Kart Wii‘ and ‘Wii Fit‘ to the milestone.
Will it have the legs to sell more than ‘Wii Fit‘ and ‘Wii Sports‘ overall? Only time will tell…
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.
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‘Last Flight‘ executive producer, Marcin Kawa of Bloober, talks a lot of sense in a recent interview with Eurogamer, regarding the Wii audience and believes that there is room for mature content on Wii. He also mentions Capcom’s “bitching” about recent game sales and frankly we completely agree with everything he says!
“With such a strong install base it’s hard to believe that there’s not enough people to appreciate mature, core content. It’s all about games and quality. I’m not surprised that another shooter on rails doesn’t sell well. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that people expect something more than that..I bet No More Heroes 2 will do pretty good, as well as the new Metroid and Capcom’s Monster Hunter. I hope that Last Flight will be successful and that’s because we’re making a game that was thought out as a Wii game. Instead of bitching, we’d rather create something that has value and doesn’t feel like a third-rate port put together to make a quick buck.”
Continues after the break.
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Wedbush Morgan and EEDAR industry anaylists have released their predicted NPD figures for December 2009. The actual figures will be released later this week but it hasn’t stopped these two trying to predict the number of sales for all platforms.
If either of them are close then it looksl ike Wii had an amazing month shifting around 3 million units, with DS ranging between 2.5 - 3 million sales. It wil be interesting to see who came closest later this week so report back to find out.
Hit the link for the entire breakdown per console of each analyst.
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Nintendo of Europe have their gloating cap on again, this time declaring that the Nintendo DS has sold over 40 million units on the continent. It has taken less than five years to hit that milestone, which makes it the fastest selling piece of gaming hardware too.
The DS’s big brother, the Wii, has also made some serious cash with 20 million machines moved in just over three years.
In the six or so months since Wii Sports Resort was released, the game has sold over 5 million copies (must be time for another Wii MotionPlus enabled game then eh, Nintendo?) and New Super Mario Bros. on Wii has sold over 2.5 million.
That’s some impressive figures right there!
