Warning: long anecdotal American sales update since I'm bored and you probably won't hear much out of me because I'm working 6 days this week and on the 7th day, I have finals.
Xbox 360 Guitar Hero IIIs. Activision didn't make enough of them. Sure, we have extra nonbundled copies and some wired guitars, but no one wants those. We get about as many calls for this as we do for the Wii. Rock Band remains popular. We sell maybe around 3-5 of those a day.
Super Mario Galaxy, Assassin's Creed, and Call of Duty 4 have all been very consistently high sellers (we've probably sold at least 100 each (combining platforms for the latter two)). Need for Speed Pro Street and the new Tony Hawk have had a lackluster performance, and I'm actually pretty surprised that Halo 3 fell off the map like it did. I'm sure it'll post big numbers in the NPD, but I haven't seen any activity for that game since early October.
For the PS3, sales seem to have slowed since the spike in November. Uncharted, COD4, and Assassin's Creed (and Rock Band) remain its top sellers. The PS2 is going par for the course, though we don't really move a whole lot of systems.
The PSP is a popular choice, but nobody is buying it for software. Nobody wants to spend the extra $30 for Star Wars either. People either want the Daxter bundle or the core unit. Also, at least twice in the past week, I've had people ask if we carry R4 chips. Meh. The most popular games on this now are Castlevania/FFT/Disgaea and other hardcore games. I think the really casual base that had supported this in its earlier life and even a year ago have either stopped gaming or have moved on to the PS360.
For the 360 itself, it kinda has a repeat performance of the PS3's software sales except 360 software moves MUCH faster (also, replace Uncharted with Mass Effect). The systems are selling well -- even the Elites. The Halo 360s continue to be ignored.
Onto Nintendo, the DS is doing well, as expected. Nintendogs is picking up yet again. Phantom Hourglass has been a decent seller, as has Mario Party, but I'm seeing a lot of the casual shit selling (Ben 10, Hannah Montana, High School Musical, and Cooking Mama). Contra 4 has really only sold to employees (both former and current), and maybe a couple of normal customers. Regardless, we've sold out of three shipments of the game.
Last week, were getting a few more Wiis than we usually do. We had 12 when we usually get 6. There's nothing in the computer for next week yet, so the earliest is going to be Friday if we get it at all. If not, then Nintendo might be shipping the week before Christmas, and supplying stores for the final few days with a big rush of systems. At least, I hope. I also heard that "WHY CANT THEY JUST MAKE MORE. THEY HAVE TO BE LOSING MONEY ON THIS. BUT MAYBE THAT'S THEIR PLAN TO MAKE BUNDLES THOUGH." thing again somewhere and had to hit my head against the wall until the voices stopped.
For software, aside from SMG, Guitar Hero III (out of stock) is pretty popular and so is the Crossbow training/Zapper (which we also do not have). I don't see Zelda or Metroid move, really, although Zack and Wiki and Fire Emblem are slowly selling. Not as fast as, say, Timeshift, or Blacksite, but at least faster than K&L. Someone asked what was the best fighting game for the Wii and I had to scratch my head because he clearly bought the wrong system and when I told him Guilty Gear was $40, I was even more perplexed at his surprised reaction that it was so expensive because apparently he was in the wrong hobby.
Can't think of anything more.
