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Official Jan 2008 NPD Thread - HW Shortages + Spectacular SW

VideoMan

30% Failure Rate
Holy shit PS3!!!

Hardware:

Nintendo Wii -- 274k
PlayStation 3 - 269k
PlayStation 2 - 264k
Nintendo DS -- 251k
Sony PSP ----- 230k
Xbox 360 ----- 230k


Top 10 software:

360 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION (CORP) NOV 2007 MATURE (M) 1 330.9K

WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA FEB 2007 EVERYONE (E) 2 298.1K

WII GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK W/ WIREACTIVISION (CORP) OCT 2007 TEEN (T) 3 239.6K

360 ROCK BAND SPECIAL ED BUNDLE MTV GAMES/ELECTRONIC ARTS NOV 2007 TEEN (T) 4 183.8K

360 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK W/ WIREACTIVISION (CORP) OCT 2007 TEEN (T) 5 182.7K

WII SUPER MARIO GALAXY NINTENDO OF AMERICA NOV 2007 EVERYONE (E) 6 172K

360 BURNOUT PARADISE ELECTRONIC ARTS JAN 2008 EVERYONE 10+ (E10+) 7 144.1K

PS3 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION (CORP) NOV 2007 MATURE (M) 8 140K

NDS MARIO PARTY NINTENDO OF AMERICA NOV 2007 EVERYONE (E) 9 138.5K

NDS MARIO AND SONIC: OLYMPIC GAMES SEGA OF AMERICA JAN 2008 EVERYONE (E) 10 133K

More software culled from various sources (thanks Raw64Life):

January 08:

WII CARNIVAL GAMES - ~80K
WII NO MORE HEROES - ~65K
WII RESIDENT EVIL: UMBRELLA CHRONICLES - ~30K

NDS ADVANCE WARS DAYS OF RUIN - ~80K

PS3 UNCHARTED - ~55K
PS3 BURNOUT PARADISE - ~85K

360 KINDGOM UNDER FIRE - ~50K
360 HALO 3 - ~127K

Rough LTDs:

WII WII PLAY W/ REMOTE - ~4.4 million
WII SUPER MARIO GALAXY - ~2.7 million
WII GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK - ~1.5 million
WII CARNIVAL GAMES - ~655K
WII METROID PRIME 3: CORRUPTION - ~625K
WII RESIDENT EVIL: UMBRELLA CHRONICLES - ~300K

PS3 CALL OF DUTY 4 - ~1.1 million
PS3 UNCHARTED - ~380K

360 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE - ~3.3 million
360 ROCK BAND - ~960K
 
PlayStation 3 269k
Xbox 360 230k

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Relix

he's Virgin Tight™
GAF has been so unstable =(.

Holy crap at PS3. *Checks PS3Forums*

Nintendo Wii 274,000
Nintendo DS 251,000
Xbox 360 230,000
PlayStation Portable 230,000
PLAYSTATION 3 269,000
Total Hardware Units 1,227,000
 

AlphaSnake

...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Nintendo Wii 274k
PlayStation 3 269k
PlayStation 2 264k
Nintendo DS 251k
Sony PSP 230k
Xbox 360 230k
 

schuelma

Wastes hours checking old Famitsu software data, but that's why we love him.
Top 10 software from Wired:



360 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION (CORP) NOV 2007 MATURE (M) 1 330.9K

WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA FEB 2007 EVERYONE (E) 2 298.1K

WII GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK W/ WIREACTIVISION (CORP) OCT 2007 TEEN (T) 3 239.6K

360 ROCK BAND SPECIAL ED BUNDLE MTV GAMES/ELECTRONIC ARTS NOV 2007 TEEN (T) 4 183.8K

360 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK W/ WIREACTIVISION (CORP) OCT 2007 TEEN (T) 5 182.7K

WII SUPER MARIO GALAXY NINTENDO OF AMERICA NOV 2007 EVERYONE (E) 6 172K

360 BURNOUT PARADISE ELECTRONIC ARTS JAN 2008 EVERYONE 10+ (E10+) 7 144.1K

PS3 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION (CORP) NOV 2007 MATURE (M) 8 140K

NDS MARIO PARTY NINTENDO OF AMERICA NOV 2007 EVERYONE (E) 9 138.5K

NDS MARIO AND SONIC: OLYMPIC GAMES SEGA OF AMERICA JAN 2008 EVERYONE (E) 10 133K
 

Mrbob

Member
Epic.

The Playstation family of the PS3 and PSP are on the verge of overtaking the Nintendo family of the Wii and DS in America. Include the PS2 and you have a very merry Playstation January.
 

Shawn128

Member
Put it in list form for us....list people. On the top of the last page of the prediction thread has a nice summary, including software for the month.

Edit: nm, people have posted software sales.

Hooray for PS3 sales! Hopefully this will be the start of a much more competitive battle between the PS3 and 360 now.
 

Guy Legend

Member
January 2008 NPD Data
Posted by Brian Shiau at 3:40PM on February 14, 2008

Video game hardware sales in January were below the market's expectations. Total hardware units came in at 1.227 million units, 23.86% below the market's expected 1.611 million units. The disappointing total hardware sales were largely due to surprising supply constraints with the Nintendo consoles. Nintendo Wii only sold 274,000 units, well below the market's 396,900 expectation. The Nintendo DS was even futher constrained, with only 251,000 units sold compared to the expected 483,700 units.

For the first time in the United States, the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 with 269,000 units and 230,000 units respectively. The PS3 outperformed expectations by 28.5% while the Xbox 360 underperformed by 20.3%.

Sony PSP sales were exactly inline with 230,000 units. The prediction market expected 233,000 units.

Growth in video game sales were well ahead of expectations for January, traditionally a slower month following the strong holiday season. Total video game software sales grew 11% from $549.5 million in January 2007 to $610.6 million.

The month's big winner was once again Activision's Call of Duty 4. The Xbox 360 SKU sold 330,900 units compared to an expectation of 359,700 units.

Sales of Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) slowed much faster than expected, dropping to 172,000 units. The prediction market expected the game to continue with 391,800 units sold.

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) crushed expectations with 239,600 units sold, 36% over the forecasted 175,900 units. This beats Rock Band (Xbox 360), which sold 183,800 units, just 6.84% below the expected 197,300 units.

The following tables compare market expectations on the simExchange and actual results as reported by the NPD Group.

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US Hardware in January 2008
Title Actual units Expected units % From Expected
Nintendo Wii 274,000 396,900 -30.96%
Nintendo DS 251,000 483,700 -48.11%
Xbox 360 230,000 288,600 -20.30%
PlayStation Portable 230,000 233,000 -1.29%
PLAYSTATION 3 269,000 209,300 +28.52%
Total Hardware Units 1,227,000 1,611,500 -23.86%



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US Software in January 2008
Rank Title Actual units Expected units % From Expected
1 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) 330,900 359,700 -8.01%
2 Wii Play (Wii) 298,100 -- --
3 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) 239,600 175,900 +36.21%
4 Rock Band (Xbox 360) 183,800 197,300 -6.84%
5 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360) 182,700 -- --
6 Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) 172,000 391,800 -56.1%
7 Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360) 144,100 -- --
8 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3) 140,000 -- --
9 Mario Party DS (DS) 138,500 -- --
10 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS) 133,000 154,400 -13.86%
Total Software Sales $610.6 million $523.1 million +16.73%
 

schuelma

Wastes hours checking old Famitsu software data, but that's why we love him.
This is going to be a very very annoying thread :lol :lol


Kudo's to Sony though- supply issues or not, moving an average of 67K a week is a vast improvement.
 

Smokey

Member
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I knew it would happen. I saw it first hand at my store. Microsoft severely underestimated the after holiday crowd. Hell to be honest they did better than I expected.
 

kenta

Has no PEINS
PS3 did better than expected but it still took shortages to sell at/above everyone else's level, so it's kind of a wash
 
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