June Sales Figure
Another month, another sets of US figures from NPD. After some delay, NPD finally released the numbers for the US.
First up, software. Nintendo continued to destroy all opponents with the new Mario Party 8, which was released just a few days before the start of the reporting period. So far, it has shipped a total of close to 800,000 just in the US alone. If anything, this game will go on to sell well over a couple of million worldwide. Guess no one can stop the Mario attack.
In 2nd place is Wii Play, the game that comes with a controller, or as I like to put it, the controller that comes with a game. This could be a direct reason of Mario Party 8 given MP8 is a party game and Wii owners needing new controllers to play with friends.
In 3rd and 4th place is yet another month of Catch 'em all. Combined total of the two Pokemon version is another half a million. Just goes to show Nintendo hasn't caught all the kids yet.
Xbox 360 featured 3 games on the top 10, but only one is exclusive - Forza Motorsports 2, the game that crash. The other 2 - Guitar Hero 2 & The Darkness - can be found on other platforms.
With Nintendo taking over 6 of the top 10 and MS 3 spots, only 1 spot remained for Sony. And it wasn't a PS3 game. A lone Guitar Hero 2 on PS2 filled the remaining spot at 6th. What does it say about PS3? Well, Sony's hardware has yet again failed to make the 100,000 this month since March. That's at a time when Nintendo is pulling further ahead of everyone else.
Top 10 games in US for June
1. Mario Party 8 - Wii (Nintendo) - 426,200 units
2. Wii Play - Wii (Nintendo) - 293,200 units
3. Pokemon Diamond - DS (Nintendo) - 288,400 units
4. Pokemon Pearl - DS (Nintendo) - 214,700 units
5. Forza Motorsport 2 - Xbox 360 (Microsoft) - 197,400 units
6. Guitar Hero II - PS2 (Activision) - 197,350 units
7. Guitar Hero II - Xbox 360 (Activision) - 177,600 units
8. Pokemon Battle Revolution - Wii (Nintendo) - 157,900 units
9. Resident Evil 4 - Wii (Capcom)
10. The Darkness - Xbox 360 (Take Two)
Console War VII: Battle for America
If you were expecting something different this month, well, don't. Nintendo continues to let everyone else bite their dust, both in the handheld and console front. The DS averaged 112,500 per week during the 5 week reporting period. That's edging closer towards the weekly Japanese numbers.
Wii done 381.8K, roughly 76.4K per week, on par with the Japanese. PSP in 3rd place moved 290.1K during June (58K per week). It's actually selling more than their Japanese counterpart, which only managed about 30-odd thousand a week. Xbox averaged 39.7K per week while PS3 only managed 19.7K, both higher than the weekly figures in Japan.
Wii outsold Xbox 360 by almost 2 to 1 and the PS3 almost 4 to 1, while the DS outsold PSP by almost 2 to 1.
DS - 562,000
Wii - 381,800
PSP - 290,100
Xbox 360 - 198,700
PS3 - 98,500
Market share for the month
DS vs PSP
65.95% vs 34.05%
Wii vs XB vs PS3
56.23% vs 29.26% vs 14.51%
Source: Gamasutra
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