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Official March NPD Thread (The story? PS3 = weak, SW sales = insane)
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Throwaway123456789
Member
So it's something like this now?
Pos. System Units sold
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1 PlayStation2 37.975.000
2 Game Boy Advance 35.584.000
3 Xbox 14.500.480
4 Gamecube 11.746.000
5 Nintendo DS 10.393.000
6 PSP 7.206.000
7 Xbox 360 5.227.000
8 Wii 2.094.000
9 PlayStation3 1.190.000
Wii passed 2 million sold, DS passed 10 million.
Pos. System Units sold
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1 PlayStation2 37.975.000
2 Game Boy Advance 35.584.000
3 Xbox 14.500.480
4 Gamecube 11.746.000
5 Nintendo DS 10.393.000
6 PSP 7.206.000
7 Xbox 360 5.227.000
8 Wii 2.094.000
9 PlayStation3 1.190.000
Wii passed 2 million sold, DS passed 10 million.
cartoon_soldier said:
I think it's fair to say that 360 is not pulling away enough to declare that it's too late for Sony to catch up. Is it not possible that most Xbox owners have already bought 360s while most PS2 owners are still on the fence? I'm just speculating though. I don't really know the answer to the question since I know several PS2-only guys with 360s and several Xbox-only guys who are still waiting.
Does anyone else still think it's odd to see 360 multiplatform games beating out PS3 versions? I know that 360 has a bigger userbase but it's still so strange after years of Sony dominance.
I'm expecting Wii to do quite a bit better in May. It's sad how dependent the system is on Nintendo's shipments. If Nintendo had 750,000 out for the month they'd all be sold.
Can we get software sales for Puzzle Quest (both versions), Tiger Woods (Wii), Sonic and the Secret Rings, and PS3's second-highest seller?
Can we get software sales for Puzzle Quest (both versions), Tiger Woods (Wii), Sonic and the Secret Rings, and PS3's second-highest seller?
Wyndstryker
Member
Representing the GBA vs PS3 battle!
And!
And!
AltogetherAndrews
Member
TheGreatDave said:
I would have expected higher sales, regardless of price. But then I'd have also predicted a stronger game library, at least in regards to first party games. That's something that is starting to really disappoint me. I guess in some ways I appreciate that Sony developers are not rushing the games to the market, but come the **** on. The 360 was in a similar situation last year, but then it didn't have the type of competition the PS3 has, not to mention that Sony is trying to sell this at a higher price than the competition.
AltogetherAndrews said:
Did you not read penny arcade? :lol Haven't you noticed how much people like those things and have been "convinced" of what the PS3 is selling? :lol Weren't you there last month when motorstorm was seriously expected to sell consoles? :lol
Hitler Stole My Potato said:
I'm not sure why anyone is surprised at this. We knew within a couple of days they'd sold at least 200K, because that's how many people were on the leaderboards. And you have to assume that smoe weird, small fraction of people never hook up to the net,
Warm Machine
Member
Z3F said:
Most multiplatform action games would sell better or at least tie on the original Xbox than on the PS2 even though the install base was lower. This of course was in the last year and a half of the Xbox's life.
sonycowboy
Member
DeaconKnowledge said:
This month's biggest losers
1) Sony & the PS3
2) Ioi/Broshnat as his sham is revealed
This month's biggest winners
1) Nintendo - Duh - all the way across the board
2) 360 SW - especially GH 2
3) NPD (as the first month without a leak?)
4) NeoGAF (first with the sales?)
KeithFranklin
Banned
MS is just not going to cut the price on the 360's until they feel threatened. PS3 isnt scaring MS at all right now (And I bet MS is surprised by that). MS also doesnt feel that they are competing with the Wii. So I dont expect a price drop until end of summer.
Elite did hold the 360 back some I am sure of it. I wouldnt purchase a premium with the Elite just $80 more for 100GB of extra space. Yes it may not be the most economic drive for $80 more.
Elite did hold the 360 back some I am sure of it. I wouldnt purchase a premium with the Elite just $80 more for 100GB of extra space. Yes it may not be the most economic drive for $80 more.
AltogetherAndrews
Member
QVT said:
MotorStorm, sure. But talking about demonstrations of future games and services as if they are seriously expected to be system sellers now, that makes you look like a bit of dummy. Well, dummy or instigator.
Nameless
Member
Y2Kevbug11 said:
And that incredible amount of good software and availibility is exactly the reason the 360 has been two steps ahead of the PS3 from the start. I'm willing the bet the original Xbox didn't do that much better in it's second march, if you put these numbers in the context of the price and unforeseen consumer buying habits(PS2...GBA!?) I still call those numbers solid. Not great, not spectacular, but certainly MS is riding a steady track where as Sony is on one ****ed up road.
VultureDude
Member
any tidbits on tiger woods, sonic, or SSX in any reports yet?
Son of Godzilla
Banned
This thread NEEEEEEEEEEDS Crackdown and Virtua Fighter 5 sales numbers. HW is pretty damn uninteresting, aside from the obvious wtf@DS. Need to see how terribly Crackdown fell and whether or not VF5 broke 70k LTD.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Where are you? Outsold by Def Jam?
PhoenixDark
Banned
Nintendo DS 508K; Wii 259K; Wii 259K
Diatribe1974
Member
Put in a price drop next month for both the 360 & PS3 of actual substanence, then things will look interesting.
Till then, you can basically repeat every month after this with slight variations of the same.
D.
Till then, you can basically repeat every month after this with slight variations of the same.
D.
soul creator
Member
Consumers - "MS, you got the games, just drop the price man, come on! I'm ready to jump in!"
Investors/shareholders/the head guys - "We lost 4 billion dollars on that last system we made. **** yo price drop! lolz, announce the newer, more expensive SKU that we probably profit on, and also a $180 hard drive. Chop chop!"
Consumers - "lolz, I'll just replace my PS2 and get a DS or something"
Peetah - "oh come on! You know you guys want this!"
Investors/shareholders/the head guys - "We lost 4 billion dollars on that last system we made. **** yo price drop! lolz, announce the newer, more expensive SKU that we probably profit on, and also a $180 hard drive. Chop chop!"
Consumers - "lolz, I'll just replace my PS2 and get a DS or something"
Peetah - "oh come on! You know you guys want this!"
On the other side of things, despite lower hardware sales, the 360 continues to dominate software charts.
I just want to know 2 things. Does anyone know how many days of GHII that is for.....and Who the F*** is buying Def Jam Icon?
If this game isn't proof that someone allowed casual gamers in our freaking 360 user base....I don't know what is.
Nameless said:
Okay, forget Sony. I'm not talking about Sony. Yes, the numbers are good by comparison. Gamecube's numbers are good by comparison.
As Ghalleon indicated, it's trending downward. Not by much, but it needs a drop-- which is what I suggested. The numbers are not where they could be, and certainly not to where MS is given the ability to put away Sony. Not that Sony is going to move anywhere anytime soon, but again, we're not talking about them.
I don't personally find the original Xbox's march sales all that germane. It's price was lower and it's a machine with different expectations.
Pretty good numbers for Spectrobes, a 3rd party DS game. Goes to show that if you pick your market, and advertise the hell out of it in Nintendo Power then you can do quite well.
GBA continues to be awesome. Release Mother 3 in NA immediately. Thanks.
Xbox 360 does great softwarewise (I didn't expect GRAW2 to do so well) but takes a nosedive hardwarewise. Elite effect? I don't know.
GBA continues to be awesome. Release Mother 3 in NA immediately. Thanks.
Xbox 360 does great softwarewise (I didn't expect GRAW2 to do so well) but takes a nosedive hardwarewise. Elite effect? I don't know.
