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[sonycowboy]

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Friday, 09 September 2005
Electronic Arts' Madden 2006 generated over $100 million in sales in August, according to NPD's TRST sales figures released yesterday. Total U.S. console software sales for August were $338 million, almost exactly the same as last year and up 7% from July’s $317 million.

Year-to-date console software sales are up 9% - $3.02 billion compared with 2004 year-to-date sales of $2.77 billion.

EA's football brands dominated with Madden dwarfing all other products. In the PS2 market, the game outsold the next best by a factor of 12 with sales of over $70 million. In the Xbox market, it outsold Novalogic's Delta Force by ten times, notching up sales of $33 million.

The company's market share for August was 43%, followed by Nintendo (9.4%); THQ (5%); Take Two (4.5%) and Activision (4.4%). The top ten publishers generated 81% of sales.

Here are the top sellers with revenues.

PS2

1 MADDEN NFL $71.1M
2 NCAA FOOTBALL 06 $5.8M
3 DELTA FORCE: BLACK HAWK $2.3M
4 LEGO STAR WARS $2M
5 DESTROY ALL HUMANS! $1.9M

Xbox

1 MADDEN NFL 06 $33.6M
2 DELTA FORCE: BLACK HAWK $3M
3 NCAA FOOTBALL 06 $2.8M
4 T. CLANCYS RECON 2: STRIKE $2.8M
5 DARKWATCH $2.5M

GameCube

1 MADDEN NFL 06 $3.9M
2 HARVEST MOON $1M
3 SUPER SMASH BRO MELEE 0.9M
4 MARIO PARTY 6 W/MIC 0.8M
5 CHARLIE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 0.8M

Handhelds

GBA POKEMON EMERALD $2.8M
NINTENDOGS: DACHSHUND $2.5M
NINTENDOGS: LABRADOR $2M
PSP MIDNIGHT CLUB 3 $2M
NINTENDOGS: CHIHUAHUA $1.8M

Note: NPD's TRST stats are subject to revision at this point.

 

[jman2050]

Midnight Club > 65000?

 

[ziran]

using the figures posted in the nintendogs sales thread, and a quick calculation from last months npd, roughly:

Handhelds

GBA POKEMON EMERALD $2.8M ~81k [(4,571,298/131,537)x2800000]
NINTENDOGS: DACHSHUND $2.5M ~85k
NINTENDOGS: LABRADOR $2M ~70k
PSP MIDNIGHT CLUB 3 $2M ~41k [(3,803,748/78,207)x2000000]
NINTENDOGS: CHIHUAHUA $1.8M ~65k

the nintendogs sales tally [approx] with a retail @ $30.

 

[donny2112]

Assuming $50/game for all but Nintendogs and Pokemon: Emerald (assume $30 for those games), here's the revenue converted to games sold, rounded.

PS2

1 MADDEN NFL 1422K
2 NCAA FOOTBALL 06 116K
3 DELTA FORCE: BLACK HAWK 46K
4 LEGO STAR WARS 40K
5 DESTROY ALL HUMANS! 38K

Xbox

1 MADDEN NFL 06 672K
2 DELTA FORCE: BLACK HAWK 60K
3 NCAA FOOTBALL 06 56K
4 T. CLANCYS RECON 2: STRIKE 56K
5 DARKWATCH 50K

GameCube

1 MADDEN NFL 06 78K
2 HARVEST MOON 20K
3 SUPER SMASH BRO MELEE 18K (30K @ $30)
4 MARIO PARTY 6 W/MIC 16K
5 CHARLIE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 16K

Handhelds

GBA POKEMON EMERALD 93K
NINTENDOGS: DACHSHUND 83K
NINTENDOGS: LABRADOR 67K
PSP MIDNIGHT CLUB 3 40K
NINTENDOGS: CHIHUAHUA 60K

Note: NPD's TRST stats are subject to revision at this point.

 

[ziran]

Assuming $50/game for all but Nintendogs and Pokemon: Emerald (assume $30 for those games), here's the revenue converted to games sold, rounded.

snap! for similar thinking

from last months npd, i think they use a retail of [around] $35 for pokemon emerald.

 

[explodet]

Harvest Moon for Chicks came in second place? Huh.

And check out the crazy Madden numbers.

 

[donny2112]

snap! for similar thinking

from last months npd, i think they use a retail of [around] $35 for pokemon emerald.

I thought the same thing when I saw your post. Good idea using the price/game from July's NPD.

 

[BuzzJive]

Geist didn't make the top 5 :-/


So much for Nintendo trying Mature games...

 

[sonycowboy]

Geist didn't make the top 5 :-/


So much for Nintendo trying Mature games...

GCN GEIST 10,393

 

[Memles]

GCN GEIST 10,393

Oh man...that's rough, yet deserved.

 

[olimario]

Geist didn't make the top 5 :-/


So much for Nintendo trying Mature games...

Geist is a stupid, bad game first and a mature game second. If Nintendo EAD made a good, mature title I'm sure it would sell.

 

[BuzzJive]

Geist is a stupid, bad game first and a mature game second. If Nintendo EAD made a good, mature title I'm sure it would sell.

Here's the thing though - it's NOT a stupid or bad game. And even if some reviewers incorrectly think it is, the fact that Miyamoto, Konno, Tanabe, Shikata and Goto approved it means that NCL thought it was a good game. NCL isn't going to decide all of a sudden that it was a bad game, they are going to decide that Mature games aren't something Nintendo wants to be involved with.


Thanks sonycowboy for the disappointing numbers BTW...

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

GCN GEIST 10,393

Ouch that hurts.. almost wants to make it buy one to add to those numbers! ....... although I think I'll just wait till it's about $10 or $20..

 

[Chi-Town]

Last Year's August Madden numbers...

PS2(combining regular and collector's edition) 1,508,399
Xbox 509,100
Gamecube 87,404

This year's

PS2 1,461,380
Xbox 682,665
Gamecube 80,939

 

[milanbaros]

Are we getting npd numbers today?

 

[Mrbob]

Are we getting npd numbers today?

It has begun in the other sales thread.

 

[John Harker]

GCN GEIST 10,393

oww oww oww, thats painful.

Thats not deserved!

I bought it, it was fun!

Nintendo is going to be pissed too - especially because of the TV adverts, and they dont even advertize most of their own games!

Poor n-Space. They really did the best they could. I can't hate on a dev for that, you shoulda seen the tools and equipment they had! Haha.

No but I bet Nintendo will look at this is a blow to Mature games on their system. especially ones internally or partially-internally developed.
Which I think overall, is just bad for gaming.

Don't be happy about this, heh.

Well, my only consolation.... Killer7 > Geist in sales, hahaha
(How did K7 do this month?)