NPD March 2008 Sales

NPD March 2008 Sales

Nintendo Wii – 721,000
Nintendo DS - 698,600
PlayStation Portable - 297,000
Xbox 360 – 262,000
PS3 – 257,000
PS2 – 216,800

1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Wii – Activision – 2,700,200
2. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 - Xbox 360 - Ubisoft -752,300
3. Army of Two - Xbox 360 - Electronic Arts - 606,100
4. Play w/ Wii Remote - Wii - Nintendo of America - 409,800
5. God of War: Chains of Olympus - PSP - Sony - 340,500
6. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - PSP - Square Enix - 301,600
7. Guitar Hero II: Legends of Rock - Wii - Activision - 264,100
8. Major League Baseball 2K8 - Xbox 360 - Take-Two - 237,100
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Xbox 360 - Activision - 237,000
10. Army of Two - PS3 - Electronic Arts - 224,900

So yea pretty much Nintendo ownage. Wii set a couple of records. First of all it is the most sales in March ever by a console. Secondly it is the most sales ever in a non holiday month(November and December) by any system ever in one month. DS would have set that same record if Wii hadn’t had been in front of it just to tell ya how much they did.

PSP increases from new releases and 360 barely edges out 360. Note this was a 5 week tracking month by NPD which shows some scary results. PS3 last month sold more units than it did this month. ONly thing was last month was a 4 week tracking month not a 5. PS3 dropped close to 25k a week in March. 360 also had similar drops. In wake of GTAIV month, 360 and PS3 showing some scary trends while Wii continues to pummel forward in the largest gaming market in the world.

Software was easy. Smash Bros. Brawl crushes everything else with 2.7 million in the month. RSV2 on 360 comes in second. Army of Two on 360 does well and 2 new PSP games enter in. Wii Play, COD4 360, and GHIII Wii continue to beast it out.

weren’t the analysts predicting the fall of the wii by this part of 2008? I guess that’s why “analyst” starts with “anal”DOUCHEBAGS, goes to show what they know

Unit_DTH wrote: weren’t the analysts predicting the fall of the wii by this part of 2008? I guess that’s why “analyst” starts with “anal”DOUCHEBAGS, goes to show what they know

Well of course they were. And that PS3 was on the rise and going to dominate. Instead exact opposite happened. Wii started off slow in January(shortages). Increased in Feburary while PS3 and 360 stayed stagnant. And then Wii exploded in March while PS3 and 360 fell. Wii is not even falling. It’s getting stronger haha.

I mean I kept telling people Wii can’t go down as long as it in shortages. Why? It hasn’t found a medium yet to go down. And it’s really looking like Wii is going to find a medium in America of selling 120k-150k a week, 3x the amount that PS3 and 360 do. And as soon as this happens, which will probably be mid to late summer, then we can start telling if Wii is the real thing. But until then its' running off shipments in America and its owning.

If Wii follows normal trends, it’ll continue to sell beastly until after 2008 holiday season, and then we’ll actually be able to see if it can stand the test of time. Otherwise this thing is owning.

what he said.

Yahs.

pretty much.

Wonder what Wii will put up in May. I mean Wii Fit and Wiiware haha. Could be destructive haha.