American Sales for Week Ending Dec 22nd, 2007

Video gaming business sees biggest week in history/ Nintendo DS sells 2 million units in seven days The week ending 22nd December 2007 saw the greatest sales the video gaming business ever achieved in history. According to the data collected by VGchartz.com more than 5.4 million gaming systems and 21.6 million software units have been sold during the last week of the Christmas shopping season.

The sales leader was the Nintendo DS with more than 2.0 million units sold, breaking the PS2´s all time record of 1.7 million units in seven days.

Wii took the number two spot, selling in excess of 1.4 million units – outselling Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 combined.

The Playstation Portable continues to sell well with more than 725,000 units worldwide. On the other hand software sales for Sony’s handheld continue to disappoint considering the big user base – only 880,000 software units were sold last week, a weekly attach rate of less than 1.3 games per system.

The HD systems sold head to head with the Xbox 360 having the edge in the US and the Playstation 3 outselling its competitor by a great margin in Japan (although selling at a disappointing slow rate of less than 60,000 units in the biggest week of 2007) and to a lesser extend in Europe.

Worldwide the Playstation 3 took the number 4 spot with 620,000 units outselling the Xbox 360 by a mere 30,000 systems.

Worldwide software charts showed strong performance of Nintendo games with the publisher taking 8 of the top 10 spots and a total of more than 7.3 million games. Electronic Arts took the numbers two spot with more than 2.6 million software units sold beating both Activision and Ubisoft with sales of 1.7 and 1.1 million software units respectively.



The worldwide breakdown in numbers:



Total Hardware sales, week ending 22nd December 2007:

Platform 22-Dec

DS
2,046,652

Wii
1,457,872

PSP
725,370

PS2
623,899

PS3
619,388

Xbox360
594,520






Top 20 Software sales, week ending 22nd December 2007:

Rank Software Title (bundles are included)Platform Sales

1
Wii Sports
Wii
1,292,462

2
Super Mario Galaxy
Wii
716,071

3
Mario Party DS
DS
529,316

4
Wii Play
Wii
500,902

5
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
Wii
495,194

6
More Brain Training
DS
487,693

7
Brain Training
DS
377,394

8
Forza Motorsport 2
Xbox 360
326,761

9
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
DS
325,785

10
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Xbox 360
322,709

11
Final Fantasy IV DS
DS
312,346

12
Nintendogs
DS
286,617

13
Guitar Hero III
PS2
278,599

14
New Super Mario Brothers
DS
264,330

15
Mario Party 8
Wii
260,844

16
Assassin’s Creed
Xbox 360
257,873

17
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Xbox 360
254,115

18
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
DS
241,741

19
Need for Speed: Prostreet
PS2
216,886

20
Wii Fit
Wii
216,456