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NPDs Look Back on December, 2007

Posted by Zonk on from the it-prints-money-ha-ha-ha-ha dept.

Joystiq has the NPD numbers for the entire year of 2007 and (of course) December. Last year was a banner year for games, with the industry as a whole coming close to cracking $18 billion in sales. The big winner was the Wii, of course, with some 6 million units sold over the course of the year. The 360 sold about four and a half million, and the PS3 sold about two and a half. The big software seller was (un-shockingly) Halo 3, at 4.82 million sold, with Wii Play close behind at 4.12m. Here are the software numbers for December: "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) -- 1.47m, Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) -- 1.40m, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2) -- 1.25m, Wii Play w/ Remote (Wii) -- 1.08m, Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360) -- 894K, Halo 3 (Xbox 360) -- 743K, Brain Age 2 (DS) -- 660K, Madden NFL 08 (PS2) -- 655K, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360) -- 625K, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii) -- 613K"

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  1. This is silly, but... by Pojut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...it kind of bugs me that they everyone includes WiiPlay in the best seller lists for 2007....the ONLY reason people bought it is because it included a Wiimote and was only $10 more than a Wiimote by itself...I personally feel that if it didn't include a Wiimote, it wouldn't have sold even a quarter of the number of copies sold...

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    1. Re:This is silly, but... by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's a tutorial for the Wiimote, in Japan Wii Sports isn't packed in so they probably wantwed to use it as the introduction to the Wii over there. Of course with Wii Sports being bundled here most people will have learned how to use the Wiimote before they got Wii Play.

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  2. Re:To be a loyal SOny fanboy by bealzabobs_youruncle · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Yea, three quarters of a million units in one month, steadily uptrending sales, more quality games arriving in the library and Warner Bros going BD exclusive this month. PS3 owners must be miserable.

    Meanwhile I haven't had a stable connection on Xbox Live since the week before xmas, my console sounds like it's ready to die again and I have an almost identical slate of games to the PS3 coming up. I've been playing my 360 pretty much non-stop since July of 2007 but it isn't all roses and the upcoming line up isn't all that exciting. I finally broke down and bought COD4 for my PS3 just so I could get online and play when I felt like it.

  3. NPD? by flydpnkrtn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What the hell is an NPD? Can we please define obscure acronyms in the summary? I mean... WTF :)

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  4. Re:NPD is useless by Moonpie+Madness · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NPD is wildly inaccurate. But it's better than the other wildly inaccurate sources.

    Still, a great indicator of what's selling is to look at major areas that sell games. Go to Best Buy and see how much store space is devoted to Nintendo or Microsoft or Sony. You'll get the idea that each is doing very well, but Sony is fractured among a diverse group of systems (this is a good thing or a bad thing depending on your expectation of the economy).

    NPD is not a target for attack. They are only inaccurate insofar as many retailers refuse to give information to them.