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Posted by Justin, on August 13th, 2010
Posted by Justin, on August 12th, 2010 Aug. 12, 2010 – Nintendo sold more than 650,000 video game systems in July – more than any other company – according to the independent NPD Group, which tracks sales of video game products in the United States. The Nintendo DS™ family of systems sold nearly 400,000 in July, and Nintendo’s Wii™ console marked its 45th consecutive month of more than 250,000 units sold with July sales of nearly 254,000. These tallies bring the 2010 U.S. sales totals through the end of July for Nintendo DS to more than 3.4 million and Wii to more than 2.71 million.
Five of the top 10 best-selling games of July play on Nintendo systems. These include Super Mario Galaxy™ 2 for Wii at No. 4 with more than 192,000 sold, LEGO® Harry Potter™: Years 1-4 for Nintendo DS at No. 5 with nearly 142,000 sold, LEGO® Harry Potter™: Years 1-4 for Wii at No. 7 with more than 133,000 sold, DRAGON QUEST IX®: Sentinels of the Starry Skies™ for Nintendo DS at No. 8 with more than 132,000 sold and New Super Mario Bros.™ Wii at No. 9 with more than 128,000 sold.
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Posted by Justin, on August 12th, 2010 Overall
“While video game retail sales show a very slight decline versus last July, we have to consider the success of Starcraft II this month, which helped the PC games category to realize a 103% increase in dollars over last July. PC Games and video game industry sales combined for an increase of 4% in revenues as compared to July’09.”
Hardware
“The PS3 and the Xbox 360 platforms both saw significant increases over July’09. In fact, Xbox 360 was the top-selling hardware platform for the month, driven by sales of the new slim format SKU. It’s the first time since September ’07 (Halo 3 launch) that the 360 was the top-selling hardware platform.”
Software
“The top selling video game for the month, combining platforms, was NCAA Football 11 at 692K units. Achieving even better results this month was Starcraft II (PC), which sold 721K units at retail in July.”
“LEGO Harry Potter was the second best-selling game for the month with 401K units across all platforms. It bested its intro month sales in June of 355K, although it must be noted it released late in June. In just over a month at retail, it has already sold enough to put it just outside of the top 20 games year-to-date.”
Accessories
“The Xbox 360 1600 point card was the best-selling accessory SKU for the fifth consecutive month. The general success of the Points and Subscriptions cards category within Accessories points to the activity that is happening in the industry outside the traditional retail channel.” – NPD analyst, Anita Frazier
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Posted by Justin, on August 12th, 2010 Reporting period: 7/4/10 – 7/31/10
Hardware
PlayStation 3 – 214.5K
PSP – 84.0K
Xbox 360 – 443.5K
Wii – 253.9K
Nintendo DS – 398.4K
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Software
NCAA FOOTBALL 11 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Jul-10 368.0K
NCAA FOOTBALL 11 PS3 ELECTRONIC ARTS Jul-10 298.8K
CRACKDOWN 2 360 MICROSOFT Jul-10 208.8K
SUPER MARIO GALAXY 2 WII NINTENDO May-10 193.0K
LEGO HARRY POTTER: YEARS 1-4 NDS WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE Jun-10 141.7K
RED DEAD REDEMPTION 360 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE May-10
LEGO HARRY POTTER: YEARS 1-4 WII WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE Jun-10
DRAGON QUEST IX: SENTINELS OF THE STARRY SKIES NDS NINTENDO Jul-10
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII WII NINTENDO Nov-09
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* 360 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Nov-09
(*includes CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware)
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Posted by Justin, on July 21st, 2010 NPD Group claimed Wednesday that full-game PC digital download purchases reached 21.3 million in the U.S. during 2009, nearly even with 23.5 million physical unit buys, signifying an important shift in purchasing habits.
The tracking firm said that, according to its estimates, PC digital downloads represented 48 percent of unit sales for PC last year, and accounted for 36 percent of dollar sales.
I don’t know why I thought this but for some reason I assumed that PC digital downloads had already surpassed PC boxed sales.
Read the full article here.
Posted by Justin, on July 20th, 2010 “[Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 was down 68% in first month sales compared to last year] The 86 per cent decline on the Wii was particularly catastrophic… Although this is probably due in part to the fact that last year’s version shipped bundled with Nintendo’s new MotionPlus controller, we are concerned that Woods’ scandal woes may have permanently damaged the sales potential of what we believe to be EA’s third most important sports franchise, behind Madden and FIFA.” – Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz
Well we now have some conflicing reports about Tiger Woods sales for June, VentureBeat claimed they were down 32%. In either case things are not good but I don’t think this has much to do with Tiger’s man-whoring ways.
The inclusion of the MotionPlus controller in TW 10 certainly spiked sales above the norm and I agree with Creutz that this has something to do with the drop in sales for 11. However, the strong performance of Tiger Woods PGA Online indicates to me that golf gamers don’t care about the scandal very much.
My best guess is that a lot of TW 10 buyers are still happy with that version and don’t see a need to upgrade every year.
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Posted by Justin, on July 20th, 2010 Top Ten Individual Platform Sales (Jan-Jun)
1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii – Wii
2. Pokemon SoulSilver Version – Nintendo DS
3. Red Dead Redemption – Xbox 360
4. God of War III – PlayStation 3
5. Wii Fit Plus w/Balance Board – Wii
6. Wii Sports Resort w/ Wii Motion Plus – Wii
7. Pokemon HeartGold Version – Nintendo DS
8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Xbox 360
9. Just Dance – Wii
10. Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Wii
Top Five Combined Platform Sales (Jan-Jun)
1. Red Dead Redemption (360,PS3)
2. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2* (360,PS3)
4. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (360,PS3)
5. Wii Fit Plus* (Wii)
* = Sales across all platforms and bundles, CE, GOTY editions etc.
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Posted by Justin, on July 19th, 2010 
“Skate 3 sold a disappointing 253K units during its first two months in release, down 40 per cent from the two-month total for Skate 2 in early 2009. Finally, June release Green Day: Rock Band sold a paltry 82K units across three platforms.” – Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz
But MTV Games said Green Day would outperform Beatles Rock Band…
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Posted by Justin, on July 19th, 2010 
“It is clear that the sales spike for the 360 was largely temporary, as clearance items accounted for around 60 per cent of total sales [Xbox 360 S 40%, Xbox 360 Arcade 35%], and it is not clear that software attached heavily to these purchase,” – Michael Pachter
I figured as much, and would not be surprised to see 360 sales drop off when July’s numbers come out.
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Posted by Justin, on July 16th, 2010 Nintendo DS – 3,071,400
Nintendo Wii – 2,405,700
Xbox 360 – 1,924,900
Playstation 3 – 1,591,000
PSP – 599,300
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