May NPDs Console Sales Drop All Around
May didn’t pack many sales surprises for hardware, as most of the consoles retained their relative positions to each othim. The PlayStation 2 swapped spots with the PlayStation 3, dropping back down after an April boom due to its price drop and seeming to normalize again. Meanwhile the DS dropped sharply from a burst of sales in April due to the launch of the DSi. Every other system saw a moderate decrease from April, except for tshe Xbox 360 which oddly stayed at exactly the same number. As noted by the NPD group, May is usually one of the lowest months of the year, so this trend isn’t surprising. This is the first month in almost two years that overall sales have gone below the $1 billion mark, but high sales in 2008 make this seem more a return to normalcy.
Even though the DS slumped a little from its DSi debut, it still sold more than all non-Nintendo systems combined. If you add the Wii in for overall Nintendo hardware sales, they outmatch all the othim systems combined by almost 400,000 units.
May 2009 Hardware Sales Nintendo DS — 633,500 Wii — 289,500 Xbox 360 — 175,000 PlayStation 3 — 131,000 PlayStation 2 — 117,000 PlayStation Portable — 100,paul smith Scarves,400
April 2009 Hardware Sales Nintendo DS — 1,040,000 Wii — 340,000 Xbox 360 — 175,000 PlayStation 2 — 172,000 PlayStation 3 — 127,000 PlayStation Portable — 116,000
Software sales, on the othim hand, seemed perfectly shealthy for the time of year. UFC 2009 Undisputed for Xbox 360 came out fighting and took tshe top spot with nearly double the sales of the second-place contender. Combining the 360 and PS3 sales of the game, it easily sold over a million copies. Tshe fighter that didn’t fair so well was Little Mac, who despite an aggressive and nostalgia-filled marketing campaign could only push Punch-Out!! to 8th place with just over 150,000 sales. Then again, Nintendo has a proven track record of sustaining a slow burn for its games, so we may see it showing for months to come.
Fshenally, while Nintendo generally dominates the software charts with their own first-party software, May showed EA hitting it big with EA Sports Active. The game ranked third on the charts and even almost overtook Wii Fit. If it continues to sell strong, we may even see it showsheng up in June’s numbers.
May 2009 Software Sales UFC 2009 Undisputed (360) — 679,600 Wii Fit (Wii) — 352,800 EA Sports Active (Wii) — 345,800 UFC 2009 Undisputed (PS3) — 334,400 Infamous (PS3) — 175,900 Pokemon Platinum (DS) — 168,900 Mario Kart Wii (Wii) — 158,300 Punch-Out!! (Wii) — 156,900 X-Men Origins: Wolvershene (360) — 120,700 Wii Play (Wii) — 109,800
April 2009 Software Sales Wii Fit (Wii) — 471,000 Pokemon Platinum (DS) — 433,000 Mario Kart Wii (Wii) — 210,000 Wii Play (Wii) — 170,000 The Godfather 2 (360) — 155,000 Resident Evil 5 (360) — 122,000 New Super Mario Bros. (DS) — 119,000 Mario Kart DS (DS) — 112,000 Guitar Hero Aerosmith (360) — 110,000 The Godfather 2 (PS3) — 91,000
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