NPD Sales Results for December 2009

[War]

Data care of NPD Group
Reporting Period: 11/29/09 - 1/2/10


PlayStation 2 333.2K
PlayStation 3 1.36M
PSP 654.7K
Xbox 360 1.31M
Wii 3.81M
Nintendo DS 3.31M


NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Nov-09 2.82M
WII FIT PLUS* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Oct-09 2.41M
WII SPORTS RESORT W/ WII MOTION PLUS* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Jul-09 1.79M
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* 360 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Nov-09 1.63M
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* PS3 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Nov-09 1.12M
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Feb-07 1.01M
MARIO KART W/ WHEEL WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Apr-08 936.1K
ASSASSIN'S CREED II 360 UBISOFT Nov-09 783.1K
LEFT 4 DEAD 2 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Nov-09 728.5K
MARIO & LUIGI: BOWSER'S INSIDE STORY NDS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Sep-09 656.7K

(*includes CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware)


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Analysis from NPD's Anita Frazier:

Spoiler

Overall

"The video game industry experienced its biggest sales month ever, besting last December by 4%. It wasn't enough, though, to compensate for the sales decline throughout the year, and so full-year sales came in 8% below last year's record-setting revenues."

"The only category to see an increase over last year was portable hardware, which was up due to a 7% increase in the average retail price. The DS platform, across all categories, contributed 17% of total industry dollars in 2009, up three points from 2008."

"Unit sales were down only 6% from last year. Average retail prices were down in all categories except for portable hardware and accessories, which led to the greater dollar sales decline."

"December marks just the fourth month of the year where the industry saw an increase over last year. January and February were both up, and since the decline that began in March, only September experienced growth. The big sales this month, particularly on the hardware front, is a positive move for the industry headed into what will hopefully be a recovery year in 2010."

Hardware

"There are a lot of hardware records this month. The PS3 realized it's biggest month of sales ever, and the first time sales have exceeded 1 million units. The Wii and the DS also had their biggest sales months ever, and in fact the two platforms hold the top two spots in sales of any hardware device in a single month. Overall, it was the biggest month of sales for hardware on both a dollar and unit basis."

"This current generation of console hardware has outsold the last by more than 9 million units during the first 50 months in the market."

"Hopefully, the big increase in the overall install base of hardware systems will bring good things for software sales in 2010, especially with the incredible line-up of content coming out early in the year."

Software

"The best-selling game of the month was New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which also captures the third spot on the annual top 10 list for 2009."

"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become the fourth best-selling game of all time. In fact, 3 of the top 10 games of all time are Call of Duty games."

"The music/dance genre was the best-selling genre for the month and second best for the year behind first-person shooters."

"Madden NFL 10 had a big month selling 1.5 million units across all platforms, besting last December's performance of the '09 game. December's sales made up some of the lost ground realized out the gate when the title came to market in August."

"Software sales in December were more concentrated among the top games this year than last. This year, 20% of sales came from the top SKU's, whereas last December it was just 12%."

"6 of the top 10 games totaling 20.8 million units for the year were on the Wii platform as compared to 4 last year at 19 million units."

Accessories

"7 of the top 10 accessories items in December were for the Wii platform, along with the Xbox Live Points card and wireless controllers for the Xbox 360 and PS3."

Source

 

[Chanser]

The Reggie bet is kind of true.

 

[War]

The Reggie bet is kind of true.

NSMB - 2.82M
CODMW2 - 2.75M

:| Speechless.

 

[Chanser]

The Reggie bet is kind of true.

NSMB - 2.82M
CODMW2 - 2.75M

:| Speechless.

Nothing can touch Nintendo.

Spoiler

NINTENDO FINISHES 2009 WITH MULTIPLE SALES RECORDS

Wii Has the Best Month in Video Game History, Nintendo DS Has the Best Calendar Year of All Time

Jan. 14, 2010

A holiday shopping frenzy helped both of Nintendo's video game systems make history: Nintendo's Wii™ home system sold more than 3.8 million units in December, a new all-time single-month U.S. sales record. The Nintendo DS™ Lite and Nintendo DSi™ hand-held systems combined to sell more than 3.3 million, the second biggest month in U.S. history.

Those strong December numbers helped propel the Nintendo DS franchise to more than 11.2 million sold in 2009, a new U.S. calendar-year sales record for any video game system – ever. The Wii console finished 2009 with 9.6 million sold. Of all the Wii consoles ever sold in the United States since its November 2006 launch, nearly one-fifth (18.7 percent) were sold during November and December 2009.

"Wii, Nintendo DS Lite and Nintendo DSi combined to sell more than 7 million units in the month of December alone," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "Clearly there is overwhelming consumer demand for fun games, motion controls and value. This remarkable hardware sales surge presents a tremendous software opportunity for Nintendo and its third-party partners as we head into 2010."

Lifetime U.S. sales for Wii have now surpassed 27.2 million units. No other home console has ever sold so many so quickly. Lifetime U.S. sales for the Nintendo DS franchise have topped 38.8 million units, surpassing lifetime sales of the Game Boy™ Advance franchise.

As always, great software drives hardware sales. In December alone, consumers placed six Nintendo games in the top 10 best-sellers of the month. These include New Super Mario Bros.™ Wii at No. 1 with more than 2.8 million sold, Wii Sports Resort™ at No. 2 with more than 1.7 million sold, Wii Fit™ Plus with the Wii Balance Board™ accessory at No. 3 with more than 1.7 million sold, Wii Play™ at No. 6 with more than 1.0 million sold, Mario Kart™ Wii at No. 7 with more than 936,000 sold and Mario & Luigi™: Bowser's Inside Story for Nintendo DS Lite and Nintendo DSi at No. 10 with more than 656,000 sold.

For all of 2009, Nintendo finished with seven of the top 10 best-selling games of the year. These include New Super Mario Bros. Wii at No. 2 with more than 4.2 million sold, Wii Sports Resort at No. 3 with more than 4.2 million sold, Wii Fit™ at No. 4 with more than 3.5 million sold, Mario Kart Wii at No. 5 with nearly 3.1 million sold, Wii Play at No. 6 with more than 3.1 million sold, Wii Fit Plus™ at No. 8 with more than 2.4 million sold and Pokémon™ Platinum Version at No. 10 with more than 2.0 million sold.

All numbers contained in this document are according to the NPD Group, which tracks U.S. video game sales.

 

[raulpica]

I'm so proud of Nintendo

 

[ZeWarrior]

IMO, Nintendo was dumb for not bringing out the DSi LL in the US before this holiday, with both the DSi/DSi LL/DSL on the market, they would have sold well over 5 million DS'.

 

[zuron7]

Hell you're kidding me and piracy affects them.

 

[Theraima]

Go Ninty! Tho was about time Nintendo to achieve something, but THIS? Awesome!

 

[Elritha]

Not surprised at all to see no third party title up there for the Wii.

 

[qdog82]

Not surprised at all to see no third party title up there for the Wii.

Not suprised at all to see no first party title up there for 360 and ps3

 

[Satangel]

Predictable, did anyone doubt NSMB Wii was going to sell less then CoD MW2?
I certainly didn't, Mario still sells like hot pancakes.
God, Nintendo must have really made a shitload of profit on NSMB Wii, considering their costs are waaaaaaaaaay lower then MW2 were.

 

[quepaso]

Nintendo games sell on nintendo systems. Shocker.

p.s. - 360 getting outsold by a supply constrained PS3 shows that it was in fact the mass bannings that helped microsoft get so high in november.

 

[Deleted_171835]

Reggie.....won the bet.

Well, duh. Nintendo products always sell!

 

[DeMoN]

What the shit is this then:
http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged...figures/1385597

I was just reading it a few minutes ago, it says MW2 for the 360 and Wii Sports Resort both sold more than NSMB Wii.

 

[shakirmoledina]

its kinda strange isnt it? (the discrepancy)... One thing is for sure, nintendo still is cheap and easy for gamers hence ppl still attracted to it esp in JAPAN

 

[qdog82]

What the shit is this then:
http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged...figures/1385597

I was just reading it a few minutes ago, it says MW2 for the 360 and Wii Sports Resort both sold more than NSMB Wii.

This thread is about the december sales in the us, what you linked in are the overall sales of 2009 in the us.
Read more carefull next time before you post something

 

[SPH73]

Well I guess Sony was lying about selling 4 million PS3

Ninty beat Sony's global sales in just one country, lol sony