July NPD Sales figures (US)

Abooie · 24 Aug 2007 at 07:54

Top 10 SKU's for July
360 NCAA FOOTBALL 08 ELECTRONIC ARTS 1 397k
PS2 GUITAR HERO ENCORE: ROCKS THE 80S ACTIVISION (CORP) 2 339k
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA 3 278k
PS2 NCAA FOOTBALL 08 ELECTRONIC ARTS 4 236k
WII MARIO PARTY 8 NINTENDO OF AMERICA 5 177k
PS3 NCAA FOOTBALL 08 ELECTRONIC ARTS 6 156k
NDS POKEMON DIAMOND VERSION NINTENDO OF AMERICA 7 144k
PS2 TRANSFORMERS: THE GAME ACTIVISION (CORP) 8 143k
PS2 GUITAR HERO 2 W/GUITAR ACTIVISION (CORP) 9 138k
360 GUITAR HERO 2 W/ GUITAR ACTIVISION (CORP) 10 108k

July Hardware Figures
Wii 425 k
Nintendo DS 405 k
PlayStation 2 222k
PlayStation Portable 214k
Xbox 360 170k
PlayStation 3 159k
Game Boy Advance 87k

So Wii sells out again (good times) and for the first time actually outsells the unoutsellable DS. Despite the PS3 $100 price drop it still comes in behind the PS2 and 360 (bad times). The 360 plods along without change with average July sales (meh times).

And people do love their Guitar Hero.

FrankJH · 24 Aug 2007 at 08:04

In a very MS centric US I think the PS3 is doing pretty well to be that close to the X360 (not of course forgetting the Elite is pushing sales up I would guess)

Rava Benitez · 24 Aug 2007 at 08:08

FrankJH said:
In a very MS centric US I think the PS3 is doing pretty well to be that close to the X360 (not of course forgetting the Elite is pushing sales up I would guess)

The US is in no way MS centric.

DanH84 · 24 Aug 2007 at 08:17

can't really see how us is ms centric.

FrankJH · 24 Aug 2007 at 08:29

In the fact that that is by and large always their best territory for sales

Bonjour · 24 Aug 2007 at 08:44

Blimey.

There's so much money to be made in this industry. No wonder Microsoft want a piece of the pie.

DanH84 · 24 Aug 2007 at 09:03

FrankJH said:
In the fact that that is by and large always their best territory for sales

well that is true but it doesn't make it out to be anti sony does it? the ps and ps2 were fantastically successful in the us. the only place i can think of thats really pro or anti anyone as a nation is japan which is obviously anti ms. i don't believe that the average american would buy a console because it's made by microsoft instead of a 'dodgy' japanese company.

msmalls74 · 24 Aug 2007 at 09:13

Never quite understand why people take the NPD stats in such high regard, given that NPD doesn't even poll most of the brick and mortar chains IIRC they don't include sales from Walmart, Target, etc. It is after all a guesstimate derived from partial sales data from a few areas, much like how the TV viewing figures are done, Its probably pretty close, but its not the whole truth.

FrankJH · 24 Aug 2007 at 11:07

DanH84 said:
well that is true but it doesn't make it out to be anti sony does it? the ps and ps2 were fantastically successful in the us. the only place i can think of thats really pro or anti anyone as a nation is japan which is obviously anti ms. i don't believe that the average american would buy a console because it's made by microsoft instead of a 'dodgy' japanese company.

The US consumer in general seem to be more "leniant" with MS's Xbox problems more than Sony's ps ones it seems

XPE · 24 Aug 2007 at 11:18

I always wondered why activision payed so much for the right to Guitar Hero. :eek:

slambo69 · 24 Aug 2007 at 11:30

FrankJH said:
The US consumer in general seem to be more "leniant" with MS's Xbox problems more than Sony's ps ones it seems

Dont the sales in the UK suggest that we are about the same as the US in terms of 360 sales relative to the population?

Also Nintendo is outselling the 360 bigtime and with Sony's price drop you would expect it to at least match the 360, infact a lot of analysts were saying it would beat it.