Comments on: March 2008 NPD: Playstation Family continues to lead the competition despite PS3 shortages

By: guidono

guidono — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:39:17 +0000

REAL NPD march numbers

March NPD: Wii, Smash Bros. on top, software sales surge
(btw, with playstation family you count psp, Â´ps3 and ps2 you are trying to cover porr ps3 sales and with all that you still dont beat the wii)
If this is how Nintendo does before the predicted Wii Fit-exacerbated shortages, we’re a little scared for what the future will hold. As predicted, Nintendo dominated the March NPD sales report, selling over 720,000 Wiis and 698,000 DS units. The DS and Wii represented 58 percent of hardware sales for March, leapfrogging over one another to swap positions from the February numbers.

Further down the list, the Xbox 360 regained an extremely slight sales lead over the PS3, mainly due to a slight dip in Sony’s system sales. We predict the systems will likely continue trading slight leads like a couple of fading horses in the home stretch of a marathon-length race, until one inevitably dies just short of the finish line. And speaking of dead horses, the perpetual PS2 finally showed some signs of weakening this month, plummeting down nearly 63 percent from February’s sales.

- Wii: 721K 289K (40%)
- DS: 698K 110.4K (15.8%) [Update: Fixed typo in growth number]
- PSP: 297K 53.9K (18.1%)
- Xbox 360: 262K 7.4K (2.8%)
- PS3: 257K 23.8K (9.3%)
- PS2: 216K 135.8K (62.9%)

Software sales also met predictions in rising 57 percent to $1.7 billion for the month. Super Smash Bros. rode a wave of hype to a ridiculous 2.7 million sales — that’s more than last month’s top ten combined. Shooters had a good month, with the Xbox 360′s Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 and Army of Two rounding out the top three for the month (the PS3 version of Army of Two also showed up in tenth place) while Wii Play, Guitar Hero and Call of Duty 4 continued their seemingly endless runs on the top ten. The PSP also made a couple of relatively rare appearances in the top ten, with the God of War and Final Fantasy brands finally making people interested in UMDs again.

March Software
1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) – 2.7 million
2. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (Xbox 360) – 752.3K*
3. Army of Two (Xbox 360) – 606.1K
4. Wii Play w/ remote (Wii) – 409.8K
5. God of War: Chains of Olympus (PSP) – 340.5K
6. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP) – 301.6K
7. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) – 264.1K
8. Major League Baseball 2K8 (Xbox 360) – 237.1K
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) – 237K*
10. Army of Two (PS3) – 224.9K

By: Kanerilis

Kanerilis — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:31:56 +0000

just a funny thing that’s all. you can all suck it

By: elmenso1

elmenso1 — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:26:03 +0000

@ stickemup
hey dude, verry well put.

By: Blue Pig Mask

Blue Pig Mask — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:17:28 +0000

I still laugh at the concept of “defending” or “attacking” consoles. Unless you hold stock in a company, do sales matter? Do they have any effect upon your enjoyment of the games? As long as they aren’t bad enough to kill a console, no. So… why is everyone throwing a fit about sales? Live and let live.

By: erik

erik — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:13:30 +0000

@Kanerilis

“Ps3 has the BEST TOTAL EXPERIENCE THERE IS so get over it”

In your opinion maybe. If I owned a PS3 the best experience I would get out of it would be dusting it after its long periods of disuse.

By: Kanerilis

Kanerilis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:21:56 +0000

SPOILER ALERT

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=PS2&reg1=All&cons2=PS3&reg2=All&cons3=&reg3=All&weeks=156

By: Kanerilis

Kanerilis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:19:00 +0000

Let me tell you a little story…it’s about a man named Jed. Honestly can’t we all agree that there aren’t enough good games out on ANY system to keep us away from this god forsaken site.

@erik
Ps3 has the BEST TOTAL EXPERIENCE THERE IS so get over it

By: animekid3515

animekid3515 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:33:44 +0000

@erik:
fine, I’ll tell you:
it is an average puzzle game, that nintendo fans once again toss each other over because of the console’s lackluster game library.

By: erik

erik — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:46:17 +0000

Also Stickemup we come to the reason I didn’t list any games. Coldyellow listed games and you wrote them all off. While on the other hand expecting us to take the games listed by you from the PS3 as some kind of holy gospel and not tearing into them as you did with Coldyellow’s list. Isn’t that right?

By: erik

erik — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:07:42 +0000

@Stickemup

Not being taken seriously on SDF? Not a huge loss. Maybe next I’ll lose the respect of some hobos.

But again, I don’t know what Zak and Wiki is and in all likelihood don’t neet/want to know anyways.