Updated With June NPD Numbers: Nintendo Dominates Hardware/Software Sales For Another Month

[jpeyton]

Wii Tops 3 Million In Japan

The Wii sold just fewer than 110,000 during the last week, while DS sales have reached 18 million across the region, selling a total of 142,000 during the same week.

In an auspicious week for Nintendo, all software titles in the Japanese top ten belonged to either the Wii or DS, with Dragon Quest Swords for Wii at number one with 305,000 units sold.

Similar picture in US, with Nintendo holding 11 spots in the top 20 software chart.

In Canada, Nintendo holds 7 spots in the top 10 software chart.

Nintendo is on a roll in Canada. The Wii and Nintendo DS have turned the hardware sales each month into a two-horse race, with each of them often doubling up the sales of any other system on the market. June was no exception, according to retail sales figures the industry-tracking NPD Group released to GameSpot this week.

Overall, Nintendo has almost closed the gap MS built with their year-long launch advantage.

Month after month, we hear about the Wii being a "fad", and month after month, the raw numbers prove its not.

June NPD numbers for North America should be out today, BTW. Expect another month of domination for Nintendo.

According to Pachter's forecast, Wii was the big next-generation winner in June with sales of 435,000 consoles sold. Next up is Microsoft's Xbox 360, subject of price cut rumors that never materialized, which sold 200,000 units. And pulling up in third, as usual, is Sony's PS3. PlayStation 3, according to Pachter, sold about 100,000 for the month.

EDIT:

June 2007 NPD

DS 561,000
Wii 381,000
PSP 290,000
PS2 270,000
X360 198,000
GBA 113,000
PS3 98,000

The top-selling games largely belonged to Nintendo, too. Against IGN's recommendation, Wii owners continued to buy Mario Party 8, which pulled in another 426,000 in sales to become the month's best-selling game. Wii Play nabbed the second slot with 293,000. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl sucked in 288,000 and 214,000 new DS fans respectively and Xbox 360's Forza Motorsport 2 capped out the top five with 197,000 in sales.

What's Sony going to do with their rapidly expanding PS2 base? Tell developers to make PS2 titles instead?

 

[MikeyLSU]

not sure how much I believe that hardware sales thing.

It shows absolutely no jump in sales for the PS3 after the pricecut and that is very fishy considering Amazon and many other places sold out.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: MikeyLSU
not sure how much I believe that hardware sales thing.

It shows absolutely no jump in sales for the PS3 after the pricecut and that is very fishy considering Amazon and many other places sold out.

Price was cut in the second week of July. These are sales figures for June.

 

[MikeyLSU]

the hardware chart shows sales through 7/15/07

 

[tfinch2]

Marked for later

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: MikeyLSU
the hardware chart shows sales through 7/15/07

So? In one week after the price drop, what did you expect? Sales to jump 1 million units or something?

I was out shopping at B&M stores yesterday; the display cases were still full of PS3s. The $100 price drop caused a small spike, not a big one.

 

[Thraxen]

How is Wii Sports on top of the American software chart? I thought it was only a pack-in over here.

 

[yowolabi]

This news isn't as sensational as your headline makes it seem. In the handheld market, the DS has clearly triumphed over the PSP. This has been known for ages. There's no reason to compare console sales to handheld sales, though. Looking at consoles, the software sales war was won by the 360, not the Wii.

The top selling wii games are "wii sports" and "wii play". Sports comes bundled with the console, and Play comes bundled with the wii remote. So while they may technically be moving a lot of those games, they aren't being "sold". It's not like there's an option to buy the Wii without the software for less money.

When looking at games that were sold independently, the 360 had 4 different titles that sold more copies than the top non-bundled seller for the Wii, Mario Party. Also, 360 sold more games total than the Wii, still keeping in mind that none of the 360 games were bundled. The PS3 is definitely lagging behind with half the sales of the other two systems.

It's interesting that one game was sold on almost all the platforms, "Transformers: the game".
PS2 - 37,833
360 - 21,727
Wii - 13,319
PS3 - 12,817
PSP - 8,525

What's illustrated to me by all these numbers is that after people buy a Wii and remote, they're not going out and getting other games. It's already been established that there are almost as many Wiis in peoples' homes as 360s, so a lack of desirable games is definitely a concern. It'll be very interesting to see PS3 numbers after the price cut, because there was nothing interesting about those June numbers.

 

[mugs]

This can't be true. The Wii is only bought by non-gamers who want to play Wii Sports. No one actually buys games for the Wii. And so on and so forth.

Originally posted by: Thraxen
How is Wii Sports on top of the American software chart? I thought it was only a pack-in over here.

I've always wondered the same...

 

[yowolabi]

Originally posted by: mugs
This can't be true. The Wii is only bought by non-gamers who want to play Wii Sports. No one actually buys games for the Wii. And so on and so forth.

Did you look at the link, and my writeup? It seems you were being sarcastic, but that actually appears to be true.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: yowolabi

Originally posted by: mugs
This can't be true. The Wii is only bought by non-gamers who want to play Wii Sports. No one actually buys games for the Wii. And so on and so forth.

Did you look at the link, and my writeup? It seems you were being sarcastic, but that actually appears to be true.

Yeah, the Xbox 360 sells more games than the Wii right now. There are still more 360s than Wiis out there, especially in the US. It also has more than twice as many available games (Gamerankings lists 39 Wii games and 137 Xbox 360 games with 20 ratings or more - although many of those are XBLA games), and many of the Xbox 360 games are selling at reduced prices ($30) now. Of course it's going to sell more copies. The Wii's "lack" of games right now is just because it is still relatively new. Developers are devoting resources to it, so that will change. Wii games are selling - there just haven't been a lot of good ones released recently.

I have a Wii and a 360. They're both great systems with different purposes. I think the one thing we can all agree on is that Sony is getting spanked. It'll be interesting to see how the price cut affects that though.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: yowolabi
It's interesting that one game was sold on almost all the platforms, "Transformers: the game".
PS2 - 37,833
360 - 21,727
Wii - 13,319
PS3 - 12,817
PSP - 8,525

What's illustrated to me by all these numbers is that after people buy a Wii and remote, they're not going out and getting other games.

It's interesting that one game was sold on almost all the platforms, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".
Wii 13,552
DS 10,332
PS2 6,465
X360 6,347
PS3 5,588
PSP 2,817

What's illustrated to me by all these numbers is that after people buy a Wii and remote, they're going out and getting other games.

 

[randay]

how does wii sports qualify for that list? isnt it bundled with the wii? and its not even a complete game ffs. you cant even buy the game off a shelf by itself if you wanted to.

 

[shocksyde]

Well played, jpeyton. Well played.

 

[tatteredpotato]

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: yowolabi
It's interesting that one game was sold on almost all the platforms, "Transformers: the game".
PS2 - 37,833
360 - 21,727
Wii - 13,319
PS3 - 12,817
PSP - 8,525

What's illustrated to me by all these numbers is that after people buy a Wii and remote, they're not going out and getting other games.

It's interesting that one game was sold on almost all the platforms, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".
Wii 13,552
DS 10,332
PS2 6,465
X360 6,347
PS3 5,588
PSP 2,817

What's illustrated to me by all these numbers is that after people buy a Wii and remote, they're going out and getting other games.

Nintendo is really expanding the market rather than stealing from Microsoft and Sony, so even though the Wii will continue to dominate them in sales, they aren't really hurting MS and Sony as much as it seems.

Also Harry Potter selling the strongest on the Wii is far from surprising IMO, it's a game that meshes well with their demographic (not to mention the Wiimote doubles as an effin wand!).

EDIT: Ok so you were goin for that in response to Transformers... I'm a noob.
EDIT2: Clicked Quote instead of Edit.... bigger noob.

 

[tatteredpotato]

nm

 

[jpeyton]

Added June NPD numbers.

Hope some of you have Nintendo stock. It's time to take a ride on the money train.

 

[eelw]

Does anyone have the tie ratio for the consoles?

 

[tatteredpotato]

Originally posted by: eelw
Does anyone have the tie ratio for the consoles?

I think MS gave theirs out at E3, I don't remember off the top of my head though.

 

[dwell]

Originally posted by: MikeyLSU
the hardware chart shows sales through 7/15/07

Wrong. The chart is up to July 7th, before the price cut.

 

[Queasy]

Sony says PS3 sales up 135% since price drop.

 

[Thraxen]

Mario Party 8 and Wii Play leading the charts is so sad. Those games are crap. Then you have all the movie tie-ins and such. Why so much crap in the top 20 right now

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Sony says PS3 sales up 135% since price drop.

Yep, it looks like sales for July should be around 200,000 units for the PS3.

If that price-drop surge can hold its steam up through August, it'll be quite an achievement at that price point.

Remember, Sony dropped the PS3 price in Japan a lot earlier (it's been a hair above $400 for a while) and sales are as slow as ever over there.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: Thraxen
Mario Party 8 and Wii Play leading the charts is so sad. Those games are crap. Then you have all the movie tie-ins and such. Why so much crap in the top 20 right now

Because all the triple-A titles come out in the fall/winter?

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Thraxen
Mario Party 8 and Wii Play leading the charts is so sad. Those games are crap. Then you have all the movie tie-ins and such. Why so much crap in the top 20 right now

Because it is summer....when all the crap games are released.