MARCH NPD AM HERE

[MCD]

Industry Sales
Mar-07 Mar-08 CHG
Total Video Games $1.1B $1.7B 57%
Video Games Hardware $377.9M $551.3M 46%
Video Games Software $579.1M $945.6M 63%
Video Game Accessories $139.5M $220M 58%


HW Sales

Hardware Mar-08
PlayStation 2 216K
PlayStation 3 257K
PlayStation Portable 297K
Xbox 360 262K
Nintendo DS 698K
Wii 721K

SW Sales
Top-Selling VG Software - March 2008

Platform Title Publisher Release Date March Units
WII  SUPER SMASH BROS: BRAWL NINTENDO OF AMERICA Mar-08 2.7M
360  *TOM CLANCY'S RAINBOW SIX: VEGAS 2 UBISOFT Mar-08 752.3K
360  ARMY OF TWO ELECTRONIC ARTS Mar-08 606.1K
WII  PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA Feb-07 409.8K
PSP  GOD OF WAR: CHAINS OF OLYMPUS SONY Mar-08 340.5K
PSP  CRISIS CORE: FINAL FANTASY VII SQUARE ENIX INC Mar-08 301.6K
WII  GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK ACTIVISION Oct-07 264.1K
360  MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 2K8 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE Mar-08 237.1K
360  *CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION Nov-07 237K
PS3  ARMY OF TWO ELECTRONIC ARTS Mar-08 224.9K

[MCD]

the real winner here is the PSP.

good job sony/square.

[Oblivion]

Awesome SSBB sales.

And holy fuck, CoD4 keeps selling boatloads. 

[The Sceneman]

721,000 Wiis sold in the US in one month, 2.7 million copies of Brawl sold

Its all fucking over

[The Sceneman]

the real winner here is the PSP.

good job sony/square.

that is true, its a Sony product that actually derserves success

unlike the tripple

[demi]

Wow, 300k for a PSP game... I think that is a first

[The Sceneman]

Its odd that COD4 PS3 dropped of entirely.

haha, no its not

[calcifer]

ps3 is pathetic in the us

i doubt either gt5:p or mgs4 will break the top 5

360 is almost just as pathetic but at least it has got a userbase and one that buys a lot of games even though 99.9% of them are pure shit

and its pretty mindboggling how something i care so little about (nintendo) is selling sooooo well

[bud]

year of the ps3 is no more

rip

[Powerslave]

wtf! Will the Wii break the 100 million record the PS2's sold?

the real winner here is the PSP.

good job sony/square.

that is true, its a Sony product that actually derserves success

unlike the tripple

Didn't people also say this to the PSP when it was in it's first 2 years?

[hyp]

Wii

my tag is now justified.

360 > PS3 with shortages.  big LOL

[Van Cruncheon]

year of ps3 is over :'(

[hyp]

Those army of two numbers for 360 shows that the 360 has the second stupidest userbase.  Those Smash numbers sho who is number one.

 

what do you have to say about the PS3 userbase?

[MCD]

fear not my fellow xfags, MS remedy am here:

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/16252/Microsoft-Patents-Wii-Remote-Killer-Game-Controller

[calcifer]

people actually believe that 360 shortages bs?

it got as much shortages as the ps3 40gig sku...

[Van Cruncheon]

charlie, let us gloat in the proscribed xfag fashion

*fistbump*

[MCD]

it's actually 5k.

i don't mind ps3 owning 360 left and right but dear god PUSH SOFTWARE SALES like the rest.

[Van Cruncheon]

while i utterly loathe ninthings and their desire to live in a sanitized nostalgia-amped candy-coated world free of competition, threat, and challenge, i gotta say: is there ANYTHING more annoying than the tantruming internet "hardcore" fanjags and exclusive flavor-of-the-week j-fetishists that comprise the core audiences for the 360 and the ps3, respectively?

[calcifer]

PS3 WILL COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[drohne]

next gen am stillborn total. oh well. i'm probably too old to be playing videogames -- particularly if smash bros is what passes for a videogame

fear not my fellow xfags, MS remedy am here:

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/16252/Microsoft-Patents-Wii-Remote-Killer-Game-Controller

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microsoft really can't do anything right -- they set out to clone the unintimidating wii remote and come up with some bizarre alien masturbation device

[demi]

PS3 WILL COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have your little flame between my fingers, and I am squishing you. Squishing, squishing, squishing you. Smothering you out, little flame.

[calcifer]

DRINKY YOU KNOW PS3 WILL COME BACK!!!!!!!! TEAM ICO WILL SAVE THE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!

[MCD]

next gen am stillborn total. oh well. i'm probably too old to be playing videogames -- particularly if smash bros is what passes for a videogame

fear not my fellow xfags, MS remedy am here:

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/16252/Microsoft-Patents-Wii-Remote-Killer-Game-Controller

(Image removed from quote.)

microsoft really can't do anything right -- they set out to clone the unintimidating wii remote and come up with some bizarre alien masturbation device

it's similar to the Sony prototype:



http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/13250/Sony-Patents-WiimoteKiller-Game-Controller/

[Don Flamenco]

amazing nintendo numbers, as expected.  Brawl...that's all that needs to be said for software and hardware.

I wonder how well (how bad) Ninja Gaiden DS did. 

[calcifer]

while i utterly loathe ninthings and their desire to live in a sanitized nostalgia-amped candy-coated world free of competition, threat, and challenge, i gotta say: is there ANYTHING more annoying than the bile-spewing internet "hardcore" fanjags and exclusive j-fetishists that comprise the core audience for the 360 and the ps3, respectively?

That's true, and I will say that the death of the Dreamcast and the vagabond Sega fans left in it's wake are the cause of all this.

i knew it was dcharlies and jonnyrams fault all along!

[Van Cruncheon]

while i utterly loathe ninthings and their desire to live in a sanitized nostalgia-amped candy-coated world free of competition, threat, and challenge, i gotta say: is there ANYTHING more annoying than the bile-spewing internet "hardcore" fanjags and exclusive j-fetishists that comprise the core audience for the 360 and the ps3, respectively?

That's true, and I will say that the death of the Dreamcast and the vagabond Sega fans left in it's wake are the cause of all this.

i'm sure just about all the ails the broader internet gaming community can be blamed on sega fans, the bomb-strapped islamist radicals of the console wars

[Van Cruncheon]

did i not predict that the wii would augur the end of gaming as we care about it? how roundly i was mocked at gaf!

[Don Flamenco]

what the fuck are those things?   


there can be only one:

[hyp]

What the fuck are those contraptions, and why are the numbers in the 100s?  I'm scared what the other 114 things are on that 360 "thing". 

who knows.  you're better off slapping the 360 logo on your cock and pointing it at the screen while you play halo or gears of war.  it'll function just as well as any game that has waggle as its primary control scheme.

nintendo

[MrAngryFace]

non-waggle games are still coming out

[demi]

What the fuck are those contraptions, and why are the numbers in the 100s?  I'm scared what the other 114 things are on that 360 "thing". 

who knows.  you're better off slapping the 360 logo on your cock and pointing it at the screen while you play halo or gears of war. 

Did it already, not that fun

[MCD]

What the fuck are those contraptions, and why are the numbers in the 100s?  I'm scared what the other 114 things are on that 360 "thing". 

who knows.  you're better off slapping the 360 logo on your cock and pointing it at the screen while you play halo or gears of war.  it'll function just as well as any game that has waggle as its primary control scheme.

nintendo

[Eric P]

What the fuck are those contraptions, and why are the numbers in the 100s?  I'm scared what the other 114 things are on that 360 "thing". 

who knows.  you're better off slapping the 360 logo on your cock and pointing it at the screen while you play halo or gears of war.

Did it already, not that fun

should have tried it co-op

[Don Flamenco]

What the fuck are those contraptions, and why are the numbers in the 100s?  I'm scared what the other 114 things are on that 360 "thing". 

who knows.  you're better off slapping the 360 logo on your cock and pointing it at the screen while you play halo or gears of war.  it'll function just as well as any game that has waggle as its primary control scheme.

nintendo

It's funny, but I'm crying on the inside because they're fuckin cleaning up.   

[hyp]

Did it already, not that fun

demi 

always taking one for the team.

[Joe Molotov]

Wii is the Hitler of the console war, Microsoft and Sony are the France and Poland. Sieg Heil!

[Smooth Groove]

another wrong prediction for

Michael "Playstation" Pachter

[Joe Molotov]

And Sega fans are the Jews.

[The Sceneman]

What the fuck are those contraptions, and why are the numbers in the 100s?  I'm scared what the other 114 things are on that 360 "thing". 

who knows.  you're better off slapping the 360 logo on your cock and pointing it at the screen while you play halo or gears of war.

Did it already, not that fun

did you really play Bioshock naked? I might give that a go...

[demi]

I did, I played it late at night though, obviously

[The Sceneman]

Im thinking Puzzle Quest would be good naked, and Etrian Odysey, anything with sensual music

[Smooth Groove]

600K for Army of Two and 750k for R6:V2 on the 360 are mighty impressive.  Epic must be killing themselves for not releasing the 360 ver. of UT3 much earlier.  

[Phoenix Dark]

while i utterly loathe ninthings and their desire to live in a sanitized nostalgia-amped candy-coated world free of competition, threat, and challenge, i gotta say: is there ANYTHING more annoying than the tantruming internet "hardcore" fanjags and exclusive flavor-of-the-week j-fetishists that comprise the core audiences for the 360 and the ps3, respectively?

Like yourself, Mr. j-rpg cigarillo? 

[Don Flamenco]

Im thinking Puzzle Quest would be good naked, and Etrian Odysey, anything with sensual music

Flow! 

[The Sceneman]

so? I love jrpgs too but I am far from a 'j-fetishist', same goes for prole

we dont beat off to hentai and listen to jpop

smh pd

[demi]

while i utterly loathe ninthings and their desire to live in a sanitized nostalgia-amped candy-coated world free of competition, threat, and challenge, i gotta say: is there ANYTHING more annoying than the tantruming internet "hardcore" fanjags and exclusive flavor-of-the-week j-fetishists that comprise the core audiences for the 360 and the ps3, respectively?

Like yourself, Mr. j-rpg cigarillo? 

to be honest prole only buys quality

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[Smooth Groove]

Next-gen seems a moot point worldwide.  Wii will be king.  :'(

By next-gen, you mean PS3?  Publishers still make plenty of money from the 360. 

[Phoenix Dark]

Next-gen seems a moot point worldwide.  Wii will be king.  :'(

By next-gen, you mean PS3?  Publishers still make plenty of money from the 360. 

Exactly. The Wii is making money for Nintendo, no one else. Look at those software numbers; four huge third party sellers for the 360 in the top ten. I totally agree, UT3 would have been huge on the 360. I can't wait until it comes out in fact because it'll still sell well

[Phoenix Dark]

NR Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (PS3) 99,900
NR Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates 67,300
NR Bully: Scholarship Edition (Wii) 37,400
NR Hot Shots Golf (PS3) 36,200

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360 *TOM CLANCY'S RAINBOW SIX: VEGAS 2 UBISOFT Mar-08 752.3K

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lol

[Smooth Groove]

Hot Shots Golf only sold that much on the PS3?

But Calcifier and Jotaro said that PS3 gamers buy Japanese games! 

[Phoenix Dark]

got any extra software numbers Demi?

PS3 software is pathetic. I wonder how Capcom feels about DMC4 bombing 

[Grecco]

yeah year of the Ps3 officialy done. PS3 back to being this generations bitch

[Smooth Groove]

DMC4 would have been fucked if it weren't released on the 360.  It should be close to 500K on the 360 so far.  

[demi]

got any extra software numbers Demi?

No, can't say I do

I am interested on how Lost Odyssey did

[Phoenix Dark]

oh I agree. Sure there will be more PS3s in the market by the time MGS4 comes out, but I'm still really interested in seeing how it does lol

[Smooth Groove]

MGS4 should do much better than DMC4.  At least going by how MGS3 and DMC3 did. 

Also, Sony will help much more with the marketing because it's an exclusive. 

[Crushed]

Sony just had supply issues you guys.

[Grecco]

Snake Eater was an exlcusive too.  I dont remember it doing to well. Especially releasing near GTA SA.

Years later Its releasing near GTAIV

[AdmiralViscen]

Oops shortages were real

[Smooth Groove]

Snake Eater was an exlcusive too.  I dont remember it doing to well. Especially releasing near GTA SA.

Years later Its releasing near GTAIV

MGS3 sold at least 3 million in the US.  That's more than twice as much as DMC3.