July NPD Sales Results - PS3 Wipes Floor with Own Head

Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by LeoFerus Tag: Floor, Games, Head, July, NPD, NPD, Own, PS3, Results, Sales, Sales, Wipes

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The NPD results for July are in and, well, it isn't good for anything that isn't either Nintendo or NCAA Football. The only console that sold less than the PS3 in America during July this year was the PS2, whilst the PSP sold 1k more than the PS3 and everything else doing much better. The 360 sold 80k more than the PS3, with the Wii scoring another 50k on top of that and, as usual, the DS got around 280k more than the Wii did.

So the PS3 lost when it comes to hardware, but what about software? Well, there are only three entries in the top 10 games sales that aren't on a Nintendo console, NCAA Football 10 twice (once for PS3 - third in the top ten, once for the 360 - in second) and Fight Night Round 4 for the 360 at number 8. The rest of the board features Nintendo console games, both DS and Wii, with every Wii game there using a mandatory peripheral. Excellent.

Bleak news. You can see the lists after the break.

PlayStation 2 108K
PlayStation 3 121.8K
PSP 122.8K
Xbox 360 202.9K
Wii 252.5K
Nintendo DS 538.9K

Wii SPORTS RESORT W/ WII MOTION PLUS (WII) 508.2K
NCAA FOOTBALL 10 (360) 376.5K
NCAA FOOTBALL 10 (PS3) 237.4K
WII FIT W/ BALANCE BOARD* (WII) 164.3K
MARIO KART W/ WHEEL (WII) 156.6K
MARIO KART DS (NDS) 132.2K
POKEMON PLATINUM VERSION (NDS) 116.4K
FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4 (360) 116.4K
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS (NDS) 101.8K
EA SPORTS ACTIVE BUNDLE (WII) 96.8K

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

Comments

Emily Williams (not verified)
Wed, 2010-05-12 17:30

I like the Mario Kart game because it is more challenging as you get to the next level.*.;

Jonah Falcon (not verified)
Sat, 2009-08-15 06:03

The worse news for consoles is the precipitous drop in sales from last year in July.

Year over though (July 2009 compared to July 2008) the numbers are shocking. The Wii is down almost 55% compared to 2008, it sold over half a million units back then. This year they’re lucky to hit a quarter of a million. The PS3 and PSP were hit the hardest after the Wii, losing around 45% of their sales each. The PS2 and DS did fairly well, down 30% and 11% respectively.

The interesting case for year over strength comes from the Xbox 360. Sales this year (202,900) were virtually identical to sales last year (205,000), a loss of just 1.02%.

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