source: Geoff Ebersol
These are the NPD sales data for January 2008 covering January 6 to February 2.
Xbox 360 hardware shortages due to NPD December 2007 high sales, says Microsoft.[1] Same issue with the Wii console.
Hardware sales[]
- Wii - 274k
- PlayStation 3 - 269k
- PlayStation 2 - 264k
- Nintendo DS - 251k
- PlayStation Portable - 230k
- Xbox 360 - 230k
Top 10 software[]
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360, Infinity Ward/Activision) - 330.9K
- Wii Play w/remote (Wii, Nintendo) - 298.1K
- Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock w/guitar (Wii, Activision) - 239.6K
- Rock Band (Xbox 360, Harmonix/MTV) - 183.8K
- Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock w/guitar (Xbox 360, Neversoft/Activision) - 182.7K
- Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo) - 172K
- Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360, EA) - 144.1K
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3, Infinity Ward/Activision) - 140K
- Mario Party DS (DS, Hudson Soft/Nintendo) - 138.5K
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS, Sega) - 133K
Other sales figures[]
More software culled from various sources (thanks Raw64Life from NeoGAF):
January 08:
- WII CARNIVAL GAMES ~80K
- WII NO MORE HEROES - 65K
- WII RESIDENT EVIL: UMBRELLA CHRONICLES - 30K
- NDS ADVANCE WARS DAYS OF RUIN - 80K
- PS3 UNCHARTED - 55K
- PS3 BURNOUT PARADISE - 85K
- 360 KINDGOM UNDER FIRE - 50K
- 360 HALO 3 - 127K
- PS3 Rock Band - failed to make Top 25 (Microsoft press release)
Video game revenues[]
- Video Games: $1.18 billion -6%
- Video Games Hardware: $378 million -25%
- Video Games Software: $550 million +11%
- Video Game Accessories: $191 million -4%
- Total Sales Per Week: $295 million +18%
External links[]
- Official Jan 2008 NPD Thread - HW Shortages + Spectacular SW
- The simExchange - January 2008 NPD Data
- Next-gen.biz analysis
- PlayStation 3 Outsells Xbox 360 In January NPD
- A perfect PS3 storm: Blu-ray hotness and Xbox supply issues
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