April NPD Numbers - In retrospect, $600 is a pretty high price for a console

Games
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[LEFT]jacked from Gaf:

April 2007

Nintendo DS 471k
Wii 360k
PlayStation 2 194k
PlayStation Portable 183k
Xbox 360 174k
Game Boy Advance 84k
PlayStation 3 82k
GameCube 13k

Top 10 Software Items- April 2007 Units
NDS POKEMON DIAMOND VERSION NINTENDO OF AMERICA APR 2007 EVERYONE (E) 1.045 M
NDS POKEMON PEARL VERSION NINTENDO OF AMERICA APR 2007 EVERYONE (E) 712K
WII SUPER PAPER MARIO NINTENDO OF AMERICA APR 2007 EVERYONE (E) 352K
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA FEB 2007 EVERYONE (E) 249K
360 GUITAR HERO 2 W/ GUITAR ACTIVISION MAR 2007 TEEN (T) 197K
PS2 GUITAR HERO 2 W/GUITAR ACTIVISION NOV 2006 TEEN (T) 142K
360 SPIDER-MAN 3 ACTIVISION APR 2007 TEEN (T) 117K
PS2 SPIDER-MAN 3 ACTIVISION APR 2007 TEEN (T) 105K
PS2 GOD OF WAR II SONY MAR 2007 MATURE (M) 101K
PS2 MLB '07: THE SHOW SONY FEB 2007 EVERYONE (E) 79K

so much for my wii sales coming back to the pack theory though. I still have yet to see one on the shelf.
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Holy crap. Wii > 360 x 2. 360 > PS3 x 2. DS > PSP x 2.5.

Forget money hats. Nintendo prints money astronaut suits and flies to outer space in spaceships made of money.

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They’d better call Square and ask them to hurry the fuck up on FF37.

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At least the sales confirm that Nintendo is shipping some Wiis out.

According to this, the Wii has already sold over 7 million units.

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dude, just say you think the wii has sold over 7 million because a fairy told you so. it would be more credible than vgchartz’ “estimates”.

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Has any console ever sold at the rate the Wii is going at? It looks like Nintendo changed the marketplace entirely

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The Nintendo DS?

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I hadn’t heard of them either but one of the big blogs referenced them today.

Edit: here we go.

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On the bright side, maybe the Wii 2 will actually be next-gen.

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I meant initially - I thought the DS had a slow start (in North America at least)

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More people are buying GBA’s than PS3s? Jesus. What a disaster.

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I wonder what the difference usually is between the Pokemon games, and what accounts for discrepancy.

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Sure looks to be headed that way.

I don’t own a Wii, but I’m rooting for Nintendo to be successful this time around. Sucked to see Sega leave the console market, and I’m hoping Nintendo can avoid a similar fate.

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I have heard of them. It’d be better to just say you made them up yourself. There’s a reason for this.

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There’s a difference between forward-looking estimates (where they’re as full of shit as anyone) and historical data (where they’re pretty much just adding up NPD and MediaCreate numbers), though. I haven’t seen any reason to think that their historical numbers are significantly wrong.

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Yikes! Someone should let Chris know!

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The Wii is selling well, but it’s still a looooong way away from PS2 numbers.

I am surprised at the PS3 numbers, even on a 4 reporting week month. I was expecting low, but not quite that low. This is troubling, since I don’t see anything on the horizon in the next 3 months to reverse the trend. Hell, even if Sony cut the price $100 tomorrow, I don’t see people rushing out to pay $500 for Resistance and Motorstorm.

The PSP continues to be a hot choice for playing ripped video files, but not for games or UMD movie sales. It’s an interesting combination of a simultaneous product success and failure.

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The PS3 is totally owning the gamecube. Sony wins!

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Diamond = Girl’s best friend.

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At the same point in their lifespans? I can imagine that it’s certainly lagging behind the PS2’s initial pace in Japan but I would be surprised to find out the PS2 sold significantly more than 360k it’s first April in the US (can’t find the numbers for that far back however).