June NPD: Nintendo WiiDS out competition, industry sales grow 31%

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Jul 23rd 2007 8:48PM

Completely unaware of the abysmal news headlines it would generate, the NPD group has released US video game sales data for the month of June. Painting a familiar picture of Nintendo perched atop a mountain of freshly printed money, the results indicate that prosperity is shared throughout the whole industry. GameDaily.BIZ reports that sales for the month are up by 31% compared to last, with half of the year showing a 43% increase over the first six months of 2006. Console hardware sales notably rose by 69% to $268 million, though portable game hardware dropped by 6%.

Unsurprisingly, the top-selling system for June was the Nintendo DS, followed by waggle wonder Wii. The PSP wedged itself into third place, (thanks April price cut!), right above the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. We suspect Sony's behemoth will gain enough momentum from the recent $100-off clearance sale to break through the 100,000 sales barrier next month. That'll teach you, GBA!

Nintendo DS: 561.9K
Nintendo Wii: 381.8K
Sony PSP: 290.1K [Updated]
Sony PlayStation 2: 270.7K (via Sony press release)
Microsoft Xbox 360: 198.4K
Sony PlayStation 3: 98.5K

[Thanks again for the image, Vince]

The software top 10 also shows a strong Nintendo presence, with the upper spots overrun with pocket monsters and portly plumbers. Mario Party 8 sold just over 426,000 copies, proving a much bigger hit with grandma than Resident Wii-vil, which sold less than Pokémon Battle's 157,000 copies and Forza 2's 197,400 copies. It seems that unlike those dealing with the Xbox 360, third-party Wii publishers can't rely on a "hardcore" audience swooping en masse from one game to the next.

Mario Party 8 (Wii)
Wii Play w/remote (Wii)
Pokémon Diamond (DS)
Pokémon Pearl (DS)
Forza Motorsport 2 (Xbox 360)
Guitar Hero II w/guitar (PS2)
Guitar Hero II w/guitar (Xbox 360)
Pokémon Battle (Wii)
Resident Evil 4 (Wii)
The Darkness (Xbox 360)

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Tags: DS, GuitarHero, MarioParty8, Microsoft, Nintendo, NPD, Pokemon, PS2, PS3, PSP, Sony, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (140)

Do I really need to say it.

Why didn't I buy stock in Nintendo?

Damn GBA still strong. Good PSP. Wiiiiiii :)

Nintendo DS: 561,000
Wii: 381,780
PlayStation Portable: 290,100
PlayStation 2: 270,760
Xbox 360: 198,440
Game Boy Advance: 113,870
PlayStation 3: 98,470

I have a load of unplayed DS games, but i'm mostly using it to play GBA games. Every time i go to the games shop they seem to have a classic old GBA game selling for almost nothing.. and most of them are still awesome fun.

Well, it IS an old port. I am surprised it even sold that many.

Plus the controls make it completely worth it.
Mario Party 8....is it any good? It got some pretty crappy reviews.

Pretty surprising PSP numbers. If they'd unlock for homebrew I'd totally...blah blah blah...whats the use?

not sure... but watching the mario party adverts on the train to work this morning made it look REALLY fun.. and the graphics plloked pretty good on the 14" lcd screens they have on the trains.

I was mostly thinking "that looks realy fun, i wonder why it got so many bad reviews???"

I have to wonder if a lot of the reason isn't that the developers have played it 7 times before... whereas i'd imagine that the people buying it for the Wii are unlikely to have played a Mario Party game before.

Plus that's only about 10 days worth of sales for RE4 in an especially long months worth of sales data.

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4236/soclosedk1.gif

That is all.

Nice

You win the internets!

Thats evil man LOL Hehe.

I would like to present yet another epic gif from the Internetz:

http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07302/cardancenin.gif

Nice Zoolander. What ever are the investigatory game journalists going to do? The different lighting for each animation frame could have been synced a little more but really well. Also could have put Bill Trinnen or someone on the fourth guy.

Not my gifs, not my problem :P.

And if that's coming as a shocker to you, then what did you expect? Something ORIGINAL?

The Zoolander gif is FUCKING EPIC

so is the slightly smoother Roxbury one. :P

Check out this Zoolander with Yamauichi.

D'oh!
http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07302/cardancenin2.gif

It has been removed due to high bandwitdth. :(

Lmao

Thats me new wallpaper.

I love the animation where the bricks give money.

But they've always given money!

Inaccurate. Blocks have given coins or power ups not paper bills.

HaHa. GBA still beat PS3 101k vs. 98k. And PS3 was up because June was a 5 week month chart.

It's a big deal since these have traditionally been the dead months and due to Nintendo hardware sales have risen the entire gaming market.

Did someone delete that whole block of comments but left this one? Why this one?

the animated picture is hilarious

How did Nintendo take the news????

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/7693/52xbk9fbr2.gif

Why people say that the PSP is a failure, it's effing selling very good, it's just that the Wii and DS are selling way more, and lookout Xbox 360, PS3 is getting closer despite not having games and costing $600, after this price drop/clearance sale I think we'll see a more closer margin. I have a 360, DS and Wii, but I think it's time for a PS3 and PSP slim.

The PSP is a failure by the same standards that declared the Xbox and Gamecube failures.

OOO I can hear the sony and MS fanboys runnin over hear ready to bitch. Well Just to say this Wii will own this holiday season. If its selling this month with no good games imagine when Metroid Prime 3, Mario Galaxy, and Smash Bros. Brawl comes out. Plus with Wii Fit ( we all know its going to sell a shit load because of non gamers) it will completly own the holiday. OOOOO CRAP the Fanboys their HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shame that Wii Fit isn't going to be out in the US for Christmas, though, huh?

lol wewt the PS3 outsold the GBA!

NExt target: DREAMCAST!!

lollserskates

But GBA sold 113k and PS3 sold 98k. Train your brain some more.

You just make us think SO highly of Sony fanboys...

OO SNAP Samfish I didn't know that. Well it'll probably still own with just MArio Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3 and Brawl this holiday anyway.

If you look at the statistics, the PSP is actually selling better than the Wii. Nintendo is for kids, and this fact will never let Nintendo be the winner. Sony makes mature games with depth and qaulity. The Wii will never have games like that even if Nintendo owns 95 percent of the market, third parties won't put there triple A games on the system because Nintendo is dumb.

Stock response.
Choose your argument, which you want?

-Wait until [insert a date here]!
-Wait until [insert an over-hyped game] comes out!
-The famous Ferrari argument.
-Wii is a gimmick and can't last long. (Has been said since launch week)
-Our games are better! (showing Game-Rankings of Resistance and comparing with Wii version of crap games like Ant Bully)
-It's only selling because of the price! (conveniently forgetting the price of the GameCube and how it obviously failed sales-wise)

Personally I've always loved #4.

Well, that settles that. Thanks for schoooling me, dmd.

I hate Nintendo.

Your logic is flawless

"If you look at the statistics..."

Just what statistics are you looking at? My math must suck, because I'll be damned if I didn't think that 561.9K was more than 290.1K.

Though worded like a true idiot, dmd does have a point. The people buying the Wii are not going to buy hardcore epic games unless they contain a known Nintendo franchise. Why would developers put out Resident Evil 4's when they can put retarded minigames and sell more while having lower development costs?

Wonder Waggle? Nope, no fanboys here.

The PS3 is over 6x more expensive than GBA... and people are surprised that its selling more?

lol Kia sells 10,000x more than Ferrari.. lol..lol

Anyways.. 270k units of an 7 year old system isnt too bad.. Wii can only hope to sell that many units in SEVEN YEARS! Retailers should clear their PS3 60gb inventory in July... it will outsell 360.

Ho ho lookie what my stock response has in there #3.

Choose your argument, which do you want?

-Wait until [insert a date here]!
-Wait until [insert an over-hyped game] comes out!
-The famous Ferrari argument.
-Wii is a gimmick and can't last long. (Has been said since launch week)
-Our games are better! (showing Game-Rankings of Resistance and comparing with Wii version of crap games like Ant Bully)
-It's only selling because of the price! (conveniently forgetting the price of the GameCube and how it obviously failed sales-wise)

Personally I've always loved #4.

Its ok if you have to drive a Kia.. somebody has to.

The reason why it's near impossible to apply the Ferrari argument is that even for most used car dealerships you have to take a loan out to buy one. You have to take out a loan for a Kia but have to take a bigger loan with more security needed to buy a Ferrari. And Ferrari's are more expensive to maintain as well.

We all can't place an entertainment hobby with the same budget as cars you know.

Too bad the difference between a Wii and PS3 isn't as big as the difference between a Kia and Ferrari.
And unless you're super rich, you can't buy either a Kia or Ferrari with just one paycheck like you can a Wii or PS3.

@hvnlysoldr

Say what you want, but the Wii games are largely crap at the moment. It's certainly a far cry from the 360 and not even any better than the PS3. The price DOES play a huge role here. The Wii has become the McDonalds of gaming. Plain and simple.

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