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NPD December 2012 Sales Results [Up2: Xbox 360, All Nintendo Hardware, NSMB Wii U]

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Prine

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Why are people blaming the market for the poor Wii U performance? If MS/Sony pushed such an underwhelming product id expect it to be ignored too. I fully expect Sony/MS to conjure up far more confidence and hype due to games offering significantly richer experiences. Next gen COD with next gen XBL/PSN alone will ensure a promising start.
 
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JaxJag

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I thought this would be interesting since NPD revealed the top selling games of 2012 in North America.

Here's the top selling games for each year in North America since 2001.

2011 and 2012 are combined platforms. Before that the NPDs did the top 10 based on single skus, so the lists look a little different prior to 2011. I didn't list 2012, because it's already in the original post.

NPD 2011:
  • 1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360, PS3, Wii, PC)
  • 2. Just Dance 3 (Wii, 360, PS3)
  • 3. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360, PS3, PC)
  • 4. Battlefield 3 (360, PS3, PC) – Electronic Arts
  • 5. Madden NFL 12 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2)
  • 6. Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, Wii, NDS, PC)
  • 7. Batman: Arkham City (360, PS3, PC)
  • 8. Gears of War 3 (360)
  • 9. Just Dance 2 (Wii)
  • 10. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (360, PS3, PC)

NPD 2010:
  1. Call of Duty: Black Ops - PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, DS
  2. Madden NFL 11 - PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP, PS2
  3. Halo: Reach - Xbox 360
  4. New Super Mario Bros. Wii - Wii
  5. Red Dead Redemption - PS3, Xbox 360
  6. Wii Fit Plus - Wii
  7. Just Dance 2 - Wii
  8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - PS3, Xbox 360, PC
  9. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - PS3, Xbox 360
  10. NBA 2K11 - PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP, PS2

NPD 2009:
  1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360)
  2. Wii Fit w/ balance board (Wii)
  3. Wii Sports Resort w/ MotionPlus (Wii)
  4. Mario Kart Wii w/ wheel (Wii)
  5. Wii Play w/ remote (Wii)
  6. Halo 3: ODST (Xbox 360)
  7. Pokemon Platinum (DS)
  8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)
  9. Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360)
  10. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)

NPD 2008:
  • 01. Wii Play (Wii)
  • 02. Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
  • 03. Wii Fit (Wii)
  • 04. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
  • 05. Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360)
  • 06. Call of Duty: World at War (Xbox 360)
  • 07. Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360)
  • 08. Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3)
  • 09. Madden NFL 09 (XBox 360)
  • 10. Mario Kart DS (DS)

NPD 2007:
  • 1) Halo 3 (360, Microsoft)
  • 2) Wii Play with Wii Remote (Wii, Nintendo)
  • 3) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (360, Activision)
  • 4) Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2, Activision)
  • 5) Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo)
  • 6) Pokémon Diamond (DS, Nintendo)
  • 7) Madden NFL 08 (PS2, Electronic Arts)
  • 8) Guitar Hero II (PS2, Activision)
  • 9) Assassin's Creed (360, Ubisoft)
  • 10) Mario Party 8 (Wii, Nintendo)

NPD 2006:
  1. Madden NFL 07, PS2, EA
  2. New Super Mario Bros., DS, Nintendo
  3. Gears of War, Xbox 360, Microsoft
  4. Kingdom Hearts II, PS2, Square Enix
  5. Guitar Hero II, PS2, Activision
  6. Final Fantasy XII, PS2, Square Enix
  7. Brain Age: Train Your Brain, DS, Nintendo
  8. Madden NFL 07, Xbox 360, EA
  9. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, Xbox 360, Ubisoft
  10. NCAA Football 07, PS2, EA

NPD 2005:
  1. Madden NFL 06 (PS2), Electronic Arts,
  2. Pokemon Emerald (GBA), Nintendo of America,
  3. Gran Turismo 4 (PS2), SCEA,
  4. Madden NFL 06 (Xbox), Electronic Arts,
  5. NCAA Football 06 (PS2), Electronic Arts,
  6. Star Wars: Battlefront II (PS2), LucasArts,
  7. MVP Baseball 2005 (PS2), Electronic Arts,
  8. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (PS2), LucasArts,
  9. NBA Live 06 (PS2), Electronic Arts,
  10. LEGO Star Wars (PS2), Eidos,

NPD 2004:
  1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
  2. Halo 2 (Xbox) - 4.2 million
  3. Madden NFL 2005 (PS2)
  4. ESPN NFL 2K5 (PS2)
  5. Need for Speed Underground 2 (PS2)
  6. Pokemon FireRed (with adapter) (GBA)
  7. NBA Live 2005 (PS2)
  8. Spider-Man 2 (PS2)
  9. Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox)
  10. ESPN NFL 2K5 (Xbox)

NPD 2003:
  • 1 MADDEN NFL 2004 PS2 ELECTRONIC ARTS
  • 2 POKEMON RUBY GBA NINTENDO OF AMERICA
  • 3 POKEMON SAPPHIRE GBA NINTENDO OF AMERICA
  • 4 NEED SPEED: UNDERGROUND PS2 ELECTRONIC ARTS
  • 5 ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER GCN NINTENDO OF AMERICA
  • 6 GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY PS2 ROCKSTAR GAMES
  • 7 MARIO KART: DOUBLE GCN NINTENDO OF AMERICA
  • 8 TONY HAWK UNDERGROUND PS2 ACTIVISION
  • 9 ENTER THE MATRIX PS2 ATARI
  • 10 MEDAL HONOR RISING PS2 ELECTRONIC ARTS

NPD 2002:
  1. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2) Take Two
  2. Grand Theft Auto III (PS2) Take Two
  3. Madden NFL 2003 (PS2) Electronic Arts
  4. Super Mario Advance 2 (GBA) Nintendo of America
  5. Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (PS2) SCEA
  6. Medal Honor Frontline (PS2) Electronic Arts
  7. Spider-Man: The Movie (PS2) Activision
  8. Kingdom Hearts (PS2) Square EA
  9. Halo (Xbox) Microsoft
  10. Super Mario Sunshine (GC) Nintendo of America
  11. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (PS2) Activision
  12. Yu-Gi-Oh! Eternal (GBA) Konami
  13. Dragonball Z: Goku (GBA) Infogrames
  14. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (PS2) Electronic Arts
  15. Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel (GBC) Konami
  16. Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden (PS) Konami
  17. NCAA Football 2003 (PS2) Electronic Arts
  18. Sonic Advance (GBA) THQ
  19. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Xbox) Ubi Soft
  20. SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals (PS2) SCEA

NPD 2001:
  • 1 Grand Theft Auto III PS2 Rockstar Games
  • 2 Madden NFL 2002 PS2 Electronic Arts
  • 3 Pokémon Crystal GBC Nintendo
  • 4 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty PS2 Konami
  • 5 Super Mario Advance GBA Nintendo
  • 6 Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec PS2 Sony
  • 7 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 PS2 Activision
  • 8 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 PS1 Activision
  • 9 Pokémon Silver GBC Nintendo
  • 10 Driver 2 PS1 Infogrames
 
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GavinGT

Banned
Lonely1 said:
Any info on Vita?
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Vita SW LTD
Include bundle

317k
cod
300k
u:ga
ac3
200k
mk
nfl
umvc3
u13
mlb12
mr:rt
100k
2048
lbp
r:bs
fifa
gr
golf
rayman
logo batman2
nfs
mgshd
persona4
little deviants
50k


others, not all
50k
ngasp
pasbr
40k
rr
lumines
30k
ro
katamari
disgaea3
sfxtk
20k

http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46302970&postcount=1489

Also, Vita sales for December were between 200-250k.

http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46297238&postcount=904

In other news, 3DS most likely sold more units in December than Vita LTD.
 
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GavinGT

Banned
HardRojo said:
200-250k for a system that's anything but alive according to some people doesn't seem that bad, Sony still has time to pull a Phoenix Wright and turn things around.
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Did you catch the last line of my post?

In other news, 3DS most likely sold more units in December than Vita LTD.
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Who would choose to make a Vita game with such lousy relative (and absolute) sales?
 
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jcm

Member
GavinGT said:
Did you catch the last line of my post?

Who would choose to make a Vita game with such lousy relative (and absolute) sales?
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In fainess, the 3ds doesn't move any software either. They both are going to wind up dependent on first party. Nintendo can probably make a living off that, and sony probably can't.
 
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bigtroyjon

Member
JaxJag said:
I thought this would be interesting since NPD revealed the top selling games of 2012 in North America.

Here's the top selling games for each year in North America since 2001.

2011 and 2012 are combined platforms. Before that the NPDs did the top 10 based on single skus, so the lists look a little different prior to 2011. I didn't list 2012, because it's already in the original post.
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Didn't look at the rest closely but your 2007 list is wrong. Halo 3 was easily the top selling SKU of the year.
 
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user_nat

THE WORDS! They'll drift away without the _!
JaxJag said:
NPD 2007:
  • 1) Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat (360, Activision)
  • 2) Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo)
  • 3) Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2, Activision)
  • 4) Wii Play with Wii Remote (Wii, Nintendo)
  • 5) Assassin's Creed (360, Ubisoft)
  • 6) Halo 3 (360, Microsoft)
  • 7) Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day (DS, Nintendo)
  • 8) Madden NFL 08 (PS2, Electronic Arts)
  • 9) Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (360, Activision)
  • 10) Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii, Sega)
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Fairly sure this is the December chart, not the yearly.
Rest look good on first glance.
 
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Drago

Member
EuropeOG said:
Surprised 3DS sold so well.
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It sold well, but a bit disappointing when compared to last year.

Considering it's holiday lineup though (Paper Mario, Layton, and...) it sold well for what it is. I expect monstrous numbers this year, with Pokemon and Animal Crossing now in the mix.
 
Bog

Bog

Junior Ace
NPD 2004:
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
Halo 2 (Xbox) - 4.2 million
Madden NFL 2005 (PS2)
ESPN NFL 2K5 (PS2)
Need for Speed Underground 2 (PS2)
Pokemon FireRed (with adapter) (GBA)
NBA Live 2005 (PS2)
Spider-Man 2 (PS2)
Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox)
ESPN NFL 2K5 (Xbox)
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This makes me sad. Yeah yeah $19.99.
 
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specialguy

Banned
So as usual I dont feel like combing 47 pages, did we ever get a PS3 number better than ~625k?

Which was based on taking the middle of creamsugers PS3 <600k<PS3<650k, right?
 
Portugeezer

Portugeezer

Member
Drago said:
It sold well, but a bit disappointing when compared to last year.

Considering it's holiday lineup though (Paper Mario, Layton, and...) it sold well for what it is. I expect monstrous numbers this year, with Pokemon and Animal Crossing now in the mix.
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Mario Kart and 3D Land were released.
 
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hirokazu

Member
jcm said:
Because they have nothing good to say. Who would put out a pr that says "our console is dying and our handheld was doa"?
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Least they could do is issue a press release saying "PS3 is hitting its stride while PSVita is just getting warmed up for its marathon race."
 
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Drago

Member
EuropeOG said:
Mario Kart and 3D Land were released.
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Which explains its better sales last year. New titles, and bundles for the new titles helped propel the system to big heights that year.

They pretty much relied on them again last year and threw NSMB2 and Paper Mario into the mix. Hell, they didn't even give NSMB2 it's own bundle despite a special edition bundle existing elsewhere for whatever dumb reason and just stuck 3D Land and MK7 into existing 3DS colors. Hopefully this year there's more of a focus on their more recent titles.
 
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HardRojo

Member
A giant GamePad appears...
248737_10151399723445631_61809094_n.jpg
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This is a picture from the preparations for tomorrow's official launch of the Wii U in Peru (Even though it's been on shelves since Dec 22nd), I don't know if this means that we'll actually see Nintendo officially back in Latin America again, I guess we'll know tomorrow for sure.
 
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Version 3.0

Member
Road said:
Do you have Nintendo reports from that time?

There are sources that cite NPD figures between 1.8 and 2 million for N64 sales in 1996, including 290k on its first month (Sep, 1996).

Edit: blast from the past: http://wayback.archive.org/web/19961112125805/http://www.npd.com/toyspr1.htm
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leondexter said:
I admit that I'm going from memory, but that's from Next Generation magazine, which I do still have. I'll take a look when I get home. Maybe it was just for the actual launch day.

There's no way the N64 did 2 million in '96. I don't see any figures on your link, just a ranking?

edit: now that I think about it, I believe there was an article the next year about how they diverted N64's from Japan to meet demand in the US for Christmas. I'll look for that as well. Still no way they hit 2 million. 2 million would make the N64 the best-selling system at launch, ever, in the U.S., over the first 4 months. We'd have been dogging on every other system launch since then for not doing better. Just no way.

edit2: after a couple of google searches, clearly I was wrong and the 250k was the launch shipment.
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Don't know if anyone still cares - it was back a ways and a bit off-topic, but here's the info I promised from Next Generation magazine. It seems Nintendo was pulling a fast one, claiming they'd only have 250k units for launch and another 250k through Christmas available, for a total of just 500k for 1996. But, according to Next Gen magazine:

N64L1_zps17558c74.jpg
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The blurb right before that one cites the same data as the link you gave, Road, a 61% market share of hardware that month according to TRST (NPD). And then:

N64L2_zps84cc7f0a.jpg
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The end of that sentence, at the top of the next column, is "worldwide) by the end of 1996. So it looks like 1.7 million is the correct total for 1996. Impressive! And according to the same article, it took the Playstation a full 13 months - from its September 1995 launch through September 1996 - to reach approximately the same figure (1.74 million) in North America.

Goes to show that launches aren't everything; we all know how that race ended.
 
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CadetMahoney

Member
Tobor said:
NPD is going to be worthless at reflecting the overall state of software next gen. DD on consoles is going to continue to ramp up, while software at retail continues to decline.
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The information will still be mighty relevant, but only to those have access to the full juicy data. As it is, NPD for everyone else ends up being just grouped sales with no breakdowns like some time ago.

RukusProvider said:
Has anyone released a larger number of exclusive bombs in a single year as the PS3 did in 2012?
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I guess they need to create more hits than the same old franchises everyone's getting bored of. Plain old fashioned franchise fatigue.
 
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John Harker

Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Put a few more hours into zombiu tonight. What an awesome, unique experience. I'd like another one so tell your Wii u friends to pick it up, yah?

Well I'd also like a new no more heroes but I don't see that one happening either heh
 
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Hero

Member
John Harker said:
Put a few more hours into zombiu tonight. What an awesome, unique experience. I'd like another one so tell your Wii u friends to pick it up, yah?

Well I'd also like a new no more heroes but I don't see that one happening either heh
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When I met Suda51 at PAX East last year I told him I was only going to buy Lollipop Chainsaw if he promised we'd get a No More Heroes 3. He smiled and said deal.

I hope he didn't troll me. :(
 
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user_nat

THE WORDS! They'll drift away without the _!
JaxJag said:
NPD 2004:
  1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
  2. Halo 2 (Xbox) - 4.2 million
  3. Madden NFL 2005 (PS2)
  4. ESPN NFL 2K5 (PS2)
  5. Need for Speed Underground 2 (PS2)
  6. Pokemon FireRed (with adapter) (GBA)
  7. NBA Live 2005 (PS2)
  8. Spider-Man 2 (PS2)
  9. Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox)
  10. ESPN NFL 2K5 (Xbox)
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So by chart position, the best year for Halo CE was 2004. Those legs.
 
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Monumental

Banned
CadetMahoney said:
I guess they need to create more hits than the same old franchises everyone's getting bored of. Plain old fashioned franchise fatigue.
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Yes because a karting spinoff, Relaunch of an IP from a bygone era that targeted the lowest common denominator, and a SSB-ripoff is truly new and revolutionary.

Oh please, the most genuinely creative thing Sony released all year was Wonderbook and Journey.

Whats amusing is that people are ready to ignore Sony's shortcomings and then throw their weight behind a small Digital release, but when Microsoft focuses on XBLA, their efforts are mocked or ignored.
 
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