The NPD Group has just released official sales figures for the massive month of November, which included the insane sales period from around Thanksgiving in the US, showing that Nintendo wiped the floor with the competition in the hardware stakes, whilst Super Mario Galaxy solidified its position as a gigantic success. Check out the hardware numbers below:
- Nintendo DS - 1,530,000
- Wii - 981,000
- Xbox 360 - 770,000
- PlayStation Portable - 567,000
- PlayStation 2 - 496,000
- PlayStation 3 - 466,000
November 2007 Software Top 10 [ Excluding Portable Titles ]
1.) Call of Duty 4 (360, Activision) - 1,570,000
2.) Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo) - 1,120,000
3.) Assassin's Creed (360, Ubisoft) - 980,000
4.) Guitar Hero III (PS2, Activision) - 967,000
5.) Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo) - 564,000
6.) Mass Effect (360, Microsoft) - 473,000
7.) Call of Duty 4 (PS3, Activision) - 444,000
8.) Guitar Hero III (Wii, Activision) - 426,000 [ ~715,000 sales in total ]
9.) Halo 3 (360, Microsoft) - 387,000
10.) Assassin's Creed (PS3, Ubisoft) - 377,000
The main portable game missing from there is Mario Party DS, which sold a ridiculous 1.5 million copies for the month! Between that and the performance of Mario Party 8, which has already broken a million on Wii this year, no wonder Nintendo keeps getting Hudson to churn more out!
In total, the US Video Games market had an amazingly strong month, with hardware sales raking in $771 million, up 49% over last year, and software sales totalling a stunning $1.3 billion, leaping 62% over November 2006! You just have to wonder now how large December's sales are going to be.
GameDaily also reports that EA's Rock Band sold as follows, plus other random numbers included:
- Rock Band (360, EA) - 311,903
- Rock Band (PS3, EA) - 70,000
- Wii Zapper incl. Link's Crossbow Training (Wii, Nintendo) - 232,000
- Project Gotham Racing 4 (Xbox 360, Microsoft) - >117,000
- Uncharted (PS3, Sony) - 117,000
- Crysis (PC, EA) - 86,633
- Ratchet & Clank (PS3, Sony) - 65,600
- Unreal Tournament 3 (PC, Epic) - 33,995
- Manhunt 2 (Wii, Rockstar) - 18,494 (strongest out of the three formats, though)
- Wireless Controller (PS3, Sony) - 282,000
- Wii Play - easily over 3 million (since launch it has sold 371,000 in February, 273,000 in March, 249,000 in April, and so on, until 282,000 in September, 240,000 in October and now 564,000 in November and shows no signs of dying down!)
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - 1,800,000
- Mario Party 8 - 1,400,000
- Super Mario Galaxy - 1,200,000
- Super Paper Mario - 808,000 (a definite contender for breaking a million in the near future)
- Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock - 715,000
- WarioWare: Smooth Moves - 604,000
- Rayman Raving Rabbids - more than 500,000
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - 490,000 (slowly making its mark, but should have been advertised better)
- Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition - more than 400,000 (a fantastic performance considering this is a port of a recent-ish game)
- Red Steel - just under 400,000
- Sonic and the Secret Rings - 350,000
- Tiger Woods 07 - just under 350,000
- Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games - 330,000 (a very strong start for this slow burner)
- Call of Duty 3 - 310,000
- Carnival Games - 300,000 (better total sales than Big Brain Academy for Wii)
- Madden NFL 08 - 292,000
- Excite Truck - 266,000
- Trauma Centre: Second Opinion - 210,000 (a major success for Atlus USA)
- MySims - 200,000
- The BIGS - just under 200,000 (showing that baseball games definitely have a home on Wii when done right)
- Cooking Mama: Cook Off - 190,000
- High School Musical: Sing It - 185,000
- LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga - 180,000
- Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party - 176,000
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf 08 - 175,000
- Boogie - 172,000 (by no means a bad performance and likely to do better than the DS and PS2 editions in the long-run)
- Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 - 166,000
- Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix - 150,000
- Transformers: The Game - 150,000
- Elebits - 130,000
- SSX Blur - 125,000 (EA should really make a sequel to this using the Wii Balance Board for extra sales)
- Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles - 120,000 (this really impressive start makes IGN believe an original main entry will come now)
- Cars - 115,000
- GT Pro Series - 108,000
- Happy Feet - 87,000
- MLB Power Pro - just under 80,000
- Rayman Ravings Rabbids 2 - 60,000 (a weak start for the sequel to such a large selling first game)
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn - 53,000 (d