US Sales | Nintendo: ~2.5 Million Wii & DS in Nov. [ Update ]

By Adam Riley 16.12.2007 15

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
Amazingly, even with shortages of Wii, it nearly managed to crack a million sales, whilst the DS's performance is simply off the scale, beating its previous November sales record with ease. As for the software side of things, check out just how stunning Super Mario Galaxy did, as well as how Guitar Hero III on Wii has also proved to be stronger than all other versions, with the exception of the PS2 edition:

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
Thanks to IGN we also now have a large batch of lifetime sales for various Wii games. Just check out this extensive list below, along with some of C3's own comments:

  • 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

Box art for Super Mario Galaxy
Developer

Nintendo

Publisher

Nintendo

Genre

3D Platformer

Players

2

C3 Score

Rated $score out of 10  10/10

Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10 (133 Votes)

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D*arn Crazy americans for prefer CoD4 isntead of Mario Galaxy Duh

WOW The sales of DS are crazy and HALO 3 in 9th place...LAWLS! Smilie I didnt expect Mario to be 2nd place to tell you the truth!

I see all these people insulting the Nintendo corporation because of the lack of mature content. Yet there is something about Nintendo (at least their games) that strikes a certain unadulterated feeling of joy!!!  Pokemon Y - 1048-9263-5562

Wii Play never bloody slows down! Nintendo made a fantastic business decision with that one. Great to see Mario getting the success he deserves.

Adam Riley [ Director :: Cubed3 ]

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Smilie

Amazing sales. Nice to see Mario Galaxy doing so well too. I imagine it will be very strong in December as well.

Also kind of funny considering how Sony was going on about how well the PS3 was doing this month...didn't total half the Wii and wasn't even close to the 360. Must also be disappointing for Sony that Uncharted which came out on the 19th didn't even crack the top ten.

( Edited on 14.12.2007 00:45 by Jacob4000 )

Great to see Mario doing well on Western shores.

PS3's jump from last month's figures is still very impressive. It sold something like ~170,000 or maybe even less...I don't recall exactly.

I've added in some numbers IGN has released. Good to see RE: TUC and M&S doing solidly. Shame about Z&W, though Smilie

Adam Riley [ Director :: Cubed3 ]

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I suppose those are pretty decent numbers for Corruption. It'll very likely crack a million worldwide. Shame about Zach and Wiki though. I hear its pretty darn good. Capcom's fault though, you can't find the game in stores anywhere...

Here's something interesting I found about the comparison between Galaxy and Sunshine's US performance:

"Galaxy sold more this month than Mario Sunshine did in August (release) + September + October + November + December of 2002. In fact, Sunshine didn't even break a million during that time, but still managed to sell almost 3 million (in the US) overall."

Adam Riley [ Director :: Cubed3 ]

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The hype Halo 3 was given i'm shocked it sold so few.

I'm glad Marios going strong.

It's currently sold something like 4.1 million in the US since launch, with 3 million in like the first week...'So few'? Smilie

Adam Riley [ Director :: Cubed3 ]

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I am surprised at how well Guitar Hero for Wii did. Considering you can't sell your child here in Canada for one. They are harder to find than the console itself.
I spent $450 on a camera to get a scoop on an incomming shipment at BestBuy. 45 min. before the store opened with its unpublicised stock and I got me one!
And I don't even like the game. My son better be damned thankful!

Look unto me in every thought. Doubt not. Fear not.

Trepe said:
The hype Halo 3 was given im shocked it sold so few. Im glad Marios going strong.

Halo 3 isn't the type that sells extremely strongly every month. It sold hundreds of thousands mere hours after it launched, and overall has raked in over 4 million in sales....not too shabby imo.

What I do find ridiculous though is the stupid analysts who are calling Mario Galaxy a failure because it didn't sell as much as fast as Halo 3. Smilie Two different audiences, two different games. In the long run, there's a shot that Galaxy will actually sell more than Halo 3..

I just expected Halo 3 to be a strong seller for a while (not that 387,000 isn't strong, but you know what i mean). I suppose most Halo fans were ready to explode if they didn't buy it straight away, with all the hype it built up.Smilie
I was a bit like that with Super Mario Galaxy.

Smilie


Didn't we hear all along though that Halo3 was expected to sell a huge amount quickly in one crazy week, rather than last a long time in the software charts?

It is definitely comparing apples and oranges, because everyone who wanted Halo3 + 360 could easily have one by then (indeed it's entirely possible to be on your fourth 360 by now, cheers m$) whereas Wiis are still impossible to get hold of a lot of the time... and since Mario Galaxy has been released in the Xmas run-up, people aren't buying games until they have scored a console to play it on (d'uh).

Fair play, Halo has sold a shedload.. though it may be a spent force at retail now. Mario (with his excellent metascore and global recognition) is catching up.

After all the talk of disappointment at Zack & Wiki, it bloody went and beat the first months of both Medal of Honour 2 and Trauma Centre 2! And, to be honest, it wasn't that far off the performance of WWE and Fire Emblem, either...

What is really stunning is that comparison of Mario Galaxy and Sunshine Smilie Galaxy's on fire!

Adam Riley [ Director :: Cubed3 ]

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