NPD Reports April 2009 Videogame Sales Figures

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"The only preview of NPD with an average margin of error under 15% was Vgchartz. EEDAR came in at 18%, GAF at 40%, Sim Exchange at 42%, and Pachter at 45%."

Pachter rolled a 1! (as always)

0.0% difference at PSP predictions! wow! Critical hit! ^^

Nintendo Still doing right, Sony and Microsoft needs a miracle.

america is the country of legssssssssssssss

i see ajustments in the near future :/

Guitar Hero Aerosmith (not Metallica) actually did sell that well because its price recently dropped to $30 on 360. Kind of bad timing for Metallica, but combined sales across all platforms brought Metallica to #3 and Aerosmith to #4 (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58638).

Still, this kind of consumer behavior, along with sales of PS2 just goes to show that the recession is indeed affecting what games people are buying.

what is NPD's confidence interval? Is it +/- 10% like most statistical outlets?

ps3 will never succeed as long as PS2 is alive!.
some people might be mad at Microsoft for cutting the strings of the original Xbox, but it sure paved the way for the 360's success!.
the PS3 has been anything but held back time and time again by the PS2.

PS3 lost to PS2?? That's just terrible. It also looks like Wii may be able to get 50% market share after all.

What's up with that link to the "NPD April Preview" in the article ?

Errr May 2008 had 790k sold in NA, April 2009 had 370k or so ( NPD+10%).
So I'm not sure I understand the analysis that says you expect May 2009 to be down slightly compared to both.
Because if it's down compared to April 2009, it's going to be down like 50% compared to May 2008 and that is nowhere slightly............
So which is it ?

This month VGC made a good prediction.

The economic turndown hurts really hard the videomarket in US, much more than i though.

2009 seems to be the weakest year since the launch of this generation, the prize will be the key of the year (look at PS2 !!!)

A prize drop for the 360, Wii and PS3 is in sight

found something interesting...

9. Guitar Hero Aerosmith , Activision, 110,000 (Xbox 360)

shouldn't this be Guitar Hero: Metallica? or Guitar Hero Aerosmith actually sold that well in April?

Yeah, the comparison is nice, but you need to state ahead of time you're going to do it every month for 6 months, 3 months, a year, next month, whatever. Otherwise it just looks like you cherry picked a good month..not saying you did, but it would be too easy to accuse.

"The only preview of NPD with an average margin of error under 15% was Vgchartz. EEDAR came in at 18%, GAF at 40%, Sim Exchange at 42%, and Pachter at 45%. Ignoring PS2, as TSE and Divinich did, the VGC error drops to 12.3%."

This you should do every month Jacob. It's fun showing who will be consistantly the most accurate..

*Metallica

@ Shanobi: Crushes competition, or outsells combined competition. Not crushes combined competition.

Guitar Hero Aerosmith? Don't you mean Guitar Hero Metallicia? :/

the figure of NDS I think it's combined both DSL n DSi
so that means not DSi only selling 1 million

1 million DSi's?! o_O

loy310, I'd say you have no idea what a death spiral is. In a bad month it still crushes the combined sales of it's competition, and it's about to get a slew of new releases that are going to spike it back up.

Wise up.

Wow ps2 with a nice comeback, don't think it will last thought, would be funny if it did. Playstation platform is doing ok along with the X360 and the DS. Wii is in a death spiral down.

Chinatown Wars didn't sell 90k? Boo...

WOW..PS2 really did better than I expect, and it would seem what anybody else did as well. Everthing else got pummeled so it's probably not because of the PS2, but more likely because nothing was releases in the month to make frugal shoppers spend that dough.

also GAF if you can

i need the link to EEDAR , Sim Exchange

sorry my bad. I didn't understand it. i will delete my post ...

I wouldn't put thesimsexchange in your comparisons. That is more fun then accurate. When I who has no information can cause major changes in those #'s it can't be considered accurate.

(side note I ended up making 2.5 million simexchange bucks with this NPD :D)

@jaddow

Ummm. VGChartz was the most correct out of all the other places. Plus NPD isn't even 100% accurate so I say the numbers are pretty damn close.

So GTFO if your not happy with the numbers.

DAMN PS2! I can't believe it almost outsold the 360. The Wii will have to stick around for a while before it ever beats PS2 numbers. PS3 was better than I expected and Wii/DS doing pretty good as usual. Wii isn't on fire as much as the past year but still market leader and the is no denying that.

Um, can you read? We were within 15%. Look at the other "prognosticators".

Ps2 really hurt xbox360 sales with the price drop