USA Retail Sales Preview - September 2009 - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 11 October 2009 / 7,232 Views
The holiday season begins! VGChartz estimates total monthly revenue for September 2009 to be up 3% compared to September 2008, the first year-on-year increase since February. Whilst software sales are up around 16%, hardware sales are down 15% - mainly due to decreases in average selling price from last year.
Monthly highlights:
- 25 titles have sold over 100,000 units
- Total sales for the top ten titles comes in at around 4.5m units
- Halo 3: ODST dominated software sales with 1.75m units sold
- Beatles: Rock Band sold 900,000 units combined across Wii, Xbox360 and PS3
- Guitar Hero 5 sold 800,000 units combined across Wii, Xbox360, PS3 and PS2
VGChartz expects the top 30 software for September to be:
| 1 | Halo 3: ODST | X360 | Microsoft | 1,740,972 |
| 2 | Wii Sports Resort | Wii | Nintendo | 526,618 |
| 3 | The Beatles: Rock Band | Wii | MTV Games | 365,665 |
| 4 | The Beatles: Rock Band | X360 | MTV Games | 344,446 |
| 5 | Guitar Hero 5 | X360 | Activision-Blizzard | 279,957 |
| 6 | Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 | X360 | Activision-Blizzard | 279,105 |
| 7 | Batman: Arkham Asylum | PS3 | Square Enix | 260,114 |
| 8 | Madden NFL 10 | X360 | Electronic Arts | 245,837 |
| 9 | Batman: Arkham Asylum | X360 | Square Enix | 240,614 |
| 10 | Guitar Hero 5 | Wii | Activision-Blizzard | 234,378 |
| 11 | Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days | DS | Square Enix | 232,033 |
| 12 | Wii Fit | Wii | Nintendo | 214,680 |
| 13 | Madden NFL 10 | PS3 | Electronic Arts | 200,439 |
| 14 | Guitar Hero 5 | PS3 | Activision-Blizzard | 193,374 |
| 15 | Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 | PS3 | Activision-Blizzard | 190,584 |
| 16 | The Beatles: Rock Band | PS3 | MTV Games | 188,334 |
| 17 | Mario & Luigi 3: Bowser's Inside Story | DS | Nintendo | 186,225 |
| 18 | Mario Kart Wii | Wii | Nintendo | 140,899 |
| 19 | Scribblenauts | DS | Warner Bros. Interactive | 140,585 |
| 20 | Need for Speed: Shift | X360 | Electronic Arts | 139,052 |
| 21 | Dissidia: Final Fantasy | PSP | Square Enix | 119,201 |
| 22 | Need for Speed: Shift | PS3 | Electronic Arts | 115,053 |
| 23 | NHL 10 | X360 | Electronic Arts | 111,309 |
| 24 | DiRT 2 | X360 | Codemasters | 108,525 |
| 25 | Guitar Hero 5 | PS2 | Activision-Blizzard | 100,302 |
| 26 | Madden NFL 10 | PS2 | Electronic Arts | 95,737 |
| 27 | Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box | DS | Nintendo | 93,186 |
| 28 | Halo 3 | X360 | Microsoft | 90,703 |
| 29 | DiRT 2 | PS3 | Codemasters | 84,816 |
| 30 | Section 8 | X360 | SouthPeak Interactive | 83,526 |
Moving on to hardware, PS3 saw the largest increases both month-on-month and year-on-year following the launch of PS3 slim. All hardware is up vs August by virtue of 5 weeks vs 4 and also various price cuts and new model launches. Despite this, all formats but PS3 and DS are down year-on-year (and even DS is only up 2%) - a sign that this is still tough times.
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Official figures from NPD:
U.S. Hardware Sales, September 2009:
- Nintendo DS 524.2K
- PlayStation 3 491.8K
- Wii 462.8K
- Xbox 360 352.6K
- PSP 190.4K
- PlayStation 2 146.0K
They got the 360 right on the money lol.
@ Kai Master - Ummm what......? I won't waste to much of your time but I can list quite a few consoles that were far worse.
Neo Geo
Atari Jaguar
Turbo Grafx 16
Sega CD
Sega 32 X
Sega Saturn
I won't count the Wii since that price drop occurred in late September. The chart above pretty much shows that it did increase sales of the Xbox 360 a decent amount. It's not as good as the PS3's but not as bad as you are trying to make it sound.
only one PS3 game in top 10, ouch
@Paperdiego
when you beat the console that has been absolutely dominating the competition, that hardly equates to squeaking out a win, which inherently attempts to dismiss its success. the PS3 outselling the Wii is the farthest thing form dismissable. that's just plain stupid.
I expect Halo 3 to completely drop off the chart for October, as a copy of Halo 3 is included with the Halo 3:ODST package.
Will be an interesting week.
I got a feeling VGC could be overtracking PS3 by a bit. I would be very surprised to see PS3 sell more in it's price cut month then 360 did in it's price cut month by the 60k or so they have it as.
I think the price cut of the 360 was the least impactful ever for a console, they managed to be down from last year! pathetic...
Halo 3: ODST 1,740,972 wtffffffffffff,,ha ha ha ,..
who is your daddy america?
lol. Didn't the 360 have a price cut, too...
Nice to see PS3 on top.
not bad. fairly decent crop from all angles
Don't be so quick to claim the PS3 barely won and how the Wii did so great with a few days of sale. This is a sales preview, meaning numbers can change (up or down).
I can see PS3 having a bigger lead in Europe and Japan.
wow ps3 barely squeaked out a win..
With how terrible Wii was supposedly doing and how fantastic the Slim was doing, I'm surprised Wii is so close to Ps3, especially with only a few days of price cut.
But obviously it should still win, those reasons are why it is surprisingly close
The Wii had a price cut too, the 360 had a Halo game
Trolling mode ON
PS3 only 34k ahead of Wii!
Trolling mode OFF
Anyway...great month for the PS3! DS rocks as usual.
The 360 seems to always have the top game each month in America.
PLAYSTATION FTW!!!!!
It feels so nice to see
DS & PS3 lead this month..
in the big font bit of the article.....I wonder if we see that phrased use again..ever
Nice new feature, though I do feel you said "VGChartz thinks" too many times, rather than stating it as fact. Also, if in the intro it talks about total sales for games, across all platforms, could we also have a chart for combined totals, as well as individual totals (though I know that is more work).
And you chart says September 09 twice, the far right column should probably say 08
Anyway, very interesting to see pretty much everything down from last year. Had the 360 had its price cut this time last year?
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