USA Retail Sales Preview - October 2009 - News

by VGChartz Staff , posted on 11 November 2009 / 5,796 Views

Despite a number of large releases in October, we expect total revenues to be down around 10% year-on-year, due mainly to reduced average selling prices of many hardware and software SKUs, stronger overall hardware performance last year and big releases this year not performing as well as last October (Fable II, Fallout 3, Saints Row 2 etc).

Monthly highlights:

25 titles have sold over 100,000 units
Total sales for the top ten titles comes in at around 3.5m units
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the top selling software with 570,000 units sold
Wii Fit Plus came in at number two with over 460,000 units sold
Borderlands sold over 370,000 units across Xbox360 and PS3
Halo 3: ODST sold a further 275,000 units taking total sales to over 2 million

VGChartz expects the top 30 software for October to be:

Pos	Game	Platform	Publisher	Sales
1	Uncharted 2: Among Thieves	PS3	Sony Computer Entertainment	570,646
2	Wii Fit Plus	Wii	Nintendo	460,560
3	Wii Sports Resort	Wii	Nintendo	352,848
4	Borderlands	X360	2K Games	288,342
5	Halo 3: ODST	X360	Microsoft	274,402
6	Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days	DS	Square Enix	249,891
7	NBA 2K10	X360	2K Sports	224,581
8	Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games	Wii	Sega	224,325
9	Forza Motorsport 3	X360	Microsoft	211,974
10	Mario Kart Wii	Wii	Nintendo	208,875
11	Demon's Soul	PS3	Atlus	176,178
12	Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising	X360	Codemasters	172,116
13	Brutal Legend	X360	Electronic Arts	169,507
14	NBA 2K10	PS3	2K Sports	166,374
15	Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games	DS	Sega	122,774
16	Smackdown vs RAW 2010	X360	THQ	121,569
17	Mario & Luigi 3	DS	Nintendo	117,394
18	Madden NFL 10	X360	EA Sports	111,434
19	Bakugan: Battle Brawlers	DS	Activision	106,553
20	Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky	DS	Nintendo	106,005
21	Brutal Legend	PS3	Electronic Arts	101,901
22	Madden NFL 10	PS3	EA Sports	99,565
23	The Beatles	Wii	MTV Games	95,940
24	Smackdown vs RAW 2010	PS3	THQ	95,314
25	Wii Play	Wii	Nintendo	92,481
26	Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time	PS3	Sony Computer Entertainment	85,428
27	Smackdown vs RAW 2010	PS2	THQ	84,228
28	Tekken 6	PS3	Namco Bandai	84,082
29	NBA Live 10	X360	EA Sports	83,580
30	Borderlands	PS3	2K Games	83,045

Moving on to hardware and the only console up this month is Wii with an impressive 62% month-on-month increase. This is mainly down to the fact that the price cut happened right at the end of September so October was the first full month of sales at the $199 price point. With September being a five week month and October four, sales would normally be expected to be down 20% across the board just due to one less week. PSP shows a smaller drop due to the PSP Go launch right at the end of September and PS3 / DS show larger drops indicating a slight slowing of sales compared to last month.

Year-on-year, PS3 remains the only console to show an increase - up 52%. Wii, DS and Xbox 360 are only around 10% down on last year whereas PSP and PS2 are closer to 30% down.

16 Comments

Boberman (on 12 November 2009)

PS3 bang on 360/wii overtracked

arcane_chaos (on 11 November 2009)

glad to see demon souls make the list

TheThunder (on 11 November 2009)

DJ Hero flopped HARD !!

Sapphire (on 11 November 2009)

Wii hardware increase
Im surprised
great!

Boberman (on 11 November 2009)

Something seems wrong about borderlands. It doesn't make sense for it to be less then a 3:1 ratio.

As well good job demon souls on almost cracking the top 10. Hopefully it can have some legs for the remainder of the holiday season.

gossomer (on 11 November 2009)

Everything looks right.. but your Wii number is off by 200k units.

Just Sayin...

Ssenkahdavic (on 11 November 2009)

Seeing Demon's Souls in this list makes me very happy. Wonder how much that number would have changed if Atlus had actually released enough copies to go around (and not have to wait to restock)

moondeep (on 11 November 2009)

Wii has over 50% monthly market share. Wow... let's see how well it holds up though.

I'm thinking it'll hit 55% monthly market share once NSMB launches.

Supercoop (on 11 November 2009)

ouch @ platform gap between borderlands, what was up with the ps3 version?

Ghutto (on 11 November 2009)

3 years passed and Wii continue to sell like hot cakes...

darthdevidem01 (on 11 November 2009)

AMAZING PSwiiDS numbers!

TheKarateKid (on 11 November 2009)

PS3 at 52% is pretty darn impressive being that it's at a $299 price point that the 360 was at a year ago. This means there are alot of 360 consumers converting over to PS3. VGchartz is stating the 360 is only down 10% when in actual they are nearly down 15%. I think that's pretty bad considering a HALO game was recently released & you have a Elite priced at $299.99. It looks like Sony option for built in Blu-Ray and Wifi really paid off in the end.