NPD Totals USA Video Game Revenue: Wii/DS at Record Pace for Dec.

By the way guys, Pacther has said over 114 games sold more than 100,000 units in December 2009.

*walks into topic* Well I guess its time we see that Nintendo overestimated the Wii's sales and we FIANNALY get confirmation that its a fad *reads words* XD

Yeah, you got to give it to Nintendo for their ability to sell their first-party games so consistently and over such a long period of time. MKWii only comes with a piece of plastic, but what a fun piece of plastic! DS continues to amaze me, and NSMBWii continues to dominate. I think I now understand the desperation of the HD consoles. They have to copy what Nintendo is doing with motion-control to even compete. I've been a die-hard Nintendo fan ever since I can remember, so I've always stuck with the best. I love Windows 7, and I have an HD Sony TV, but Nintendo rules the gaming in my house. Go Nintendo!

The HD systems had their AA titles something with a 2, 3 or a 4 in the game titles, price cuts and still got whipped by Nintendo. (HA!!) DS Rulezzz!!!!

The VG industry fell only 8% in USA from previous year. I wonder how this compares with the other regions especially EU. Nintendo published 7 out of the 10 biggest sellers of the year. That's how to make major money. Screw 3rd party, that's for the HD consoles. PSP sold more in the US than I thought.

Confirmed, Wii is doomed! (Doomed to record sales and profits for Nintendo)

@uso, VGC numbers are for all of America (the entire continent), including also Canada and South America.

Acording NPD lifetime sales numbers the gap between Xbox360 and PS3 is much smaller. Lifetime to date hardware sales in the USA market stand at the following levels (through January 2, 2010). PS2 - 45.13m DS - 38.73m Wii - 27.12m X360 - 18.63m PSP - 16.82m PS3 - 11.12m The GAP is 7.51 on NPD and on VGC is 9.15. Are this the same numbers or the VGC includes more countries?

@Algorith, Sony's 1.7 million units sold statement included black Friday

VGChartz 360 numbers are good, since this is for a smaller market.(only U.S. vs whole of America). PS3 numbers however can't be right, U.S. numbers higher then the whole America's number??

Wii is huge! seems Nintendo was right saying about low supply the previous years great for Ps3 as well

So PS3 slightly undertracked, 360 overtreacked?

"Wait for NDP" suddenly became a /sarcasm

360, PSP and PS2 numbers are good ... the rest and much of the software seems to need adjustments as the market did better than vgchartz expected

I know that VGC is americas, but it seems the difference for Jan 2nd is a bit in favor of the 360 (wii and PS3 are in the same proportions)

Lulz how did the ps3 managed to beat the 360 in dec?? I could have sworn 360 was selling more in NA month of DEC.

"ph4nt says: I just noticed Wiis December alone was almost as big as PS3s 2009 as a whole." O_o i'm still speechless... wow

ummmm

I guess this means that Sony's 1.7 million units sold for December on US was either sales to retailers or a wrong estimate. Hope next year we see a considerable increase in the industry.

The fact that Mario Kart Wii sold almost the same quantity of units this year than last year on December just left me speechless...you left me speechless, so speechless!!!! jaja I love lady gaga's songs :P

THIS IS THE ANSWER to all the "the WIi is overtracked", "wait for adjustments", "The Wii will be adjusted down", "wait for NPD" statements that have been going around. Wahahhahahaha

So it is possible that Wii might have sold over 4 million in the Americas in the 5 weeks of December. Wow, huge numbers.

Great push for the end of the year!!! Nintendo has won this battle, but the war rages on and I'm sure 2011 is the end for the Wii once LOZ(2010) & DQX(2011) is released. That will end the Wii run and we definitely can look forward to the Next-Gen. I'm so itching to hear some real info on the new HW systems, for sure these sales speak loud but if you guys read these sales properly you'll notice that the twin HD sisters had ... SFIV, RE5, Tekken,MW2.. FFXIII(JP only) and a whole lot of great AA & AAA games and nintendo had what??? Wii fit, WsR and NSMBW.... can't mention the price cut as they all had one. If their powers combined they couldn't take that beast down then this war is over. I just hope Nintendo does learn from this gen and try and win the core back and totally try and compete with the other system.(they can keep the wii around to print their money also) @disolitude: if the 3rd parties are "abandoning" the wii ship it isn't because of the sales or profit, it's because they are too freaking greedy and want MORE profit. Maybe the effect of their lower end shovelware has hurt their image on the wii and just shows that they are trying to cash in. The spectrum is much more wide on the wii user base so you can't say 65Mil user how comes my game didn't sell. the casual crown fall under an odd graph that purchase games on different requirement, unlike the HD core users that already pre-order the BIG games. the casual crowd buy from many factors and that's why the wii games sell at a slower pace but they sell over time ( maybe the casual players priorities isn't games 1st before... shopping for jeans, going out etc), but core gamers lol ya I'm sure you;ll put that 60$ down on game before even thinking about getting a new piece of clothing ( I know I would for hell sure) MS and Sony can drop the price again, but wii going for 149.99 or 99.99 is going to be ridonculous ( can see 5mil in one month). ok sorry I'm restless and can't sleep... ok going to bed now...

are those ps3 numbers 4 real.........

Wait a sec... VGC Dec has Wii at 3.46m yet NDP is higher at 3.81m O.O What is this madness? Nice sales all around though :D But man, Nintendo really owns the holidays.

nintendomination!

There isn't much evidence of third parties abandoning Wii yet - what they complain about is not being able to have alot of 5m sellers on that 65m base. But that doesn't mean they are displeased with all the games that sell 500,000, 1,000,000 or 2,000,000. Its almost impossible to sell over 2m copies of a game on Wii if you are a third party though - that is where Nintendo dominates. Capcom, Sega, EA, Ubisoft, Activision and others all have multiple games that have topped 1,000,000 units on Wii.

I dont get how wii is selling so much yet 3rd party publishers keep abandoning it due to lack of sales. Nintendo made a nice little sandbox for themselves where only they get to play...

heruamon....it's 50k....

Wii did it thing, but the 500K PS3 sale over 360 is huge! I think M$ is going to have to move much quickly then they had previously wanted to if the tide doesn't stem in the first few months of 2010.

now we can get back to those who asked everyone to wait for NPD

This is CRAZY nearly 4 million Wii's in one MONTH! WOW..Nintendo Domination

kunaixhaku says: "so does this mean vgc adjustments coming up for ps3 and 360? i swear i seen the 360 beat ps3 in sales every week in december on vgc Posted on: 01/15/10, 02:09" Absolutely no adjustment for 360 necessary. NPD 360 is 79% of VGC 360 for the same period. That's as good a correlation as you could hope for. PS3 NPD > PS3 VGC which is obviously not a reflection of reality since NPD sales is for a smaller market. But the difference is arguably not that great and within a statisctical margin for error when comparing one estimate with another. The only system that probably warrants an adjustment is the Wii. NPD vs VGC is probably slightly outside the statistical margin for error.

pretty sure Microsoft will drop the price of the 360 when natal is released. i am thinking 50$ at least. nintendo will have a better year next year. sony will continue to rise.

wii is doomed!!11

Great month for all. Look at that top 10 for 2009. Wii takes slots 2-7 for the year. That's freggin crazy.

so does this mean vgc adjustments coming up for ps3 and 360? i swear i seen the 360 beat ps3 in sales every week in december on vgc

Great number for 360 and impressive numbers for Ps3... Wii is always on top but this is unbelievable.

It seems like the Xbox360 will have a price drop, i hope it to be before May 2010 so i could try to get it. The PS3 saw a huge increase, but that´s too small compared to Wii numbers, i hope everything will be fine for the Wii

Im more interested in financial reports, they are more telling than vague numbers and misleading press statements of sony, microsoft, EA and others

I just noticed Wiis December alone was almost as big as PS3s 2009 as a whole.

also congrats sony,the consumer chooses the best hd choice even when other hd systems are cheaper.

time to make the xbox 99.99????

Holy Shit @ Wii and DS.

It will be interesting to see MS does. The PS3 vs. 360 battle is the only interesting sales battle in the industry. The Wii is destroying the PS3/360 and the DS vs. PSP battle has been long over. With the PSP fading, even in Japan, I wonder what Sony will do. The PSP has been lackluster in the West for years but it was always strong in Japan.

what the... I swear 360 beat PS3 every week in DEC... according to VGchartz guess you underestimated your PS3 #S guys :P :D

statistical tie seems to be the frase of the day.

Surprised that Xbox 360 remained flat YoY despite the stiff competition from the Wii and the PS3.

PS3 - 1.36m X360 - 1.31m Wii - 3.81m I'm sure that will quieten down quite a few people!

I'm really curious as to what MS will say about the PS3 selling more than the 360, according to NPD. MS is really fun with the press statements, when it comes to making themselves look like they are on top. (gets popcorn)

woew so the ps3 did beat the 360 in december nice

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