VGChartz Pro

USA Retail Sales Preview for February 2010

by Jacob Mazel, posted on 10 March 2010 / 2,142 Views

With NPD set to release their monthly data for February 2010 on Thursday, we present a summary of VGChartz data for the same period for as a preview and for comparison.

Monthly Highlights:
- Hardware revenue dropped 23% year over year on lower pricing and lighter volume.
- Eighteen games sold over 100,000 units.
- All hardware, save for PS3 and X360 decreased year over year. Total hardware sales dropped 17%.
- Software volume increased slightly from February 2009, but revenue remained flat on lower pricing.
- Bioshock 2 sold nearly 800,000 units across X360 and PS3, with sales heavily in favor of X360 as  expected.
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii has sold 5,000,000 in the USA. The game has penetrated nearly 20% of the US Wii base in little more than three months.

Hardware sales were down for February, but still strong. Nintendo sold over half the hardware for the month.

Console              Feb-10      Jan-10
      M/M             Feb-09            Y/Y
Wii 518,836 614,420 -16% 736,386 -30%
DS 463,782 545,780 -15% 511,923 -9%
X360 352,421 310,640 13% 346,267 2%
PS3 286,260 317,205 -10% 241,046 19%
PSP 102,158 153,528 -33% 187,388 -45%
PS2 50,120 78,273 -36% 110,668 -55%
Total 1,773,577 2,019,846 -12% 2,133,678 -17%

For the month, Wii, PS2, DS, and PSP dropped year over year. That should continue for a few months. Starting in April 2009 though, Wii sales softened, and so Wii should return to year over year growth mid year on its strong lineup of games. PSP and DS could probably return to positive growth against 2009 with price drops in the Spring as well.

With hardware sales now essentially driven by four platforms in the USA, Wii, DS, X360 and PS3 were the only systems to see games chart in the top thirty for February. Total software sales for February were up by nearly a million units from February 2009. March 2010 should be an even stronger month for software with titles like God of War 3 and Final Fantasy XIII.

POS Game Platform Publisher 10-Feb           Total
1 BioShock 2 X360 Take-Two Interactive  541,993 541,993
2 Wii Sports Wii Nintendo  518,836 27,909,602
3 New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii Nintendo  439,826 4,990,809
4 Mass Effect 2 X360 Electronic Arts  336,502 968,818
5 Wii Fit Plus Wii Nintendo  312,702 4,091,034
6 Aliens vs Predator X360 Sega  258,950 258,950
7 BioShock 2 PS3 Take-Two Interactive  227,563 227,563
8 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 X360 Activision  221,183 5,774,602
9 Dante's Inferno PS3 Electronic Arts  205,350 205,350
10 Dante's Inferno X360 Electronic Arts  194,975 194,975
11 Just Dance Wii Ubisoft  189,394 645,241
12 Wii Sports Resort Wii Nintendo  184,963 5,145,063
13 Heavy Rain PS3 Sony Computer Entertainment  181,479 181,479
14 MAG: Massive Action Game PS3 Sony Computer Entertainment  171,828 344,929
15 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 PS3 Activision  170,858 3,146,141
16 Aliens vs Predator PS3 Sega  159,489 159,489
17 Mario Kart Wii Wii Nintendo  130,309 8,166,361
18 White Knight Chronicles: International Edition PS3 Sony Computer Entertainment  122,965 122,965
19 New Super Mario Bros. DS Nintendo  83,443 7,113,280
20 Wii Play Wii Nintendo  78,829 12,163,922
21 Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 Wii Activision  75,732 739,671
22 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex Edition Wii Activision  74,618 587,339
23 Assassin's Creed II X360 Ubisoft  71,343 1,777,012
24 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games DS Sega  68,653 816,157
25 Assassin's Creed II PS3 Ubisoft  65,755 1,203,189
26 Mario Kart DS DS Nintendo  64,223 6,008,590
27 Gold's Gym: Cardio Workout Wii Ubisoft  62,143 526,622
28 The Biggest Loser Wii THQ  62,061 463,314
29 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Wii Sega  61,636 1,088,735
30 Madden NFL 10 X360 Electronic Arts 60,150 1,936,687

16 Comments

Baalzamon
Baalzamon (on 11 March 2010)

MAG was not a complete flop, it was a brand new series with only online...it will prob get 1.1-1.3 million sales lifetime...I am sure that a 2nd one would reach 2 million.

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prime
prime (on 10 March 2010)

M.A.G. Flop

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A Bad Clown
A Bad Clown (on 10 March 2010)

That chart is confusing, which side is this year.

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Mr. sickVisionz
Mr. sickVisionz (on 10 March 2010)

"It has excuses, but what would it take for you to say Wii had a bad month?" The Wii is still selling close to what the other two consoles sell combined and it takes up three of the Top 5 selling software titles. If that's a bad month then when do you call every month for every other console since launch? For me, a bad Wii month would at least be one where one of the other current gen consoles beats it in sales. A reduction from "mercilessly ravaging competition with no mercy, compassion or lubrication" to "mercilessly raving the competition with no compassion but KY" isn't a bad month imo.

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Cheebee
Cheebee (on 10 March 2010)

Wii is d00med. Seriously though, pretty good overall, except PSP. Then again, what else is new... it's really on its last legs.

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Salnax
Salnax (on 10 March 2010)

I doubt one can call it a bad month for the Wii when it is the #1 selling system.

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SaviorX
SaviorX (on 10 March 2010)

Numbers come with a little asterisk though - PS3 and Wii suffered from shortages all month.

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Demotruk
Demotruk (on 10 March 2010)

^ It's down 30% YoY. It has excuses, but what would it take for you to say Wii had a bad month?

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Arius Dion
Arius Dion (on 10 March 2010)

Impressive Month for Wii.

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guiduc
guiduc (on 10 March 2010)

12 Wii games, WOW! Wii is still at the top! Watch out when April will come... sales gonna explode!

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meatloaf73
meatloaf73 (on 10 March 2010)

"360 is so amazing at selling software that its bioshock 2 sales had to be split!!! " lol

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Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh (on 10 March 2010)

I remember a time when the PS3 was lucky to have 1 game in that list, not no more, 7 games!

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myths n legends
myths n legends (on 10 March 2010)

360 is so amazing at selling software that its bioshock 2 sales had to be split!!!

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meatloaf73
meatloaf73 (on 10 March 2010)

#7 is incorrect. Should be for the PS3!!!!

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sully1311
sully1311 (on 10 March 2010)

bioshock 2 ps3 needs correcting

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Demotruk
Demotruk (on 10 March 2010)

You have Bioshock for 360 twice

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