USA Retail Sales Preview for July 2010 - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 10 August 2010 / 4,783 Views
NPD will be releasing data for the performance of the USA videogame market this Thursday at 6:30 PM Eastern Time. The data covers the four weeks ending July 31, 2010. Based on Vgchartz data for the same period, we expect NPD to report the following information.
July Overview
June was a five week month, while July was a four week month. Not surprisingly, all monthly hardware totals dropped from June. A drop off of 20% would indicate steady sales over less time. However, during July all hardware rates dropped off by more than 20% - indicating that slowing weekly sales rates AND the change in time length explain the hardware dropoff for the month.
Hardware sales are down a bit against last July, primarily because DS, PSP, and PS2 fell by nearly 300,000 units combined. Large increases in PS3 and X360 hardware sales and steady Wii sales could not offset the decline. With hardware down, and selling at lower prices than last year, and quiet software sales, industry revenue dropped off a bit year over year. One caveat - Nintendo just said Wii has topped 30 million in the United States, and NPD had Wii at 29.57m through June 2010 - so the Wii may be higher than we have it if Nintendo's internal data aligns well with NPD data. Furthermore, Starcraft II is not included in this data - and went a long way toward slowing the 'video game' portion of the "gaming" market for the month given how well it sold.
| USA VG $ | July 10' | July 09' |
| Hardware | $243.80 | $280.94 |
| Software | $416.50 | $436.99 |
| Accessory | $140.00 | $130.97 |
| Total | $800.30 | $848.90 |
Overall hardware revenue is likely to continue declining, as PS3 is likely to turn negative during August-October as it laps the 2009 price cut and Slim launch. DS, PSP, and PS2 could be down year over year for the rest of the year too - leaving X360 and Wii to pick up the slack - something which won't happen with those consoles likely to be down at least once between now and the end of the year.
Software sales were pretty quiet for July, especially for new titles. NCAA and Crackdown 2 were the only major openings for July. Of the top thirty games, ten were for Wii, nine were for X360, six were for PS3, and five were for DS. NCAA wasn't that far off from the top thirty for PS2, so it will be interesting to see if / where Madden PS2 charts in August. Dragon Quest IX was actually the major debut for Nintendo systems this month, selling over 70,000 units in the United States. Excluding Wii Sports, there were six DS titles, and nine titles for Wii in the top thirty. On another bundled software note, Madden figures may actually end up looking a little funky next month in the NPD data, as Madden is being bundled with some PSPs and PS3s. Since new releases generally didn't chart in July, a number of older games continue to hang on to top thirty placement - but they'll likely be pushed off by Madden next month.
Lego Harry Potter has quietly become a major hit this month - with sales over 500,000 between the versions pictured and those off the chart. Otherwise, Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy 2 are still holding well from May - but most titles from the first half of 2010 are now rapidly declining. What is interesting is that a handfull of the best games from 2006-2009 continue to hold up well - 13 games in the top thirty (excluding Wii Sports) are from 2009 or earlier and several games like NSMB DS just missed the cut off. Next month should see more new titles in the top thirty - but we'll have to wait to know for sure.
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Sony need to cut PSP 3000 and Go price like right now!!
uncharted 2 is still up there!
Waiting...
They may have been updated it seems.
well nintendoeverything is down atm, but here's a link to a site who claims its source to be nintendoeverything:
http://play.tm/wire/3829983/wedbush-morgan-eedar-july-2010-npd-predictions/
Also I visited the Gaf thread and they mentioned these different numbers too.
I got them from N4G who got them from GAF who got them from NintendoEverything.
Or it could have been NintendoEverything who got them from GAF.
One or the other.
@Euphoria
Where did you get these numbers from ? I'm pretty sure they're false.
Here's what I found on plenty other sites:
Wedbush Morgan
DS – 405K
Wii – 310K
Xbox 360 – 355K
PS3 – 230K
PSP – 85K
PS2 – 45K
EEDAR
DS – 403K
Wii – 274K
Xbox 360 – 309K
PS3 – 201K
PSP – 67K
How can Wii Sports Resort be below Wii Sports? I thought they both got packaged with the Wii in America now - if so, any shelf sales of WSR would push it above the original.
Big discrepancies between VGC and WM/EEDAR estimates. Will be interesting to see where NPD fits. Seems they think the 360 slim / clearance sale effect dropped off more than VGC numbers suggest. having only a 30K difference between PS3 and 360 for the month (8K weekly average) is almost back to normal. And Wii selling 125K more than 360? That would be OUCH for 360 if the supply constraints are pulling down sales to that degree, and, it would seem, giving Wii a leg up by massively outselling it's own July 2009 numbers. A 400K July for Wii must be some kind of record, for a console without a system selling software release or price cut. VGC estimate "feels" more right to me.
On the software side, it's interesting that for PS3 the first appearance of a non-2010 game is the 3rd PS3 title, for 360 it's the 4th title, but for Wii the first 2 titles are non-2010 releases. I don't know
One more thing - Does this mean VGC's June figures were adjusted for the PS3 ?
Wedbush Morgan and EEDAR estimates for July 2010 NPD.
Wedbush Morgan
DS – 525K
Wii – 400K
Xbox 360 – 275K
PS3 – 245K
PSP – 85K
PS2 – 70K
EEDAR
DS – 535K
Wii – 450K
Xbox 360 – 275K
PS3 – 245K
PSP – 85K
PS2 – 70K
