There are no January surprises to report when it comes to the latest numbers for consoles released by NPD group. The Wii wins the month with 466K units sold, while Nintendo's other piece of hardware, the DS, had its little white back with a solid performance of 422K sold. The Xbox 360 and the PS3 sold well, shifting 323K and 277K respectively as the PSP and PS2 rounded out the month with 101K and a meager 41.6K.
These numbers are down from December's report. After hours and hours of thought, debate, and even an attempted stabbing or two, we've decided as a group that the lower sales are the result of January not having a day like Christmas. Go figure.
NPD: Game Industry Down 13% in January as Mario Beats Mass Effect 2 [Industry Gamers]
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10:30 PM on 02.11.2010
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Nice to see Mass Effect 2 did pretty well, though.
I mean, at some point everyone will own it.
I want numbers of Wii consoles traded in.
Personally, I would be much more interested in the true number of functioning Xbox 360's in the market, considering all the hardware problems and the fact that Microsoft bricked nearly a million modded ones last fall.
A freaky chick.
The marketing for it was pathetic, Bayonetta is a classic example of a developer doing what HE wants to do more so then anything else (e.g. what the customer wants). Perfect lesson for those who want game idols. That is the same reason why directors aren't getting the same respect as actors, acting is acting but directing and developing the movie is a whole process that involves many people, many opinions and so forth (and of course the job itself is highly dependant on ideas that the director is having, while acting is more of a static job much of the time... e.g. if the actor is talented the work will be good, while a director can have all the talent/money in the world yet still be working with a horrible idea/story/movie/etc, al a Avatar).
While I agree that Mario bros wii will eventually go down on the list, it's gonna be a best seller for a long time. Funny how geoff keighley is back pedaling on all that talk of Mario selling more than modern warfare 2...
There's a few people that just want Kamiya to keep doing whatever the hell he wants, because it hasn't disappointed them yet.
Granted, the marketing was incredibad. But it's hard to divorce Bayonetta from that sort of presentation when it's part of the charm.
That's why I compared it to Mario Kart Wii. Mario Kart Wii is number 5 on the list for this month. Actually, I think that the original Mario Bros. series probably has more staying power than a kart-racing spin-off of the Mario Bros. series, so I expect the game to stay up in the top ten for years.