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June NPD: Prototype vs inFAMOUS concluded ... Prototype won photo

The Prototype versus inFAMOUS war -- which was a totally serious war that everybody cared about and had huge ramifications on the game industry -- has finally concluded after a bitter and bloodsoaked struggle. The NPD results are in, and Prototype not only beat inFAMOUS, but every single game this month in the battle of the game sales.

Oh, and I'm joking about the seriousness of the "fight," just in case everybody on N4G misses the not-very-subtle sarcasm again. 

With over 419,000 copies sold in June, Prototype was that month's best selling game. inFAMOUS made it into the top ten, but occupied the tenth position with 192,000 sales. Whether or not things would be different if Sucker Punch's title wasn't a PS3 exclusive, we'll never know, but it's safe to be said that this truly reflects the cost of going exclusive with your games. 

Hit the jump for the full NPD top ten, if you love looking at long numbers next to videogame names.

  1. Prototype (Xbox 360) -  419,900
  2. UFC 2009: Undisputed (Xbox 360) - 338,300
  3. EA Sports Active (Wii)-  289,100
  4. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (Wii) - 272,400
  5. Wii Fit (Wii) - 271,600
  6. Fight Night Round 4 (Xbox 360) -  260,800
  7. Fight Night Round 4 (PS3) - 210,300
  8. Mario Kart (Wii) -  202,100
  9. Red Faction: Guerrilla (Xbox 360) -  199,400
  10. Infamous (PS3) - 192,700

And have the hardware ones, 'cos we love you:

  1. Nintendo DS : 766,500
  2. Nintendo Wii 361,700
  3. Xbox 360: 240,600
  4. PS3:  164,700
  5. PSP:  163,500
  6. PS2: 152,700

 


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D Sane's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 20:33
D Sane
how the hell is nintendo still selling that many consoles?
Zippyduda's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 20:35
Zippyduda
@D Sane, you know the Japanese, can't have too many Wii's and DS' in the house :]
Sir playedallot's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 20:35
Sir playedallot
I dont like inFamous, but i also dont like the fact that Prototype wouldnt be that popular without its gore!
Trev's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 20:36
Trev
@D & Zippy
I hear they just build the houses out of them now.
EternalDeathSlayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 20:37
EternalDeathSlayer
This is just for America, right?
Zippyduda's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 20:41
Zippyduda
Lol Trev I think you're right. They probably do make their houses out of Wii's and DS's as well as money as they have so much to spare they are literally rolling in it.

@EDS, maybe, wait for Jim's response.
brainderailment's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 20:41
brainderailment
Someone is going to come in here screaming about how infamous outsold prototype on the ps3 like that makes a difference or matters.
atastysammich's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 20:41
atastysammich
I forget, which one was the one everybody was rooting for?
Catmurderer's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 20:43
Catmurderer
Prototype (PS3) is where?


PROTOTYPE IS A 360 EXCLUSIVE. CHART PROVES IT.
brainderailment's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 20:43
brainderailment
@EDS, NPD only covers America, and doesn't account for Wal-Mart sales.
FawkAndSuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 20:44
FawkAndSuck
I knew it. Prototype owns.
gamadaya's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 20:52
gamadaya
Of course it won. How could it not now that Final Fantasy XIII is on the 360?
michaelb99's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:00
michaelb99
wow fight night almost sold teh same on both platforms does this prove that samit has influence in the world
Magesx's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:02
Magesx
I'm surprised Infamous beat out Prototype on the PS3.
falinter's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:02
falinter
meh
Greg1st's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:05
Greg1st
Hey Jim .. psst.

inFAMOUS was released on May 26th, and sold 176.000 copies in 5 days then.
Add that to the June copies to have similar data to compare, and you get a very respectable 368.700 copies sold in about the same time frame as Prototype (which was released in early June).
Obviously with 419.900 copies prototype still outsells infamous, but when you look ast the 360 installbase vs PS3 ... yeah.

infamous is not only the superior game (as per reviewers -and- Yahtzee's contest), but it did better on sales per machine average :)

Take that Protothing :)
Doos's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:06
Doos
Shouldn't the world have spun off it's axis by now?
Steel Brotha's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:07
Steel Brotha
@ Catmurderer
that was sarcasm right? cuz I owned Prototype for the PS3. I didn't find it worth keeping after beating it.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:17
-PL-
Hey Jim, I beat inFAMOUS on hard the other day. This means that I am better than you at all video games, and considering the importance of video games in normal everyday applications, I am probably better than you at life in general. Just thought you should know!
ChristRogue's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:25
ChristRogue
Thank god. Today is the day we defeated racism.
Sir playedallot's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:35
Sir playedallot
@-PL-
The fact that you have to tell everyone that youre superior proves enough... Now get youre 12yeahr old girlfriend and let the matures do the talking!
sinny's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:36
sinny
Well, Prototype sold bad in the console in wich people had a choice.
And inFamous is a far better game :)
Nitex's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:44
Nitex
http://www.n4g.com/News-362315.aspx

Bah ahahah hahahahahhaaha hahahahahhaa ahahah ha ha ha! Wait I'm not finished, Proto-wha? Hah ahahahahhahahahaha hahaha haha hahaaaaaaa!1
funran's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:51
funran
@Sir Playedallot,

First thing's first, get a fucking Avatar, or get the fuck out.
Second, PL was being very sarcastic, chiming in on this whole "Infamous vs Prototype war" and along side Jim's article. PL loves Jim.
Steel Brotha's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 21:53
Steel Brotha
@ Nitex
that's some fanboy's article. he didn't show where he got his "facts" from. Wait I only own a PS3. well now you just look stupid.
gatorsax2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 22:23
gatorsax2010
Jim, I'm continually impressed that you still can manage to trick idiots into thinking that you actually care about how Prototype and inFAMOUS did against each other, sales-wise. And then I get depressed when I realize that there are idiots who actually care about how Prototype and inFAMOUS did against each other, sales-wise.
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 22:32
Magnalon
Another inFamous/Prototype post, another chance for the trolls to come out of the woodwork.
Electro Lemon's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 22:42
Electro Lemon
@Nitex

Thank you. I've been waiting so long for "ps3center's" analysis of the stupidest argument in the gaming industry, especially since the NPD cannot be trusted.
Electro Lemon's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 22:44
Electro Lemon
Greg1st, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
bermensch's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 22:44
bermensch
So ps3 inFAMOUS beat ps3 Prototype? Doesn't that technically make inFAMOUS the winner?
Electro Lemon's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 22:46
Electro Lemon
@bermensch

Who fucking cares.
Sir playedallot's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 22:53
Sir playedallot
@funran
I would have get an avatar but ive runin out of dog pictures.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 23:04
-PL-
I really hope English isn't your first language.
HarkanDeath's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 23:14
HarkanDeath
well isnt it obvious? people like blood, gore and meningless violence........ and super powers^^
Sir playedallot's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 23:29
Sir playedallot
-PL-
Ok Mr.Superior
Nö is es och nuesch! Dafuer schnall ich aber alles was du hier laberst und du Piefke gar nix. So jetze kannste dir bei google sowie co erstemal ne platte machen was meiner einer hier ueberhaupt labert, aroganter Schnösel!
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 23:34
-PL-
I don't speak German, but I'm also not trying to speak it. My first post was a joke. It was sarcasm. No need to put some crazy hex on me with your caveman language.
viviextreme's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 23:53
viviextreme
what a shock.. a game on three platforms (PC, Xbox 360, PS3) beat a game on one platform (not to mention the platform selling the least out of the three). Who would have ever guessed (/sarcasm)

I still prefer inFamous but that's my opinion. Not shocked though with how well Prototype did
pascuz46's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 23:53
pascuz46
You guys wanna know why Prototype won? Because Jim Sterling beat down the Infamous sales with his COCK!! BIAS!!!
Sir playedallot's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2009 00:06
Sir playedallot
Normaly english talking people make this [/sarcasm] because we all know english isnt the best language for making sarcastic coments so i dont expectet your coment as beeing that sarcastic.

I thought this whole thing is going in the wrong direction kind of bashing jim! So i made my coment. So then your little friend came in to join our little dispute sreaming "get a fucking Avatar, or get the fuck out". 2 against one, very charming. He said somthing,i said somthing, you said somthing.

We here in good old Bedrock have saying its like this: "Über seinen eigenen Schatten springen". It means to forget once youre own pride to get things arranged in a good direction before things turn out more worse for everyone.

So here is my apology for missunderstanding your sarcastic coment, iam sorry!

yours sincerely
Caveman, Nazi, Kraut, Jerry, Hitler or what else you are calling us
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2009 00:08
Chronic Logic
Ha, so what does it feel like knowing an inferior game outsold a better game?

Perhaps they should release Prototype on the PS3 to make even more money.
dgonchild's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2009 00:36
dgonchild
Yea... ummm, the PS3 version of inFamous(granted it's only version) sold more than the PS3 version of Prototype, so actually inFamous "won".
Interstate78's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2009 00:40
Interstate78
@Nitex:
I hope you realize what the article you linked to said. It makes no fucking sense! How do you proclaim "winner" a game that sold less? That doesn't make sense at all!
psycho terror2's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2009 00:49
psycho terror2
i can't believe people are still taking this seriously. my favorite is the guy that thinks yahtzee chose infamous over prototype. it's like people have created a new reality for themselves over this game.
Kaden101's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2009 00:57
Kaden101
@Chronic Logic,

They did, we didn't want it.
Holiday's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2009 01:15
Holiday
Who cares. I enjoyed inFamous more and that's enough for me.
UglyDuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2009 03:21
UglyDuck
I wish I worked for a site where I got paid to piss people off. :(
Kree's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2009 04:17
Kree
I wish I lived in a world were people didnt get pissed off about one videogame selling better than another one... seriously :(
ChaosTeaCup's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2009 05:18
ChaosTeaCup
PS3 version of Prototype sold less than InFAMOUS because PS3 fanboy-Zealots boycotted Prototype because it wasn't a PS3 exclusive.
ParaParaKing's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2009 05:52
ParaParaKing
Worlwide PS3 inFAMOUS sold more than US 360 Prototype. So inFAMOUS wins.
Wrong logic is stupid.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/17/2009 06:08
Jim Sterling
ParaParaKing:

Your constant little smug attempts to look smart often fail. Again, look at this bit of the article:

"but it's safe to be said that this truly reflects the cost of going exclusive with your games."

That is the point here. Stupid.
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