November is often the best of times and worst of times for gamers. Good in the sense that we are given precious fuel in the form of several top-notch games, bad in the way that we can't pay our utility bills for the month as all funds had been diverted towards gaming. It's really a vicious cycle as upon buying all these games, we have to wait until we can pay our electric bill to play them or, which often is the case this time of year, we just go over to a friend's house and perform a hostile takeover on their gaming rig.With the release of two new consoles this November, along with countless high-profile, AAA titles, it's no surprise that we spent a total of $1.7 billion. In the interest of creating a post that is both smooth and less-filling, we've gathered the top sellers and placed them into convenient bullet points:
Console Sales (units)
- DS: 918k
- PS2: 664k
- Game Boy Advance: 661k
- Xbox 360: 511k
- Wii: 476k
- PSP: 412k
- PS3: 197k
- Gears of War: 1 million -- $61.5 million
- Final Fantasy XII: 896k -- $49 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: 412k -- $20.2 million
- Guitar Hero II: 356k -- $20.2 million
[Via Joystiq]
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12-08-2006 @ 2:33PM
Geoff said...
DS Lite still selling like Gangbusters!! Future looking grim for ye olde PSP.
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12-08-2006 @ 5:47PM
Duscrom said...
I know... ONLY 412 thousand people bought one.. that's less people then in my house right now.. I mean, Jeez, Nobody is buying a PSP.
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12-09-2006 @ 10:38AM
Fox said...
Well Duscrom, considering that the PSP sold worse than almost every other console including the GBA which has been out since 2001 in the best selling month of the year, and only beat a new console severely plagued by short supply, perhaps the PSP is in some trouble, or at least a bit of a slump. 417K by itself is a lot of people, but when compared with the rest of the chart, it simply doesn't match up. Add that to the fact that UMD sales have bottomed along with software sales, things aren't necessarily looking brilliant for Sony and its PSP.
Anyhow, it really is quite amazing that the DS nearly hit one million units in one month in North America. Will be interesting to see the December fireworks, and perhaps Christmas money spending in January.
With all due respect,
Fox
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