The good news this month is that yet again, the DS Lite occupies the top spot on an NPD list. The bad news: that's only true if you organize the list by the percentage in which sales dropped since December. Keep in mind that Christmas is over -- a phenomenal success of a Christmas, at that -- and we're back to normal sales levels. In fact, we're not even back to normal sales levels yet, thanks to hardware shortages. Still, there's no way we can make a 90% drop look good. Speaking of not good (for us), the software sales are after the break. The DS brings up the rear in software sales as well, with the top 10 showing attributable entirely to Mario's leisure time.
- Wii: 274K
1.08m (80%) - PS3: 269K 528K (66%)
- PS2: 264K 836K (76%)
- DS Lite: 251K 2.22m (90%)
- PSP: 230K 830K (78%)
- Xbox 360: 230K 1.03m (82%)
January Software
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) -- 330.9K
- Wii Play w/ Remote (Wii) -- 298.1K
- Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) -- 239.6K
- Rock Band special edition bundle (Xbox 360) -- 183.8K
- Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360) -- 182.7K
- Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) -- 172K
- Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360) -- 144.1K
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3) -- 140K
- Mario Party (DS) -- 138.5K
- Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS) -- 133K
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-15-2008 @ 12:34PM
Fululian said...
I still can't get around the fact that NPD should not mean "Nationale Partei Deutschlands"...
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2-15-2008 @ 12:53PM
foosnark said...
DS's were *extremely* hard to find in January. I bought a pink one because that was the last one left in the St. Louis area that I could find, after checking about 10 stores.
But I ordered a cobalt one from bestbuy.com a few minutes after midnight on Feb. 10 :)
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2-15-2008 @ 2:48PM
manaman said...
Whoa! That's pretty crazy! Poor DS! Poor, poor, DS.
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2-16-2008 @ 11:26PM
asherdude said...
I looked all over the place in January for a DS Lite. Never could find one. But that ended up working in my favor, because I managed to get a Cobalt DS just last week! Thank God for shortages!
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