NPD releases official December 2006 figures |
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Some people jumped the gun a few weeks ago when they reported that NPD already released their official North America sales numbers. After a few clarifications, it turns out that the said report was falsely attributed to the group. This tidbit is now the official December 2006 sales from NPD.It turned out that the Xbox 360 sold 1.1 million units, the Wii has 604,200 units sold, and the PS3 is blessed with 490,700 sold units. But the real victor in the console arena is the aging PlayStation 2, which sold a whopping 1.4 million units last December, bringing its total sales to 37.1 million.
Another winner in the sales department is the handheld market. The Nintendo DS has the biggest sales figures with 1.6 million sold units, the PSP didn't do too bad with 953,200 units sold. Surprisingly, the Game Boy Advance is still posting good numbers as it sold 850,700 units last month.
Ah yes, the software sales. According to NPD's figures, the top-selling game for December 2006 is Gears of War (817,700 units). Guitar Hero 2 for the PS2 came in second (805,200 units), and coming in on third place is Madden NFL 07(727,100 units). The GameCube version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess posted a slightly higher sales figure (532,900) than its Wii version which sold 519,200 units.
Moving on to the accessories, the Xbox 360 wireless controller topped sales with 832,800 units, followed by the Wiimote with 646,700 sold units. The nunchuck attachment for the Wii came in third with 497,100 units, and the SIXAXIS sold 336,000 pieces.
Overall sales were up by 28% to $3.7 billion. Game sales just posted a 5% increase to $1.7 billion, while hardware sales moved forward with a 59% increase to $1.6 billion.
Via Gamasutra
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Even with all the negative-PS3 press and BS from all the drones/bots, Wii launching with a million, and PS3 only getting 500,000 in 2006, PS3 only sold about 100,000 less than Wii? What happened to all those idiots claiming stores had 100's?
yaaay, go xbox!!
MS gets top spot for the next-gen!
Sony gets top spot for the home console!
Nintendo gets top spot for overall sales!
Glad that the psp could find competition somewhere seeing they finally beat someone in sales. That being the GBA by 100k.
Lets see what happens next month
I really don't think that the PS2 outselling the PS3 and the PSP combined + a bit more is very good news as far as Sony go in that list.
"The top-selling game for December 2006 is Gears of War (817,700 units). Guitar Hero 2 for the PS2 came in second (805,200 units)"
That is a big amount of sales in a month and interestingly Guitar Hero 2 Xbox 360 is out Beginning of March and it looks amazing so this could be a bigger seller (quicker)than Gears if that is possible.
Think it works out they sold just slightly more combined actually
PS3 isn't doing nearly as bad as everyone says. It kept up with the Wii in Dec. January will be better for the Wii of course because its available in the UK. In March, the numbers will be closer. War PS2! Its still owning them all. Sony will win again with the PS3.
yaaay, go ps2!
You know NPD numbers are quite wrong right?
The three largest retailers do not supply numbers to them: Toys R Us, Target, and Walmart. Those are Nintendo's strong holds way outgunning the gamestop chain and things, not that Sony and MS don't clean up there too.
I really wish people would report that fact when NPD comes up as they're usually fairly well way off.
The numbers Nintendo and Sony are claiming are Over 1M and then 750K. I'm more inclined to believe that considering how many they put to market and how damn hard they were to get with runs on stores everywhere for them.
NPD suck it.
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