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NPD: Top 5 best-selling games in 2008 (so far) for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii

Posted Sep 23, 2008 at 8:27AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 Tags: NFL, NPD, Wii Balance Board

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The NPD Group has released a compiled report of the top five best-selling games for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and NIntendo Wii from January 1, 2008, all the way up to August.

Looking at the list gives you some general inkling of what types of games sell on these specific consoles - a useful tool for market analysts. It may even give answers (subjective answers, may be; though not definitve) to questions like what type of gamers do these consoles attract, or what type of genre they prefer on this or that specific console.

If you've been following the monthly reports from NPD, you wouldn't be surprised to see the top 5 titles listed per console. There's GTA4, MGS4, CoD4, SSBB... why, a lot of the games in the lists are acronym-friendly!

Just a couple things to bear in mind first though: these rankings do not include special editions and hardware bundles. Also note that, since this is coming from the NPD, the sales data that was tracked covers North America only, and none from other major markets like Europe or Japan.

PlayStation 3:

Grand Theft Auto 4
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Madden NFL 09
Gran Turismo 5: Prologue

Xbox 360:

Grand Theft Auto 4
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Madden NFL 09
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Army of Two

Nintendo Wii:

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Mario Kart (with Wheel)
Wii Play (with Wii Remote)
Wii Fit (with Wii Balance Board)
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (with Guitar)

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as a 360 owner i kind of agree, the 360 exclusives have died down a lot, IMO the exclusives it has had are not that great; I wasn't too impressed with Halo 3, gears of war was a good game but it seriously lacks replayibility and the game is really short and it seems to take forever for multiplayer games to start.

I've always been a PS fan but i brought an xbox 360 cause some of my mates had them and cause they were cheaper.

The only good thing i can say about 360 (as far as games go)is that it has a better line up of RPG games than PS3 which is incredibly weird.

it's not gona help the ps3 that the 360 also gets resident evil 5 and silent hill 5 though

there's not enough ps3 exclusives yet for me to buy a ps3 yet

# hmm — hush404 2008-09-23 15:46

Odd. Army of two in 360s top 5. I hated the game, twas arse.

Except for Madden, I have the PS3 list

# even worse for the 360 — GW2 2008-09-24 02:11

army of 2 made the list... that's just sad.

# lol — afiset 2008-09-24 03:30

lol so true...

# Get a life fanbots. — yworob 2008-09-24 06:31

Why do you losers care so much about which console is better. All you guys do is talk s*** to each other and you end up sounding like huge dorks. Now if you owned lots of Sony or Microsoft stock I could understand but if you dont than get a life.

# WTF!?!?!?!?! — ISOHaven 2008-09-24 06:59

I didn't read anything that has anything to do with fanboyism. Ninja togo's comment was nothing but FACT.

"PS3 and Wii FTW" was his only opinion.

Get over yourself yworob!

# Those idiotic — Nevers 2008-09-24 07:35

Xbots are proly busy playing their games... what a bunch of idiots, huh? That's a novel concept too... I mean, I totally buy these consoles to troll forums. Who doesn't?

/sarcasm

I, for one, would rather these lists be combined to see just how much the Wii stompt its superiors.

(btw, I'm a former Wii owner. Very happy I sold that thing... $300 FTW!!)

# Tsk Tsk.. — eddynightmare 2008-09-24 12:13

Ok Pepole Get This Straight PS3 Dosent Suck It on a Slow Pace Then The Xbox 360....Thats Why The Xbox 360 is gonna suck (what happens after all the updates are finished and there games end) At School my friends said the In-Game XMB Will Suck (True) and Xbox All Ready Have That Soo There Gonna Run Out of Ideas ...... Only Charaters On Super Smash Bros. (Mario, Samus, Kirby etc...) There Games Are The Only Good Ones and Wiisport etc. so Wii Will Fall Too and PS3 Takes Its Time On Working It And Just Imagine the PS4 Woah! The Graphics Will Be 5X Better and Longer Then the PS3 sooo Back Off!

# I didn't hate it — Nevers 2008-09-25 07:44

but I thought it was way to complicated/tactical for me to have any fun...

# definitely — pizzadad 2008-10-01 16:26

seems like the 360 is the system for rpgs right now and the ps3 for fps, i hope they get swapped back soon

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