July console sales numbers......

[Big Fo]

fwiw here are this month's top 10 in software-

# NCAA Football 08—360—EA—397K
# Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80s—PS2—Activision—339K
# Wii Play w/remote—Wii—Nintendo—278K
# NCAA Football 08—PS2—EA—236K
# Mario Party 8—Wii—Nintendo—177K
# NCAA Football 08—PS3—EA—156K
# Pokemon Diamond—DS—Nintendo—144K
# Transformers: The Game—PS2—Activision—143K
# Guitar Hero II w/guitar—PS2—Activision—138K
# Guitar Hero II w/guitar—360—Activision—108K

Impressive next gen sales for NCAA vs. PS2 considering the size of the user bases. I think that is the first third-party PS3 game to crack the top ten.

Can Rock Band topple the Guitar Hero brand name this fall/winter?

It just missed the list but Mario Strikers Charged sold about 100,000 copies it's first week, it came out July 31 IIRC. Same with RE4: Wii edition with had about 90,000. Hopefully Konami is paying attention to these numbers for a two year old port and gives Wii owners some kind of RE5 spin-off game that controls like RE4: Wii.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Big Fo

It might have been worth the 4.x million sales they have up to now if they could have launched from a better position.

Wouldn't have been the first time a market leader launched two years behind its primary competition, either.

Sega Genesis - 1989
Super Nintendo - 1991

SNES wound up with 55% of the market share in that generation, so while the Genesis ate a healthy chunk of the market, Nintendo still came out on top.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Big Fo

Same with RE4: Wii edition with had about 90,000. Hopefully Konami is paying attention to these numbers for a two year old port and gives Wii owners some kind of RE5 spin-off game that controls like RE4: Wii.

I believe there is a new RE game coming out on Wii soon.

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Isn't it traditional to start a new thread for this kind of thing?

What should he do? Start a thread called "August console sales numbers" even though the numbers are for July? That would just be silly!

[twothree]

Originally Posted by sabotai

What should he do? Start a thread called "August console sales numbers" even though the numbers are for July? That would just be silly!

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Wouldn't have been the first time a market leader launched two years behind its primary competition, either.

Sega Genesis - 1989
Super Nintendo - 1991

SNES wound up with 55% of the market share in that generation, so while the Genesis ate a healthy chunk of the market, Nintendo still came out on top.

That's probably a very good analogy to the current war going on. In '89, NES was still king and still releasing very good games, so a lot of people didn't feel the need to buy a new console when they still had an NES to play and still get new games on. (In fact, I think '89 was the year my parents bought me and my brother an NES.)

It'd probably be hard to find, but I wonder what the NES sales numbers were for 89-92.