Comments on: December Hardware NPDs: DS Pushes Nearly 2.5M, Everyone’s a Winner

By: The Man

The Man — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:48:51 +0000

Your fanboyishness really bugs me, thats what.

By: Norbit

Norbit — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:13:30 +0000

@ The Man

What has owning a console got to do with market analysis?

By: The Man

The Man — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:52:25 +0000

Norbit, shut up until you get a PS3.

Show me the receipt while you’re at it.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:20:24 +0000

Seeing as I’m not exclusively a 360 owner, I don’t think that rationale really applies to me. My mistrust stems from many other things I won’t go into here.

By: Norbit

Norbit — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:14:35 +0000

I never hear any 360 fans complaining about the US charts that are posted on VGChartz such as last weeks one for instance;

http://www.vgchartz.com/aweekly.php

I’m not having a go but it seems that the only people who dont trust VGChartz tend to be American 360 owners and I think the reason for this is because the worldwide charts posted on there tend to fly totally in the face of what they see every day in their home country. The fact is that the DS, Wii, PSP, PS3 & PS2 all sell at least twice as many units outside the US as they do in the States. On the other hand the 360 actually sells fewer units outside the US than Stateside and thats why there is such a huge difference.

VGChartz are usually very accurate and there prediction for December weren’t that far off at all.

December
360 VGChartz – 1,184,729
360 NPD – 1,260,000

PS3 VGChartz – 705,498
PS3 NPD – 796,600

I should point out that according to the NPD figures the PS3 was actually 15,831 sales closer to the 360 in the US last month than VGChartz predicted.

By: Poops

Poops — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:44:10 +0000

The PS3 can’t even outsell the ps2…

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:37:32 +0000

I feel like I’m just _asking_ for you to call me out as a Microsoft fanboy, but I implicitly do not trust VGChartz or their figures.

By: Norbit

Norbit — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:19:31 +0000

@ Chris

I saw them on a story about the NPD figures but they were collected from VGChartz

I double checked them to make sure they were right;

Worldwide Chart for Week Ending 08th December 2007

http://vgchartz.com/weekly.php?date=39425&console=&maker=&boxartz=1

Worldwide Chart for Week Ending 15th December 2007

http://vgchartz.com/weekly.php?date=39432&console=&maker=&boxartz=1

Worldwide Chart for Week Ending 22nd December 2007

http://vgchartz.com/weekly.php?date=39439&console=&maker=&boxartz=1

Worldwide Chart for Week Ending 29th December 2007

http://vgchartz.com/weekly.php?date=39446&console=&maker=&boxartz=1

By: Norbit

Norbit — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:16:47 +0000

I forgot to add my congratulations to Microsoft for finally managing to outsell the 8 year old PS2 over a holiday season at the third attempt.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:01:00 +0000

Can I ask where you got those numbers, Norbit?

By: Norbit

Norbit — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:23:08 +0000

I saw these worldwide figures posted earlier which of course tell the whole story.

Worldwide December

Nintendo DS – 6,638,408
Nintendo Wii – 3,569,138
Sony PSP – 2,340,850
Sony PS3 – 2,000,575
Xbox 360 – 1,945,393
Sony PS2 – 1,899,588

January so far.

Nintendo DS – 1,194,285
Nintendo Wii – 785,919
Sony PSP – 603,655
Sony PS3 – 421,129
Sony PS2 – 346,977
Xbox 360 – 339,928

By: Joelteon7

Joelteon7 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:05:51 +0000

The fanboys are gonna love the NPDs for the games themselvse. The two I saw, for December and November, between them only had one PS3 game and that was the PS3 version of Assassin’s Creed, every other game was Nintendo or 360, with a few PS2 one in for good measure (mostly GH2).