The September NPD numbers were released today, and many thanks to sonycowboy at NeoGAF and the NPD for reporting and the actual numbers.
The September NPD tracking period is a five-week period: September 2 - October 6. With the software sales, I will also put the release date of each title, so you have a frame of reference.
Without further ado:
Hardware Sales:
PlayStation 2 215K
PlayStation 3 119.4K
PlayStation Portable 284.5K
Xbox 360 527.8K
Wii 501K
Nintendo DS 495.8K
Game Boy Advance 75K
Software Sales (Top 10 SKUs):
01. 360 HALO 3* MICROSOFT (CORP) 3.3 million - Release: 09/25/07
02. WII WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA 282K - Release: 02/12/07
03. NDS LEGEND OF ZELDA: PHANTOM HOURGLASS NINTENDO OF AMERICA 224K - Release: 10/01/07
04. PS2 MADDEN NFL 08 ELECTRONIC ARTS 205K - Release: 08/14/07
05. 360 SKATE ELECTRONIC ARTS 175K - Release: 09/14/07
06. 360 MADDEN NFL 08 ELECTRONIC ARTS 173K - Release: 08/14/07
07. WII METROID PRIME 3: CORRUPTION NINTENDO OF AMERICA 167K - Release: 08/27/07
08. 360 BIOSHOCK TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE (CORP) 150K - Release: 08/21/07
09. NDS BRAIN AGE 2: MORE TRAINING IN MINUTES A NINTENDO OF AMERICA 141K - Release: 08/20/07
10. PS3 HEAVENLY SWORD SONY (CORP) 139K - Release: 09/12/07
First off, hats off to Bungie and Microsoft for 3.3 million copies sold for Halo 3 (360). It beats any game by an overly large margin. Wii Play (Wii) clocks in at 282k sold, in second. 224k for The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS) is a pretty good number, considering it is first week sales.
For the hardware numbers, it is quite shocking that even with the 3.3 mil Halo 3, the 360 only manages to sell 27k more units than the Wii this month: 360's 527.8k versus Wii's 501k. The PS3 still stands low at only 119.4k. If this were a normal four-week tracking period, the PS3 would still be hovering around that 100k threshold, at that rate.
DS is less than 2:1 on the PSP in sales, but it's close. The GBA is at a valiant 75k sold.
For comparison, this is the
August NPD
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Those are some high sales for Halo 3, though. 3.3 million is incredible for the first month for any game, but seeing as it is Halo, I'm not surprised.
Then again, Halo 3 was only a part of this tracking period for 12 days. We'll see more definitive stuff next month.
By the way, the line "Maybe the Halo 3 hype attracted people into buying a new system" was a bit vague, I was referring to other systems besides the 360. Obviously it would sell 360s, but it seems that console sales increased for all of them.
*crack*
PlayStation 3 119.4K"
Someone's going to have to explain why people are still buying so many PS2s after all these years. Are you blowing your nose with them? Can you eat them? Power a car with them? Do they sell them for $2 and include a free sandwich?