April NPD: Not A Good Month

For some reason, the NPD Group are not publicly report sales of PS2. The conspiracy theorists among you may suspect, Sony stop, they ask, so that the American PS2 sales of pull not unwelcome comparison to the PSP. Or you may simply be that the PS2 getting longer in the tooth and less relevant for today's games market, even though I think Sony will still make a profit.
You could choose to leave one month from the PS2 sales, even though, as the figures all the gain that could with every recording console sharp decline in sales compared to the previous month to be achieved.
Leading the slide was the Wii has seen a decline of 50%. This was supported by the PSP (-45.37%) followed, 360 (-45.33%) and PS3 (-42%). The DS family had fallen below the smallest decline in sales, which is not much to be proud, because only by 37%. According to the figures of March are discounted PS2 hardware total sold units decreased by 43%.
Although we are not the numbers that we can perhaps take a guess PS2 units sold. In the notes to the said NPD analyst Anita Frazier data that "Compared to March '10 on a system, the average sales per week basis all platforms between 37 percent and decreased by 63 percent." Well, as I understand it (and I confess that I could be wrong so late on a Friday) when comparing the average sales per week for a month against a different month of the report, be the same when the monthly totals to . Compare
Assuming that the case with the Wii are publicly accessible register of the largest decrease of 50%, which was decreased by 63% compared to March? Probably has to be the PS2. A 63% to 118 300 sold in March that its sales in April brought to 43 771 units would decrease in comparison. pure speculation, based on possibly imperfect understanding on my part, but not inconceivable.
Sony can comfort from the fact that the PS3 take the 360 drawn in America for less than 5000 sales were the lowest this year and that the comparison of sales of the PS3 in April against the April last year that sales of the PS3 increased by 42%. Microsoft also offers a modest compared to the previous year by almost 6% for the 360th all other consoles saw decreases from year to year with the Wii at 18%, 44% down the PSP and the DS from 58%.
More bad news came from the report show for the PS2 with NPD estimates that will soon lose its crown of best-selling hardware platform Evah. His successor, the DS family, the crown of the death grip of the PS2 in October or November of this year will break.
The sale of graphics hardware
1st
DS
440 800
2nd
Wii
277 200
3rd
360
185 000
4th
PS3
180 800
5th
PSP
65 500
Perhaps the lack of sales for the PS2 is only an indication of laziness of NPD, as unit sales are no longer providing the numbers for software titles outside the top five either. Fortunately, the platform holder to have entered some of the rooms fill up for us.
Unlike last month, when the PS3 was the winner with four software titles in the Top Ten and Kratos from all challenging for first place is that the Wii the crown and the 360 platform, the number one says, takes time. Three of the four titles in the top ten Wii games that are not easy to stop selling all over the world, let alone in America, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit Plus
This is Sam Fisher, the one bit in the first place 'margin with Splinter Cell: Conviction sold more than twice as many copies as its nearest rival, Pokemon Silver has broken soul. The only other version of the new chart is Super Street Fighter IV for PS3. Microsoft noted that the 360 version of the title which has sold 108,000.
There are a few relatively large versions in April that it failed to Top Ten, the PS3 version of GTA Liberty City episodes, and 2010 World Cup. Selling a "football title" not too well in the U.S., is quite easy to believe, but what about all those fans who own PS3 GTA? nearly all to abandon the ship for the 360 so they could play for the first time?
Thank Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter preferred TSA, we have an idea of how these two titles made. In a note after the data NPD Group, says that published episodes from Liberty City "has something more than our estimate of 100,000 units (packaged good sales not only sold including digital downloads). If we hold only that such data Download to find out where you really get post. It seems that football is more popular as farmer and his friends thought of as "FIFA World Cup 2010 has sold nearly twice as our estimate of 50,000.
The software sales chart
1st
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (360)
486 100
2nd
Soul Pokemon Silver (DS)
242 900
3rd
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
200 300
4th
Pokemon Gold Heart (DS)
192 600
5th
God of War III (PS3)
180 300
6th
Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
* 179 000
7th
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (360)
* 166 000
8th
Plus Wii Fit w / Balance Board (Wii)
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9th
Just Dance (Wii)
* 144 000
10th
Super Street Fighter IV (PS3)
* 143 000
* Image of the platform holder provided.
And here is the usual graph ...