Sales and Stats

Last month Nintendo decided they would start updating  top-selling games by combining  digital sales numbers with physical NPD numbers. Recently Nintendo has updated this list to show more recent sales.

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Nintendo has released sales results for the first quarter of the year, April-June. Looking at the numbers there are some high and low notes. Come join me as we make …
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Currently unconfirmed numbers saw the Wii U sales jump around 170% over the past week, which would put it over a million in sales in Japan. This could be largely …
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The Nintendo 3DS was the top video game platform in the month of May and it continued its reign at the top for the second consecutive month thanks in large …
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Top selling software

1. Injustice: Gods Among Us (360, PS3, NWU)** 2. Call of Duty: Black Ops II (360, PS3, PC, NWU)** 3. Donkey Kong Country Returns (3DS, WII) 4. …
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This morning Nintendo held an analyst briefing at LA convention center. There are some interesting comments from Iwata in this presentation. It is worth a read.

Check it out HERE.

• Software sales down 27% to $267.8 million
• Hardware sales down 42 percent to $109.5 million
• Industry was down a total of 25% to $495.2 million.

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This is interesting but really not so surprising when one thinks about how big of a franchise Pokemon has developed into.  Looking at Diamond and Pearl selling 20,000 units in a …
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Video game retailers Gamestop and Amazon have begun listing Splinter Cell Blacklist preorders for the Wii U as well as the Xbox, PS3 and PC.  The product description highlights the various …
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•  year-on-year down 10 percent to $992.5 million 
• hardware sales down 32 percent to $221.6 million
• Total software sales for the industry up 2 percent to $602.4 million

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• Wii U saw a 40% gain from January. About 80,000 units.
• The game industry on a whole saw a 25% drop in sales.
• Software sales dropped 27 …
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Building off its 92 Metacritic score, Fire Emblem Awakening for Nintendo 3DS had the best first month sales in franchise history, selling more than 180,000 units (more than 117,000 at …
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• Industry sales climbed nine percent to $834.7 million
• Hardware sales increased 4 percent to $205 million
• Software sales were weak at almost $393 million
• Accessories were up …
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These number are as of 9/30/12

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YTD DS – 648,641 360 – 1,720,000 PS3 – 1,379,200 Wii – 812,800 3DS – 1,051,741 Vita – 638,400

LTD DS – 51,786,649 360 – 34,384,373 PS3 – 21,357,121 Wii …
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$220 million net loss

– “As of July 25, 2012, [Nintendo is] no longer selling Nintendo 3DS hardware below manufacturing costs.”Life time sales

–Nintendo DS:  152.05 million units of hardware, …
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Pokemon Black/White 2 sold an astonishing 1,618,621 in the first two days of release. This makes it the 3rd best-selling Pokemon on the DS platform. Black/White 2 is also the first …
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10: Modern Warfare: $700 million 9: The Sims: $740 million 8: Modern Warfare 2: $780 million 7: Gran Turismo 3: $850 million 7: Grand Theft Auto 3: $850 million 6: …
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