NPD Hardware and Software Sales for September 2011
The NPD Group has released its monthly U.S. sales figures for hardware and software across all platforms for the month of September. Overall, hardware sales fell 9 percent year-over-year to $349 million, with software sales dipping 1 percent to $653.2 million. Dead Island and Gears of War 3 earned high spots on the sales charts, with Madden NFL 11 taking top honors as highest selling game of the month.
Here are the September sales stats in full:
Top ten software sales:
- 1. Madden NFL 12 (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP)
2. Gears of War 3 (360)
3. Dead Island (360, PS3, PC)
4. FIFA Soccer 12 (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP, 3DS)
5. NHL 12 (360, PS3)
6. Deus Ex: Human Revolution (360, PS3, PC)
7. Resistance 3 (PS3)
8. Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Wii, 360, NDS, PS3, 3DS, PSP, PC)
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, NDS, Wii, PC)
10. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (360, PS3, PC)
Hardware sales:
- Xbox 360: 438K
- PlayStation 3: 364K-374K*
- Nintendo 3DS: 260K
- Wii: 240K
- Nintendo DS: 145K
*Sony hasn’t released their official sales data, the PS3 stats are based on an approximation from hardware percentage totals provided by Nintendo and Microsoft.
Patrick Seybold, Sr. Director of Corporate Communications at SCEA, issued the following statement in response to the NPD sales data:
NPD’s September report saw double-digit growth for both PS3 software (52%) and hardware (20%), as increasing brand awareness continues to fuel interest with consumers. First-party software sales remained strong this month, with boosts from blockbuster titles like Resistance 3. The lower PS3 console price point and the upcoming release of exciting titles – Uncharted 3, Everybody Dance and Ratchet and Clank – will continue PlayStation’s momentum into the holiday season.
On a related note, all the platforms managed to outperform Michael Pachter’s NPD predictions, with the PS3 selling between 100-110k more than he expected.
7 Responses to “NPD Hardware and Software Sales for September 2011”
Re: “all the platforms managed to outperform Michael Pachter’s NPD predictions”
The real news would be if Pachter were correct. His being incorrect is called “every day life.”
XD
Pachter has previously stated that the only people that care about his predictions are fanboys anyways. So, I suppose that he gets paid to cater to those people.
I don’t want to be picky here, but I’m pretty sure these numbers are US only. Japan is Sony dominated with 3DS finally getting good numbers, and Europe is bigger on PS3 than 360. These numbers are also based up until a certain point, particularly most of the year before the PS3′s price was cut.
Yeah they are ‘US’ ‘only’ numbers. But the internet thinks(mainly Xbox 360 owners)that the US is the whole world
(if US numbers are those)
+ Last month in Japan the PS3 sold over 140K & the Xbox 360 did about 9K so if you add US + Japan sales it would equal -
PS3 364K(US) 140K(Japan) = 504K
Xbox 360 438K(US) + 9K(Japan) = 447K
it shows how slow of a month it is when black ops is still in the top 10
Wait, let me get this strait. Sony didn’t release their sales numbers so the NPD group used an average they obtained using 360 and wii numbers. How in the holy green earth did they manage to come up with that idea? How the heck does the industry and Sony let things like this slide? How about next time the NPD instead multiply the wii numbers by how much more powerful the ps3 is over the psp then. Better yet, I’ll bend over and spread ‘em. They can reach up in and pull out a number then post that one.
I guess at this point alls you can really do is tip your cap to what Microsoft continues to do with the 360 this generation especially in the U.S. of A. I actually thought the PS3 pricecut would propel it just over the 360 for just this month.
On more of a downer note, those Resistance 3 numbers are pretty poor. Did Resistance 2 really turn that many people off to the series? Hopefully they will find some better success with R & C and then their multiplatform title.