June NPD: Snake Wins

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

Ok, I'm convinced the Wii crowd are a bunch of gullible people even though it was already confirmed so. Rock Band Wii...while Rock Band is great and all, it's the gimped PS2 version. I'm spoiled by RB on the 360 but I guess people are willing to buy that version.

It's not really gullible.
At this point, more people own Wiis than 360s and Ps3s and I guess they wanted the game.
Same reason Guitar Hero 3 sold best on Wii.
Also unlike the other two, Wii is seen as a social console.

Some more random numbers as stolen from NeoGAF.

YTD numbers
Wii - 3,482,000
DS - 3,187,000
PS3 - 1,608,000
PSP - 1,482,000
360 - 1,354,000

MGS4 versus series performance
MGS1 2.43 mln
MGS2 2.0 mln
MGS3 1.1 mln

Other:
Wii Play passes 6 million sold in US.

Top First Month Sales in US, this gen:
1. Halo 3 - 3.3 million
2. SSBB - 2.7 million
3. GTA 4 360 - 1.85 million
4. CoD 4 360 - 1.57 million
5. Galaxy - 1.12 million
6. MK Wii - 1.12 million
7. Gears - 1.0 million
8. GTA IV PS3 - 1.0 million
9. Assassin's Creed 360 - 0.98 million
10. Madden NFL 08 360 - 0.89 million
11. MGS4 - 0.77 million
12. R6 Vegas 2 360 - 0.75 million
13. Wii Fit - 0.68 million
14. Army of Two 360 - 0.60 million
15. Madden NFL 07 360 - 0.57 million

And Hardware LTD
Hardware LTD:
PS2: ~42.4 million
NDS: ~20.8 million
PSP: ~12.0 million
Wii: ~10.9 million
360: ~10.5 million
PS3: ~4.9 million