NPD Dec Numbers - Page 2

BreakABone · 01-20-2008, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by gekko

Can't wait for Sega Superstar Tennis to make that list. PREORDER NOW YOU BASTARDS! Support Sega, buy all games featuring Amigo, AiAi, and NiGHTS.

Random: Seattle Symphony is playing Sonic music on the radio... scary...

You think Sega Superstar Tennis will do best on Xbox 360?
As well as 360 software does, you can pretty much boil down the games that sell on that console. And Sega Superstar seems something that will sell better on the Wii.

gekko · 01-20-2008, 05:21 PM

I'd easily get it for 360. For the exact same price I get to see Amigo in HD, listen to Amigo shake his maracas in true 5.1 surround sound, play online without Excedrin, and enter into achievement whore mode. How can you beat that? Besides, while Nintendo did half decent with Wii Sports, did you play Table Tennis? Controls just didn't work well.

I just hope it sells. Sega needs it, and Virtua Tennis 3 was great, but just didn't hook me like the original. Add in cute characters and take out some of the seriousness and training, and the game should be amazing.

But really, I think people want online play, and 360 owners want achievement points. I could see it going both ways.

But we'll have to wait for Amigo and friends. A week before then comes Condemned 2! 3/12! Can't wait. Go play your Brawl, I want Condemned 2.

BreakABone · 01-22-2008, 01:27 PM

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Let's kick it off like this. Matt Cassamassina over at IGN has access to the full set of NPD data, not just the top tens, and he said something very interesting on their last podcast: Wii software actually outsold Xbox 360 software this month. I've contacted NPD for confirmation, but so far all they've told me is that on the list of Top 100 software titles for December, 20 Wii games charted, versus 18 Xbox 360 games.

Even more importantly, only 5 of those 20 games were from Nintendo.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/01/...alysis-ga.html

manasecret · 01-22-2008, 02:57 PM

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Adding credence to this claim is the fact that Microsoft didn't say, in their aforementioned press release detailing Xbox 360's performance, that it sold more software. This is what it said: "NPD data released today confirms consumers spent more dollars on Xbox 360 in 2007, with more than $13.7 billion in total consumer spending."

That sounds really awesome, until you break down what they're actually saying: "Our stuff is really expensive."

Exactly what I thought when I read that. They got some master spin doctors at Microsoft.