Before jumping to any conclusions, nearly all consoles sold significantly less than they did during the month of March. That having been said, the PSP sold 193,000 units as opposed to 297,000 units the previous month, down about 35%.Depsite all of this, the PSP was still the best non-Nintendo product, outselling the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Playstation 2 once again. It’s interesting to note that the Xbox 360 and PS3 were neck and neck with each other in terms of sales.
In other news, Grand Theft Auto 4 was a huge software seller, pushing 1.85 copies on the Xbox 360, while the Playstation 3 only sold about half of that with 1 million copes. Sandwitched in bewteen was Mario Kart Wii, which sold 1.12 copies.
Here are your numbers for the month of April:
US VIDEO GAMES INDUSTRY - APRIL 2008
Software: $654.7m (+68%)
Hardware: $426.2m (+26%)
Accessories: $154m (+39%)
Total Games: $1.23b (+47%)
TOP-SELLING HARDWARE - APRIL 2008
Wii--714,000
Nintendo DS--415,000
PlayStation Portable--193,000
Xbox 360--188,000
PlayStation 3--187,000
PlayStation 2--124,000
TOP-SELLING SOFTWARE - APRIL 2008
Title / Publisher / Release Date / Units*
1) Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360) / Take-Two / April 2008 / 1.85M
2) Mario Kart Wii (Wii) / Nintendo / April 2008 / 1.12M
3) Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) / Take-Two / April 2008 / 1M
4) Wii Play w/ Remote (Wii) / Nintendo / Feb. 2007 / 360K
5) Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) / Nintendo / March 2008 / 326K
6) Gran Turismo 5: Prologue (PS3) / Sony / April 2008 / 224K
7) Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness (DS) / Nintendo / April 2007 / 202K
8) Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time (DS) / Nintendo / April 2007 / 202K
9) Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) / Activision / Oct. 2007 / 152K
10) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (360) / Activision / Nov. 2007 / 141K
* Figures include Collector’s, Limited, Legendary, Bundles (Guitars) Editions
05-16-2008
