NPD: DS sells nearly double everything else; PS2 outsells Wii
Friday, April 20th, 2007 at 12:49am by StaffNPD just released the below hardware numbers for US sales (in units) during the month of March:
- DS – 508,000
- PS2 – 280,000
- Wii – 259,000 (Was expected to be 400k)
- 360 – 199,000
- PSP – 180-000
- GBA – 148,000
- PS3 – 130,000
- GCN – 22,000
Industry sales were up 33% over last year with God of War 2 as the top selling game for the month. Regarding the DS, here’s what NPD says: “Even with the roll that Nintendo has been on with both the DS and the Wii, the DS hardware sales figures are truly impressive,” said Frazier. “Heading into April with the release of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, there is no signs of it slowing down. Even though this will be the first full year of the ‘next-gen’ console cycle, the DS continues to make headlines.”
April 20th, 2007 at 3:30 am
Well, PS2 is a solid console.
April 20th, 2007 at 7:24 am
How is the PS2 outselling the Wii? The Wii still can’t be found in stores anywhere, yet somehow it’s been outsold by a 7-year old last-gen console? I honestly do not understand how this is possible.
April 20th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Wii sales were expected to be 400,000? Who expected that exactly? So you mean that some 100,000 plus Wiis went unsold, or did way less ship than expected?
April 20th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
For a console that is sold-out in all US, 259.000 is too low, isn’t?
April 20th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Yeah, those numbers are wiird…
But still, the sale numbers demonstrate the power of software over hardware: clearly the superior sales of DS and PS2 can be attributed to God of War and the upcoming Pokémon Diamond/Pearl!
Except sales of 360s to shoot up once the release of Halo 3 gets closer…
April 21st, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Everyone knew there was Wii shortages across all the United States. I don’t know why it was “expected” to be 400,000 sold. I didn’t hear anyone say they expected that from the Wii in March.
259,000 is a good number for shortages on Wii’s.