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August NPD Results – Madden Selling worse than Expected

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6 Months. That’s how long the videogame industry has been really feeling the pinch of the global recession as far as sales are concerned. Particularly upset by the downturn is EA’s John Riccitiello, who said it is "discouraging that one of our highest-rated and best-marketed ‘Madden’ titles in years is facing strong headwinds."

Despite EA’s obvious disappointment, Madden NFL 10 was still the month’s biggest selling title, shifting a combined total of 1,593,000 units across both awesome current-gen platforms. Other top sellers were Wii Sports Resort (754,000) and Batman Arkham Asylum, which almost attained platform sales parity, with the 360 version selling just 13 thousand copies more than its PS3 counterpart’s impressive 290,000 copies. The Joker challenge rooms were probably quite a drawcard, considering each console’s respective installed userbase .

On the hardware side – disregarding handhelds – the Wii is still out in front – but it’s interesting to note that Xbox and PS3 monthly sales are creeping ever closer to to the Wii’s, which used to outsell both combined. Both HD consoles received mid-month price cuts – but you wouldn’t really know it looking at the sales data.

Next month’s NPD data will be more telling, as it’ll include PS3 slim sales as well – which as we all know has increased PS3 sales by roughly 1.21 jiggapercents!

Hit the jump for the August NPD figures.

August 2009 Hardware Sales
  • Nintendo DS — 552,900
  • Wii — 227,400
  • Xbox 360 — 215,400
  • PlayStation 3 — 210,000
  • PlayStation Portable — 140,300
  • PlayStation 2 — 105,900
August 2009 Software Sales
  1. Madden NFL 10 (360) — 928,000
  2. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) — 754,000
  3. Madden NFL 10 (PS3) — 665,000
  4. Batman: Arkham Asylum (360) — 303,000
  5. Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3) — 290,000
  6. Madden NFL 10 (PS2) — 160,000
  7. Dissidia: Final Fantasy (PSP) — 130,000
  8. Wii Fit (Wii) — 128,000
  9. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) — 120,000
  10. Fossil Fighters (DS) — 92,000

 

Source : Examiner

Last Updated: September 11, 2009

4 Comments

  1. SlippyMadFrog

    September 11, 2009 at 16:33

    PS3 only 210,000? I expected more.

    you can make that 210,001 if BT Games finaly get it in stock. (and if we lived in USA 😉 )

    Reply

  2. RSA-Ace

    September 11, 2009 at 17:36

    why would you expect more

    most people would be holding out for the slim

    Reply

  3. LazySAGamer

    September 12, 2009 at 03:42

    The PS3 Slim wasn’t even available at all retailers in American before the end of August so I don’t think these figures are bad at all.

    Next month will show us how well the PS3 slim did and I expect the PS3 to be the top selling console in September, even outselling the Wii…

    Reply

  4. WitWolfyZA

    September 14, 2009 at 07:15

    here here to that

    Reply

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