Wii regains US sales lead

Wii News | While Guitar Hero dominates software sales for October

Last month the Xbox 360, with a little help from a certain space marine, managed to just outsell Nintendo's sales juggernaut Wii by 26,000 units. While Halo remained the number one game in October, the month was dominated by Activisions's Guitar Hero III. The music game took four of the top ten positions for the month including both PS2 versions (with and without the guitar peripheral), although the PS3 version's sales fell outside the top ten.

In terms of hardware sales, the Wii managed to re-take the hardware lead handily at 519,000 units sold, bringing its US sales total to 5,038,685. Xbox 360 was the next next-gen console, selling 366,000 to bring it past the seven million mark total (7,092,151). The PlayStation 3 continued to struggle, and sold 121,000 to bring it's US total to 1,980,649.

October was a four week reporting period compared to five weeks for September, and as a result, sales dropped for the month in absolute terms to US$643.3 million from September's $778.7 million. However, 2007 sales continues to go from strength to strength in the US, with year to date industry sales up 73% compared to the same period in 2006.

Here are the full results:

Hardware
Wii - 519,000
Nintendo DS - 458,000
Xbox 360 - 366,000
PSP - 286,000
PlayStation 2 - 184,000
PlayStation 3 - 121,000

Software
1) 360 HALO 3 - 433.8K
2) 360 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK W/ GUITAR - 383.2K
3) WII GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK W/ GUITAR - 286.3K
4) PS2 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK W/ GUITAR - 271.1K
5) NDS LEGEND OF ZELDA: PHANTOM HOURGLASS - 262.8K
6) WII PLAY W/ REMOTE - 239.7K
7) 360 THE ORANGE BOX 238.4K
8) PS2 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK - 231.7K
9) PS2 FIFA SOCCER 08 ELECTRONIC ARTS OCT 2007 EVERYONE (E) 9 129.7K
10) NDS BRAIN AGE 2: MORE TRAINING IN MINUTES A DAY - 116.9K

Source: NeoGAF

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18 Comments

thebigm

4 years ago

Absolutely incredible sales for the Wii, can't wait to see how it does with Galaxy out.

Itachi

4 years ago

This may sound stupid, apart form the huge success of the Wii i think the 360 is doing an amazing job for so many broken consoles. I love this Gen in gaming

Maikii

4 years ago

I guess PS3 outselling Wii in Japan for the first time (Oct sales)isn't that newsworthy ...

EDIT: meant last week sales, not oct.

magrat

4 years ago

wow, first time I've seen a software list that actually lists units sold - the Gfk ones we see for the australian sales don't show the units. Amazing the difference between the 1st and 10th - I'd be really interested to see how dramatically it falls away from there. Activision would have to be stoked with the performance of GH3, talk about dominant sales!

Scrav

4 years ago

Heh, and the PS2 still continues to out sell the PS3 (in the US). I hope developers keep supporting the PS2 for a while.

bradc1988

4 years ago

Wow that's in excess of a million copies of Guitar Hero across all platforms.

gg Activision

DancesInUnderwear

4 years ago

Maikii wrote

I guess PS3 outselling Wii in Japan for the first time (Oct sales)isn't that newsworthy ...

...this happened?

Crestfallen

4 years ago

DancesInUnderwear wrote

Maikii wrote

I guess PS3 outselling Wii in Japan for the first time (Oct sales)isn't that newsworthy ...

...this happened?

Yes

Hardware - This Week | Last Week | YTD | LTD
1. NDS - 78,884 | 78,597 | 5,961,099 | 19,966,778
2. PSP - 58,964 | 59,714 | 2,244,938 | 6,777,067
3. PS3 - 55,924 | 17,434 | 844,568 | 1,302,126
4. WII - 34,546 | 37,617 | 2,860,430 | 3,780,073
5. PS2 - 9,043 | 10,209 | 658,773 | 20,813,632
6. 360 - 5,817 | 17,673 | 188,716 | 453,418
7. GBA - 923 | 319 | 49,903 | 15,347,982
8. NGC - 69 | 155 | 10,303 | 4,179,771

Sorry bout the formatting. 55924v34546. Price cuts and Dynasty Warriors 6 do a lot.

DancesInUnderwear

4 years ago

Yeah I didn't realise he was talking about this week (considering he said October Sales). Crazy. Especially considering wasn't it just last week the 360 beat the PS3?

Crestfallen

4 years ago

^ By about 200 units, yeah.

Note: I'm not usually this nerd-like, just been a slow week full of exams hence the never-ending net surfing.

Maikii

4 years ago

DancesInUnderwear wrote

Yeah I didn't realise he was talking about this week (considering he said October Sales). Crazy. Especially considering wasn't it just last week the 360 beat the PS3?

Yeah, my mistake, I meant last weeks sales - too many figures in my head. I put it up on the forums a couple of days ago:

http://palgn.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=22282

David

4 years ago

Maikii wrote

I guess PS3 outselling Wii in Japan for the first time (Oct sales)isn't that newsworthy

We generally only report Japanese sales quarterly, when Famitsu/Enterbrain release their quarterly figures. Reporting weekly Japanese sales would be a bit much for a PAL focused site, and it would be slightly disingenuous to only report the 'exception' weeks (like last week when the 360 outsold the PS3) just because they're 'interesting.'

Crestfallen

4 years ago

David wrote

Maikii wrote

I guess PS3 outselling Wii in Japan for the first time (Oct sales)isn't that newsworthy

So what is this? Monthly NPD or something? Any special signnificance?

David

4 years ago

crestfallen wrote

So what is this? Monthly NPD or something? Any special signnificance?

US data has been released monthly this year (it was only every now and then before that), and in my opinion that's a reasonable frequency for reporting as news. We're also more closely linked with the US market then the Japanese.

Crestfallen

4 years ago

^So is this a recurring montly feature starting from now?

David

4 years ago

If Evan or I get around to it in time!

Maikii

4 years ago

crestfallen wrote

^So is this a recurring montly feature starting from now?

Well, that would depend who's on top of the sales, I guess