December NPD: Apparently people shop for nonessential items in December
It's the weirdest thing. Right around November and December of every year, sales of luxury and entertainment items go way up. December of 2007 was no exception for our favorite entertainment item. How much of an exception was it not? How about 2.47 million units in one month alone? 2007 was already a fantastic year for the DS, with 8.5 million systems sold. But considering the constant chart-topping success of the DS, it's pretty remarkable that fully one-third of the year's total DS units sold were sold last month.
Let's look at some little arrows to help put the numbers in perspective.
DS Lite: 2.47m
940K (61%)
Wii: 1.35m
369K (38%)
Xbox 360: 1.26m
490K (64%)
PS2: 1.1m
604K (122%)
PSP: 1.06m
493K (87%)
PS3: 797K
331 (71%)
Head past the break for the December software charts, where we welcome an old friend back to the chart. We've also got the 2007 totals posted, which are, of course, DS-eriffic in the hardware section.
Software sales, December 2007:
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) -- 1.47m
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) -- 1.40m
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2) -- 1.25m
Wii Play w/ Remote (Wii) -- 1.08m
Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360) -- 894K
Halo 3 (Xbox 360) -- 743K
Brain Age 2 (DS) -- 660K
Madden NFL 08 (PS2) -- 655K
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360) -- 625K
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii) -- 613K
Software total sales, 2007:
Halo 3 (Xbox 360) -- 4.82m
Wii Play w/ Remote (Wii) -- 4.12m
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) -- 3.04m
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2) -- 2.72m
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) -- 2.52m
Pokémon Diamond (DS) -- 2.48m
Madden NFL 08 (PS2) -- 1.90m
Guitar Hero II (PS2) -- 1.89m
Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360) -- 1.87m
Mario Party 8 (Wii) -- 1.82m
Hardware total sales, 2007:
Nintendo DS: 8.50 million (17.65 million) Nintendo Wii: 6.29 million (7.38 million) Microsoft Xbox 360: 4.62 million (9.15 million) Sony PS2: 3.97 million (41.12 million)
Sony PSP: 3.82 million (10.47 million) Sony PS3: 2.56 million (3.25 million)