NPD: Game Industry Sales Up 31% in June, Up 43% for First Half

GameDaily BIZ has received the latest NPD video game sales data, which reveals total sales of $1.1 billion, a 31 percent increase year-over-year in the U.S. during June. Year-to-date, for the first half the game industry is already at an impressive $6.1 billion, tracking ahead of last year's sales by 43 percent.

Console hardware in particular has seen the most growth. Console hardware grew 69 percent in June to $268 million and it grew 98 percent to $1.7 billion for the first half. Portable game hardware was actually down 6 percent in June, but that didn't stop the Nintendo DS from absolutely running away with the top spot once again. Nintendo's handheld sold 561.9K units compared to the PSP's 230.1K. The top selling console was the Wii with 381.8K, followed by the 360 with 198.4K and the PS3 with 98.5K.

More on NDP data after the jump.

[kingofps3]

Nintendo -> DS: 562, Wii: 382 = 944 :)

Sony -> PSP: 290, PS2: 270, PS3: 98.5 = 658.5 :P

Microsoft -| 360: 198 = 198 :(

[email protected] Jason xg1
"You wanna band aid for your ouchy?" Actually, your mom will need one of those after I am done with her.

Hey! Look everyone, Jason xg1's mom is already excited with the NDP results.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

top ten June
Forza Motor Sport rank 5
The Darkness rank 10
Tenchu Z rank 13
Transformers 360 rank 17
Dirt rank 20

2nd list
top ten YTD
Guitar Hero 360 rank 6
Crackdown rank 8

You know what i dont see on any of those list? thats right nothing absolutly nothing for the PS3. Lots of stuff for the great console PS2 but nothing for the Blu-Ray player, opps I mean PS3 gaming console.

So sad "The PS3 was up somewhat, but still couldn't break the 100K mark in the U.S. in June"

Boo hoo "The top selling console was the Wii with 381.8K, followed by the 360 with 198.4K and the PS3 with 98.5K."

What is realy sad is you had to combine all of Sonys sh!t to try and 1up the 360. Do you even know what next gen means?

You wanna band aid for your ouchy?

[razer]

So we are now adding up all of Sony's game devices and putting it against the 360.

Sneaky, very sneaky...

Every PS2 sold is one less person buying a PS3 and even a 360 for that matter.

[Daewoodrow]

indeed, interesting logic the boy has. Covering up the fact that the 360 outsold the PS3 in June by adding PS3 sales to PSP sales and PS2 sales.

That should be annoying, but how could you be annoyed by it when it's just so funny?

[NextGen24Gamer]

This is the 3rd or 4th month in a row that the Ps3 has been under 100k. I guess we will see next month how the temporary 100 dollar price cut has effected sales for July. Hopefully they at least break the 100k mark....WOW....

A tad off topic....But New Line Cinema has decided to not only support HD dvd...so another Blu ray supporter goes to HD dvd....Disney is really the only other one that is holding out. But they support MS's online download service for 2 dollars a pop...In HD as well. Fox is still waiting before they decide. I have a feeling they are next to also support HD dvd. Of Course Sony will hold out as long as they can....lol....But when the people speak....ala buying HD dvd stand alones 3 to 1 over blu ray....The movie studios listen...

http://www.dvdtown.com/news...

http://www.dvdtown.com/news...

Back on topic....August and September will be huge for MS....Console sales will rise to at least 300k to 400k a month. They have been at 200k a month recently even without any big game releases....WOW

[razer]

I didn't realize that HD-DVD was starting to pull studio support. And to think people were calling it dead just a month ago. I see 300 is coming out on HD-DVD next week that should be an excellent purchase. I don't know if it's coming on Blu-ray as well?

[Antan]

It is.

[Loudninja]

Get your facts right

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Ah ha ha ha ha thanks for the smile bro. You fell for that and ended up making it look worse LOL.

[Al]

but its still pretty bad to be selling under 100K three times in a row.

[timmyp53]

to see exactly how big of an impact the 100 price drop has had. Alot of positive sales stories so we will see.

[Al]

Its all about the NPD sales chart

[Dr Pepper]

If they think sales are impressive for the first half of the year (up 43%), just wait till the fall season rolls around.

[Loudninja]

Both PS3 and the 360 are not doing so great.But they are both great systems.The Wii is going though a low price phase as ever kid must get one phase

http://www.ps3forums.com/sh...

scroll down and look.

[mike awkislittle]

When the 360 drops its price, (probably going to be after christmas) its still going to be way cheaper than the ps3 (i think the ps3 isnt going to be very popular in the next 6 months, but you will no doubt see a sales increase in it for christmas but with no games ill be surprised if it even comes close to the 360. Even before christmas the 360 is going to have one of the best game line ups i have ever seen in a long time. 360 is going to change some of the minds of kids on what they want for christmas. PS3 or 360. i'm getting a ps3 when they get some games and that will probably be by the end of 08'. But take your pick. Opinion complete.

[timmyp53]

i wonder how much PS3 consoles sony sold after the price drop though
yep the 360 does have a good line up this year but so does the ps3... one thing is for sure though.. gaming is gonna be awesome this year

[FinalomegaS]

Well this is odd, why does NPD include the psp on the charts? It's obviously not a gaming system;

PSP - 290,100 - 7,950,200 US.

Nearly 8 million sold but there's never a game on the charts... There should be some relevance to why this is and why do 3rd parties keep making psp games, I would think they like money, but if you make a game and it's not selling at all why keep doing it...The X360 has a nice game to system ratio, so does the PS2 and Wii, the DS too, the PS3 might be the Bluray player and eventually the games will come attitude.

~Arm