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NPD: Wii 1.27 million sold, PS3 530k sold

Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360, helped by its Kinect motion-capture controller, was the best-selling video-game console in the U.S. for the sixth consecutive month, the company said.

The Redmond, Washington-based software company sold 1.37 million Xbox consoles in November, David Dennis, group product manager with Xbox, said today citing statistics from researcher NPD Group Inc.

Nintendo Co.’s Wii sales gained 0.8 percent to 1.27 million units, the company said separately. Sony Corp.’s PS3 sales fell 25 percent to 530,000 units from a year earlier, when the company cut prices, Morgan Stanley said, citing NPD data.

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SMOK3xFFx5300d ago (Edited 5300d ago )

But GT5 is a system seller! It is I tell you! Decemeber will be better 4sure.

@BrianG

But still that's not a good enough excuse, it has already sold 3.2+ mil, anyone who was waiting for GT5 already got it.

EDIT: @BrianG

What would you call it if not an excuse?

"I'm sure GT5 is a system seller, but releasing the 24th and having little to no advertising does not help."

BrianG5300d ago (Edited 5300d ago )

I'm sure GT5 is a system seller, but releasing the 24th and having little to no advertising does not help.

Not making excuses, just saying Sony should have planned that out, the advertising to hit before the game released.

@SMOK3:

I clearly said I wasn't making excuses, just saying that people who wanted the game probably either had a PS3 or bought a PS3 in October in anticipation for GT5 when it was supposed to release earlier.

How are others supposed to know when GT5 is coming out with no advertising? IDK, thankfully I keep up with gaming news and knew when the new date was.

guigsy5300d ago

Not in America it won't be. GT is massive in Europe though.

RememberThe3575300d ago (Edited 5300d ago )

"anyone who was waiting for GT5 already got it."

I haven't...

@disagrees: Really? So I have the game? I didn't know that. I didn't know I had bought GT5 already. I guess I've been borrowing my friends copy for no reason then.

@Game-ur: Sony's lackadaisical approach to marketing seems to have bit them in the ass. Not enough people have been wooed by GT5 and they don't have anything outside of the Move this holiday. Next year is going to be mind blowing though. I'm not sure I have enough time to play all those damn exclusives, much less all the multiplat games.

Game-ur5300d ago

This is too big, Sony need to bring the excitement back, they clearly lost the US holiday spree, and acting cool won't cut it anymore.

Let's see what this pressure will make them do.

Lunatic_Brandon5300d ago

Yeah it will sell more in Europe but the US is a large part of the gaming industry even if it is just a single country. There is a reason you guys are always comparing a continent to a country.

L0G1C5300d ago

I stopped reading at VGChar.. oh

DaTruth5300d ago

Remember when Wii went all casual and its great sales didn't count anymore?

...Ya.

Sackdude5300d ago (Edited 5300d ago )

Sorry but GT5 sold 3 mill in first week only in Europe

so im sure it moved a lot of consoles over there,

don't generalize US sales over the whole world sales. don't be ab ignorant

Wakka_5300d ago

GT5, truly the most overhyped game this gen. Not AAA and no system seller.

Droid Smasha5300d ago

is anyone competing with the 360 its on a whole nutha level now

ThanatosDMC5300d ago

Sad thing is in Fry's, Best Buy and probably other electronic stores is they're not demoing GT5 but Kinect/Move.

Rampant5300d ago

GT5P: 5 million
GT5: 400.000

Only 4.6 million left until Sony can sell some new consoles!

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happyface5300d ago

IMPOSSIBLE

theres no way ps3 could lose this bad in USA

wrong numbers?

L4DRocks5300d ago

Yeah I know the PS3 needs a price cut in the US I can't believe it did almost 1 million less than the Xbox 360 and Wii in the Holidays.

Especially with GT5 and Sony claiming they have sold 4.1 million move controllers you would think that would translate to hardware sales I guess they are shipped after all.

trancefreak5300d ago

it is pretty odd but I think and really beleive that MS did the right thing releasing the 360 before its competitors getting brand loyality. That also helps when your friends have a system and you want to play online.

Next MS just kicks ass at advertising. They are all over the tv while Sony sporadically has kevin butler here and there. They show a game and it it makes it appear as if its only on their console or its best played on their console works.

They have the hottest new motion controller that people want just like the move is to sony.

The slim console design also is very well made looks hot.

Add that all up and with their game system bargains and you have the hottest console in america.

Another thing is unlike Sony they will make custom looking machines for their AAA games why the heck Sony misses this opportunity is beyond me.

But the only game I play is halo reach on the 360 and everything else is on the ps3 or pc at my house.
I much prefer the ps3 but I guess 1.3 million this month prefer the 360. Just surprised Sony is kinda slippin here and not even matching the competition on a market they once dominated.

3241104935300d ago

@L4DRocks

bro, shipped is not equal to sold. sony shipped 4.1 million controllers, only a few of those were actually sold to customers. Sony clearly failed with GT5, they did so little advertising.

Lightsaber5300d ago

L4D just curious why would you think move would sale ps3 ? Its like buying an extra controller. Plus sony targeted move at the people that already have ps3 not people that dont own one

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Ryo-Hazuki5300d ago

ppl forget that you can get a 360 for $199. If you wanna get a ps3 its at least $299. Cheap wins over anything

Mini Mario5300d ago (Edited 5300d ago )

Maybe they should have made a more economical console?

Guess people really do not want to work overtime

DiRtY5300d ago

If you say people vote with their dollar:

50% of all spendings on the next generation (hardware and software) was on Xbox 360. Source: NPD.

I think this excludes handhelds, but still a huge achievement.

PS3 might account for 15-20%, since it was massively outsold by the Wii as well.

Jamegohanssj55300d ago

Wait since it released the last of the month, doesn't that mean that all the black friday sales stuff won't come in until the end of this month/beginning of next year?

TGSI

MASTER_RAIDEN5300d ago (Edited 5300d ago )

OMG shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut the fuck up fanboys. GT5 is a huge game but its not going to outdo a ONE HINDERED DOLLAR PRICE DROP. jeez...get a clue.

Connect (yeah...bitch i said it) selling so well in america is why america SUCKS at buying things. (now now, i love this country more than any other country) but what spiffy gimmick wont americans go for these days?

there are most likely similar trends in the UK as well. sad.

JeffGUNZ5299d ago

You might think it's a gimmmick, but some other people enjoy it. The goal of Kinect is to appeal to a different groupd of audience, which it is doing very well. I would love to have a Kinect if I were a young child.

DigitalAnalog5300d ago

HOW COME THEY'RE STILL SELLING SO MUCH?

-End of Line

Mini Mario5300d ago

Because it has good fun games. That i dont have to install and update every time i turn it on

Christopher5299d ago

Falling sales for the PS3. Wonder if that's because they're not marketing their product well enough? Oh, wait, most people here told me they didn't need to market the product, the games would mystically sell it to new consumers. Guess that's working out for them...

N4g_null5299d ago

Marketing is part of it but making games for more people is the biggest factor.

Sony keeps ignoring what other gamers want. Red steell 2 game play should be on the ps3 not socery. Yet we get an onslaught of fps wanna be games. People bought a ps2 because the xbox did not have the games they wanted nor did the gc. There is a huge opportunity here yet I don't think Sony can't fill it.

They have to stop trying to out pc ms and get back what they lost. The 3rd parties are not playing this round.

They need new ips.

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NYC_Gamer5300d ago

PS3 also did real good last month

Wakka_5300d ago

They didn't do good this month.

ct035300d ago

530K. 25% down year-on-year in the month of GT5's release.

But don't sweat it, people. I'm sure they *shipped* 3 million. :-D

gamesmaster5300d ago

im guessing ct03 doesnt have a passport, hell im willing to bet he/shes never even looked at a world map..

Ace Killa 085300d ago

@gamemaster

Who cares it's NPD it's north america, now if we talking about world sells then you can whip out your passport. But the article talks about world sells......right?

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guigsy5300d ago

360 sold nearly 3 times that of the PS3. That's quite a gap.

klashawnd5300d ago

That's what 500 million dollars can get you. At least in the short term. If they can sustain that ratio for a while, then I'd be impressed. Sony can't be happy with the numbers though, especially since it is 25% lower than last year. Might be time for a price cut. I can get a blu-ray player for under a 100 bucks easily now so I don't see why Sony can't sell a PS3 at $199.

dragonelite5300d ago

Didn't npd mention they already are #1 selling console in us for like 6 month in a row.

L0G1C5300d ago

It's time for a small price cut.

ct035300d ago

It takes Japan about a year to widen the PS3-360 lead by 900,000 units (i.e. undo the US November).
And in Europe, PS360 sales are about even.

Death24945300d ago

ps3 and 360 in Europe haven't been even for quite some time.

Aloren5299d ago

The difference in europe is small though. The HD race is much closer in europe than anywhere else.

DaTruth5300d ago

PS3 sold nearly 20 times that of the 360 last month in Japan!

Homicide5300d ago

The gap wasn't as big as this one though.

soren5300d ago

wii sold like 10 times as much as 360. thats quite a gap

frostypants5299d ago (Edited 5299d ago )

So are 360 fanboys going to start acknowledging the Wii, then? Because all this time we've ALL been saying that the Wii is a casual system for casual gamers, and not a true competitor. If the 360 sales boost is almost entirely due to casuals, then...

Whatever. I own a PS3 and a 360, but a year from now, I'll be playing a handful of awesome new exclusives on my PS3, and I'll still be playing Black Ops on my 360 (and maybe Gears 3).

Good on Microsoft for finding a new market segment. But as "real" gamers, this is worthless to us. In fact, it's BAD for us, since Microsoft appears to be turning its back on the traditional Xbox base entirely.

The PS3 is the only system left that has any significant non-casual pipeline of exclusives in 2011. Instead of cheering on Microsoft's newfound sales to soccer moms, we should be stepping back and considering the sad implications this has for gaming's future.

N4g_null5299d ago

It's only sad for fanboys apparently. I mean lbp sucks even with the editor, the kart racing game sucked also. Sony bandoned their only mascot and made a bunch of resort Wii like motion games that are not selling. Now some how Sony is the last hope for gaming.

Sony started casual gaming and making games more like movies than game with less challenge and lead the way to the exctintion of 2d games which only nintendo keeps alive it seems.

If you just want to play kz and ut then you are the one killing oringnality. You should be asking for more game types. Yet your just being a fanboy.

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XBLA Classic 'A World of Keflings' Is Coming to Steam, and There's a Demo

"Back in the innocent days of 2010, A World of Keflings was a fairly popular successor to A Kingdom for Keflings. I even wrote about it a few times in 2012! But the world of humans moved on, and NinjaBee's city-building/adventure game was last seen on the ill-fated Wii U in 2014. Fast-forward to the dark year of 2025, and not only is A World of Keflings coming to Steam, but there's already a playable demo! Perhaps the cheerful, no pressure gameplay that the Keflings bring is just what we need nowadays," says Co-Optimus.

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It Has Been Over 2,500 Days Since The Elder Scrolls 6 Was Revealed

It's been officially over 2,500 days since The Elder Scrolls 6 was revealed, and fans are still waiting for more than a logo and a mountain range.

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jznrpg2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

It will come out in another 1000-2000 days or so. I’d rather they remake Morrowind. After they added quest arrows, sprint button, making stats lesser and the big nerfs to spells Elder Scrolls has been too simplified. They could change that with ES6 but I don’t have much faith in modern Bethesda. I would love to be wrong

clevernickname2d ago

Wait until he hears about Star Citizen...

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Halo: Combat Evolved Remake reportedly planned to release in late 2026

Xbox Game Studios' Halo: Combat Evolved Remake is reportedly planned to release in late 2026 to celebrate 25 years of Xbox.

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Goodguy014d ago

Dear God it's been 4 years since infinite and no official update on anything lol.

Tacoboto4d ago

No official update on anything?

They replaced studio leadership
They changed the studio name
They announced the change to UE5
... all while supporting Infinite

The support to Infinite isn't what it originally should have been but they've still been providing tons of official updates over the years, and as recently as two months ago added a brand new weapon.

GamerRN3d ago

I think remaking Halo Combat Evolved, and going to 2 and 3 again, will help give the studio an idea of how to make a Halo game feel like Halo again

Tacoboto3d ago

Infinite did feel like Halo, that's not what the complaints were...

The complaints were almost literally everything else. Monetization, netcode and desync, the campaign structure, story, and single biome, the weaker-than-expected post-launch content.

InUrFoxHole3d ago

Gotta agree. Infinite felt like halo.

Profchaos4d ago

Dev times in modern days 4 years of silence isn't unheard of when things are running smoothly.

And around 6 months ago 343 did show a tech demo of ue5 using halo assets so it's not radio silence.

Given all the shake ups i am more surprised we're getting anything next year at all.

RaidenBlack4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

They coulda started with Halo 3 remake ... I know Halo CE remaster was not proper with the art style but still, remaking after a remaster seems dull, when Halo 3 and Reach have started to show some age.

PhillyDonJawn4d ago

Yeah I hate they used Halo reach artstyle. Hope this remake feel authentic yet fresh

--Onilink--4d ago

Probably the simplest to work around with. They are reportedly doing it in UE5, so its just as much an Anniversary thing, as its probably the studio getting familiar and setting up their tools and processes in the engine with an actual game, to facilitate the development of the next Halo

Profchaos4d ago

I'm guessing combat evolved has a smaller scope in general the later half of the game features a ton of backtracking and reused assets making it a easier game to remake on a deadline

Its also a better choice if this is the first game to be multiplatform mind you I think it's pretty much a given that anyone with a passing curiosity has played this by now in some way be it pc or brought a used console for a few bucks

darthv724d ago

This will likely come to PS5 at the same time. 25 years of XB.... shared with PS.

Obscure_Observer4d ago

It´s gonna be among best sellers on PS Store next year regardless.

raWfodog3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I would love to see Lost Odyssey come over to PS5. I would definitely buy that again. That was the first game that I played on my 360. Loved the story and battle system. One of the best JRPGs of all time in my opinion.

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