LITB Game News – June NPD Sales shows numbers.
Fresh off of NeoGaf we’ve got the NPD sales results for June of 2009 and the results are…pretty much what most people expected.
PlayStation 2 152.7K
PlayStation 3 164.7K
PSP 163.5K
Xbox 360 240.6K
Wii 361.7K
Nintendo DS 766.5KPROTOTYPE (360) 419.9K
UFC 2009:UNDISPUTED (360) 338.3K
EA SPORTS ACTIVE BUNDLE (Wii) 289.1K
TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 10* (Wii) 272.4K
WII FIT (Wii) 271.6K
FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4 (360) 260.8K
FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4 (PS3) 210.3K
MARIO KART W/WHEEL (WII) 202.1K
RED FACTION:GUERRILLA (360) 199.4K
INFAMOUS (PS3) 192.7K
Nothing really shocking, the biggest thing last year had over this year was the PS3 doing it’s best since launch with MGS4 releasing worldwide. Since then it’s pretty much hovered around the 200K mark. Seeing it sell on par with the PS2, PSP and 360 shows that people are slowly migrating to the “Next-Generation”, but at a pace slower than we saw last generation.
Hell, if most industry analysts from 2004 saw the industry as it is today they’d wonder why whisperings of the “NEXT-Generation” haven’t started yet. After all it was what, 2003 or so when Sony first started talking about the cell-processor? 2004 was our first look at Next-Generation Console Graphics with Oblivion running on a 360 engine? Times have certainly changed when every console maker is looking to make their current system new and interesting to potential consumers than starting the hype machine for a new console cycle. – The Ben