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It's taken a little longer than usual for the NPD Group to deliver the sales data for May, but the numbers aren't too surprising. Both Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy 2, expected to be the leaders for the software side in May, sold very well. May's question mark was Alan Wake.
Note: NPD no longer release sales numbers for the whole top ten, only the top five.
Video Game Software Sales, May 2010:
- 360 -- Red Dead Redemption, Take-Two Interactive, 945,900
- PS3 -- Red Dead Redemption, Take-Two Interactive, 567,100
- Wii -- Super Mario Galaxy 2, Nintendo of America, 563,900
- 360 -- UFC 2010: Undisputed, THQ, 221,100
- PS3 -- UFC 2010: Undisputed, THQ, 192,300
- Wii -- Wii Fit Plus w/ Balance Board, Nintendo of America
- Wii -- New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Nintendo of America
- 360 -- Alan Wake, Microsoft
- DS -- Pokemon SoulSliver, Nintendo of America
- 360 -- Skate 3, Electronic Arts
Video Game Hardware Sales, May 2010:
- Nintendo DS -- 383,700
- Wii -- 334,800 Xbox
- 360 -- 194,600
- PlayStation 3 -- 154,500
- PSP -- 59,400
Poor Alan Wake. It seems like gamers put their money on Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy 2 (not bad choices, mind you), while Remedy's long-in-the-making horror adventure struck a niche audience. Perhaps Alan Wake can keep the dream alive through fans excited to learn more through the series of downloadable add-ons scheduled to expand the game universe.
"The portable hardware category contributed the most to the decline in hardware sales for the month, yet the NDS is the best-selling hardware system for May," said NPD Group analyst Anita Frazier in prepared comments with the numbers. "Console hardware unit sales are, in fact, flat to last year. Declines in sales result from a lower average selling price this year compared to last."
Without a premiere video game for the industry to rally around in June, the video game industry could be in for a rough summer. Transformers: War for Cybertron, do you have the power within?
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JustTheBeginning
I really think the PSP is pretty much dead, Sony should give up trying to reboot it with its new campaign, especially with the 3DS coming.
rance_james
Patrick, you have UFC 2010 on 360 as both 4 & 5. What was the other console?
Mega Man X
It Seem That The Software Sales Are the same As The March 2010 Software Sales.
Aldowyn
I'm surprised that Red Dead Redemption managed to outsell SMG2 on 2 separate consoles. It was close, but usually the PS3 version of #1 is like 7 or 8
Marshall Gordeuk
Awesome!!!!
mario galaxy 2 is amazing and is definitely amazing!!!
mrpandaman27
@ Lucidity
You kind of sound like a troll for posting that.
Anyways a pretty slow month nothing I really remember other than Red Dead being released that month. Like Patrick says another slow month and no real big releases this summer. I hope that one year there will be at least a couple of big games that come out during the summer. It's a little hard on my wallet when all the games I want to play come out in the same time period.
JimmyHopkinspwns
This whole article is confusing me. No more top 10's but we have the top 10 here with typos listed as the top 9?
xL7717
The fact that Super Mario Galaxy 2 came out late in the month and sold that many copies is amazing. Bravo, Nintendo!
SiK
DS -- Pokemon Soul Sliver, Nintendo of America is 9th and skate 3 is 10th i think
Giovanni117
Typo?:
Video Game Software Sales, May 2010:
line 8
lucidity
It seems that Alan Wake did better than the 10th place Heavy Rain back in Feb. Five 360 games in the top ten and only one PS3 title.
Looking at the console sales figures it's hard to believe that Sony had a six year head start (1995-2001) making consoles. Whats more is the ratio of PS2 sales to Xbox in the previous generation, 8 PS2s for every 1 Xbox.
If the ratio had remained the same the PS3 would have overtaken the 360 in the second month, but here we are, approaching the 4th anniversary of the PS3 and they are still almost 5 million units behind.
Perhaps this is the reason the SDF and trolls frequent this site, trying to spread laughable misinformation. Looking at the figures, it appears they are wasting their time.
With the old 360 prices reduced and a new 360 now on sale, things are only going to get worse for Sony.
DanGarf
So why does NPD no longer release the whole top ten numbers?
mikesctr
just have a question. Why are their two UFC 2010: Undisputed for the 360? I'm pretty sure that it is a typo.
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