January Game Sales.(NPD numbers) (1 Viewer)

[Romier S]

Top 10 Selling Games for PS2 for January 2003 (Retail Sales $)
Title Publisher Pro jected $'s Projected Units
1 THE SIMS Electronic Arts 13,138,460 266,852
2 GRAND THEFT AUTO:VICE Take-Two 11,163,550 225,383
3 THE GETAWAY Sony 10,353,790 262,024
4 DEVIL MAY CRY 2 Capcom 8,113,732 164,615
5 SOCOM:U.S. NAVY SEALS Sony 8,021,911 134,383
6 DRAGON BALL Z:BUDOKAI Infogrames 5,968,300 121,808
7 MADDEN NFL 2003 Electronic Arts 5,452,802 112,165
8 ATV OFF ROAD FURY 2 Sony 4,054,593 101,999
9 MORTAL KOMBAT: DEADLY Midway 3,850,223 79,307
10 T.CLANCYS GHOST RECON Ubi Soft 3,603,979 73,989

Source: NPD.

Top 10 Selling Games for Xbox for January 2003 (Retail Sales $)
Title Publisher Projected $ 's Projected Units
1 DOA: BEACH VOLLEYBALL Tecmo 4,043,148 81,180
2 T.CLANCY'S SPLINTER Ubi Soft 3,795,435 77,733
3 T.CLANCYS GHOST RECON Ubi Soft 3,501,969 70,807
4 LORD OF RINGS: TOWERS Electronic Arts 2,962,997 60,049
5 PANZER DRAGOON ORTA Sega 2,918,116 59,076
6 HALO Microsoft 2,745 ,478 56,294
7 MECH ASSAULT Microsoft 1,742,920 35,251
8 MORTAL KOMBAT: DEADLY Midway 1,488,872 30,097
9 MADDEN NFL 2003 Electronic A rts 1,299,810 33,051
10 MEDAL HONOR FRONTLINE Electronic Arts 1,280,646 25,896

Source: NPD.

Top 10 Selling Games for GameCube for January 2003 (Retail Sales $)
Title Publisher Projected $ 's Projected Units
1 LORD OF RINGS: TOWERS Electronic Arts 2,183,596 43,909
2 METROID PRIME Nintendo 1,742,978 36,009
3 MARIO PARTY 4 Nintendo 1,639,901 32,580
4 ANIMAL CROSSING Nintendo 1,612,051 32,299
5 SUPER SMASH BRO MELEE Nintendo 1,500,647 30,263
6 SUPER MARIO SUNSHINE Nin tendo 1,126,626 22,680
7 SKIES OF ARCADIA LGND Sega 1,024,810 19,693
8 SONIC MEGA COLLECTION Sega 959,693 24,292
9 BOND 007 : NIGHTFIRE Electronic Arts 832,832 16,779
10 GODZILLA DESTROY MELEE Infogrames 823,724 $ 18,584

Source: NPD.

Top 10 Selling Games for GBA for January 2003 (Retail Sales $)
1 YU-GI-OH! ETERNAL Konami 2,620,842 87,839
2 ZELDA: LINK TO PAST Nintendo 2,151,788 70,371
3 METROID FUSION Nintendo 1,230,130 41,283
4 YU-GI-OH! DARK DUEL Konami 1,174,937 39,259
5 KIRBY: NIGHTMARE Nintendo 1,088,577 36,219
6 YOSHI'S ISLAND:MARIO3 Nintendo 1,083,151 36,064
7 SUPER MARIO ADVANCE 2 Nintendo 962,963 31,250
8 SONIC ADVANCE THQ 937,633 31,351
9 LORD OF RINGS: TOWERS Electronic Arts 933,797 31,606
10 GAME & WATCH GALLERY4 Nintendo 733,259 24,637

Source: NPD.

 

[Dave Falasco]

Boy, if Sony ever figures out how to sell any of their games, they are really going to be on to something.

Interesting reading, Romier...thanks for the info!

 

[Masood Ali]

an article to accompany those numbers. A few highlights:

"...hardware dollars were down 14 percent year-over-year because of price cuts on the major consoles that took effect last May. Unit sales were up 28 percent."

"...PS2 game sales were up 20 percent year-over-year, Xbox games were up 26 percent, games for the GameCube were up 86 percent and games for the handheld Game Boy Advance were up 28 percent."

"Counting only the current generation, Patel said, software sales were up 28 percent year-over-year on a dollar basis."

"...prices of games for the current generation of consoles fell an average of 20 percent in January over a year ago, with PS2 pricing at $38, Xbox at $40 and GameCube titles coming in at $39."