November Sales data from TRSTS (1 Viewer)

[Dan B]

Found at the Link Removed forum. Click this link to download the Excel spreadsheet.
The usual warning:
(Sega fans with weak stomachs don't look) :frowning:
In related news, Sony is claiming to have sold 8 million PS2s between November and December. (lost the link...I'll post it in a bit)
Here's the chart in HTML format:
http://system-zero.com/sales/nov/500.html

 

[Dan B]

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http://www.newtechnix.com

 

[Romier S]

Dan, I posted that Sony story in the hardware section in the Xbox Vs PS2 online thread. Massive success for Sony.

Sega fans with weak stomachs don't look

We've gotten used to it but man some of this is depressing.
In general some things that stick out:
SLY COOPER & THIEVIUS 78,902
Disappointing and I thought the game deserved more. Christmas numbers are not in however so maybe the numbers have gone up substantially.
Ratchet and Clank 111,997
Nice! Good numbers for Sony. Still have to pick this one up and I plan to very soon.
Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance PS2: 202,592
Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance Xbox: 104,155
Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance GC: 38,169
Medal of Honor Frontlines PS2: 1,294,691
Medal of Honor Frontlines Xbox: 96,885
Medal of Honor Frontlines GC: 34,864
Timesplitters PS2: 101,422
Timesplitters Xbox: 91,583
Timesplitters GC: 63,546
Interesting to see the comparisons between these games. I'm suprised to see MK to do badly on the Gamecube. Considering the lack of fighters on the system I was sure it would do nicely. Medal of Honor of course it OWNED by the PS2. (Of course it had several months lead). Timesplitters numbers are very close across the board.
On the plus side for the Cube third party big picture:
RESIDENT EVIL ZERO 113,301
HARRY POTTER: CHAMBER 83,998
Some good news for the Xbox on that front:
T.CLANCY'S SPLINTER 223,879
T.CLANCYS GHOST RECON 115,330
UNREAL CHAMPIONSHIP 110,970
Some great sales on the Xbox Live launch titles on the third party end.
Some first party highlights for Nintendo:
Metroid Prime 363,389
MARIO PARTY 4 264,689
SUPER MARIO SUNSHINE 815,294
For Microsoft:
MECH ASSAULT 118,475
HALO 1,622,458 (99k that month)
Halo is still kicking and kicking strong.
Some really nasty nasty stuff:
HOUSE OF THE DEAD III 31,438
ToeJam and Earl III 24,050
Both of those are just painful. Very very painful.
On Sega good front:
Shinobi 82,386 (released in November)
Sonic Mega Collection 49,883 (not great but if they can break 100k on this one I think it will have been worth the release)
Some of the Sega numbers are really depressing. I am looking forward to seeing how PDO does (or not:frowning. Interesting list nonetheless. Thank you Dan for posting it!

 

[Dan B]

I didn't know those Sony numbers were posted because I quit reading that thread a while ago.
Speaking of Splinter Cell, Ubi Soft is claiming to have sold 1.6 million copies worldwide so far! It's gonna end up with big numbers across all platforms, I think.
Shinobi has been advertised pretty heavily, I don't know if that's a big reason for it's success or not...there's been a pretty positive reaction to Panzer's commercial so far (based on what I'm reading on message boards on the 'net), let's hope they keep running it for more than a couple of weeks.

 

[Philip_S]

Hmm, a 60,000 unit gap between the Gamecube and Xbox versions of some 3rd party games. And people on other message boards wonder why there's a rumor that 3rd parties will start cancelling GC ports in droves.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Guys,

From now on please do not directly quote
Press Material on this forum. Please provide
a link to it instead.

Thank You

 

[Kelley_B]

poor Sega sales make Kelley_B cry. Everyone go out and buy some Sega games as to not make Kelley_B cry.

 

[Joel Mack]

poor Sega sales make Kelley_B cry.

Sissy.

 

[Mark A. Chan]

at the sales numbers for GTA: Vice City.

 

[BrianB]

Some more stats:

Total game sales for Nov (share %) [ave unit $]:

PS2: 8,801,226 (54%) [$39]
PSX: 2,791,790 (17%) [$17]
Xbox: 2,379,318 (15%) [$44]
GC: 2,157,160 (13%) [$45]
N64: 83,922 (1%) [$21]
DC: 41,698 (0%) [$12]

Yes, that's right, kids: almost $350million of PS2 games, and roughly
$100million of Xbox and GC games.

In the top 10 all time best sellers chart on each format, the
significant changes are:


o GTA:VC storms up from 8th to take second spot from Gran Turismo 3,
so GTA has the top two spots!
o MGS2 gets pushed down to 6th from 3rd by the two Maddens.
o Each one of the PS2 top 10 have now sold more than 1 million.
o Super Mario Sunshine moves up one place to 2nd, displacing Luigi's
Mansion.
o Xbox and GC still only have one million seller each (Halo and Super
Smash Brothers Melee), but the GC has a couple of others that are
close (on 800k).

 

[Dan B]

Here are some more stats for you Brian. (thanks to CaptainABAB at GA-Forum for these)

Top 30 in terms of how many titles are on this spreadsheet..

ELECTRONIC ARTS 273
SONY 244
INFOGRAMES 171
ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT 165
MIDWAY 141
KONAMI OF AMERICA 118
ACTIVISION 107
SEGA OF AMERICA 98
THQ 97
UBISOFT 93
CAPCOM USA 83
EIDOS INTERACTIVE 81
NAMCO 72
NINTENDO OF AMERICA 66
AGETEC 61
TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE 55
THE 3DO COMPANY 46
INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 43
CRAVE ENTERTAINMENT 43
VIVENDI UNIVERSAL 30
LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT 28
ATLUS 26
MULTIPLE VIDEO GAME MANUFACTUR 23
BAM! ENTERTAINMENT 23
SQUARE EA 22
TECMO 22
MICROSOFT 21
TITUS SOFTWARE 20
TDK MEDIACTIVE 18
KOEI 17

Top 20 in terms of total units sold...

ELECTRONIC ARTS 2841816
TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE 1886325
SONY 1327570
ACTIVISION 1134323
THQ 976528
NINTENDO OF AMERICA 955758
MIDWAY 640046
SEGA OF AMERICA 613118
UBISOFT 604756
INFOGRAMES 554305
KONAMI OF AMERICA 512904
MICROSOFT 488383
NAMCO 433661
MULTIPLE VIDEO GAME MANUFACTUR 419212
CAPCOM USA 395755
ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT 368228
EIDOS INTERACTIVE 257362
LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT 236608
VIVENDI UNIVERSAL 235296
SQUARE EA 228648

Top 20 in terms of $ for Nov

ELECTRONIC ARTS $120,602,907.98
TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE $83,898,440.17
NINTENDO OF AMERICA $44,715,722.33
ACTIVISION $41,599,985.45
SONY $36,317,293.12
THQ $35,913,858.04
MIDWAY $25,340,471.54
SEGA OF AMERICA $23,357,461.03
UBISOFT $22,770,421.56
INFOGRAMES $19,722,154.76
KONAMI OF AMERICA $17,785,021.96
MICROSOFT $17,699,598.58
CAPCOM USA $14,166,140.77
NAMCO $13,661,126.11
EIDOS INTERACTIVE $11,668,079.44
SQUARE EA $10,487,972.29
LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT $9,649,772.84
ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT $9,181,259.92
VIVENDI UNIVERSAL $6,895,580.44
MULTIPLE VIDEO GAME MANUFACTUR $6,020,188.41

SEGA OF AMERICA PS2 334392 $12,224,529.11
SEGA OF AMERICA GCN 140078 $6,092,425.58
SEGA OF AMERICA XBX 114849 $4,768,849.70
SEGA OF AMERICA DC 23800 $271,656.64

ELECTRONIC ARTS PS2 1720584 $76,001,111.83
ELECTRONIC ARTS XBX 451318 $20,786,493.39
ELECTRONIC ARTS GCN 358587 $15,081,376.47
ELECTRONIC ARTS PSX 304747 $8,614,829.92
ELECTRONIC ARTS N64 6580 $119,096.38

CAPCOM USA PS2 199435 $5,041,147.90
CAPCOM USA GCN 129626 $6,121,000.97
CAPCOM USA PSX 51196 $883,256.34
CAPCOM USA XBX 12485 $2,059,162.08
CAPCOM USA DC 1922 $19,001.96
CAPCOM USA N64 1090 $42,571.52

EIDOS INTERACTIVE PS2 143909 $6,588,392.02
EIDOS INTERACTIVE XBX 71108 $3,491,556.12
EIDOS INTERACTIVE GCN 25063 $1,238,102.00
EIDOS INTERACTIVE PSX 16455 $340,183.65
EIDOS INTERACTIVE DC 795 $8,584.40
EIDOS INTERACTIVE N64 32 $1,261.25

KONAMI OF AMERICA PS2 269952 $9,272,793.29
KONAMI OF AMERICA PSX 165588 $4,857,416.81
KONAMI OF AMERICA XBX 72857 $3,539,417.46
KONAMI OF AMERICA GCN 3929 $107,064.95
KONAMI OF AMERICA DC 502 $6,720.45
KONAMI OF AMERICA N64 75 $1,608.99

MIDWAY PS2 370364 $15,142,360.09
MIDWAY XBX 145767 $6,596,458.99
MIDWAY GCN 69741 $2,994,229.63
MIDWAY PSX 52885 $587,748.48
MIDWAY N64 717 $12,870.77
MIDWAY DC 572 $6,803.58

And top 15 most sold units since 95...

SONY 80,475,021
ELECTRONIC ARTS 79998254
NINTENDO OF AMERICA 66547307
INFOGRAMES 28801642
ACTIVISION 27503993
ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT 25871241
THQ 23863724
MIDWAY 23410029
TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE 19824533
NAMCO 19031335
SEGA OF AMERICA 16282011
CAPCOM USA 15871980
EIDOS INTERACTIVE 14083194
KONAMI OF AMERICA 13157468
SQUARE EA 9,353,389

 

[Dan B]

One more point; the TRSTS data only represent something like 60%* of actual sales. Certain stores are not included.

*just an estimate, if anyone has the answer, please let me know.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Probably most noteably Wal-Mart, who always resists any tracking of their evil

 

[BrianB]

Yup, no real Walmart figures, but NPD claim to "scale" their stats to account for Walmart sales, whatever that means.

 

[Steve Clark]

Xbox and GC still only have one million seller each

Someone else earlier asked on another thread in this forum whether or not the software titles, JSRF and Sega GT, bundled with the XBox hardware system counted toward software sales. I do not remember seeing an answer to this.

 

[BrianB]

I wouldn't expect so, Steve, and I know in the UK they certainly don't. Basically, as "pack ins", they're not scanned seperately so don't get included in these charts.

However, if a retailer throws in a game, that game may get scanned into their system as a sale. Just depends. You'll notice JSRF+SegaGT is a "special edition" & not two regular games bundled. That make sense?

 

[Rob_Pierce]

This is a great spreadsheet, thanks for posting it, Dan.

My only question: can they find the only guy that bought
"GUNDAM SIDE STORY 0079" on the DC in November? I can't believe they track down to one person purchasing a game. I hope he's enjoying it.

Also, is there any way of tracking the games sold on eBay or other secondary markets? I know these are near impossible to compile, but it would be interesting to see the most frequently re-sold games.

 

[Romier S]

Yes, that's right, kids: almost $350million of PS2 games, and roughly 100million for Xbox and GC

A very telling statistic Brian. You know Xbox and Gamecube fans spend so much time arguing and fighting with one another. They have yet to realize they are on the same boat (ie..beneath the boot heel of the sales juggernaut that is Sony).

 

[Jon W H]

poor Sega sales make Kelley_B cry. Everyone go out and buy some Sega games as to not make Kelley_B cry.

Aw, I can't let a grown man cry!
Kelley, I bought World Series Baseball, NFL2K3, JSRF (not bundled) and NBA2K2 (later traded it in.) That's 4 out of 11 XBox titles that I've owned.
I am pretty sure I'll break down and buy Panzer Dragoon Orta. There you go.
I'm a little disheartened by DanB's last sales data post. EA makes the most money of all the game publishers, yet I don't view them among the upper echelon companies. Aside from having Madden 2002 briefly, I don't own any EA titles.