Monthly US Sales (June 2006) – Holy DS, Batman!

For those who want to compare the last month or two with this month, check out our numbers for March, April, and May! Anyway, the sales numbers for the month of June 2006 in the United States of America are in and as Satoru Iwata once said, “You will say WOW!” Of course, he wasn’t talking about this, but that’s what I want to say anyway. The DS, spurred on by the launch of the DS Lite, made a killing this month. I’ll let the numbers speak for themselves before going in-depth. They are from a subscriber of the NPD marketing group who are the most trusted sales tracking organization in North America.

NDS – 593,000
PS2 – 312,000
360 – 277,000
PSP – 221,000
GBA – 189,000
GCN – 51,000
XBX – 24,000

In the USA, the Xbox 360 has now finally reached 2 million units sold. This is something they’d likely have reached long ago if it weren’t for the initial launch shortages. The PlayStation 2 is its biggest competitor right now. It’s the only next-generation system out so it has no real competitors yet. The Wii and PS3 will change that this fall. At the moment, Microsoft is just trying to hit maybe 6 million sold for a good headstart. It’s likely at 3 million worldwide (Canada + PAL Regions + Ja… OK, Canada + PAL Regions). They’ll be trying to capitalize on PS3 and Wii shortages this holiday season.

GameCube and Xbox are dead systems. I’m pretty sure neither Nintendo nor Microsoft cares about the current generation anymore and are both hoping that next-gen will be different. The GameCube does have a few exclusive hits left in Super Paper Mario and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess but they’ve basically moved on. The Xbox only has multiplatform titles left. Neither system has the staying power of the PS2 which should sell well even after the PS3 comes out.

The GBA refuses to die even though its successor has been out for around 20 months now. The cheap price tag must attract parents when they’re searching for something for their kids. The more interesting battle is between the DS and the PSP. The PSP has been selling more than the DS for months now and they were at around the same number sold, but this month put the DS back up front. Currently the DS is at around 5.2 million units sold in the US with the PSP trailing closely behind at roughly 4.5 million units sold. The DS Lite put sales higher than anything people had predicted and software sales boomed as a result.

New Super Mario Bros. was the best-selling game of the month with about 450,000. The second best selling game of the month was the PS2 port of the PSP title Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories selling roughly 400,000. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day sold over 200,000 copies. It has sold more in the USA than it did in Japan in the same time frame! 7 PS2 titles, 3 DS titles, 1 360 title, 1 GBA title, 1 GCN title, 0 Xbox titles, and 0 PSP titles sold over 100,000 last month.

Note: NPD Numbers are only available to members.

Via NPD Funworld

For those who want to compare the last month or two with this month, check out our numbers for March, April, and May! Anyway, the sales numbers for the month of June 2006 in the United States of America are in and as Satoru Iwata once said, “You will say WOW!” Of course, he wasn’t talking about this, but that’s what I want to say anyway. The DS, spurred on by the launch of the DS Lite, made a killing this month. I’ll let the numbers speak for themselves before going in-depth. They are from a subscriber of the NPD marketing group who are the most trusted sales tracking organization in North America.

NDS – 593,000
PS2 – 312,000
360 – 277,000
PSP – 221,000
GBA – 189,000
GCN – 51,000
XBX – 24,000

In the USA, the Xbox 360 has now finally reached 2 million units sold. This is something they’d likely have reached long ago if it weren’t for the initial launch shortages. The PlayStation 2 is its biggest competitor right now. It’s the only next-generation system out so it has no real competitors yet. The Wii and PS3 will change that this fall. At the moment, Microsoft is just trying to hit maybe 6 million sold for a good headstart. It’s likely at 3 million worldwide (Canada + PAL Regions + Ja… OK, Canada + PAL Regions). They’ll be trying to capitalize on PS3 and Wii shortages this holiday season.

GameCube and Xbox are dead systems. I’m pretty sure neither Nintendo nor Microsoft cares about the current generation anymore and are both hoping that next-gen will be different. The GameCube does have a few exclusive hits left in Super Paper Mario and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess but they’ve basically moved on. The Xbox only has multiplatform titles left. Neither system has the staying power of the PS2 which should sell well even after the PS3 comes out.

The GBA refuses to die even though its successor has been out for around 20 months now. The cheap price tag must attract parents when they’re searching for something for their kids. The more interesting battle is between the DS and the PSP. The PSP has been selling more than the DS for months now and they were at around the same number sold, but this month put the DS back up front. Currently the DS is at around 5.2 million units sold in the US with the PSP trailing closely behind at roughly 4.5 million units sold. The DS Lite put sales higher than anything people had predicted and software sales boomed as a result.

New Super Mario Bros. was the best-selling game of the month with about 450,000. The second best selling game of the month was the PS2 port of the PSP title Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories selling roughly 400,000. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day sold over 200,000 copies. It has sold more in the USA than it did in Japan in the same time frame! 7 PS2 titles, 3 DS titles, 1 360 title, 1 GBA title, 1 GCN title, 0 Xbox titles, and 0 PSP titles sold over 100,000 last month.

Note: NPD Numbers are only available to members.

Via NPD Funworld