VGChartz’s NPD May Preview (NPD release to come June 12 at 6:30 PM EST)
Jacob Mazel of VGChartz writes: "NPD will report on videogame sales in the USA for the four weeks ending May 31, 2008 on June 12th at about 6:30 pm EST. The period covers all but the first few days of Grand Theft Auto IV & Mario Kart Wii sales, as well as the launch of Wii Fit. For the four weeks ending May 3, 2008, NPD reported USA sales were driven by Wii and DS on the hardware side, while PS3 and Xbox 360 remained under 200,000 units for the month, despite the sales of Grand Theft Auto IV at the end of the period. Most of the dialogue for May will rightly focus on whether or not Grand Theft Auto IV pushed Xbox 360 and/or PS3 over 200,000 in a four week month, and the type of numbers Wii and Wii Fit put up for the month.
For May Vgchartz expects NPD to report:
-Xbox 360 outsold PS3 slightly for the month. Both sold about 200,000 units for the month.
-Wii sales remain over 700,000 for the month.
-Grand Theft Auto IV sold another 1+ million units on Xbox 360, and another 500,000+ units on PS3. Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit also sold over 500,000 units for the month.
-Nintendo, Take Two, EA & Activision were the top publishers for the month. Each publisher had titles in the top ten for the month.
Plat…10-May……17-May……24-May……31-May……Total
Wii….130,059…..104,559…..324,028…..158,384…..717,030
PS3…56,580…….50,968……46,636…….43,581……197,765
360….49,771…….47,773……55,508…….60,272……213,324
PSP…51,590…….51,020…..51,997…….60,046…….214,653
DSL…132,300…..119,992….121,612…..130,636……504,540
PS2…32,506…….29,329……27,255…….28,570……117,660
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