Nov NPD: 360 wins big with Gears 2 and WaW

LOL. Sony has lost America. Left 4 Dead outsold their HUGE title. OWNED

Just Amazing! Well deserved numbers for a very good console!
Hope this means more high quality games in the near and far future! :)

thats nice but the NPD is only for America...im sure the Japanese numbers say another story but i would like to see all of the sofware sales combined from all the regions

Can't wait to hear what the pro-Sony folks on the Joystiq Podcast have to say about this AND Little Big Planet not selling consoles AND Home not looking to be what Sony had hoped it would turn into AND Blue Ray players not being cheaper than buying a PS3 AND 2008 IN NO FRIGGIN WAY BEING THE YEAR OF THE PS3! It is time to gloat boys Sony you had such a huge following during the PlayStation 2 era than Microsoft came out of nowhere and ripped more than half your audience away from you...WE WIN...YOU LOSE!!! Kisses...

And your controller looks like it was born in 1992!!!! Hahahahahahaha !!!!!!!!!

Not all is good though. The wii is poised to destroy gaming forever.

I mean... is it me? I got my wii almost exactly one year ago... I have not touched it since I was offended by SSBB(Soul Calibur on XBLA is a better fighter...) and yet, who is buying this thing?

The wii is sort of like when the Republicans won in 2000. Nothing good can come from this.

And Gears of War 2 curb stomped my soul.....

I'd really rather not get into it, you all know it, even the fans who defend it til the death know it.

Ahh well I have so many other games to fall back on, at least my collectors box is of the highest quality...

God the PS3 is so terrible. I already knew it would do bad since early 2005, but this is pitiful, and it only gets worse with time.

Please Sony, go officially bankrupt already and go away forever.

im i dunno really the ps3 is a pretty awesome console! good games and good prospects! little big planet is pretty much unheard of for some reason but ive got it and its really good just sony are crap at promoting there big titles really and also i played home last night and it is excellent and shows great promise for sony. There is no doubt the xbox has america you guys love your first person shooters which is fair enough so do i lol but in europe and japan sony are doing very well and there are more exclusives to come from sony. There are some random ps3 titles that i think people arent giving a fair chance, like mgs4 for instance, it has to be one of the best games ever! everyone needs to play that game, also the online is great. overall i must admit im a big sony fan but im getting an xbox this xmas so ill have both consoles and all the great exclusives! i do need to play gears of war 2 though which is shocking as i need to play that game to fill the void in my life lol

also one more thing, killzone 2 will be a great game and i cant really see that going down the pan as quickly as people make out! and i do agree with numion, competition is good, it keeps both sony and ms on their toes so they will keep trying to better eachother!

the important numbers are game sales, and your software attach rate becuase this is how devs and ms make money. if you combine all the wii games on the top 10 they do not amount to the 3 games the 360 has on the list.
in month where you sell 2.04 million consoles thats bad. nothing against people who enjoy the wii but most people just play wii sport or wii fit, and maybe mario kart. where as MS and Sony have a much higher software attach rate.

If you look at waw's sales for both consoles, it looks like there's a lot of money lost going exclusive for other games. It may mean more in hardware sales, but I don't think devs get any of that.

November NDP = PS3 + Coffin + Nail

I don't see why all 360 only owners bash the PS3 so much(I own both and while I play the 360 more, I am more then happy with my PS3)? The PS3 may not be outselling the 360 but it's far from a flop (especially given the price), Sony wiped the floor with Xbox last gen to the point where most assumed that Microsoft would pull out of the race, and the festering pile that is Nintendo with their Gamecube sold horrible compaired to MS and was no where near Sony. Sony and Microsoft switched positions this time, Microsoft made a strong machine with enough power but enough "safe bet" internals to be able to cut costs much easier (like the PS2) and Sony took Xbox's place as the be all end all of high tech console gaming by including a hard drive with every console, Blu-ray, and an open network structure (all very similar to the position Microsoft took last gen) So I hardly think that after only 2 years and 17 million consoles sold the PS3 is a flop and that Sony should go bankrupt, especially given how Nintendo managed to hold on for two straight generations of coming in third.

Everyone always makes like there is some real war here, like one side winning means the difference between democracy (Microsoft) and slavery(Sony), ummm it's not that serious. What you all should be taking seriously is while Microsoft and Sony stand firm on making real games the thrid part of the equation does not. See that is what everyone should be realizing that even with a cheaper console 360 did not even come close to the Wii, even with better games it still lost. Nintendo stands as the only real problem this generation, their entire console is shifting the market in a direction no one here would want to follow. Do you honestly want a Wii-mote set up and waggle controls for the next Xbox or Playstation? Nintendo is pretty much making that to be true. When I look at these numbers I see 1.214 million people helping to make sure I don't have waggle controls, low grade software and edutainment and low grade tech for the next gen, and 2 million people who stand in the way of me being able to game the way I want to.

Nintendo is ruining the industry much like Atari did back in the late 70"s. Think about it Nintendo's best selling titles are not even real games Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Fit, and their latest release Wii Music is barely a game at all. The way things are now would be like those "Play TV sports" things from Radica out selling the PS2 and Xbox last gen(if you don't know what I am talking about look it up and try and tell me thats not the Wii). Take a moment and browse the upcoming Wii release list at ebgames.com, you will find things like Dragonology (a digital book) countless pet games ending with a Z, and total garbage like Calvin Tuckers Redneck Jamboree. Is this what you want? Everyone needs to stop this "Wii60" and "PSwii" mentality and realize that Nintendo is ruining gaming, and that to me is a real problem.

Van Faulk said...

I see your point, but do you see mine? I did not say it was "the end of the world" and do not treat is as such. Rather I view it as an unwelcome change to something I enjoy, and that if said change occurs I will no longer be able to enjoy gaming. I am quite fond of gaming in it's current form and in my opinion Nintendo is trying to prevent that from continuing. So while no one should treat this pass time as anything but I feel that our hobbies are important to us, don't you agree? It would be like telling a painter that he can no longer use oil based paint and can only use those 99 cents water paint sets for kids.

I own all 3 consoles and have 2 Xbox 360 Elites. One of which is mostly used for streaming video for my kids since I dont want them scratching the DVD's we buy them.

However, the Wii does sell and does sell well. But, how many Wii's get played after 6 months of use? I have several friends on co-workers who agree that the novelty of the Wii wears thin or off after 6 months or so. And Wii Fit gets you back in it for a bit but then same old. It goes back to just sitting there. The only time I turn it on now is if I want to play old school Mario.

The PS3. There is only a few games that I have or want to play on it. By FAR MLB 08 Road to the Show is the best baseball game out for any console. But, the rest of the games that were hyped fell thin. And the streaming is not as convenient to a Windows PC than with the 360. There are 2 reasons I got a PS3. One was Blu Ray won the HD war (even though I thought HD DVD looked better) and two the price I got it at. I got the 60gb for 149 off ebay because the person thought it was dead. Turned out that my gamble paid off and it was the 60gb drive that was dead. Threw in a 320gb drive and all is well and it has run for the past year +. But still only use it for Blu Ray.

The 360. Xbox Live is where it is at. Love the bloody thing. I play games all the time on it.

Just a general comment: it's nice to see that most of the XBox 360 Fanboys aren't the rabid kind, but there's been some interesting commentary here.

Myself I was very close to buying the PS3 instead of 360. Last may I was looking for a next gen console for the sole purpose of playing GTAIV. I had bought PS2 for the sole purpose of playing San Andreas, so I was going for the PS3.

I didn't know anything about Live or anything like that, but I was going to use the console with my computer monitor since I hadn't bought a big-ass TV at then. Just the small fact that 360 is easily connectable with VGA cable versus the stupidity that is PS3 monitor connections (== HDMI which my monitor doesn't support), I ended up with 360.

Well, GTA IV was sold out, I bought CoD 4 instead to pass the time, got hooked on Live 1-month offer, never looked back. I think PS3 still has a lot going for it, but a couple of small but in some ways significant things keep it from winning (controller, connections, Live).

Still, most of my friends have PS3 instead of 360 ... Blu-Ray got them, I think.

I am super happy that the 360 version of Left4Dead is doing ok in the sales. Would i love it to sell even more? Of course but those are solid numbers whatever way you look at it! :) World wide i can easily see L4D selling a million just on 360 alone! In fact, i'll be disappointed if it doesn't!

I do feel bad for PS3 owners though, the fact WaW outsold Resistance 2 which is Sonys first party game is really shocking. That would be like CoD:WaW outselling Gears 2.. kind of embarrassing. Also huge shame LBP has dropped off the charts as that looked like an amazing game that i would have loved on 360. No doubt Sony won't be as worried as people think, they are still doing better than 360 in Japan (sales increasing for PS3) and doing solid in Europe.

The Wii did fantastic, i really didn't see it selling 2 million. Just goes to show that it does sell to normal people, that really wouldn't normally care about gaming. Not a bad thing at all, though it does seem like Nintendo have become the Apple ipod of the gaming space.

Ah, Gears of war 2, how I hoped you would do well. How I hoped everyone online wouldn't be shotguns whores, and that said shotgun whores wouldn't be a problem. I like it when playing with friends, but that's all. Alas, that's what you get when you try and give idiots a game that involves strategy...

Anyways, rock on 360! I hope the awesome collection of games that's on you grows even more in 09!