EEDAR predicts February NPD sales decline, Wii sales explosion
by Griffin McElroy 
on Mar 16th 2009 3:43PM
The industry analysts at
Electronic Entertainment Design and Research recently cast their assortment of oracle bones over some spreadsheets in an attempt to
foretell NPD sales figures for the month of February. The firm's prediction is a
tad on the grim side -- according to EEDAR, February software sales reached $659 million, a 2 percent decrease from last year's sales. They foresee a year-on-year decline for Spring 2009 sales as a whole, largely due to last year's glut of blockbuster Q1 releases, such as
Super Smash Bros. Brawl and
GTA IV.
EEDAR's hardware sales estimates are similarly un-rosy -- they predict year-on-year February sales for the PSP, DS and PS3 to fall over 10 percent. However, the firm does predict an 18 percent increase for the 360, and a whopping
68 percent jump for the Wii. With
Wii Fit standing atop EEDAR's software sales chart, and with
Wii Play presumably surpassing 10 million LTD sales as of last month, it seems Nintendo's license to print money is far from expiring.
