February NPD: Street Fighter IV, Wii Fit battle as Nintendo dominates hardware sales

by Randy Nelson { Mar 19th 2009 at 8:50PM }

Zangief's always struck us as a perpetual sourpuss, but he -- and the rest of the Street Fighter IV crew -- must be cracking polygonal smiles right about now. So are Capcom's accountants, sans the polygons (we think).

While Wii Fit was once again at the top of software sales for February, the combined total of SFIV copies moved for PS3 and 360 has the fighter closing in on 1 million units sold in its first two weeks (actually outselling Wii Fit by 205K copies). Reported sales of the PS3-exclusive Killzone 2 are at 323K after a mere 48 hours on shelves, landing it in 5th place. Finally, Wii Play has officially broken the 10 million sold mark in the US.

On the hardware front, Nintendo seems to be doing pretty well with this "Wii" thing, selling almost 3/4 million of whatever they are. DS maintained its second-in-command spot for the month, followed by Xbox 360 and PS3 -- the latter of which only outsold its previous iteration by 79K consoles. Overall hardware sales were up considerably over January.

Fun Fact: The analysts of EEDAR were a little off with their February software revenue and top 10 titles predictions, to the tune of $75 million in sales (NPD's final accounting was $733.5M, EEDAR had expected $659M).

-Wii: 753K

74K (+11%)
-DS: 588K

77K (+15%)
-Xbox 360: 391K

82K (+27%)
-PS3: 276K

73K (+36%)
-PSP: 199K

27K (+16%)
-PS2: 131K

30K (+30%)

Check out the software sales chart after the break.

Top 10 Games of February 2009

1. Wii Fit with balance board - Nintendo - 644K
2. Street Fighter IV - Xbox 360 - Capcom - 446K*
3. Street Fighter IV - PS3 - Capcom - 403K*
4. Wii Play with remote - Nintendo - 386K
5. Killzone 2 - Sony - 323K
6. Mario Kart Wii with wheel - Nintendo - 263K
7. Call of Duty: World at War - Xbox 360 - Activision - 193K*
8. Mario Kart DS - Nintendo - 145K
9. New Super Mario Bros. - Nintendo - 144K
10. Guitar Hero World Tour - Wii - Activision - 136K*

* Includes Collector's, Limited and Bundled Editions

Tags: capcom, nintendo, npd, npd-monthly, sales, sales-data, street-fighter-iv, wii-fit

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

Rocks @ Mar 19th 2009 8:55PM

Wow, nintendo cleaned house this month.

Kodros @ Mar 20th 2009 12:29PM

"LBP will basically sit at the 1.3 million mark, maybe topping out at around 1.7 million by the end of this generation."

I believe that LBP is over the 2 million mark now.

Kodros @ Mar 20th 2009 12:48PM

Whoops, replied to the wrong comment.

Longhorn4Life (PSN MariusElijah) @ Mar 19th 2009 8:57PM

Glad to see America trying to get into shape, which it was a different way though
Well Killzone 2 FLOPPED, I know it was released for just 2 days but with all that hype not impressive initial sales.

Vcize @ Mar 19th 2009 9:01PM

Let's see what happens with March NPD. Two days is only two days.

Longhorn4Life (PSN MariusElijah) @ Mar 19th 2009 9:04PM

Im pretty sure it will sell but dont expect it to be on the top ten (or it might be at the very end) next month, because of RE5, GTA, Halo Wars, and the shovelware

MLC (PSN ID: Myke-Myke) @ Mar 19th 2009 9:07PM

Flopped?

Street Fighter IV sold 400K in 2 over weeks on PS3 and Kz2 sold over 300K with barely a commercial. Like above stated, it was 2 days. Sony should have more marketing but Kz2 IS the shooter that I and most likely every other of FPS fan hoped it become. I mean, with 3 plus years in the making, it'd better! LOL!

Save the judgment, for at least after a couple weeks to a month....

B @ Mar 19th 2009 9:07PM

even though it only sold 1/3rd of Halo 2/3 in their first two days it's still only two days for a unknown franchise.

SoulBlade @ Mar 19th 2009 9:13PM

I think KZ2 is doing well in Europe.. NPD doesn't show such figures but a google search is all it takes.

Fernando Rocker @ Mar 19th 2009 9:16PM

Well... Gears of War 1, Gears of War 2, Halo 3, GTA4, MGS4, Mario Kart Wii, SSBB, Super Mario Galaxy... all those games sold A LOT more in one day, with less install base, than Killzone 2, and KZ 2 was equally hyped (if not, even more) as the other games.

Longhorn4Life (PSN MariusElijah) @ Mar 19th 2009 9:19PM

I hate to do this but I have to agree with Fernando
plus the same thing was said about LBP and we all know how that turned out, it sold but not well enough to make it a killer app

tmacairjordan87 @ Mar 19th 2009 9:22PM

At least it sold more in 2 days on a system with FAR less people than madworld has in a week so far, eh fernando? So much for those hardcore games on the wii thing workin out for ya.

Mr Khan @ Mar 19th 2009 9:26PM

Flop? No. Not a flop necessarily, unless you're talking about what Sony expected. I would think they would have pinned higher hopes than that on it, if only because they've probably sunk quite a bit of money into Guerilla Games

WRE @ Mar 19th 2009 9:28PM

Did you get crabs or something this week, tmac? Because you seem more bitchy and vindictive than usual.

copa @ Mar 19th 2009 9:28PM

Really, tmac? The PS3 Fanboy is going to play the Mad World card to try and insult the Wii?

That's like Craig Ehlo talking a bunch of shit to Michael Jordan because he missed a free throw.

Mr Khan @ Mar 19th 2009 9:29PM

come on, tmac. It's a Clover game, and on Wii. It wouldn't have pushed strong launch numbers anyway

But wait a bit before passing too strong of judgment. The long tail will probably pick up for MadWorld too.

tmacairjordan87 @ Mar 19th 2009 9:36PM

I'll tell ya one thing wii fanboys are good at, excuses. They'll tell you how game X is going to change the perspective of hardcore games on the wii, then like every other one it comes out and bombs sales wise. You got a system pushing 40 million people probably and it only does 60k in a week? That's a complete joke!

Don't blame it on advertising either (another common excuse), cause I've seen just as many madworld commercials as killzone 2. What's funny is as I started writing this one just came on too.

Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Mar 19th 2009 9:38PM

Flopped!?!?!?

Dude thats just TWO day sales and for the US ONLY. I'd be willing to say it did 750k Globally in those 2 days

Premature ejaculation man @ Mar 19th 2009 9:38PM

Its not a flop, could have done better (by comparison) though still is pretty damn good. It has been hyped like no other game I've seen (for PS3) There was/is a fair bit of marketing for it.

So: Its good, its selling, who really cares that much as long as YOU enjoy the game and there's enough people to play against in multiplayer (which there always will be)

Hyams @ Mar 19th 2009 9:51PM

Flop?

WTF?

You're basing that off of *two days* of sales in a *single region*, during which time it hit a third of a million?

It sold over a mil in only two weeks, America and EU combined.

Damnit, some people can never be pleased.

Moptimus Slime (Leader of the Taylor Swift Defense Force, Gobot in disguise) @ Mar 19th 2009 9:51PM

tmac: Sony/Gamestop boasted about having OVER 9000! preorders in the US alone. Now, I don't know about where you preorder games (if you even do) but my experience with preordering is you have a 48 hour reserve then its every man for himself. Killzone 2 was out long enough to meet that 48 hour period yet did only 1/3 of what they said they had. Of course, maybe it would've reached the benchmark they set if reviewers weren't so B1453D against Sony.

Also, funny how you mention making excuses yet right above that you pull the whole "bu-bu-but, it was only out for 2 days!" card even after Fernando already pointed out how games like Gears of War and Halo 3 (you know, that game that Killzone 2 is supposed to kill) sold more in half that time. And if MadWorld continues its 50k-70k a week (which you have yet to support) it would still have cracked this months NPD and just added to the Wii titles on the list.

Noshino @ Mar 19th 2009 9:53PM

"Well... Gears of War 1, Gears of War 2, Halo 3, GTA4, MGS4, Mario Kart Wii, SSBB, Super Mario Galaxy... all those games sold A LOT more in one day, with less install base, than Killzone 2,"

Gears 1: It came out after not having that many AAA shooters (http://tinyurl.com/cdps84), not only that, but there was heavy marketing by Microsoft. It took them a week to reach about 600k.

Gears 2: Fanbase built by previous title, even heavier marketing by Microsoft

Halo 3: Come on man, really? over 10 million on advertisement alone...

GTA4: REALLY?...

I can go on all day about why those titles sold more (and it is rather sad that you had to use them in your argument), but the main point is that they already had an established fanbase and were supported by, for the most part, heavy advertisement.

"and KZ 2 was equally hyped (if not, even more) as the other games."

ok, BULLSHIT

SSBB was hyped to no end, hell, Nintendo fans fainted with any Dojo news, just like GTA fans whenever a news trailer came out, and let's not forget how Halo fans claimed that the Super Bowl ad was real.

Once again, to claim that KZ 2's hype was near as big as those titles you mentioned is rather naive.

It is Sony's fault, KZ2 pretty much counted on its hyped and quality alone, it didn't have the advertisement push of the same magnitude of the titles above, nor did it have a big established fanbase (KZ1's and Liberation's fanbase were considerably smaller)

tmacairjordan87 @ Mar 19th 2009 9:58PM

*sniff* I smell more ninty fanboy excuses. It flopped, but that's ok cause we all saw that coming. It should have had a couple hundred thousand in that first week at least just by the sheer number of wiis there are. Now I want you all to apologize for doubting my and countless others infinite wisdom and admit that hardcore games and wii don't go together.

TheDemiurge @ Mar 19th 2009 10:00PM

323K in 2 days is a flop? Maybe I'm out of touch on what a hit is but that sounds prett good to me, especially regarding the PS3's userbase.

Hyams @ Mar 19th 2009 10:00PM

What Noshino said.

For a game that:

a) Is not a sequal to a popular game,

b) Launched during the slowest period of the year,

c) In the PS3's weakest region,

d) Was only selling for 48 hours,

It's sold damn well. As I pointed out below, it's selling on level with COD: WAW on the PS3, which is from a very popular franchise and launched during the holiday season.

What more could you people possibly want?

Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Mar 19th 2009 10:01PM

yea like Shino said, KZ2 was NOT as hyped as Halo 3. hell nothing is, I saw Halo 3 Ads while watching the HISTORY Channel, and OTHER non-typical demographic channels. I've seen ONE KZ2 commercial and JUST during shows that most males 17-35 would watch. Halo 3 had Ads on MILLIONS of Mountain Dew bottles for petes sake. Sony couldnt HOPE to touch that with KZ2.......now KZ3, however, could EASILY be a different story

Fernando Rocker @ Mar 19th 2009 10:04PM

So, tmac... from where did you get that info? You keep saying that MadWorld flopped, but no official numbers has been released.

Moptimus Slime (Leader of the Taylor Swift Defense Force, Gobot in disguise) @ Mar 19th 2009 10:05PM

Nosh: I've seen more ads for Killzone 2 (going on 12, I've watched a lot of TV lately) than SSBB (once a week for 3 weeks), Gears 2 (only one, which is odd considering how I couldn't even pick up my remote without seeing the Madworld ad), and Halo 3 (about 5) combined. Just sayin'

Also, I don't recall any of those games being reviewed a month in advance or having fanboys going as batshit-insane to call anyone who gave it a perfect score biased against the company *COUGHCOUGHG4COUGHCOUGH*

tmacairjordan87 @ Mar 19th 2009 10:08PM

Just google madworld sales. First one for me was a gamespot forum topic taken from vgcharts (i know, but you use them all the time fernando).

Oh and my personal favorite.

http://gonintendo.com/?p=76233

Concrete sales? No, but it's safe to bet those are pretty close.

Moptimus Slime (Leader of the Taylor Swift Defense Force, Gobot in disguise) @ Mar 19th 2009 10:16PM

so your 2 sources use the same site and you claim that as "concrete evidence"?

also, again with the excuses! Two wrongs do NOT make a right, my friend

tmacairjordan87 @ Mar 19th 2009 10:20PM

Moptimus, I don't understand why you're in such denial. IT...FLOPPED. The sooner you can admit that the sooner you can get past this apparently tough time in your life and move on. I've got bro hugs available for all the crushed nintendo fans, even though you all should have seen this coming, but I'm being nice.

Moptimus Slime (Leader of the Taylor Swift Defense Force, Gobot in disguise) @ Mar 19th 2009 10:37PM

tmac:

1. your 2 "sources" both use the same source ( a source you yourself admit isn't accurate) and try to pass it off as legitimate sales data. Yet again, your numbers come from one place.

http://alchymie.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/louba_3.jpg

2. Flops are determined by a companies forcasted sales. If you ask me, Mirrors Edge was quite successful, yet when you look at the amount EA hoped it would sell and the amount it needed to sell for EA to see a return of investment, it flopped. Big time. Im sure if you talked to SEGA or the guys at Platinum they'd say 60K a week is a rousing success seeing as how there previous games barely made 60K in a quarter.

Noshino @ Mar 19th 2009 10:37PM

Moptimus

http://www.gamerankings.com/wii/928518-super-smash-bros-brawl/articles.html?sort=3

That's a month in advance as well

and cmon, no one likes to give Nintendo developed games low scores, remember what happened with Twilight Princess?...lol

Also, If Im not wrong, it was SCEE talking about the pre-order numbers, not the US, and please, where have you been seeing these ads? I have yet to see the KZ2 one here in Florida, and my tv is on almost the whole day...

Nando,

He got that information from the site that you consider holy, weird that you hadn't noticed it since you visit said site rather often :P

Longhorn4Life (PSN MariusElijah) @ Mar 19th 2009 10:40PM

Ok Madworld flopped (which means Conduit will flopped too...right), Killzone 2 didn't but its sells are still not impressive

TheFireSideChats @ Mar 19th 2009 10:45PM

EDIT: Trolling. I've been banned.

Hyams @ Mar 19th 2009 10:46PM

Let me say again:

Killzone 2 is selling on par with the PS3 version of COD:WaW (you know, COD:WaW, that game what is the best selling FPS ever).

If you don't consider that impressive then your expectations were unreasonable.

Hyams @ Mar 19th 2009 10:54PM

Yes TheFireSideChats, because sales are an indication of quality.

(Wii Sports is the best gamer ever, apparently.)

Longhorn4Life (PSN MariusElijah) @ Mar 19th 2009 11:03PM

All im gonna say is Killzone 2 has been hype ever since that infamous E3 trailer and to see it sells just that many( I know, I know 2 days) is disappointing......Still that game is gorgeous, best FPS EVER

Hyams @ Mar 19th 2009 11:12PM

The Killzone 2 hype train didn't get going until towards the end of 2008, when the Beta opened up.

Prior to that, the general consesus was that it was going to be a pretty game with poor gameplay and terrible AI (to the point where many people were claiming it was going to be inferior to Resistance 2). The E3 2005 CGI certainly hadn't helped much either.

I was one of the few people hyped for the game before then, largely because I enjoyed the origional on the PS2. (And ironically, I still haven't been able to play Killzone 2 =[ myself).

But as I said earlier, internet hype means nothing anyway. What so many people on here are forgetting is that we hardcore forum-posting blog-reading sales-debating gamers make up only a tiny minority of gamers as a whole. What we're looking forward to isn't what the rest of humanity is looking forward too.

Noshino @ Mar 19th 2009 11:19PM

TheFireSideChats

"But yes sales are an indicator of what people are finding fun in and what they think is worthy of their money."

Yes, that is true, but it only applies as long as the product is advertised, how can they find it fun or worth their money if they are not even aware/informed about the product?...

"Killzone 2 flopped. Deal with it. It did have the same amount of hype as Halo 3. Maybe not as much money was put into it's ad campaign as MS put into Halo 3's but money WAS spent. As in remember all those KZ2 posts covering these commercials sony had come up?"

Once again, BULLSHIT. Halo 3 had one of the most insane hype's I have seen, but anyway.

The point was that the money spent on Halo 3 was insane, it is just stupid to compare both campaigns. Halo 3 got attention everywhere, hell, even in sodas.

Once again, it isn't all about quality for a game to sell, it also needs good marketing/advertisement, and its even better (sales wise) if it has mainstream appeal as well and builds up hype. And even then, if the game is a sequel with previous installment not faring very well, or a new property, then more than likely its sales will be lower.

Oh, and for the record, if Im not wrong, there was pretty much only one KZ2 ad per region...(hopefully you aren't talking about the Super Bowl ad since it was reported to be fake)

"As countless others have already pointed out other similarly hyped games sold more than that within the same time frame."

And I explained why those examples can't be compared to KZ2

"Like I said though I'm willing to wait till we see March's results before drawing a full conclusion. But I highly doubt KZ2 will perform better."

Don't wait buddy, because you more than likely won't change your thinking even if proven wrong.

Hyams @ Mar 19th 2009 11:25PM

I should probably also just make this clear, because I've posted quite a lot:

I have no vested interest in Killzone 2 selling well. I don't really care, to be honest. It could have sold only 100k first week, and apart from being upset that it sold too little to warrant a sequal, it wouldn't bother me.

I'm not trying to defend poor sales here. I'm not trying to spin anything. I'm not trying to do any console war sales thing - if I was, I'd have pointed out that KZ2 is selling better than Halo Wars, that RE5 sold better on the PS3 than the 360, that Star Ocean actually *did* bomb (selling far, far less than the last game in the series), and that in the US, SF4 on the 360 was barely able to beat out the PS3 version, despite there being twice as many 360s as PS3s,

Fact is, Killzone 2 sold *good* - it impressed me, which is why I was so surprised to read all these comments from people claiming it bombed. Bombed? Based on what? Internet hype, apparently, that inquantifable quantity that means absolutely nothing in the real world.

tl;dr version: Killzone 2, sold good. Get over it.

Hyams @ Mar 19th 2009 11:40PM

Hmm.

http://xkcd.com/386/

Bissy Boy (PSN johnnynumber5) @ Mar 19th 2009 11:46PM

Moptimus

I think that million pre-order thing for KZ2 was Europe not NA.

samfish (is ready for MadWorld!) @ Mar 19th 2009 11:58PM

Haha. Poor tmac. Most pathetic attempt at trolling ever. You aren't even trying to hide your Sony fanboy colors anymore, either. Good for you.

Everybody's favorite douchebag aside, I don't expect Killzone 2's sales to go much higher in next month's NPDs. First day sales are always the best for these kinds of games.
Bear in mind that the EXACT same thing happened last year with GTA4. NPD numbers were considerable lower than expected and hardware sales for both platforms didn't really get a bump. And GTA 4's first showing on the NPDs was with only 2 days of sales, too.
I don't think Killzone 2 is a flop (although, as Mr Khan said, it's really about publisher expectations)...just saying that I expect it to be considerably lower on next month's NPD numbers. Might not even chart, although I'd bet it will.

As far as MadWorld goes, I'm guessing between 150k-170k sales in it's first month.

Bissy Boy (PSN johnnynumber5) @ Mar 20th 2009 12:11AM

Samfish

Aren't you the same guy that said LBP's sales wouldn't increase over time? Some rant about how only Wii games like Mario kart and Wii Fit increase in sales over time. I believe you said it would never break 1 million sales as well.

Besides, the only reason you are calling him a douchebag is because he hates the system you are a ardent fanboy of. If he were railing on the PS3 and praising The Wii he would be in your inner circle.

Just wait a little while longer and everything will become more clear. I'm bound by a strict NDA for the time being. A big announcement is on the horizon.

samfish (is ready for MadWorld!) @ Mar 20th 2009 1:13AM

"Aren't you the same guy that said LBP's sales wouldn't increase over time? Some rant about how only Wii games like Mario kart and Wii Fit increase in sales over time."

And I was right? What's your point? I always said it would probably break 1 million in sales, but it would struggle to do it. In January, official numbers from Sony were 1.3 million "unique users" playing LBP. LBP will basically sit at the 1.3 million mark, maybe topping out at around 1.7 million by the end of this generation. If it had Wii Fit or Mario Kart-esque legs, we would have seen it by now.

"Just wait a little while longer and everything will become more clear. I'm bound by a strict NDA for the time being. A big announcement is on the horizon."

Haha — so..."just wait until..."? :p

And don't defend tmac. You're better than that. He's a blatant troll and we all know it. It would be like me defending Sprinkles or something.

~Snipes~ (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ Mar 20th 2009 1:13AM

TheFireSideChats = sprinkles

look at his comment and profile for proof. sprinkles - you haven't played killzone 2 or resistance 2 or used a ps3 for a decent amount of time so you can't say they're undeservedly hyped or that they suck.

~Snipes~ (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ Mar 20th 2009 1:28AM

hey guys, i got this from moptimus. hopefully this one image can end the flame wars once and for all.

http://i.gizmodo.com/photogallery/consolecartoonspt2/1007124316

Quattro @ Mar 20th 2009 9:09AM

Well I'm sure Killzone 2 will turn a profit, I don't think it will exceed the sales expectations that Sony had for it.

Bissy Boy (PSN johnnynumber5) @ Mar 20th 2009 1:04PM

Samfish

"And I was right? What's your point? I always said it would probably break 1 million in sales, but it would struggle to do it. In January, official numbers from Sony were 1.3 million "unique users" playing LBP. LBP will basically sit at the 1.3 million mark, maybe topping out at around 1.7 million by the end of this generation."

The game has already sold over 2 million world wide. It was one of the few PS360 games that sold better as time continued to pass. Unique users only counts people who have played online. Before it was "what evidence do you have to support that LBP will break 1 million. There is nothing to suggest it will" and now it's going to "sit at the 1.3 million mark". Again, you weren't right you were wrong. You should just try admitting it once in a while.

As far as the "just wait til ..." comment. It's not what you think it is. I can't really talk about it but it will blow your socks off. An announcement should be available within the next few weeks at the most.

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