This year's August NPD sales numbers were, as usual, dominated by EA's monolithic Madden franchise -- but who's that creeping out of the shadows? "I'm Batman."
Rocksteady, Warner Bros. and Eidos officially have themselves a critical and commercial hit in Batman: Arkham Asylum, with the game having sold more than half a million copies across PS3 and 360 in its first week on sale. Even the Joker can't laugh at sales like that.
Hardware saw a slight increase for the month, with the exception of PS3, which saw an impressive 72% jump in sales, no doubt due to early sales of the lower-priced 120GB slim SKU. Wii is still the best-selling home console, but its numbers are gradually dipping down into "maybe we should consider a price cut, too" territory. Here's how sales of the stuff we play are games on stacked up:
Rocksteady, Warner Bros. and Eidos officially have themselves a critical and commercial hit in Batman: Arkham Asylum, with the game having sold more than half a million copies across PS3 and 360 in its first week on sale. Even the Joker can't laugh at sales like that.
Hardware saw a slight increase for the month, with the exception of PS3, which saw an impressive 72% jump in sales, no doubt due to early sales of the lower-priced 120GB slim SKU. Wii is still the best-selling home console, but its numbers are gradually dipping down into "maybe we should consider a price cut, too" territory. Here's how sales of the stuff we play are games on stacked up:
-DS: 553K
14K (+2%)-Wii: 277K
24K (+9%)-360: 215K
12K (+6%)-PS3: 210K
88K (+72%)-PSP: 140K
17K (+13%)-PS2: 106K
2K (-2%Check out the software sales chart after the break.
- Madden NFL 10 - 360 - EA - 928K
- Wii Sports Resort (w/ Wii Motion Plus) - Wii - Nintendo - 754K
- Madden NFL 10 - PS3 - EA - 665K
- Batman: Arkham Asylum* - 360 - Eidos - 303K
- Batman: Arkham Asylum* - PS3 - Eidos - 290K
- Madden NFL 10 - PS2 - EA - 160K
- Dissidia: Final Fantasy - PSP - Square Enix - 130K
- Wii Fit (w/ Balance Board) - Wii - Nintendo - 128K
- Mario Kart (w/ Wheel) - Wii - Nintendo - 120K
- Fossil Fighters - DS - Nintendo - 92K
