Halo 3 Pushes September Game Sales to $1.36B
Both software and hardware sales were dominated by either Halo 3 or the game's platform, Xbox 360. Unsurprisingly taking the top spot for software, sales of all Halo 3 versions hit 3,256,082 units, bringing Microsoft approximately $225 million in revenue. Each version actually sold more on its own that any game in September, with the standard $59.99 edition's 2,367,795 leading, followed by the $69.99 collector's edition with 511,437, and the $129.99 Spartan helmet-including Legendary edition's 376,850 units sold.
No doubt spurred by Halo 3's launch, the 360 sold the most out of any hardware platform, with its 528,000 systems nearly doubling sales from a month prior. But even the Wii's second place at 501,000 consoles sold set a record for the platform, surpassing even the Wii's launch month in the states. Sony's systems took the last two spots in home console sales, with the PlayStation 2's 215,000 and the PlayStation 3's 119,000 units.
Sales of portable consoles were up as well to $126.2 million, a 28% year-over-year increase, led by strong DS sales of 496,000. As always, the PSP trailed in second with 285,000, despite September seeing the launch of the system's slimmer redesign.
After Halo 3, software sales for the month revealed an assortment of titles for all platforms bringing in $550.5 million total for the consoles, a 64% increase. Interestingly, sales of the PS2 version of EA Tiburon's Madden NFL 08 beat sales of the Xbox 360 version of the game. The 360 version beat the PS2 iteration handily last month, revealing something of a shift in the home console climate. Check out the top ten software sales and their respective figures below:
- Halo 3 (Bungie, Microsoft Game Studios, X360) - 3,256,082
- Wii Play with Wii Remote (Nintendo, Wii) - 282,000
- The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo, NDS) - 224,000
- Madden NFL 08 (EA Tiburon, EA Sports, PS2) - 205,000
- Skate (EA Black Box, EA Games, X360) - 175,000
- Madden NFL 08 (EA Tiburon, EA Sports, X360) - 173,000
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Retro Studios, Nintendo, Wii) - 167,000
- BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia, 2K Games, X360) - 150,000
- Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day (Nintendo, NDS) - 141,000
- Heavenly Sword (Ninja Theory, SCEE, PS3) - 139,000
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sevogajre
replySo are Metroid Prime 3's sales figures ~400k or so now?
That's pretty good, considering its launch window, but still a bit disappointing. :/-
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also consider the attach rate. 3.2 million copies of Halo 3 for ~15 million 360s? 400k copies of MP3 for 16 million Wiis? Will Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Bros sell nearly as well as Halo?
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You are taking software sales in North America compared to hardware sales worldwide.
It should be 3.2 million copies of Halo 3 for 6.8 million 360s and 400k copies of MP3 for 4.5 million Wiis. So 50% compared to 10% or so. Mario and / or Super Smash will probably sell better then MP3. -
Mario Galaxy probably won't, but if the other Smash Bros. games are any indication, Brawl will sell for a very, very long time.
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Wii owners don't buy games :( I think I spotted a flaw in flirting with the casuals. They don't buy much.
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400k isn't bad for a August release. I'm sure they'll pick up a lot of sales during the holidays when gamers get back to it after playing Halo 3. Unfortunately, it had no where near the marketing that Halo 3 did.
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