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Game Sales Bring in $1.1B for October, Wii Retakes Hardware Charts
Carlos Bergfeld
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NPD has kept its word and released gaming sales numbers for October, revealing game-related revenues of $1.1 billion for the month, a 73 percent year-over-year increase.

Hardware sales brought the biggest increase with growth of 127 percent over last year to $469.7 million. The console sales were led by Nintendo's Wii, which reclaimed its spot atop the hardware sales charts after the Xbox 360's Halo 3-related sales spike last month.

Nintendo actually took the top two hardware spots, with the Wii selling 519,000 units and the portable DS moving 458,000. Microsoft's Xbox 360 came in at a respectable third with 366,000 units sold, followed by Sony's PlayStation family with 286,000 PSP sales, 184,000 PS2 sales, and 121,000 PS3 sales.

On the software side, Bungie's Halo 3 (X360) still topped the charts when considering all editions of the game, but the various versions of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PC, PS2, PS3, Wii, X360) showed up in four places in the top 10 best-selling games of the month, with all versions of the game selling 1.4 million copies total.

Look below for the full list of top-10 software sales.

  1. Halo 3 [all editions] (X360, Bungie, Microsoft) 434,000 units
  2. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle (X360, Neversoft, Activision) 383,000 units
  3. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle (Wii, Vicarious Visions, Activision) 286,000 units
  4. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle (PS2, Budcat, Activision) 271,000 units
  5. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (NDS, Nintendo) 263,000 units
  6. Wii Play with Wii Remote (Wii, Nintendo) 240,000 units
  7. The Orange Box (X360, Valve, EA) 238,000 units
  8. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2, Budcat, Activision) 232,000 units
  9. FIFA 08 (PS2, EA Canada, EA) 130,000 units
  10. Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day! (NDS, Nintendo) 117,000 units
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  • dravalen legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    November 15, 2007 6:22 PM

    Wow, that's a ton of rockband units.

    • dravalen legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      November 15, 2007 6:22 PM

      err I mean GH3, it's been a long day...

      • Judicus legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        November 15, 2007 6:47 PM

        I was surprised to see the Wii version outsold the PS2 version.

        • Chris Remo legacy 10 years
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          November 15, 2007 6:52 PM

          It's definitely right up the Wii userbase's alley, it's exactly the kind of third party Wii game I figured would be successful. But yeah, beating PS2 is impressive.

          • Shivawn legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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            November 15, 2007 7:19 PM

            ...it didn't beat the PS2.

            It beat the PS2 Bundle sales. But it also had Bundle and NON-bundle. Most people who have a PS2 and buying GH3 already have a guitar, why spring for another? Wii folks HAD to buy the bundle, so that inflates the numbers if you're only looking at the bundle to bundle sales.

            If anything, the PS2 sales of GH3 were staggering.

            • Chris Remo legacy 10 years
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              November 15, 2007 7:26 PM

              Yeah, I mean the Wii version of GH3 isn't competing against any non-bundle version. If you have a guitar already you are clearly by default buying whatever version you already own, with the possible exception of wanting to switch to 360 for Live or something, which probably contributes to 360's high GH3 sales as well.

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