NPD: Video game sales data for 2008

January 15th, 2009 Posted in Business, Hardware, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, PSP, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Sales, Wii, Xbox 360

NPD is reporting the total video game sale numbers for last year. Video games sales in total have topped $21 billion, which is an impressive 19% up from 2007. Surprisingly, the top selling game of the year was released in February of last year; Wii Play. Let’s take at the raw data:

Category / Total / Change

  • Video Games: $21.33 billion +19%
  • Video Games Hardware: $7.81 billion +11%
  • Video Games Software: $10.96 billion +26%
  • Video Game Accessories: $2.57 billion +14%

Game Software (in units sold)

  1. Wii Play with Wii Remote (Wii, Nintendo) – 5.28 million
  2. Mario Kart Wii (Wii, Nintendo) – 5 million
  3. Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo) – 4.53 million
  4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, Nintendo) – 4.17 million
  5. Grand Theft Auto IV (360, Take-Two) – 3.29 million
  6. Call of Duty: World at War (360, Activision) – 2.75 million
  7. Gears of War 2 (360, Microsoft) – 2.31 million
  8. Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, Take-Two) – 1.89 million
  9. Madden NFL 09 (360, Electronic Arts) – 1.87 million
  10. Mario Kart DS (DS, Nintendo) – 1.65 million

Hit the jump for December’s sales data.

THE NPD GROUP’S DECEMBER 2008 US GAME INDUSTRY SALES

Category / Total / Change

  • Video Games: $5.29 billion +9%
  • Video Games Hardware: $1.88 billion +2%
  • Video Games Software: $2.75 billion +15%
  • Video Game Accessories: $662 million +8%

Hardware Sales (in units sold)

  • Nintendo DS: 3.04 million
  • Wii: 2.15 million
  • Xbox 360: 1.44 million
  • PlayStation 2: 410,000
  • PlayStation Portable: 1.02 million
  • PlayStation 3: 726,000

Game Software (in units sold)

  1. Wii Play with Wii Remote (Wii, Nintendo) – 1.46 million
  2. Call of Duty: World at War (360, Activision) – 1.33 million
  3. Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo) – 999,000
  4. Mario Kart Wii (Wii, Nintendo) – 979,000
  5. Guitar Hero World Tour (Wii, Activision) – 850,000
  6. Gears of War 2 (360, Microsoft) – 745,000
  7. Left 4 Dead (360, Electronic Arts) – 629,000
  8. Mario Kart DS (DS, Nintendo) – 540,000
  9. Call of Duty: World at War (PS3, Activision) – 533,000
  10. Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii, Nintendo) – 497,000

via GameSpot

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