News Tagged: NPD

Friday 17th July, 2009 - 20:57 BST

News: Nintendo Still Dominating NPD Charts

Nintendo Still Dominating NPD Charts

MotionPlus off to a good start.

Another month, another Nintendo sales win for the U.S.Despite declining overall hardware sales by 38 percent year-over-year, Nintendo still managed to carve out over half of console and portable sales for the month of June, with Wii moving around 374,000 units and the DS family raking in a bazonga 766,500 handhelds.Observe:All three home consoles saw modest..

19 comments | In Wii, DS, Nintendo, NPD, MotionPlus.

Tuesday 31st March, 2009 - 13:21 BST

News: Reggie: Wii Games Must Sell a Million to Make a Profit

Reggie: Wii Games Must Sell a Million to Make a Profit

That’s a lot of copies, how many have made the cut?

Unfortunately, not that many. In fact, most games typically sell less than 150,000 copies according to a New York Times article, where Nintendo of America’s head honcho Reggie Fils-Aime shared this interesting information. Fils-Aime said “[one million titles] was a lower threshold than for the other consoles,” and to make that number..

7 comments | In Wii, Reggie, Nintendo Wii, NPD, Sales.

Monday 23rd March, 2009 - 19:45 GMT

News: Halo 3 Gets Wii-Fitted

Halo 3 Gets Wii-Fitted

Bungie's third iteration in its console-profiling Halo series has recently been 1upp-ed in sales by Nintendo's calorie-zapping Balance Board title.

As well as topping the NPD charts for last month in the U.S of A for what seems like the gazillionth time, Wii Fit has also reached the milestone selling amount of six million (that's a lot of flab dancing about right now).In comparison, the XBox 360's..

2 comments | In Wii, Wii Fit, Nintendo, Halo, Balance Board, NPD.