Red Dead romps May US sales

By Robert Purchese Published 2 July, 2010

Rockstar's cowboy game shifts 1.5m units.

The NPD results for US videogame and hardware sales during May 2010 are in, and it's Red Dead Redemption wearing the sheriff's badge.

Rockstar's Wild West game topped proceedings on Xbox 360 with 945,900 units sold. The PS3 version cantered behind with 567,100 units sold.

In third, Super Mario Galaxy 2 managed 563,900 units sold.

From there the drop-off was steep: UFC Undisputed 2010 occupied fourth and fifth but with 221,100 units sold on Xbox 360 and 192,300 units sold on PS3.

Wii Fit Plus, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Alan Wake, Pokemon SoulSilver and Skate 3 rounded out the top 10.

Nintendo's hardware was rampant and combined to sell over 700,000 units during May. That broke down to 383,700 DS units sold and 334,800 Wii consoles sold.

Xbox 360 fared next best with 194,600 units sold; PlayStation 3 was bought 154,500 times.

The PlayStation Portable was bottom of the pile with 59,400 units sold.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • BabyJesus #1 2 years ago

    Wow@RDR numbers, I can see why they said the sales sucked the rest of the market dry( Except from SMG2).

    Unless the rest of the software market perks up soon we're heading for a mini-crash.

  • Stoatboy #2 2 years ago

    @Mickey2010: Fuck me, is it that hard to use capitals where they're meant to be, rather than just for acronyms? Your post is practically unreadable.

    Then again. judging by the first couple of sentences (which is as far as I could be bothered to decypher) it wasn't worth reading anyhow, so perhaps your piss-poor grammar is a blessing after all...

  • Eraysor #3 2 years ago

    Glad to see RDR doing so well; one of two contenders for my personal GOTY along with Mass Effect 2.

  • MDL199 #4 2 years ago

    @Mickey

    The 360's ahead of the PS3 in the States but i'd hardly say it was dominating. Playstation does better in Europe and Japan but so what..

    You sound like you have a hard on for Bill Gates by the way.

  • enfilade #5 2 years ago

    Debating who sells the most consoles is like arguing about whether McDonalds or Burger King is the public's fast-food joint of choice: who cares? There's evidently demand for both, there's evidently ROOM for both, if you prefer one the existence of a rival is a POSITIVE rather than a negative because the rival will keep them in check through the presence of their competition. Just eat the fucking burger you like best, and respect other people's choices.

    I'm so sick of this fucking childish argument.

  • bad09 #6 2 years ago

    "Its very important who sells the most consoles."

    To gamers no it really really isn't, in any way. To sad fanboys trying to "win one" *waves at Mickey2010* yes it is.....

  • MiniAmin #7 2 years ago

    Eh lads and ladies, remember, don't feed the trolls ;)

    Glad to see Super Mario Galaxy 2 selling so well, I reckon it'll end up selling millions, some titles on the Wii (Mario Kart, Wii Fit) don't initially burst sales records, but they just continue to sell and sell. Hopefully Mario Galaxy 2 falls into that category, great game.

  • NotSoSlim #8 2 years ago

    Mickey is a troll no doubt...the slim didn't boost sales the price drop did!! Moron and good luck to MS if they think Kinect will boost the sales way beyond PS3

  • des #9 2 years ago

    Looks like Sony has PS3 manufacturing problems.

    They can't manufacture enough interest ...

  • brseg #10 2 years ago

    With the biggest of the big summer releases out of the way (RDR and SMG2) you have to worry a bit for the remainder of the summer. what on earth is there to buy in the next few months? Everything I'm waiting on is after September.

    I still think the industry needs to reconsider price points of new releases. e.g. I enjoyed the Blur demo, its a fun arcade racer, but they release it at 35-40 quid. Everyone knows an arcade racer is not going to stay at 40 quid for long (its now 25 quid on ShopTo), so they lose on initial sales.

  • Cronan #11 2 years ago

    What I want to know is, who the heck is still buying all those Wiis and DSes? 700,000+?? Just amazing.
    Edited by Cronan at 02/07/10 @ 11:27

  • SEVQA #12 2 years ago

    I avoided getting RDR for awhile as I'm not a huge western fan and went for ModNationRacers, which is very good indeed. I got RDR last week and I'm sold on the western fantasy as the game is trully excellent and deserves the praise. well done R*.

  • ALiasEX #13 2 years ago

    I don't get the "who are buying these DS/Wiis" comments.

    Especially the Wii, it has a long way to catch the PS2.

  • Koinzell #14 2 years ago

    @Mickey2010 - kinect to boost the gap even more.

    who wants to jump around like a monkey?