US sales climb, too

By Robert Purchese Published 24 August, 2007

Nintendo held responsible.

Those of you across the pond have been buying lots of games and consoles, according to NPD Group sales figures, prompting a 37 per cent increase over July 2006.

The total pile of green bills rose to USD 925.5 million, with the total stash at around USD 7 billion.

Hardware sales soared by 77.4 per cent to USD 380.8 million for the month, largely thanks to impressive sales of the Wii at 425,000 and DS at 405,000.

Microsoft put one over Sony by reaching 170,000 to an opposing 159,000, even with July marking the first month of the official USD 100 PS3 price cut. The effect of the lowered Xbox 360 asking price won't be reflected until next month.

However, PS2 and PSP continue to outsell both, at 222,000 and 214,000 respectively.

Biggest games of the month were NCAA Football '08 on 360, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s on PS2, Wii Play, NCAA Football '08 on PS2, and Mario Party 8 on Wii.

Other best sellers were NCAA Football '08 on PS3, Pokémon Diamond on DS, Transformers on PS2, Guitar Hero II on PS2, and Guitar Hero II on 360.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

You may also like...

Comments (24) Latest comment 5 years ago

Comments threads automatically close after 30 days, but please feel free to continue chatting on the forum!

  • lambtron #1 5 years ago

    "Microsoft put one over Sony by reaching 170,000 to an opposing 159,000, even with July marking the first month of the official USD 100 PS3 price cut."

    I've heard so many contradicting stories over who is outselling who I just do not know who to believe anymore!

  • ZuluHero #2 5 years ago

    me neither - but with sony consistantly losing its a fair assumption to think this is true! :p
    Edited by 1 at 24/08/07 @ 13:25

  • Dizzy #3 5 years ago

    NPD = TEH right. You have been reading to much VGChartz m8.

  • Biggles #4 5 years ago

    Confounder: Nor do mindful FPS, aparently: http://ww w.escapistmagazine.com/news/vie...

  • itamae #5 5 years ago

    Those of you across the pond have been buying lots of games

    Yup.

  • Sebo #6 5 years ago

    Yup, I'd also like to see all three consoles doing well.

    Boy do those games charts showing that there's a big chuck of gamers who are not traditional game enthusiasts

  • miiiguel #7 5 years ago

    Funny, it's like "ok, ok, 360 still sells more than PS3, but PS2 sells even more...", you guys just don't let go do you?
    And those Xbox is just FPS'es is so 90's, it stinks. There are + 300 360 titles for every tastes, from RPG's to RTS'es, from Sports to Shooters, from Racing to Arcade..., just let it go...

    VGChartz is ridicule, have you seen their "community", their forums are pretty hilarious.
    Edited by 1 at 24/08/07 @ 13:56

  • Katsumoto #8 5 years ago

    But Wii sells more than all of them? Let me guess, the Wii is a stupid gimmick with no games rofl rofl rofl.

    Who cares anyway? The good thing about PC gaming is that comments threads don't degenerate into fanboy wars within seconds. Why aren't there PC fanboys? And don't say cuz they're too busy HUNCHEd over their DESKS like NERDS rofl rofl.

  • miiiguel #9 5 years ago

    "And don't say cuz they're too busy HUNCHEd over their DESKS like NERDS"

    I won't say, but it is true.

  • DrunKao #10 5 years ago

    The 360 will outsell the PS2 for August, that I am sure of.

    Confounder - Xbox 360 (and PS3) being out sold by PS2! Xbox 360 may be leading the next gen sales numbers but it sure as heck is lagging behind in sales in the overrall gaming market.

    You have to look at the whole picture, not just hardware numbers. It's a mixture of the two that makes a console successful. Publishers and developers don't care what console is selling the most if they're not selling software on it. The best selling software for the month of July was NCAA '08 for the 360. The 360's software selling power can not be taken lightly, especially in the NA market. It's what's most important to publishers and developers.

    The gaming cycle is still with Sony although Nintendo are pushing hard.

    What does that even mean?


    Wii has outsold the DS to be the highest selling console in NA. Hats off to you Nintendo.

  • redd #11 5 years ago

    The PS2 is in a league of its own.

    The budget league, that is.

  • SniperWolf #12 5 years ago

    I'm happy for Nintendo, they took a risk with Wii and it payed off. It's just that I'm not interested in the Wii as it stands. Maybe Mario, Metroid will change my mind. I'm happy to just plod along with my 360 and buy games for it like Bioshock, Halo 3, Mass effect, PGR4, COD4, GTAVI. I no longer care about who's leading the pack as I don't understand the attraction of Wii.

    Both Wii and PS3 may as well not exist at the moment, well for me anyway.

  • miiiguel #13 5 years ago

    Anyway, Americans are really crazy with their strange game "Football, but played with hands" +850K units for the 360 alone in less than a month. Impressive!

    PS2 is off course of league of its own, it's the league that everybody has one, just because. All my friends here at work have one, thy give it to their 5 years olds and such, they buy the least expensive games, they "chip" it, everything goes to get "as cheap as possible". Just the other day:
    - Did you know that Devil Mat Cry is coming to the Xbox too, it used to be PS exclusive (me)
    - Devil May what ? I don't know what you're talking about, I just play PES once a month or so... (m8)

    And what's the "overrall gaming market", 360 sells more units, #1 top-seller game... ? So is it consoles, games, "a satanic drug thing, that I wouldn't understand" ?
    Edited by 3 at 24/08/07 @ 15:02

  • secombe #14 5 years ago

    Xbox 360 may be leading the next gen sales numbers but it sure as heck is lagging behind in sales in the overrall gaming market.

    I was under the impression that the Wii passed the 360 globally this week? Unless you are one of those who doesn't count the Wii as it's not 'next gen'.

  • Raya #15 5 years ago

    Ps2 selling more than ps3 - erm could that be to do with games and price by any chance? It's funny the PSP sells tons but not software - must be all the media stuff built in. Wait a minute Lumines the top seller again. Eh? Wouldn't be anything to do with the exploit in Lumines that lets you play games of a memory stick would it? Ah - that explains why PSP sells hardware but not software then - except Lumines that is

  • smoison #16 5 years ago

    Piracy is possible on all platforms. PSP, DS, 360, Wii you name it.

    Bluray is the hardest thing to pirate for now...

  • smelly #17 5 years ago

    "xbox 360 may be leading the next gen sales numbers"

    Erm.. no its not.. it's being outsold by the wii (400k is bigger than 170k).. which has just overtaken it in total global sales too.

  • smelly #18 5 years ago

    "VGChartz is merely a couple of guys phoning a few stores in their locality to see what sales are - then using an Excel chart to extrapolate. "


    Strange then that so far their predictions have been pretty much on the trigger of every official sales figures announced by the leading 3 isnt it?

    Yes the numbers they come up with are guesses based on data they can get.. but they seem to be doing an accurate enough job.

    The only people who dont want to believe their numbers are accurate are the ones who are crying because their machine is behind another in the list.

  • Aria #19 5 years ago

    @Confounder
    "MS have not moved on. Xbox 360 is still the domain of PC gamers and does not appeal to the public at large."

    I agree with you completely.

    @Secombe
    "I was under the impression that the Wii passed the 360 globally this week? Unless you are one of those who doesn't count the Wii as it's not 'next gen'."

    If I'm not mistaken, until a few days ago you used to be one of them!?

  • UncleLou #20 5 years ago

    "And don't say cuz they're too busy HUNCHEd over their DESKS like NERDS"

    I won't say, but it is true.

    As if there's something nerdier imaginable than buying a machine specifically for games.

    /chuckles

    Wait, there is somehing nerdier. Defending said games machine against imaginary attackers in every comments thread on a website.

  • Genji #21 5 years ago

    You're a nerd.

    No, YOU'RE a nerd!

    WHO WILL TRIUMPH IN THIS EPIC BATTLE OF WILLS

  • lambtron #22 5 years ago

    One of the nerds? Or neither?

    FIND OUT TONIGHT! 8PM.

  • Feanor #23 5 years ago

    "As if there's something nerdier imaginable than buying a machine specifically for games."

    My PS2 plays DVDs as well! :p

  • Sonic_Extreme #24 5 years ago

    I am from California and US americans love American Football. Wait till next month when Madden sales are out and it might hit the 1 million mark just on x360 alone.
    I myself am also clad to see NIN back killing the competition, (although I may never own one), as a video gamer since the atari 2600 days I like to see a company still making classic kids games. We need that, because if you look at most ps3 or 360 games they are pretty violent. (except the ones on XBLA or some on PSN) So kudos to NIN winning so far.