Videogame growth slows, Madden up just 2%, All-play flops
EA recently said that "Madden NFL '09" revenue is up 6% from last year in August, but NPD specifies that overall unit sales were up just two percent from last year. Given industry growth, a larger console install base, and the stronger critical reception this year, that's got to be a disappointment. Still, 2.3 million units is 2.3 million units and that's still a big chunk of money for EA and an easy number one for the month.
Looks like EA's going to have to do a better job selling (or is that developing?) "All-Play," though. Despite continues huge sales for the Wii, the more accessible version of "Madden '09" for Nintendo's motion sensing console sold only 116,000 units last month, way behind the 360, PS3, and PS2 sku's.
Overall, it was the slowest growing month so far in 2008 for the videogame biz, though most other industries would kill to be up 9%. "Too Human" was the only non-"Madden" new game to even make the top 10, and it wasn't an impressive showing, with just 168,000 units last month.
Here's the full data dump for videogames sales in 2008 from NPD:
Game Console Publisher Units sold in August
Madden NFL' 09 360 EA 1 million
Madden NFL '09 PS3 EA 643,000
Madden NFL '09 PS2 EA 425,000
Wii Fit Wii Nintendo 395,000
Mario Kart Wii Nintendo 329,000
Wii Play Wii Nintendo 200,000
Soul Calibur IV 360 Namco Bandai 174,000
Too Human 360 Microsoft 168,000
Madden NFL '09 Wii EA 116,000
Guitar Hero: On Tour DS Activision 111,000
Console August unit sales Lifetime-to-date
DS 518,000 22 million
Wii 453,000 12 million
PSP 253,000 12.4 million
360 195,000 10.9 million
PS3 185,000 5.3 million
Category August revenue Change Year-to-date revenue Change
Total industry $995 million 9% $10.55 billion 32%
Hardware $395 million 3% $3.73 billion 20%
Software $551 million 13% $5.45 billion 43%
Accessories $137 million 13% $1.38 billion 24%





Subscribe to this blog's feed

I always heard something from my neighbor that he sometimes goes to the internet bar to play the game which will use him some gw gold,he usually can win a lot of GuildWars Gold,then he let his friends all have some Guild Wars Gold,his friends thank him very much for introducing them the GuildWars money,they usually cheap gw gold together.
Posted by: cheap gw gold | March 11, 2009 at 07:50 PM