25th July 2004, 2:01 PM
Quote:According to NPD, the marketing information provider, the whole video games sales in America dropped 2.5% during the first six months of 2004, compared to the same previous year period. Although both console hardware and portable software had an increased drop (17% and 12% respectively), software and accessories saw a raise in terms of sales.
While hardware sales were down, the situation could have been worse. Fortunately Microsoft's XBOX and Sony's Playstation 2 price drop, helped in the last two months of the first quarter. Furthermore, the top-10 console games for the first half of 2004 according to NPD were:
1. Fight Night 2004 (PS2) - EA
2. NBA Ballers (PS2) - Midway
3. MVP Baseball 2004 (PS2) - EA
4. Fight Night 2004 (Xbox) - EA
5. Pokemon Colosseum (GC) - Nintendo
6. Halo (Xbox) - Microsoft
7. Red Dead Revolver (PS2) - Take-Two
8. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (Xbox) - Ubisoft
9. Shrek 2 (PS2) - Activision
10. Spider-Man 2 (PS2) - Activision
Update
The Game Boy Advance sold the most units last month in America, however the GameCube sold the least.
No. Console June Sales May Sales
1 Game Boy Advance 521.000 NC
2 PlayStation 2 427.000 253.454
3 Xbox 262.000 216.997
4 GameCube 109.000 77.827
Good to see the GBA selling so well, but it's dissapointing that not that many people are buying GCs.
I gotta ask one thing. Why in the world are people still buying Halo?! It's about 3 years old and it's not even really that great! Why aren't people buying Metroid Prime?! Craziness. *has lost all faith in humanities ability, as a whole, to recognize good games*
Cube-Europe
Sometimes you get the scorpion.