October Sales (US, all platforms)

[A Black Falcon]

Console sales (hardware and games) during the month of October 2004, according to the NPD Group in the U.S. market only.

Hardware Sales

Nintendo GameBoy Advance: 464,000
Sony Playstation 2: 289,000
Microsoft Xbox: 217,000
Nintendo GameCube: 110,000

Top 25 Software Titles; combined results

1/ PS2 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Take 2 Interactive
2/ PS2 - NBA Live 2005 - Electronic Arts
3/ PS2 - Mortal Kombat: Deception - Midway
4/ PS2 - Tony Hawk's Underground 2 - Activision
5/ Xbox - Mortal Kombat: Deception - Midway
6/ GCN - Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - Nintendo
7/ PS2 - Madden NFL 2005 - Electronic Arts
8/ PS2 - X-Men: Legends - Activision
9/ PS2 - Star Wars: Battlefront - LucasArts
10/ Xbox - Fable - Microsoft
11/ Xbox - Star Wars: Battlefront - LucasArts
12/ Xbox - NBA Live 2005 - Electronic Arts
13/ Xbox - X-Men: Legends - Activision
14/ Xbox - Tony Hawk's Underground 2 - Activision
15/ PS2 - ESPN NBA 2K5 - Take 2 Interactive
16/ PS2 - Tiger Woods PGA 2005 - Electronic Arts
17/ GBA - Pokémon Fire Red with Wireless Adaptor - Nintendo
18/ PS2 - FIFA Soccer 2005 - Electronic Arts
19/ GBA - Pokémon Leaf Green with Wireless Adaptor - Nintendo
20/ PS2 - Def Jam Vendetta: Fight For New York - Electronic Arts
21/ Xbox - ESPN NBA 2K5 - Take 2 Interactive
22/ GCN - Donkey Konga with Bongos - Nintendo
23/ Xbox - Madden NFL 2005 - Electronic Arts
24/ PS2 - Ace Combat 5 - Namco
25/ Xbox - Tiger Woods PGA 2005 - Electronic Arts

Source: CSFB estimates based on NPD Funworld data.

Publisher Market Shares

Take 2 Interactive - 26.3%
Electronic Arts - 17.3%
Activision - 10.6%
Nintendo of America - 8.7%
Midway - 6.3%
THQ - 3.5%
LucasArts - 2.7%
Namco - 2.6%
Microsoft - 2.5%
Vivendi Universal Games - 2.5%

Platform Top Sellers (First figure indicates revenue, second the amount of copies sold)

Sony Playstation 2

1/ Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Take 2 Interactive - $100,879,300 - 2,053,983
2/ NBA Live 2005 - Electronic Arts - $13,397,740 - 347,594
3/ Mortal Kombat Deception - Midway Games - $13,371,300 - 261,022
4/ Tony Hawk's Underground 2 - Activision - $11,558,910 - 245,461
5/ Madden NFL 2005 - Electronic Arts - $7,773,246 - 178,187

Microsoft Xbox

1/ Mortal Kombat Deception - Midway Games - $11,338,380 - 218,023
2/ Fable - Microsoft - $5,550,907 - 116,001
3/ Star Wars: Battlefront - LucasArts - $5,460,644 - 112,352
4/ NBA Live 2005 - Electronic Arts - $5,371,416 - 138,237
5/ X-Men: Legends - Activision - $5,186,361 - 107,761

Nintendo GameCube

1/ Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - Nintendo - $8,959,945 - 189,703
2/ Donkey Konga with Bongos - Nintendo - $3,329,404 - 72,051
3/ Tony Hawk's Underground 2 - Activision - $2,381,384 - 50,491
4/ X-Men: Legends - Activision - $2,041,272 - 43,703
5/ NBA Live 2005 - Electronic Arts - $1,394,158 - 36,629

VE3D.

Hmm, I'd say Nintendo is ... not keeping up ... to say the least. Well, except for those GBA hardware sales, wow... but the home console side of things is not going well. And despite those sales only the two Pokemon GBA games made the top 25. Maybe that's a side effect of them all being cheaper than average new major console titles?

[OB1]

I guess Nintendo is going to have to take off those "Best Seller" stickers from Paper Mario 2. :(

Damn, you people (most gamers) are morons! You're buying more copies of Mortal Kombat than PM2!!

[A Black Falcon]

Given the hardware bases, I'm sure a much larger number of Cube owners got PM2...

And they could leave on "best seller" if they use a lenient definition of "best seller"... like, hmm... best selling Cube game? :)

On the other hand, DS preorders are fantastic in Japan anyway, and they probably won't have enough systems on hand... 2 million pre-orders already and 1 million units that are going to be available before the end of this year...

[Great Rumbler]

I did my duty and got a copy of PM2 which, apparently, is more than most people can say. It's sad really.

1/ Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Take 2 Interactive - $100,879,300 - 2,053,983

Nintendo should just unload their big war chest and buy Take 2 outright.