March NPD Sales Show Continuing Trends

GameDaily has coverage of the NPD numbers for March, which show a general continuation of trends we've seen since the Wii and PS3 were released last year. Overall, sales are up 54% across the industry, with the DS leading the pack by a healthy amount. "The [DS] sold through 508K units for the month. The PS2, likely fueled by God of War II, came in second with 280K units. The Wii followed with 259K — quite respectable but far lower than certain analyst forecasts, which had pegged it at around 400K. The Wii now stands at 2.1 million in the US. Microsoft's Xbox 360 sold another 199K, bringing its life-to-date total to 5.3 million in the U.S."

Re:55 months

[toolie]

Not only that, but NPD uses a subset of North American numbers. They don't include online sales, or from some major chains (Wal-Mart I think is one of them). Add those in and the Wii is catching up a lot faster than the NPD numbers alone makes it look like.

Re:55 months

[Tofystedeth]

Assuming neither console has any drop in sales in about 23 months the Wii will have sold as many consoles as the 360. Wii monthly sales are about 1.083 mil. 360 are about .66. so setting 1.083M = .66M + 10 gives us an M of approximately 23. I had to find some online graphing calculator to find the intersects. High school was so long ago.

Re:WTF does NPD stand for?

[militia]

i think this is it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPD_Group [wikipedia.org]