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NPD: NBA 2K10 Rules October US Sales
Uncharted 2, Wii Fit Plus and Borderlands also perform well, but software sales decreased 18 per cent compared to October 2008.
At 575,000 units across all platforms, NBA 2K10 sold the most copies in October, while around half of Wii Fit Plus sales were bundled with the Balance Board, suggesting there are many newcomers to the series.
The largest declines in the month compared to October last year were in the music and dance genre, which generated just US$53 million compared to $137 million.
01 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves 537,000
02 Wii Fit Plus 441,000
03 Borderlands 418,000
04 Wii Sports Resort 314,000
05 NBA 2K10 (360) 311,000
06 Halo 3: ODST 271,000
07 NBA 2K10 (PS3) 213,000
08 Forza Motorsport 3 175,000
09 Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days 169,000
10 FIFA Soccer 10 156,000
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Glad to see Borderlands performed well, Gearbox has been overdue for a commercial hit....but I'm sad that Brutal Legend isn't up there with it. Won't Tim Schafer ever get a break!
Also a shame about DJ Hero. It seems to be of fine quality, but I guess there's not much of a market for that kind of music. I trust Activision will put more love in the Hero franchise next year....not that it'll matter much if it still fails to hold a candle to Harmonix's efforts.
I think DJ Hero will be a slow burner, a bit like the first guitar hero.
It almost needs a friend to have it to show you what to do, then you buy it and show a friend, who buys it, yadda yadda.
Like you say its a great game, my friend has it and im gettin it for xmas.
Any Costco fans out there DJ Hero is only £70 in-store
in a perfect world Demon's Souls would've been #2. but alas.
What impresses you of Borderlands? The quality of the game or the sales figures? Anyway I agree it sold well on the 360; but compared with Uncharted 2 it does not come close to game quality which puts a negative perspective on Uncharted 2 sales. For sure it deserves better sales; no gamer can deny that. It seems that this is just a demographic thing. PS3 owners seem to prefer third party games and certain sections of those i.e. NBA this month (others last month, and the month before) where the 360 has strengths in other games. The demographic of the user base for sure is different.
Anyway here is hoping Uncharted 2 has long legs and breaks the 1 million barrier in the US one day LTD.
I'm impressed by the quality and sales. I figured it would sell strong but not that strong.
I've never played Uncharted but from what I read and based on both games' (U2 and BL) critical reception the sales gap should have been bigger. Although, Sony exclusives tend to underperform compared to at least perceived expectations so with Uncharted 2 selling 500k plus in its first month of availability it's still a huge success.
I agree that the demographic of the userbase for the 360/PS3 is different. Some games (SFIV, RE5, Batman: DA) sale pretty similar on both systems and other times the sales gap nears 2:1 which would match the 360's N.A install base lead.
I think with Uncharted already over 500k it'd be a surprise for it not to top 1 million in North American sales.
Why are some multiplat games stated as such (NBA 2K10 for 360/PS3) and others are not (Borderlands)?
Borderlands sold 418k on the 360 alone coming it at number 3 and apparently Uncharted was too big a draw for PS3 fans to pick up borderlands as well/instead since it didn't make the top ten.
I'm impressed with Borderland's performance. It managed to sell only 100k short of Sony's big exclusive. I thought it might do well but 550k in one month across two platforms (not counting PC) is pretty good.
The PS3 version of Borderlands didn't show up because it was number 17 on the charts with only 113K units sold. Demon's Souls came in at number 11 with sales falling somewhere between 150-156K.
Uncharted 2 numbers are decent until you consider that it was Sony's big Holiday Release - compared to ODST, L4D2 and New Super Mario Wii those are going to be pretty disappointing numbers. The game deserved a far better fate than only 1 million worldwide in its first month - good numbers for an average release, but not for a console's primary exclusive release of the year.
1 million worldwide for a PS3 exclusive in just one month is a huge improvement from their usual big triple-A exclusive launch numbers. Also considering Uncharted is still an unkown when compared to the big hitters (some of those games you mentioned) 500k in N.A territories and 1M worldwide for one month is impressive. Even though it was well received critically it's unfair to compare it to the likes of Halo (even a spin-off), LFD, Gears, etc. I think now the game is starting to establish itself as a quality franchise sales should follow, right?
On a different note, I hit level 50 in Borderlands today (about 4/5 the way through the 2nd playthrough). 50 is the cap but it still lets you earn exp (which is great because you're capped so enemies continue to give you the same exp so you can power-level your weapons without losing out on exp). Hope they raise the cap...
I think Demon's Souls managed something like 150k of sales which is pretty decent when you consider its 'nich-status'. Also there were rumours of under-stocking and we know quite a few people would have imported this game from Asia anyway before hand. I agree Uncharted 2 will sell in the long term; i expect overall 3 million units LTD.
However it is odd this. In Japan Uncharted 2 will break the 100k barrier and we saw Demon's Souls performance this month in the US was strong. Uncharted 2 seems should have been higher to the two relative factors mentioned; in particular the Japanese public do not even usually take to Western games. I wonder if this is the 'Call of Duty 4' effect kicking in?