Kotaku: Player's Choice

Nintendo Holy Empire Dominates June Hardware Sales

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:40:13 MDT

The NPD Group has released hardware sales figures for the month of June, with the Nintendo DS and Wii crushing the competition with a combined sales of over 943,000 units. Sony's PlayStation 2 and PSP showed very well, selling around a quarter million units each—PS3, notsomuch. Here are the NPD hardware sales figures for June, including Game Boy Advance and Xbox 360 numbers.

Nintendo DS - 561,900
Wii - 381,800
PSP - 290,100
PlayStation 2 - 270,700
Xbox 360 - 198,400
Game Boy Advance - 109,400
PLAYSTATION 3 - 98,500

Update: Please note that the earlier figure of 230,100 unit sales for the PSP has been corrected.

Total hardware sales for the month, industry-wide were $398.6 million, up 34% from the previous year. That doesn't include an impressive $161.3 million for video game accessories, which was up 58% from June 2006.

The only downward trend in the hardware business was in relation to portable gaming hardware which dipped 6% from the previous year to $130.6 million in sales.

In 2007, the video game industry has seen $2.3 billion in hardware sales alone, a huge increase of the $1.37 billion in hardware sold at the same point last year.

We'll have software sales information up soon, with reaction from hardware manufacturers shortly. In the meantime, start making your stock sales/purchases and trolling choices now.

Nintendo Price Drops Four Games

Brian Crecente — Wed, 03 May 2006 06:00:52 MDT

Reader Nicholas sends word that Nintendo has added four titles to their low-priced Player's Choice line.

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Pikmin 2, Star Fox: Assault and The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures all make the list, according to an email Nicholas received.

Game Boy Advance Gets Players Choice

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:34:33 MST

According to uber-news site IGN, the GBA gets its first "greatest hits" budget releases next month, when Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga, Super Mario Advance (aka Super Mario Bros. 2), and Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 drop to a very cheap ass $19.99. Woot! If you were unlucky enough to deprive yourself of M&L:SSS until now, I really feel for you. It's not only the funniest game I've ever played, but one of the most refreshing RPG's of the 21st century.

Yes! The whole century! Just get it, you cheap bastards!

GBA Gets Player's Choice [IGN]