It’s football season! That means: another year’s worth of Madden games. Madden NFL 09 accounted for 2.3 million games sold in the United States last month, of which 5% were on Nintendo’s Wii platform. You can check out the big number’s from the NPD Group’s August report after the break, but Wii Fit dropped to #4 overall for the month despite selling more copies than it did in July…all thanks to America’s love of football.
Wii and DS sales dipped for the month, not surprisingly, but not enough to disturb Nintendo’s 1-2 tandem. Read on for the rest of the numbers!
NPD Group: August 2008
Industry Sales: $1.08 billion (+9% over August ‘07)
Hardware Sales: $394.53 million (+3%)
Software Sales: $550.67 million (+13%)
Accessory Sales: $137.33 million (+13%)YTD: $10.55 billion (+32%)
Nintendo DS: 518,300
Wii: 453,000
PSP: 253,000
Xbox 360: 195,200
PlayStation 3: 185,400
PlayStation 2: 144,100
1. Madden NFL 09 (360): 1,000,000 units
2. Madden NFL 09 (PS3): 643,000 units
3. Madden NFL 09 (PS2): 424,500 units
4. Wii Fit w/ Balance Board (Wii): 394,900 units
5. Mario Kart Wii w/ wheel (Wii): 328,700 units
6. Wii Play w/ remote (Wii): 394,900 units
7. Soulcalibur IV (360): 174,000 units
8. Too Human (360): 168,200 units
9. Madden NFL 09 (Wii): 115,800 units
10. Guitar Hero: On Tour (DS): 111,200 units
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