HARDWARE:
Dicembre 2012:
1. Xbox 360: 1.4M (-17.6%) | al primo posto per il 24° mese consecutivo.
2. 3DS: 1.25M (-21.8%)
3. PS3: 650K (-30.6%)
4. Wii: 475K (-55.2%)
5. DS: 470K (-25.4%)
6. Wii U: 460K
7. PSV: 250K | di cui 180K in bundle con CoD o AC3L
percentuali in parentesi: in confronto a dicembre 2011
2012:
360 - 5.3M
3DS - 3.65M | di cui 1.75M negli ultimi 2 mesi dell'anno, wow.
PS3 - 3.4M
Wii - 1.95M
DS - 1.95M
PSV - 1.25M
Wii U - 885K
SOFTWARE:
Dicembre 2012: (solo retail, senza giochi usati)
1. Call of Duty: Black Ops II | 360 > PS3 > Wii U > PC
2. Just Dance 4 | Wii > 360 > Wii U > PS3
3. Halo 4 | 360
4. Assassin's Creed III | 360 > PS3 > PC > Wii U
5. Madden NFL 13 | 360 > PS3 > Wii > PSV > Wii U
6. Far Cry 3 | 360 > PS3 > PC
7. NBA 2K13 | 360 > PS3 > Wii > Wii U > PSP > PC
8. Skylanders Giants | Wii > 360 > PS3 > 3DS > Wii U
9. New Super Mario Bros. 2 | 3DS
10. FIFA 13 | 360 > PS3 > Wii > PSV > Wii U > 3DS > PSP
XX. New Super Mario Bros. U - 337K | Wii U
2012: (solo retail, senza giochi usati)
1. Call of Duty: Black Ops II | 360 > PS3 > PC > Wii U
2. Madden NFL 13 | 360 > PS3 > Wii > PSV > Wii U
3. Halo 4 | 360
4. Assassin's Creed III | 360 > PS3 > PC > Wii U
5. Just Dance 4 | Wii > 360 > Wii U > PS3
6. NBA 2K13 | 360 > PS3 > Wii > PSP > Wii U > PC
7. Borderlands 2 | 360 > PS3 > PC
8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 | 360 > PS3 > Wii > PC
9. Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes | Wii > 360 > NDS > PS3 > 3DS > PSV > PC
10. FIFA 13 | 360 > PS3 > Wii > PSV > 3DS > Wii U> PSP
Altri LTD (life to date, non solo dicembre):
3DS:
New Super Mario Bros. 2 - 1.45M | 3DS
Angry Birds Trilogy - ~500K | 3DS | seriously? Gioco 3DS third-party più venduto.
Wii U:
New Super Mario Bros. U - 580K | Wii U
Zombi U - ~105K | Wii U | Unico gioco third-party che ha fatto >100K su Wii U.
Top 3 Vita:
Call of Duty Black Ops Declassified - 317K | PSV
Uncharted: Golden Abyss - ~275K | PSV
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation - ~250K | PSV
Citazioni addizionali:
Microsoft PR ha scritto:Xbox 360 ended 2012 as the best-selling console in the U.S., selling 1.4 million units in December. Xbox 360 was the must-have gift this holiday season with more than $1.27 billion spent on Xbox 360 retail including games, consoles and accessories in December.
· Xbox 360 sold more than double the amount of the second place console in the U.S. in the month of December. This marks the 24th consecutive month Xbox 360 has held the number one spot in the U.S.
· During the month of December, Xbox 360 held seven of the top 10 console game titles including: “Halo 4,” “Assassin’s Creed III,” “Just Dance 4,” “NBA 2K13,” “Far Cry 3,” “Call of Duty: Black Ops 2” and “Madden NFL 13.” (Source: NPD Group, December 2012)
Gamasutra ha scritto:It was bad news as usual for the retail video game industry in the United States last month.
Analysts at the NPD Group say that retail sales across the video game industry were down 22% in December, from $4.1 billion in 2011 to $3.21 billion this time around.
As usual, software caused the biggest hit (dollar sales were down 27%), which analyst Liam Callahan attributes to fewer releases.
"A major culprit in the decline in retail sales in 2012 was the lack of new releases with 29% less SKUs across consoles, portables, and PCs," he said in a statement.
"However, the SKUs that were released generated 8% more units per SKU and 11% more dollars per SKU."
The top-selling debut title of the month was Ubisoft's Far Cry 3, though it was Activison's November release of Call of Duty: Black Ops II that topped the overall charts.
By the Numbers:
Video game hardware: $1.07B (-20%)
Video game software (console, handheld): $1.54B (-26%)
Video game software (console, handheld, and PC): $1.58B (-27%)
Video game accessories: $603M (-14%)
Total video game sales: $3.21B (-22%)
Nintendo PR ha scritto:Nintendo sold more than 2.65 million hardware units in the United States in the month of December. 2012 marked the 11th consecutive year that Nintendo has sold at least 8 million hardware units in the U.S. Other Nintendo sales milestones achieved in December 2012 and beyond that time frame, include:
- New Super Mario Bros. U has now sold more than 580,000 units, an attach rate of more than 65 percent.
- Nintendo 3DS sold more than 1.25 million units in December and has crossed 7.7 million units sold life to date.
- New Super Mario Bros. 2 became the fourth Nintendo 3DS title to surpass 1 million units sold in the U.S., and has now sold more than 1.45 million units life to date.
- Nintendo 3DS continues to outpace the historic sales rate of Nintendo DS.
- Wii sold nearly 475,000 units and crossed 40.8 million units sold life to date.
- Ubisoft’s Just Dance 3 became the 10th Wii title to sell more than 5 million units life to date.
- Nintendo DS sold nearly 470,000 units and crossed 53 million units sold life to date.
