Nintendo Leads April Hardware Sales
The NPD sales numbers for April are out, and even without a Nintendo [http://www.rockstargames.com/iv]is still killing everything it sees.
Despite coming out at the tail end of the month, Next-Gen [http://www.rockstargames.com] report, a 68 percent increase over April 2007.
Despite many predictions, however, GTA IV did not significantly impact hardware sales for the month, as both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system sales actually dropped from the previous month. Sony [http://www.microsoft.com]matched its rivals with 187,100 units sold, compared to 257,000 the previous month. NPD analyst Anita Frazier said a greater impact on system sales may be seen in May, due to GTA IV only being available for the final five days of the retail reporting period.
Nintendo, meanwhile, continued its unrelenting domination of the sales charts, moving a punishing 714,200 PSP [http://www.wii.com]managed 192,700 unit sales for Sony, while the venerable PlayStation 2 continued to hang tough with 124,400 systems sold.
"This is the first month in many that we've seen a decrease in portable hardware and software sales, but it's important to remember that this year, the Easter holiday fell in March as compared to April in 2007," Frazier said. "April 2007 and March 2008 saw sizable gains in portable in part due to the holiday timing."
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The NPD sales numbers for April are out, and even without a Nintendo [http://www.rockstargames.com/iv]is still killing everything it sees.
Despite coming out at the tail end of the month, Next-Gen [http://www.rockstargames.com] report, a 68 percent increase over April 2007.
Despite many predictions, however, GTA IV did not significantly impact hardware sales for the month, as both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system sales actually dropped from the previous month. Sony [http://www.microsoft.com]matched its rivals with 187,100 units sold, compared to 257,000 the previous month. NPD analyst Anita Frazier said a greater impact on system sales may be seen in May, due to GTA IV only being available for the final five days of the retail reporting period.
Nintendo, meanwhile, continued its unrelenting domination of the sales charts, moving a punishing 714,200 PSP [http://www.wii.com]managed 192,700 unit sales for Sony, while the venerable PlayStation 2 continued to hang tough with 124,400 systems sold.
"This is the first month in many that we've seen a decrease in portable hardware and software sales, but it's important to remember that this year, the Easter holiday fell in March as compared to April in 2007," Frazier said. "April 2007 and March 2008 saw sizable gains in portable in part due to the holiday timing."
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