Sales on the software front for October 2009 look less than glowing, according to NPD numbers, this is due in-part to an overall sales decrease of 18 percent. The PS3 exclusive Uncharted 2, took the golden cake, topping the chart with 537K units sold and WiiFit Plus came in a close second with half the title's total-sales generated by the bundled Wii console SKU. Across all platforms, NBA 2K10 took the lot with 575K units sold, outselling last year’s NBA 2K9 by 60 percent. Props go out to Borderlands team for pulling a huge number of copies sold on the Xbox 360 console. Music games saw the largest decline with $53 million in sales compared to $137 million last year. FYI Next month (November 2009) in terms of dollars is going to blow all other months out of the water, thanks to the release of Modern Warfare 2. Hardware was even less-impressive with the Xbox 360 coming fourth place on total consoles moved, check out all the numbers below.
Total video game console sales for October 2009 (via NPD data):
- PS2 – 117.8K
- PS3 – 320.6K
- PSP – 174.6K
- Xbox 360 – 249.7K
- Wii – 506.9K
- DS – 457.6K
Here’s the top-10 games sold in October 2009 (Brutal Legend was #11 with 200k+ copies sold):
Uncharted 2 – PS3 – 537,000
WiiFit Plus – Wii – 441,000
Borderlands – 360 -418,000
Wii Sports Resort – Wii – 314,000
NBA 2K10 – 360 – 311,000
Halo 3: ODST – 360 – 271,000
NBA 2K10 – PS3 – 213,000
Forza MotorSport 3 – 360 – 175,000
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days – DS – 169,000
FIFA 10- 360 – 156,000
