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February’s NPD sales data was released today, with Take Two’s much anticipated BioShock 2 stepping into the top spot in its first month of release. With 562,900 units sold, the 2K Marin’s underwater epic narrowly edged out Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which moved another 555,600 units, despite having been released in November of last year.Some other non-surprising entries on the chart include both the 360 and PS3 incarnations of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Nintendo’s perennial Wii Sports Resort, and BioWare’s brilliant RPG Mass Effect 2.More surprising is yet another appearance by Ubisoft’s perplexingly popular Just Dance for Wii, which is on track to be the biggest blockbuster video game that no one has ever talked about, ever.Rounding out the list are a couple of new IPs, EA’s God of War inspired Dante’s Inferno (on PS3 and Xbox) and Quantic Dream, which moved an extremely impressive 219,300 units despite being released on February 23. That’s certainly good news for the much-praised adventure game, which many felt was a risky commercial venture for publisher Sony.
NPD U.S. Video Game Industry Sales, February 2010Software Sales1 BioShock 2 (Xbox 360) – Take Two Interactive – 562,900 units sold2 New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) – Nintendo – 555,600 units sold3 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360) – Activision – 314,300 units sold4 Just Dance (Wii) – Ubisoft – 275,400 units sold5 Wii Sports Resort w/Wii Motion Plus (Wii) – Nintendo – 272,500 units sold 6 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) – Activision – 252,800 units sold 7 Mass Effect 2 (Xbox 360) – Electronic Arts – 246,500 units sold8 Dante’s Inferno: Divine Edition (PS3) – Electronic Arts – 242,500 units sold 9 Dante’s Inferno (Xbox 360) – Electronic Arts – 224,700 units sold 10 Heavy Rain (PS3) – Sony – 219,300 units sold Console SalesNintendo DS – 613,200 units sold Xbox 360 – 422,000 units sold Wii – 397,900 units sold PlayStation 3 – 360,100 units sold PSP – 133,400 units sold PlayStation 2 – 101,900 units sold
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You can't find a PS3 anywhere around the state. Not lying either.
***, Heavy Rain made top 10 for the month in just one week.
That's something else. Kudos to the team at Quantic Dream and Sony on the game, and good luck to them in future projects.
heavy rain must be better than i thought
props to heavy rain
why did the 360 beat the wii? because of bioshock 2 or something?
Well at least people realized that Heavy Rain is a great game, hopefully the sales will increase much further.
Unsurprising. Bioshock 2 was one of the biggest games of the year so far. I'm happy to say I contributed to its PS3 sales.
Wow the DS is selling good?
Ok, who the hell is still buying the PS 2?
i'm glad bioshock 2 made it on top. it deserves it. its an amazing game.
Yay Heavy Rain
To anyone saying the Wii is dead, there was just no good games released this month. March and April are a bit dry (though March has got some good stuff if you poke around, like Cave Story for example) but by May for sure they will be back on top when Galaxy 2 releases.
Yay for Bioshock 2!
Lots of games I want to play
wii sports resort should not be on this list. Stupid shovelware nintendo! I want my old nintendo back
360s are probably getting good sales just due to the shortage of PS3s right now. I mean lets be honest, there isn't a HUGE difference between consoles these days, except there are plenty of 360s in stores, while PS3s are hard to find.. Sony needs to up their production a little, short term at least, til their numbers level out again(since they've been on the rise)
I'm really tempted to grab Bioshock 2 this weekend.
Who is still buying PS2's?
I plan on picking up Heavy Rain as soon as I get paid.
Quality sells.
And Wii... ugh.