September US game sales slide 8%, hardware down 19% - NPD

@Toysoldier34 I personally prefer the feeling of the good ol' dual thumbsticks. The first FPS I ever played was Halo on the original XBOX. I've tried playing PC shooters, and I'm just... not a big fan of them. Some of my friends are mouse/keyboard people, but seriously, I just can't get use to it.

@Toysolder34 I'm not a big PC gamer although I believe that they offer the best experience in MMO and RTS thats mainly when I game on the PC. I play FPS every now and then but I believe my game collections is a variety. I like to try new things and give other genre a chance. Unfortunately from my experience dealing with COD players. They believe COD is the best thing to happen to gaming since slice bread and they are quick to bash any FPS and automatically compare it to COD. This New Generation of gaming is disgusting. Although yeah I gamed on PC before playing COD and its no joke. Although I love my controller =D

@Colonel-Snake If only 360 fanboys realized how much better FPS is on PC they would never go back. The amount of speed and accuracy with a mouse is substantially better. It is like have your sensitivity on the lowest and highest settings for a 360 shooter at the same time. You can look around as fast as you can move your arm and be as precise as your hand can move, joysticks aren't horrible but the cant compare for shooters. If you are stubborn you can still play PC games with a 360 controller, I play platformers with a PS3 controller on PC only because I have an extra. But in the very least you can have graphics and frame rates console games can't match.

@Toysoldier34 Yea I agree thats why I see Guerrilla Games is still trying to figure a way out to balance Move Players with Dual Shock players because I heard Playstation Move is insanely accurate. Although apparently you need skill to be good with it because I heard it takes a lot of practice to be good with Move. At least people on my friend list enjoy it for Mag but they always told me you need to practice with it to get the hang of it. Yea the 360 apparently is the market for FPS. I seen the preorders for Black ops and they are beating the PS3 in preorders 2:1 thats just insane.

Is it really hard to understand that game sales are down from recent years, and will continue to show losses compared to recent years performance, BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE BROKE! STOP BELIEVING PACHTER PEOPLE! I want A LOT of the new games coming out in the next couple of months, but this economy has killed my wallet. I am sure I am not the only one. Also, people who play mostly one genre would try other genre's, but the money isn't there anymore, even for the hardcore. I am buying only one third of the games I usually buy yearly. It's is not just the money though, quality of some of this years releases leaves a lot to be desired. Also, I think a lot of the hardcore are being turned off by the 'accessibility' trend. It's really no surprise.

So people must really love Halo for the 360 to keep outselling the PS3. I'm not a huge fan of either system's exclusive titles, but I'll remain satisfied with the console that has blu-ray, won't get the red ring of death, and still has the multi-platform games that make up most of my gaming interests these days.

why MW2 still selling like hotcakes ?

I'm not a fan of any of this motion stuff that Sony and Microsoft are planning to bombard us with. I don't wanna have to move furniture back and forth and dance around to play games. Video games are supposed to be a relaxing time in my life. I'm sure some of the motion games will be fun to play once or twice, but there's no way I'll ever buy this stuff. I will stick with my stick. Sexual inuendo only halfway intended....

Another sales report article means another page for all these people to hype and cheer for thier console! I swear, with all the undying, blind loyalty some of these people have for a video game system they better be getting royalties for every unit sold.

NPD data is worthless now. Hopefully a better company will start tracking and releasing sales information to the media.

@Colonel-Snake Close, you got my point exactly but I wasn't subtle enough. The fact that the PS3 has variety is the reason it does well while many Americans only play shooters which is sad. Believe me I know all about this and I have played all the best games out there for PS3. Though I tend to keep my shooters on PC. Funny that people love the 360 for shooters but I can almost guarantee that most have never played a shooter on PC. None of the people on 360 that call themselves pros at MW2 would stand a chance against a team with mouse and keyboard and that's something they need to realize. You would think if all they are interested in is shooters they would be playing on a PC.

I'm extremely surprised that NHL 11 has more sales than FIFA 11... i sure hope this means hockey is expanding

@monson21502 I own both a Wii and a PS3 with Move and I assure you they aren't equal. Find a way to play something like the Tumble demo with it and you will find the controls are exactly 1 to 1 and there is nothing on the Wii that comes close. Especially since hardware wise its not even close. The Wii just has motion sensors, so if you could move a Wii mote slow and steady enough it wouldn't really know it. But PS Move is tracked by the camera to tell how close to the TV you are and your movements in real space not just the motion. Try playing Boom Blox and pull things perfectly back towards yourself while keeping the Wiimote relatively still, because half the time it will wig out because the Wii doesn't do a good job of sensing that type of movement. With Move that is what it does perfectly, don't dismiss it without trying. Kinect looks okay but there isn't any solid games for it to be really worthwhile. I hope there's some good stuff coming because it looks promising but it will be an uphill battle because it may have a slow start which isn't motivating for companies to develop good games for a slow moving product. Just look at the first two years of the PS3's life for proof.

@Toysoldier34 To be honest that really applies mainly to the Xbox 360. The PS3 top games however are not really shooters of course COD is the best selling game thats a fact but it is known that the PS3 has a variety of games that should appeal to everyone. Least when I read the article I believe every single game on the 360 top 10 were mainly shooters. The PS3 only had 3 top shooters these year. I agree though the FPS trend is old and we need some variety. Some people believe though America = The world which isn't the case. Only in America are shooters doing well outside of it however its not doing well.

I wonder how much lower the 360 and PS3 sales are if you take out people buying new ones that already own one and need to replace a broken one. I know one friend who has replaced a PS3 and multiple friends who have bought up to 3 Xboxs. I know many of the 360 numbers are repeats, though that number should be lower now-a-days. But the 360 is still suffering badly in the rest of the world that isn't the US. Believe it or not people that aren't American actually like games that aren't only shooters. I live in Washington and Nintendo and Microsoft are right down the street, I know what its like, I want the last gens variety again. Look at the top games for the PS2 and only a few are shooters. The ratio of shooters to other genres is almost completely opposite for this gen.

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@gamespot im glad your reviewers do such a good job of checking for errors ... seems so much worse than in 2005 when i joined. According to you Halo 3 topped the charts this month ... even though the charts directly below refuse your error...

Halo and Madden....so its been like the 3rd year in a row for top games in September for these two. I'm noticing a trend here.

good

playstation move is definitely better than the wii in every aspect, sports champions ping pong is the best thing goin in terms of motion control, an also gladiator, ive been playing the 2 so much i havnt evev tried the other 4 games on the disk yet, all igot left to say is forget natal or kinekt, wutevr its calld. an lose the wii cuz m the move is somthing serious !!!

This is a very good news, I loved it!

Sales are declining, studios disbanding, people getting laid off,only shooters seem to sell no wonder we get the same game in a different package every month.

@Anubistraveler I heard that ghost story before!! I don't believe in ghost stories! because they never happen or never going to happen.

the article says halo 3 was top seller? typo.

Happy with my PS3, don't need anything else

@VFA-102, your right. i was gonna buy move but read alot of reviews and it seemed like move was really no better then wii with motion plus. so instead of paying 130 or so bucks on a move bundle plus a sub controller i went to a local pawn shop and got me a used wii plus 2 games for 70 bucks. ill buy a kinect 360 system bundle next year if my current 360 craps out since it will be the 3rd year starting in feb 2011.if it dies on me before that then ill send it to get fixed free then buy a stand alone kinect with kinect adventures. 150 isnt that bad when it comes with a game i been wanting to try out

And, we care because? "long silence" I buy games the same no matter the sales being up or down or what some Analyst says. I really have zero care for Percentages and Analyst hogwash. This is what happens in a bad economy and unemployment is near 10% nation wide. Get used to it.

Modern Warfare 2 is still selling that much? LOL... I'm just surprised, I love Modern Warfare 2, don't get me wrong. Although people will probably flame me for this.

My roomate has Playstation move. Hate to say it, but I'm simply not impressed. As responsive as it is, I still feel the wii nunchuck combo is cheaper and more immersing during gameplay. Looking forward to the kinnect. Same price, more versatility and value. No matter how you stack it, 150 bucks for a controller built for 4 simply out values a camera/controller combo made for 1 at the same price.

someone must have been laid off o_O no console number :[

No console sales figures? Oh Nos! However will fanboys keep score in the platform wars?

Call of duty still selling...Wow

@method115 I agree with that but with all the games coming it just looks like the overall quality is with sony. Not that the 360 does not make some good games. (Halo, Gears.....can not think of anymore since Mass Effect is coming to PS3).

@Anubistraveler I'm not denying that PS3 will surpass xbxo360 in console sales. It's just getting so old hearing this year after year.

Accessories: $180 million (+13%) move helped this alot, next month should be even better with move out a full month. then the month of december will be +100% when kinect launches.

wow reach outsold madden on all system put together?

Pachter is going to have a total meltdown over this...someone have his meds ready.

I am not surprised about any of this.

Xbox will begin to slip soon and watch PS3 gain more in the sales. Big games coming up and the move will do better then kinect. Even if both are trying to take a share of Nintendos market.

i'm waiting till november when the sly collection,ken's rage, and black ops comes out. that should last me for quite a while.

@Crumblet Well not me I rather believe Sony since Vgchartz is known for not being resourceful about most stuff. Vgchartz Undertracked the PS3 by 2million units before. Hell they Undertrack a lot of titles on the PS3 Naughty Dog reported over 3.8mil copies of uncharted 2 while Vgchartz has that undertrack. I'm gonna believe Sony only because Vgchartz has a history of doing nonsense like that. I don't think they are overshooting anything they give the numbers you either believe them or you don't plain and simple. To each is their own I guess.

Good to see Birth by Sleep in the top ten. I didnt think it would make it because PSP isnt selling to well. Halo being #1 comes as no surprise due to the massive amount of Halo fans. I still dont get how MW2 made the top ten.

@Colonel-Snake Wow that is a big difference than VGChartz's. Still, one has to assume 1.5 million is overshooting it, what with Sony themselves stating that statistic and all. I'm more inclined to believe a non-bias source like VGC.

@ crumblet in NYC the first two weeks of moves launch it was hard to find the Move Controller. That showing you the demand for it.

This whole thing sound fishy and most likely manipulated for some very big investors to make some big money, and they can't do it if the hardware isn't performing well... so I am sure this was done for no other reason but number manipulation... if there is no official numbers then no one can come in last.... it's all about last place, that can tank a stock. Man, I'd love to know the truth.

@Crumblet Here you go buddy. My bad wrong link here is the correct one =D << LINK REMOVED >>

@Colonel-Snake O rly? Care to link to the place you read it sold 1.5 million in Europe alone?

@Soulless4now According to Vgchartz it has sold over 1million copies.

@Crumblet Vgchartz is terrible dude. They undertrack and overtrack A LOT of hardware and software not even funny. They said Playstation Move sold only 600k worldwide when in Fact it Sold around 1.5mil alone in Europe. So yeah vgchartz is far from reliable.

I still want to know how much Birth by Sleep sold, but hooray for it being #6. That's much better compared to when 358/2 Days only made it to the #10 spot at its debut.