NPD Sales for August 2009

Yeah, so video games sales aren’t as high as they were last year, and August is no different. Total hardware sales was $297.60 million, which is down from the $395.34 million from last year. Nonetheless, there were still boosts in sales, mainly due to DSi and the PS3 price drop.

Nintendo DS – 552,900
Wii – 277,400
Xbox 360 – 215,400
PlayStation 3 – 210,000
PSP – 140,300
PlayStation 2 – 105,900

Sales were down for software as well, with $470.32 million worth of games being sold last month, which is a 15% decline from August 2008.

01. Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360) – 928,000
02. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) – 754,000
03. Madden NFL 10 (PS3) – 665,000
04. Batman: Arkham Asylum (Xbox 360) – 303,000
05. Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3) – 290,000
06. Madden NFL 10 (PS2) – 160,000
07. Dissidia: Final Fantasy (PSP) – 130,000
08. Wii Fit (Wii) – 128,000
09. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) – 120,000
10. Fossil Fighters (DS) – 92,000

Batman: Arkham Asylum pirates get a little surprise

Some bright mind decided to post in Edios’s Batman: Arkham Asylum forums claiming he had problems with the PC version of the game.

Problem is…the game doesn’t come out until the 15th.

Apparently developers Rocksteady put in some glitches for the would be pirates, removing a number of Batman’s weapons and moves. Now if that isn’t a awesome way to thwart pirates, I don’t know what is.

Well, I hope so.

Harmonix is promising to revitalize the Rock Band franchise following the release of The Beatles: Rock Band in a few days.

Considering that I can barely tell the difference between a Guitar Hero and Rock Band game anyway, I think that does need to be done. But on the other hand, you gotta consider the fact that music type games aren’t as popular as they were a few years ago. For me, it peaked after Guitar Hero 3, but considering the games still sell like hotcakes I guess there shouldn’t be alarm bells ringing around Harmonix.