NPD: January Canada game sales hit $79 million

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Feb 22, 2007 9:42 am PT

Wii sells more systems than any other platform, Lost Planet holds off WarioWare, Zelda, Gears of War, Mario DS at the top of the charts.

Gaming sales got off to a strong start in the US this year, according to NPD Group's figures for the first five weeks of 2007, and it was a similar story north of the border. The industry-tracking firm reported that Canadian retail gaming sales amounted to $79.5 million in January, a 55-percent jump over the January period from the year before. But where the US numbers covered five weeks of sales instead of the usual four, NPD's Canadian numbers only reflect sales during the calendar month of January, so year-over-year comparisons are more relevant.

The increase was driven primarily by hardware sales, which more than doubled from $15.2 million to just over $31 million. Nintendo's Wii outpaced all the competition for the month with more than 34,000 units sold. Sony had the second best-selling console of the month, but it wasn't the PlayStation 3. Instead it was the aging PlayStation 2, which posted sales of more than 27,000 units. The PS3 actually finished significantly lower, with fewer than 6,800 units sold. The Xbox 360 nestled itself in between its rivals with sales just over 14,400.

On the software side of things, Capcom's Xbox 360 bug hunt Lost Planet: Extreme Condition unified the Canada and US January 2007 sales titles, selling more than 15,400 copies. Lost Planet had a little separation from the pack, with WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Wii), The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii), Gears of War (Xbox 360), and New Super Mario Bros. (DS) rounding out the top five in that order, each with sales between 12,000 and 13,000. The GameCube edition of Twilight Princess, the PS2 Guitar Hero 2 bundle, NHL 07 (PS2), Rainbow Six Vegas (Xbox 360), and NHL 07 (Xbox 360) filled out the back half of the top 10.

93 Comments

  • marklovesbaseba

    Posted May 13, 2008 5:33 am PT

    heres what is gonna happen...right now ps3 is getting kicked but since gta ps3 sales went up by 20% from the sales ive seen on the charts....this year is ps3's year...and honstly everyone i know who has a wii either doesnt play it or has traded it in....by the end of the year i see ps3 and exox tied or maybe even ps3 winning(of course wii still in first)but this year is when u see ps3's sell a lot

  • TJSpyke

    Posted Apr 19, 2007 7:03 pm PT

    Kevdog, you do realize PS3 is failing? Hell, it just got outsold last week in Japan by a nearly 7:1 margin and at this rate the Wii will sell 3 million in Japan before PS3 even sells 1 million. Wii has outsold PS3 every week since launch in both Japan and North America (European numbers are rare).

  • maulberto3

    Posted Mar 12, 2007 2:00 pm PT

    kevdog1976......

    you Sony comment was pathetic......

  • Kevdog1976

    Posted Mar 6, 2007 5:01 pm PT

    There was an interesting article in the E.G.M. magazine that just recently came out where the CEO of SCEA was interviewed by E.G.M and what it boils down to is this.....for right now, all these companies are duking it out for video game supremacy, Nintendo is hanging in there with the Wii and then there's the boat anchor 360 from Microsoft. From what I understood in the article is that Sony will long be kicking long after Microsoft and Nintendo fall out of the running! Sure the PS3 has glitches, every system had glitches when it was first released. No company is perfect, but Sony sure does come damn close to that. Put that in your pipe and smoke it! Long Live Metal Gear, Long Live Sony!

  • gtimandan

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 6:12 pm PT

    KiRuR, not to split hairs but your math is flawed, as Sony sold 27k PS2s and 6800 PS3s for a total of 33,800 between two consoles. Nintendo sold 34,000 Wiis, alone, and if memory serves, about 13,000 DSs.

    They're all great systems - check them out!

  • Elite_Evolution

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 1:25 pm PT

    360 was made for online...It PWNS All other Systems

  • Worm1802

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 11:31 pm PT

    I love seeing sony fans squirm at the thought of two obviously more innovative systems sell more.Sure go ahead and live in the past and continually bring up the ps2 but some of us like to live in a next gen world.The ps2 cant be sony's life support forever.

  • oscar530

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 3:31 pm PT

    hmm i can understand the Wii winning cuz of all those little kids with there rich ass parents from Taiwan god i hate those guys sooo much so frickin spoiled

  • 00joker

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 3:10 pm PT

    360 is way better more people is online to microsoft than sony

  • KiRuR

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 6:05 am PT

    Nintendo winning? where? are you people blind? Sony is still winning... LOL... hellooooooo.. fine ill do the math if its THAT hard... you get PS2 the second best sale with 27,000, and add with PS3 with 14,400, how much do you get? okay heres the math: 27,000 + 14,400 = 41,400.
    I THINK that means Sony is winning.. and if you actually think about it.. its winning by far because the ps2 is a reasonable value but the ps3 is absurd.. and ofcourse the wii is cheap as hell.. so yeah sony is definetly winning.. like always.. so please stfu

  • penaneitor

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 1:30 am PT

    Nintendo really deserves it's victory, leading a true revolution in videogaming, opening new and original ways to play games... It was about time for Nintendo to rise and show the tech geeks (Sony & Microsoft) what videogames are about...

  • ChiefHunter1

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 8:24 pm PT

    KingPin:
    If ur calling resistance the PS3's killer, AAA game, ur out of ur mind. I own Gears of War but Ive also played Resistance and anyone who says that they are even in the same league must be on something. As for the 360 only having one "AAA" game, Halo 3 will be released this November and will blow away all other competition. In regards to the Wii, I have played Zelda on the Wii and it is an amazing game which is worthy of "AAA" status.
    Right now the PS3 doesn't have a marque game which sets it apart from either the Wii or 360. By the way, I don't think that the 360 is the PS2 of this gen, the Wii surely wins that category. Although I don't think that it can compete with advanced graphics, it appeals to a wider range of gamers and for a cheaper price will easily outsell the 360. As for the PS3, I can't think of a game that will be unique to it that is going to set it apart. (DONT SAY KILLZONE BECAUSE THOSE VIDEOS ARE NOT ACTUAL GAMEPLAY)

  • Ices100

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 11:17 am PT

    Lol i like seeing people says oh wait 2 years then the ps3 will be doing better, and it isn't doing anything in japan right now so i doubt that it will get much better cause of 2 sub par recycled sequels.

  • TrueIori

    Posted Feb 24, 2007 11:31 pm PT

    King_pin 87

    It not about the Triple AAA games casue those take time to come out it about those AA and A tiltles . Why get Army of two for ps3 since it be better for the 360 casue of live? why get a ps3 to play merc 2 since it also coming for 360?etc etc. So what is ps3 going to do wait till DMC4 and metal gear come out to save it system when top games like that take time to come out . What are they going to only throw a decent game every 8 months?Face it sony better do something fast or it does not have a bright future. And if u call Resistance ur killer ap well i feel sorry for sony nothing more than a average shooter.

  • theKSMM

    Posted Feb 24, 2007 6:47 am PT

    Sony has really got to get its third-party developers on board with writing PS3 games instead of PS2 games. That's the only way they're going to sell lots of consoles to their core audience.

  • king_pin_87

    Posted Feb 24, 2007 12:31 am PT

    ChiefHunter1:
    PS3 has only sold 1.4 mil copies!

    When more releases come for the console, it will increase greatly, like the 360 did. Both 360 and PS3 had terrible starts compared to past system launches. And besides, other than Gears of War, name one 360 exclusive that is out now that is AAA quality? In fact all 3 consoles have only one real AAA title (Zelda for Wii and Resistance for PS3, regardless of what GS says)

    As for the PS2 still selling well, I guess this is exactly what Kaz Hirai meant when he said the PS3 will have a 10 year life cycle, cause I don't see Xbox's and Gamcubes flying off the shelves right now, and the PS3 will probably repeat this in 5 years time.

    And to anyone who thinks the 360 is the PS2 of this gen, compare sales of both and well, the PS2 sold a LOT more in this amount of time, and the amount of 360's sold isn't that impressive when they had NO competition for a year in next gen consoles. I hate how most people will side with whatever system is selling well, if the PS3 starts selling well then all the sheep will say how great the console is.

    As for the chart, them Canadians sure love there snow over there, eh?

  • ChiefHunter1

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 9:09 pm PT

    Wow stefonte, funny u should say, "What does it mean for the 360 when the PS2 is still outselling you. " because the xbox 360 ONLY sold more than 10.5 million copies and completely outdid the PS3 by selling more than double the amount of PS3s since the PS3 has been released! (by the way, PS3 has only sold 1.4 mil copies!)

  • stefonte

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 8:20 pm PT

    I have all three systems and didnt wait in one line. And paid less than regular price. (LUCKY ME). Anyway I just want to say to all those PS3 Haters out there! Since I got my PS3 and Nintendo DS I have not played my 360 once (2 months). Resistence fall of Man on the PS3 is like HALO on steroids/crack, someone finally took the best FPS (Halo) and improved on it! Its about 3 times longer and smarter then GOW and the online play is sick. I guess you guys that own a 360 will have to pay for more upgrades soon (HDMI, Card readers, etc, Xboxlive) Have Fun. What does it mean for the 360 when the PS2 is still outselling you.

  • Nuke_trooper

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 7:20 pm PT

    Wow Wii Nintendo aren't doing too bad are they!!

  • Kh3tt1

    Posted Feb 23, 2007 7:12 pm PT

    Very cool to see chart reports without the latest FIFA or Need For Speed versions mentioned. I'm very interested in the poor sales of PS3s, and more importantly, the excellent sales of the Wii.

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