Red Dead Tops May Sales
NPD figures emerge.
Published: 12:00, 02/07/2010 by Staff.
12Just in case our 10/10 review didn’t convince you enough that Rockstar’s sprawling Western epic wasn’t top quality gaming on a disk, the US NPD sales data has confirmed it: Red Dead Redemption was the biggest selling game in May.
The monthly sales figures, posted here last night, show that sandbox cowboy action is the way to go, with the 360 version outselling the PS3 version by a massive margin. Still, both versions sat at the top quite nicely, with the Wii’s Super Mario Galaxy 2 just pipped to 2nd place.
- RED DEAD REDEMPTION 360 945.9K
- RED DEAD REDEMPTION PS3 567.1K
- SUPER MARIO GALAXY 2 WII 563.9K
- UFC 2010: UNDISPUTED 221.1K
- UFC 2010: UNDISPUTED 192.3K
- WII FIT PLUS W/BALANCE BOARD
- NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII
- ALAN WAKE * 360
- POKEMON SOULSILVER VERSION
- SKATE 3 360
Good to see THQ’s UFC up there too, TSA’s 2nd 10/10 in a week of high scoring games back in May. Hardware wise, it’s the DS well out on top followed closely by the Wii. The Xbox 360 and PS3 lag behind, Microsoft’s console out on top by 50,000 units.
The PSP props up the back selling just 60,000 units throughout the month.
- PlayStation 3 154.5K
- PSP 59.4K
- Xbox 360 194.6K
- Wii 334.8K
- Nintendo DS 383.7K
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02/07/2010 at 12:21
Member since: Forever
I thought people said the Wii had flatlined?
They are ridiculous sales figures.
Red Dead Redemption got almost a week head start on Super Mario Galaxy 2 as well, will be interesting to see how that spilled over into June
02/07/2010 at 12:47
Member since: Jul 2009
The Wii has relatively underperformed over the past 12 months in the sense that sales figures have been sliding. Nintendo know this and I’m sure they’re working out what to do next. However, in absolute terms, Wii’s sales figures for hardware and sofware will still look unbelievably healthy what with them having around the same global sales as the PS3 and 360 added together.
02/07/2010 at 15:16
Member since: May 2009
Well the games for the Wii hasn’t been the best in Q3-Q4 of 2009, but with the massive amount of great games in 2010 and 2011 for the Wii, it will pick up speed again.
02/07/2010 at 12:31
Member since: Dec 2009
I was gonna buy a Wii as well until i heard the DS2 news..
Still under consideration though….
02/07/2010 at 12:46
Member since: Sep 2009
May?! When are June’s figures published? I’m interested to know how the launch of the 360 Slim in the US impacted the hardware figures!
02/07/2010 at 12:46
Member since: Aug 2008
Which version of UFC 2010 sold more, PS3 or 360?
04/07/2010 at 16:30
Member since: Forever
360
02/07/2010 at 13:42
Member since: May 2009
How many people who own both 360 and ps3 bought the 360 version of red dead redemption due to it being a better looking version with the ps3 getting the half arsed port again. Maybe if the game was coded using ps3 as lead console, it might be a different result.
02/07/2010 at 13:56
Member since: Forever
I have both and I bought it yesterday for PS3.
02/07/2010 at 14:57
Member since: Dec 2009
Exactly, I’m beginning to fall out with Rockstar this generation. While they still make great games, the ‘soul’ seems to have been taken out of virtually every area, especially in GTA IV.
02/07/2010 at 15:42
Member since: Nov 2009
Yip… it seems they don’t give a shit about the PS3 version of any game. Shame really, as the PS3 could produce some serious graphics. The game looks great, but it could have been allot better.
02/07/2010 at 21:04
Member since: Forever
Time and again i have pointed out how lazy and shit rockstar actually are, they release 5 gtas that used the same concept, in fact 6 becuase all 4 had was a new engine and a polish, after vice city gta became shit.
02/07/2010 at 15:44
Member since: Nov 2009
You have a point. If I had both consoles, I might have bought it on the 360. I’m not a fanboy of the PS3…I love it to death, but if I could have bought a 360 I would have, and then buy RDR. No dinero I’m afraid =)
02/07/2010 at 17:19
Member since: May 2009
The thing that bugs me is that Rockstar got the GTA ball rolling with the help of the ps1 and more so, the ps2. The GTA series of games sold loads on the ps2 and yet they leave the ps3 with a bit of a rush job when compaired to the 360 version. After all the help from sony combined with the sales on ps2, i just expected a better port and support for the ps3 with GTA4 and RD/Redemption. Don’t get me wrong, i think the game looks amaizing on ps3, but the fact that it looks better on 360 makes my blood boil. Using the 360 as the lead platform for coding games is simply holding the ps3 back…..thank goodness most developers are switching to ps3 for lead development.
02/07/2010 at 22:30
Member since: Aug 2009
I have both consoles and I bought this on PS3, love it and am still playing it.
I bought the 360 for exclusives and promised myself I would continue buy multi-plat on PS3.
It was a decision based purely on the comfort and instant recognition on the Dualshock, a few glitches and sub-par graphics aren’t the be-all and end-all for me, but in no way, shape or form do I agree with the way Rockstar appear to be treating PS3 this generation.
02/07/2010 at 14:15
Member since: Aug 2009
Super Mario sold well
02/07/2010 at 18:40
Member since: Feb 2009
Super Mario G2 sold very well, only 5k behind RDR on the PS3!
02/07/2010 at 21:05
Member since: Forever
Boring as fuck though, we demoed it at work, played it for ages, shittest thing i’ve played in a while
02/07/2010 at 21:39
Member since: Nov 2009
Are you joking? SMG2 is probably the best game ever created! each to their own of course! Didn’t get on with red dead personally!
04/07/2010 at 18:43
Member since: Jul 2010
This is to Owendarko| – Can you please stop declaring ” best game ever ” ? Ok its your opinion but you don’t need to tell the whole world, besides ” best game ever ” goes to San Andreas.
03/07/2010 at 08:53
Member since: May 2009
really want red dead