Last month’s NPD numbers are in and it’s no surprise the hottest selling title of June was the Xbox 360 version of Activision Entertainment’s Prototype, selling over 400K copies upon its first month of release. Developed by Radical Entertainment, this heavily marketed multi-platform title lets you roam around an open world city with shape-shifting superpowers. In comparison the Playstation 3 version sold 179K units.
Many gamers have compared Prototype to the PS3 exclusive title Infamous, a Sucker Punch Productions title that lets you freely roam around an open world city with electricity-based superpowers. Released at the end of May, Infamous sold a total of 190K units in June and came in last in the June NPD charts.
Coming in at number 2 is the official Ultimate Fighting Championship video game UFC 2009: Undisputed. Selling nearly 340K copies on its second month of release, this fast & furious arcade-like brawler has won over multitudes of mixed martial arts and fighting game fans. With all of the attention the sport has been receiving it’s no surprise that videogame publishing giant Electronic Arts is now creating a MMA game themselves. It is appropriately titled MMA. That title will be released in 2010 and will no doubt compete with the eventual Undisputed sequel.
Electronic Arts answer to Nintendo’s popular expend title Wii Fit is the next game on the list, selling a total of 289K copies in June. Titled EA Sports Active Bundle, this Nintendo Wii unique seeks to become your electronic personal trainer featuring lots of ways to track your progress as well as exercises . There are two attachments bundled with the software, one being a strap that allows the game to hold track of your leg movements and the other being a resistance band for arm exercises. Nintendo’s Wii Fit is no slump of its own, selling 270K copies and coming in at number five last month. Not bad for a title that came out in May 2008! Active Bundle smartly supports the Balance Board attachment that comes with Wii Fit.
Number four on the list is another EA Sports Wii title, this one being a golf title. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010 takes advantage of the new Motion Plus controller attachment for the Wii, bundled with the game. This piece of hardware gives the motion sensors in the Wii controller an extra boost, allowing higher precision and accuracy in tracking a user’s arm movements. Released at the beginning of June, It is interesting to note that this is the only version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour that reached the charts with 272K sales (There are versions for every console, including the PS2 and DS). Thank you Motion plus!
The 360 and PS3 versions of yet another EA Sports title, Fight Night Round 4, comes in at the number six and seven spots. Released on June 23, 2009, the marketing campaigns for this title feature boxing legends Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, and that certainly helped EA push 400K copies of its newest title in the realistic boxing “Fight Night” franchise. The 360 version of the game sold 50K more copies than its PS3 counterpart which moved 210K copies in the last week of June.
Nintendo’s Mario Kart Wii (with steering wheel attachment) came in at number eight, selling 200K units. Like Wii Fit, this April 2008 go-kart racing title is still approved with consumers. The steering wheel attachment lets you place the Wii controller onto it for better steering and driving controls.
Last but not least is the number 9 game on the list. That honor goes to THQ’s Red Faction: Guerilla, a first person shooter that takes place on Mars. It also features an open world environment allowing you to go where ever you please. Guerilla is the third installment of the Red Faction series which began on the Playstation 2 system. One of the title’s major selling points is the “Geomod 2.0″ game engine which allows for fully destructible environments. It sold reasonably well, falling just short of the 200K trace.
Sources Cited:
NPD June 2009 US Video Game Software Sales chart – NPD
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