NPD numbers for November

Top... 12 (no idea why it's 12):

Rank Title Publisher Platform Units
Total 21,047,040
1 PS2 GRAND THEFT AUTO:VICE Take-Two PS2 1,452,729
2 GCN METROID PRIME Nintendo GCN 363,389
3 PS2 WWE: SHUT YOUR MOUTH THQ PS2 348,515
4 PS2 TONY HAWKS PRO SKATR4 Activision PS2 321,941
5 GBA YU-GI-OH! ETERNAL Konami GBA 269,498
6 PS2 MADDEN NFL 2003 Electronic Arts PS2 240,796
7 XBX T.CLANCY'S SPLINTER Ubi Soft XBX 223,879
8 PS2 LORD OF RINGS: TOWERS Electronic Arts PS2 203,802
9 PS2 MORTAL KOMBAT: DEADLY Midway PS2 202,592
10 GBA METROID FUSION Nintendo GBA 199,723
11 GBA HARRY POTTER: CHAMBER Electronic Arts GBA 187,164
12 PS2 KINGDOM HEARTS EA/Square PS2 182,418

Top 10 per console:

Top 10 PS2 Games
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GTA: Vice City 1,452,729
WWE: Shut Your Mouth 348,515
Tony Hawk 4 321,941
Madden NFL 2003 240,796
LOTR: TT 203,802
Mortal Kombat 202,592
Kingdom Hearts 182,418
Harry Potter 148,166
NBA Live 141,402
Bond 007: Nightfire 136,779

Top 10 Xbox Games
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Splinter Cell 223,879
Mech Assault 118,475
Ghost Recon 115,330
Unreal Championship 110,970
Mortal Kombat 104,155
MOH: Frontline 96,885
Halo 99,884
MGS2: Substance 69,121
Tony Hawk 4 55,749
Bond 007: Nightfire 53,279

Top 10 GC Games
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Metroid Prime 363,389
Mario Party 4 166,975
Super Mario Sunshine 131,498
Resident Evil 0 113,301
Harry Potter 83,998
Star Fox Adventures 66,695
Animal Crossing 61,806
Super Smash Bros Melee 50,832
Bond 007: Nightfire 49,897
Star Wars: Clone Wars 46,096

Companies:

Acclaim:
BMX XXX (all platforms) 31,400
Turok (all platforms) 33,500
Burnout 2 (PS2) 21,000

Activision:
Tony Hawk 4 (all platforms) 540,000
Minority Report (all platforms) 8,000
X-Men + Kelly Slater + Mat Hoffman (all platforms) 93,000
Spiderman (all platforms) 232,000

EA:
Madden NFL 2003 (all platforms) 464,000
Harry Potter (all platforms) 580,000
James Bond (all platforms) 240,000
NBA Live (all platforms) 209,000

Midway:
Mortal Kombat (all platforms) 352,000
Defender (PS2) 18,000
Dr. Muto (all platforms) 4,800
Haven (PS2) 2,200

Take-Two:
GTA 3 (PS2) 56,000
Conflict Desert Storm (PS2, Xbox) 97,000

THQ:
Red Faction 2 (PS2) 46,000

Top 20 Publishers, Year-over-Year Growth and Market Share

NOV
Nov Nov Oct Oct
Rank y/y dollars NOV'02 '02 '01 '02 y/y
share share share dollars
Total 7% $712,516,500 100% 100% 100%
1 ELECTRONIC ARTS 16% $133,441,100 19% 18% 18% 133%
2 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE 232% $ 84,062,340 12% 4% 19% 366%
3 NINTENDO OF AMERICA -8% $ 70,071,450 10% 11% 6% 13%
4 THQ 9% $ 54,553,470 8% 8% 4% 39%
5 ACTIVISION -28% $ 48,531,130 7% 10% 7% 17%
6 SONY 6% $ 36,324,660 5% 5% 4% -1%
7 KONAMI OF AMERICA -18% $ 33,241,670 5% 6% 4% 111%
8 INFOGRAMES 66% $ 27,907,330 4% 3% 3% 70%
9 MIDWAY 94% $ 26,609,700 4% 2% 2% -22%
10 UBISOFT 220% $ 24,407,870 3% 1% 1% -22%
11 SEGA OF AMERICA 27% $ 23,400,190 3% 3% 4% 62%
12 MICROSOFT -62% $ 17,699,600 2% 7% 2% 15835%
13 NAMCO 3% $ 15,972,870 2% 2% 3% 20%
14 CAPCOM USA 20% $ 15,459,850 2% 2% 1% -69%
15 EIDOS INTERACTIVE 91% $ 11,669,260 2% 1% 6% 670%
16 VIVENDI UNIVERSAL -18% $ 11,649,840 2% 2% 2% 415%
17 ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT -35% $ 11,072,880 2% 3% 2% -2%
18 LUCASARTS -38% $ 9,671,669 1% 2% 0% 59%
ENTERTAINMNT
19 OTHER #DIV/0! $ 6,297,641 1% 0% 1% NM
20 BAM! ENTERTAINMENT -20% $ 5,967,332 1% 1% 1% 124%


Well, I can't read the publishers thing worth a damn, but the top 10 per console was very interesting. I'm really happy to see the Live games doing so well, Mech Assault especially. Glad to see Metroid doing very well too. That said, BMX XXX's numbers are hilarious, Dr. Muto and Haven's numbers are very sad, and Conflict Desert Storm's numbers are quite surprising.

Dr. Muto (all platforms) 4,800

That's not even right. lmfao

Dr. Muto's scores are pathetic. Good to see BAM doing so well.

They advertised it a lot too. Though very shittily.





*waits for someone to point out that shittily isn't a word, because they have no life*

Splinter Cell is doing pretty good :)

Quite :)

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2 GCN METROID PRIME Nintendo GCN 363,389

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It does my heart good to see this beat out Splinter Cell, which I didn't actually think would happen. Nothing against SC, but this is cosmic justice we're talking about here.

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5 GBA YU-GI-OH! ETERNAL Konami GBA 269,498

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Good to see this sleeper doing so well - I've been pulling for this scrappy little unknown title for a while now. In other news, kids are stupid.

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9 PS2 MORTAL KOMBAT: DEADLY Midway PS2 202,592

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This, I never would have predicted in a million years. Maybe it's because I'm so past caring about Mortal kombat that Kitana would have to jump out the screen and start getting freaky for me to play one of these games again. (And to those who play it, no I don't care if it has all kinds of new and awesome features. I just don't.)

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MGS2: Substance 69,121

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Boy, all the effort MS went through to get this title sure turned out to be worth it. Whoever the megabrain is in their acquisitions department who shelled out a ton of $ for this and Shenmue II is probably really popular there these days.

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Resident Evil 0 113,301

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One of two things is happening here. Either everyone in the world got together, held a meeting and decided they didn't care about Resident Evil anymore without telling Capcom, or moving the series to GC was a bad move. Guess which one I'm picking.

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Acclaim:
BMX XXX (all platforms) 31,400

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*points, laughs*

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X-Men + Kelly Slater + Mat Hoffman (all platforms) 93,000

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That game kicked ass.

Is MGS Substance an Xbox exclusive? Because I thought it was heading to the PS2 in January.

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Is MGS Substance an Xbox exclusive? Because I thought it was heading to the PS2 in January.

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I don't think it's coming out on PS2 until at least march or so. But that still doesn't change the fact that MS had to seriously sweeten the deal for Konami to even bother.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. Is there even a point to the exclusivity when it's only going to last for a few months? On top of that, it's a remix of a year-old game. Who's going to buy a remix for $50 when there's tons of new, better games on the market?