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NPD Sales Results for June 2013 [Up2: 360/3DS Hardware, AC/LM/DK Digital + Retail]

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Mpl90

Two copies sold? That's not a bomb guys, stop trolling!!!
I'll be the first in asking this, hopefully not the last one

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Its numbers, please.
 
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NateDrake

Member
Nintendo 3DS sold nearly 225,000 units of hardware in June and finished as the best-selling video game system in the U.S. for the second consecutive month. A strong launch for Animal Crossing: New Leaf and the continued strength of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon helped sales of Nintendo 3DS hardware and software increase by more than 40 percent and nearly 105 percent, respectively, over the same time last year.

Highlights for the month include:

  • Through the first six months of 2013, Nintendo has sold nearly 3.6 million combined physical and digital units of first-party Nintendo 3DS software, an increase of more than 85 percent over the same time frame last year.
  • Animal Crossing: New Leaf sold more than 505,000 combined physical and digital units in June. More than 20 percent of these sales were through the Nintendo eShop, the second-highest ratio behind only Fire Emblem Awakening. Nintendo’s internal trackers show that sales of the game continue to be strong in July as well, indicating that Animal Crossing: New Leaf is poised to be one of the biggest games of the summer.
  • Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D sold more than 108,000 combined units in its second month and Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon added nearly 115,000 combined units in its fourth month on the market, bringing its lifetime total to more than 750,000 combined units.
  • Nintendo had three of the top five best-selling software SKUs for the month.
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Nintendo PR
 
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DaBoss

Member
Any particular reason Minecraft got bumped?

Mpl90 said:
I'll be the first in asking this, hopefully not the last one

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Its numbers, please.
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The game where it is just flashy animations without much to the game? It was so shallow in the demos.
 
U

Uno Venova

Banned
TLOU is especially impressive. I mean going against the laws of physics by being a successful new exclusive IP at the end of a generation.
 
D

Danthrax

Batteries the CRISIS!
Wow, 3DS.

I didn't think Animal Crossing would make big waves in North America, but I guess I was wrong.
 
J

jj984jj

He's a pretty swell guy in my books anyway.
Whoa, is this the best debut for a new IP from Sony?

Also, you could see where 3DS was going starting last month. I just knew Animal Crossing would keep 3DS going up, people just love that game for some reason. 3DS is making it big this year, Pokemon will keep things going.
 
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Carpe Libertatem

Member
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D sold more than 108,000 combined units in its second month and Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon added nearly 115,000 combined units in its fourth month on the market, bringing its lifetime total to more than 750,000 combined units.
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So the Wii version of DKCR sold at least 7k copies in June? I guess that's not particularly crazy, but still surprising to me

Er, why are MS discounting handheld game sales in their PR?
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Because PR's purpose is to make a company look good (same reason why Nintendo ignores Wii U)
 
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GulAtiCa

Member
Wow, 500k for retail/digital for AC:NL. Excellent! That's 2x the amount the DS entry did, and that was during December!
 
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Kyoufu

Member
Delighted to see TLoU at #1. One of the best games I've played this gen, and it's not a genre I enjoy usually. Well done Naughty Dog.
 
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