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Black Friday 2009 - the Videogame Winners and Losers (updated)

RSS by Brett Walton on 28 November 2009, 38313 views
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Brett Walton
29th November 2009

As Black Friday - one of the single biggest retail days of the year - signals the start of the holiday season in the US, VGChartz takes a look at who the big winners were.

As with 2008, the biggest winner on Black Friday was Nintendo. According to our preliminary data, Nintendo sold nearly 800,000 Wii units and 850,000 DS units in the Americas during the week ending 28th November - pretty much exactly the same as last year. The biggest-selling software for the week was New Super Mario Bros Wii, which we estimate sold well over half a million units in the second week of release. Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus, Mario Kart Wii and most of the other big Nintendo and big casual third party titles on Wii and DS saw huge boosts. **Edit** with more data coming in, Wii looks a little lower than last year - more like 750,000 units.

Sony had mixed fortunes this year. PS3 sold nearly 400,000 units during the week - around twice as many as last year and significantly ahead of Xbox 360. On the other hand, PSP sales were down over 35% year on year and PS2 was down over 25%. All holiday bundles were sold out countrywide, and while PS3 software sales in general were lower than Wii and Xbox360, top performers included all bundled titles (inFamous, Batman: Arkham Asylum, LittleBigPlanet, God of War Collection and Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time) along with Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed II. Edit - with more data coming in, it looks like PS3 could actually be as high as 450,000 for the week once all is said and done. **Edit 2** - with even more data coming in, PS3 is actually closer to 500,000 units for the week.

And lastly Microsoft had a solid week but down on last year. Around 325,000 Xbox 360s were sold, down over 35% on last year's record-breaking Black Friday for Microsoft. Most retailer-specific bundles sold well and the big software for the week was predictably Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed II and Left 4 Dead 2.

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Overall, around 2.6 million units of hardware were sold in total during the week compared to around 2.8 million last year and 2.0 million in 2007. Stay tuned for more news and finalised figures when we have them.

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