http://vgchartz.com/ Pretty interesting site. Also interesting, the past week (starting 3 days after GTA IV came out). http://vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=1160 <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Mario Kart Wii has also held up well, somehow managing to outsell GTAIV on PS3. </span></span></div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"> </span> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">-</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Grand Theft Auto IV has sold to 29% of all Xbox 360 and PS3 owners in the Americas.</span></span> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">-</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Amazingly, despite the proximity to the GTAIV release, Nintendo was once again the top publisher for the week.</span></span> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">-</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Nintendogs is still over 1.2 million units ahead of Halo 3.</span></span> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">-</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Guitar Hero III sales are at 8.5+ million in the Americas.</span></span> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">-</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">91 titles sold over 10,000 units this week. The top fifty remains littered with titles selling over 25,000 units per week, indicating that titles outside the top ten can easily sell over 100,000 units per month.</span></span> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">-</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">My guess on Wii Passing Xbox 360 in the Americas: June 7.</span></span> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">-</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Finally: DS Americas sales have over taken DS Japanese sales.</span></span> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">-</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Charting Million Sellers in the Top 200: Xbox 360 – 17, Wii – 11, PS3 – 5</span></span> <span style="font-family:Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">-</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Current Generation Totals: To date, 28,018,427 Xbox 360s, Wiis, and PS3s have been sold in the Americas. Xbox 360 accounts for 42.1% of those consoles sold, while Wii accounts for 40.2%, while PS3 accounts for 17.7%.</span></span></div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman"> </span> I'm pretty surprised over a few of those things.
Pretty crazy that a game with a hard M rating can sell to 30% of the total American market. Some of the stuff the game gets away with is amazing. To think people were giving Mass Effect a hard time for their "romance" scene, LOL!