- Halo 3: ODST - 360 - Microsoft - 1.52m
- Wii Sports Resort (w/ Wii Motion Plus) - Wii - Nintendo - 443K
- Madden NFL 10 - 360 - EA - 290K
- Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story - DS - Nintendo - 258K
- The Beatles: Rock Band - 360 - EA - 254K
- Madden NFL 10 - PS3 - EA - 247K
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 -360 - Activision - 236K
- Batman: Arkham Asylum - PS3 -Eidos - 213K
- Guitar Hero 5 - 360 - Activision - 211K
- The Beatles: Rock Band - Wii - EA - 209K
Let me stack this up to my September predictions.
Let's start with rhythm games:
"Guitar Hero 5 will be the first Guitar Hero that is outsold by a Rock Band title." Well I nailed that, at least in it's first month. The Beatles: Rock Band makes 2 appearances on the charts, one of which is higher than GH:5.
With all of the mainstream hype behind The Beatles: Rock Band, you'd have thought the game would sell millions, but the highest it charted was 5th. Harmonix has said they're pleased with the sales, but with talk of them having paid a huge amount for the rights, I doubt sales of under a million copies across 3 consoles mean recouping costs.
Need for Speed: Shift didn't chart, sales are down. I thought it might make Top 10 on 360, but it didn't make it.
Scribblenauts didn't chart, despite the hype, as predicted.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 did sell, but only came in at number 7. I imagine next month it will be gone from the charts, a far cry from the big numbers the first game posted. (Though I'm certain part 1 benefited from being a pack in for awhile.
Halo 3 topped the charts, selling over a million, a pretty obvious prediction.
Kingdom Hearts on DS didn't chart. I think some were surprised by it's absence, but that was pretty clear to me.
The only real mistake I made in my assessment came from Batman: Arkham Asylum. I predicted the 360 version would end up beween 7th and 10th positions and the PS3 version would fall off. Had I switched the versions I would have been dead on.
Michael Pachter eat your heart out!
