Yes, a billion, all in one month! The industry has done amazing this year and last month alone made $1.1 Billion (a 73 percent increase).Next-Gen has compileda breakdown of all the major moneymakers from last month.Guitar Hero IIIwas the big winner last month selling a total of 1.4 million units (both game only and guitar bundle) and took the number two, three, four and eight spots on the top ten best selling games of last month. Amusingly, the number four spot went to the bundled PS2 version of the game and the number eight spot went to PS2 game only version. Thanks toGuitar Heroas well, accessory sales went up 94 percent to make $130 million.Halo 3still held onto the number one spot though, selling nearly 450,000 units. Overall, software sales made up over $513 million last month.
Hardware sales brought in a total of $469.7 million for October sales. Here’s a breakdown of the system sales:
Wii: 519,000DS: 458,000360: 366,000PSP: 286,000PS2: 184,000PS3: 121,000
The gaming industry has made a total of $10.5 billion up until this point, which is a 49 percent increase compared to last year. We still have plenty of triple A titles coming out before the end of the year too. Check outNext-Genfor the full list of the top ten selling games of last month and the list of most games sold this year so far.
[Thanks, Lemon! — Image viaShoutWire. It’s what 900 million One Dollar bills would look like and is 20 feet tall, 50 feet long, 31 feet wide or basically 57 miles long.]
