Fri, May 14, 2010 | 00:39 BST
NPD April 2010 software: Conviction tops with 486K units sold

The monthly NPD numbers are out, and on the software side, Xbox 360 exclusive Splinter Cell: Conviction was tops with 486K units sold, followed by Pokemon Soul/Silver in second place, moving 242.9K units.
Over all, sales for software dropped 22 percent to $398.5M, and only two titles released in April landed in the top ten – Conviction and SSFIV.
Here’s how the rest stacked up, with NPD apparently, withholding the actual figures for 6-10:
- Splinter Cell: Conviction (360) – 486.1K
- Pokemon Soul/Silver (DS) – 242.9K
- New Super MArio Bros. Wii (Wii) – 200.3K
- Pokemon Heart/Gold (DS)- 192.6K
- God of War III (PS3) – 180.3K
- Wii SPorts Resort with WMP (Wii)
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (360)
- Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Wii) (130,000)
- Just Dance (Wii) (144K+ per Nintendo)
- Super Street Fighter IV (PS3)


6 comments
#1
Goliath
14/05/10, 12:14 am
Great showing for Splinter Cell: Conviction. I’m surprised to see Battlefield: Bad Company 2 still selling so well on the XBox 360. Last month it was the 4th most played game on XBox Live behind Modern Warfare 2, Halo 3 and even trumped by World at War.
#2
NoxNoctisUmbra
14/05/10, 3:20 am
GOWIII sold way more copies in first month then Spliner Cell.. bit disappointing for such a good game.. not to mention i thought all Xbox xclusives sell more then PS3 exclusives. Good thing its coming to PS3, because they deserve more sales.
#3
Gekidami
14/05/10, 6:39 am
Pretty low sales for everything really. April was a shitty month for releases.
#4
Erthazus
14/05/10, 6:44 am
It’s not just shitty month, it’s just everyone predicted that God Of War 3 will give PS3 hardware boost in US.
The irony is that it is now even worse.
#5
Gekidami
14/05/10, 7:19 am
^Wha..?
#6
Blerk
14/05/10, 8:38 am
Good to see God of War hanging in there for another month.