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by Nick Breckon, Oct 19, 2009 4:35pm PDTBungie's stand-alone Halo 3 expansion topped the NPD sales charts in September, beating Wii Sports and Madden NFL 10 by a significant margin with over 1.5 million units sold.
Also notable was the performance of The Beatles: Rock Band, which clearly beat Guitar Hero 5 sales on Xbox 360 despite launching nine days later. The Wii version of The Beatles also came in strong, selling enough units to claim the tenth place on the list.
The top selling games of September follow:
- Halo 3: ODST (Xbox 360) - 1,520,000 units
- Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 442,900
- Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360) - 298,600
- Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (DS) - 258,100
- The Beatles: Rock Band (Xbox 360) - 254,000
- Madden NFL 10 (PS3) - 246,500
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (Xbox 360) - 236,000
- Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3) - 212,500
- Guitar Hero 5 (Xbox 360) - 210,800
- The Beatles: Rock Band (Wii) - 208,600
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Though the numbers are a tad lower than the analysts projected (see http://www.gamespot.com/news/6232261.html ) ; they were looking between 1 and 1.3 m for TBRB on all platforms, but with the numbers here and assuming a respectable PS3 # of 150,000, you're only looking at about 650,000 units. Sure, first month numbers and all, and we've got 2.5 months till Christmas, and they aren't nothing to sneeze at, but I think this was a little off from projections.
(Comparison number: 360 version of RB2 sold 363,000 on its release month)
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