Another month goes by and another pile of Nintendo hardware and software is sold in the U.S. Once again the DS(i) and Wii took the top two spots, selling over 922,000 units between them. The Wii has now sold over 20 million units in North America since its release.
The Xbox 360 still maintains its lead over the PS3 in third place and surprisingly the PS2 is still outselling the PSP which may see sales decline even further now the PSP Go has been revealed.
Nintendo DS 633,500
Wii 289,500
Xbox 360 175,000
PlayStation 3 131,000
PlayStation 2 117,000
PSP 100,400
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Filed under Corporate, News, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Press Releases, Sony & Microsoft by on Jun 12th, 2009. Comment. 
With the launch of the Nintendo DSi in North America last month, Nintendo managed to shift over 1 million DS consoles on the continent, NPD Group sales data has shown. The new DSi moved about 827,000 units while the DS Lite managed 215,000. That’s a combined 31% of total industry unit sales for the month.
While the DS sold nearly double the total it did in March and over double the sales from the same month last year (414,800), sales of the Wii declined both on a month-to-month and year-on-year basis. Total sales for Wii in North America in April were 340,000.
The declining sales can be partly explained on the Wii by the lack of blockbuster game releases. This time last year Mario Kart Wii and Super Smash Bros. Brawl had just been released, helping to shift hardware.
Xbox 360 and PS3 were also down year-on-year meaning video game hardware sales for April 2009 totalled $391.63 million, a decline of 8%.
For the entire month’s hardware sales breakdown, follow the link. Read more on NPD Data Shows DSi On Top In April…
Filed under Hardware, News, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Sony & Microsoft by on May 14th, 2009. Comment.
Two of the worlds leading games analysts have been looking deep into their crystal balls again to predict sales of Wii MotionPlus.
Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan, believes “around 20 percent of Wii owners in the US and Europe will have bought Wii Sports Resort, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 or EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis, so that’s around eight million” as those games come bundled with the wiimote peripheral.
“I think another two million will buy MotionPlus with new consoles. I expect MotionPlus to be a sneaky success (like Wii Fit), and ultimately attach to at least one third of the [Wii's] installed base” Pachter concluded.
Jesse Divnich from EEDAR however was a little less optimistic with his future sales predictions. Hit the jump to find out what they were. Read more on Over 10 Million MotionPlus Sales In 2009 According To Analysts…
Filed under Corporate, Hardware, News, Nintendo Wii, Rumours & Speculation by on May 13th, 2009. Comment.
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