NPD Releases December 2008 Sales Statistics For US Game Industry

The NPD Group has published some much-anticipated sales figures from the US game industry. The list includes numbers for both hardware and software sales. Nintendo stays on top of hardware sales with strong showings from both the Wii and the DS. Here’s the full list for your math-addled brains to digest:

US Hardware in December 2008 (Expected sales in parentheses)

• Nintendo DS: 3,040,000 (2,670,000)
• Wii: 2,150,000 (3,030,000)
• Xbox 360: 1,440,000 (1,420,000)
• PSP: 1,020,000 (935,000)
• PS3: 726,000 (757,000)

Nintendo titles win out in software sales, too, owning five of the ten spots overall:

US Software in December 2008 (Expected sales in parentheses)

Wii Play: 1,460,000 (1,350,000)

Call of Duty: World at War (Xbox 360): 1,330,000 (799,000)

1. Wii Fit: 999,000
2. Mario Kart (Wii): 979,900
3. Guitar Hero World Tour (Wii): 850,000
4. Gears of War 2: 745,000 (799,000)
5. Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360): 629,000
6. Mario Kart DS: 540,000
7. Call of Duty World at War (PlayStation 3): 533,000
8. Animal Crossing: City Folk: 497,000

We’ll stay plugged in to the statistics sources in order to report more clutch industry numbers as they drop.

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