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NPD have released their first numbers of 2009 with the final month of 2008 under the firing squad.

Nintendo dominated the month (when havent they?) with 2.1 million Wii’s sold and as well as that, the Nintendo DS broke the record of unit sales in the 1 month by selling over 3.04 million units, a record previously held by the PlayStation 2.

While on the HD Front, the Xbox 360 bitchslapped the PLAYSTATION 3 with sales of over 1.4 million compared to the PS3′s of 726,000 units although sales are expected to increase for the PS3 with the iniment release of Killzone 2 (we’ll know how many units sold on that front for the February report in March) as well as a price cut in March/April very much expected.

The PSP however did very well, outselling his big console brother with unit sales of 1.02 million while the PlayStation 2, in the week where it was announced that 50 million PS2′s were sold in America in the past 9 years since launch, sold over 410,000 units.

Full sales figures plus games chart and the all important end of year numbers are after the jump.

Hardware Charts for the month of December 2008:

PlayStation 2 – 410,000
PLAYSTATION 3 – 726,000
PlayStation Portable – 1.0 million
Xbox 360 – 1.4 million
Nintendo Wii – 2.1 million
Nintendo DS – 3.4 million

Meanwhile, on the software front, Wii Play came out on top with sales of over 1.46 million followed then by Call of Duty: World at War for the Xbox 360 at 1.33 million and 3rd place going to Wii Fit at just under a million.

Software Charts:

1 – Wii Play [with Wiimote] (Nintendo Wii) – 1.4 million units
2 – Call of Duty: World at War (Xbox 360) – 1.3 million*
3 – Wii Fit [with Balance Board] (Nintendo Wii) – 999,999k
4 – Mario Kart Wii [with steering wheel] (Nintendo Wii) – 878,000K
5 – Guitar Hero: World Tour (Nintendo Wii) – 859,000k*
6 – Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) – 745,000k*
7 – Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360) – 629,000k
8 – Mario Kart DS (Nintendo DS) – 540,000k
9 – Call of Duty: World at War (PLAYSTATION 3) – 533,000k
10 – Animal Crossing: Lets Go to the City [City Folk in the US] (Nintendo Wii) – 497,000k*

*Includes Collector’s, Limited, Legendary, and Bundled Editions

Meanwhile, the top selling software for the entire year as follows are:

1 – Wii Play [with Wiimote] (Nintendo Wii) – 5.2 miilion units
2 – Mario Kart Wii [with steering wheel] (Nintendo Wii) – 5.0 million
3 – Wii Fit [with balence board] (Nintendo Wii) – 4.5 million
4 – Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo Wii) – 4.1 million
5 – Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360) – 3.2 million*
6 – Call of Duty: World at War (Xbox 360) – 2.7 million*
7 – Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) – 2.3 million*
8 – Grand Theft Auto IV (PLAYSTATION 3) – 1.8 million*
9 – Madden NFL 2009 (Xbox 360) – 1.8 million*
10 – Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo DS) – 1.6 million

*Includes Collector’s, Limited, Legendary, and Bundled Editions

Finally, for the hardware numbers for the entre year, while Nintendo dominated throughout for the first half of 2008, PLAYSTATION 3 dominated on month by month sales until July after E3 when the price on the Xbox 360 was cut .

This led to a dramatic shit which has seen the Xbox 360 dominate in the 2nd half of the year.

And while PS3 sales are up by 40% on a Year to Year basis, their holiday season sales was down from the month of November from 1.2 million to 1.1 million in December as well as the fact that they are now being outsold 2:1 by the Xbox 360.

The full hardware sales of the year of 2008 are as follows:

PlayStation 2 – 2.5 million units
PLAYSTATION 3 – 3.5 million
PlayStation Portable – 3.8 million
Xbox 360 – 4.7 million
Nintendo Wii – 10.1 million
Nintendo DS – 9.9 million