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January NPD Numbers Released: Nintendo Gets Triple Crown, PLAYSTATION 3 Hits New Low

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Yeah, we never got round to this on Friday night or during the weekend but better late then ever.

If your a Nintendo fan, keep reading; if your a Microsoft fan, you decide and if your a Sony fan, you may wanna look away.

Sales of all 3 home consoles fell dramaticlly as the Christmas holidays ended but Nintendo still seen strong sales with the Wii and Nintendo DS as the Wii sold over 679k while the DS sold over 510k.

The Xbox 360 sold over 309k but the PS3 sold much less compared to this time last year, selling 203k. As for the rest of the PlayStation brand, the PSP sold 172k while the PS2 sold over 101k.

Meanwhile on the software front, Nintendo took the triple crown with their games taking the top 3, them being Wii Fit, Wii Play and Mario Kart Wii.

Full software and hardware charts after the jump.

Hardware:

PlayStation 2 101.2K
PlayStation 3 203.2K
PSP 172.3K
Xbox 360 309K
Wii 679.2K
Nintendo DS 510.8K

Software:

WII FIT NINTENDO OF AMERICA WII 1 777K
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA WII 2 415K
MARIO KART W/WHEEL NINTENDO OF AMERICA WII 3 292K
LEFT 4 DEAD ELECTRONIC ARTS 360 4 243K
CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR* ACTIVISION BLIZZARD 360 5 235K
SKATE 2 ELECTRONIC ARTS 360 6 199K
GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR* ACTIVISION BLIZZARD WII 7 155K
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS NINTENDO OF AMERICA NDS 8 135K
MARIO KART DS NINTENDO OF AMERICA 360 9 132K
LORD OF THE RINGS: CONQUEST ELECTRONIC ARTS PS3 10 113K

*includes bundles and special editions

Next month should be interesting, what with Street Fighter IV, Halo Wars and some crapy looking game called Killzone 2?

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One Response to “January NPD Numbers Released: Nintendo Gets Triple Crown, PLAYSTATION 3 Hits New Low”

  1. The Electronic Toy Room Says:
    February 17, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    Ya, things are gonna get much worse for Sony and probably Xbox. Even though these 2 systems are considered much more “high end” that the wii…the world isn’t going to be thinking about high-end very soon. They’re going to be thinking about inexpensive and fun…which the wii has covered.

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