The Nintendo Wii dominated the US hardware sales chart for November, selling an astonishing 2.04 million units for the month. For the same month last year, Nintendo sold 981,000 units.
Year on year, hardware revenue was up 10 percent, says NPD.
“One reason for the continued strength of the industry compared to other forms of entertainment comes from a number of sources,” said NPD’s Anita Frazier. “Certainly, the expanded audience for gaming due to the availability of a wider variety of compelling content is a strong contributor.”
The full sales chart:
2.04m - Wii
1.57m - Nintendo DS
836k - Xbox 360
421k - PSP
378k - PlayStation 3
206k - PlayStation 2
Result for: hardware revenue
Thanks to recent price cuts across the board, the Xbox 360 outsold the Sony PlayStation 3 pretty handily in the US for the month of September despite both consoles combined selling less than the Wii for the period.
However, since the hardware was priced lower, total hardware revenue for the industry fell from $546 million USD year-on-year to $498 million USD.
According to the NPD data, Nintendo sold 687,000 consoles for the month, while Microsoft sold 347,000 units and Sony sold 232,000.
For the handheld market, the Nintendo DS continued to dominate, selling 537,000 units compared to 238,000 for the Sony PSP.
“Compared to August, nearly all hardware systems realised an increase in unit sales in September,” commented Anita Frazier of NPD.
“The price reduction on the Xbox 360 helped deliver a month-over-month unit sales increase for that platform of 78 per cent.”
