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Nintendo Sold Over 1.5 Million Wiis, DSs Last Week
November will be a big month for Nintendo when all is said and done, based on the more than 1.5 million consoles and handhelds it sold in the United States last week. More »Scribblenauts Spells Sales Success In September
Though it didn't make an appearance in the NPD Group's top ten bestselling games in the U.S. for September, 5th Cell's innovative Nintendo DS game Scribblenauts conjured up impressive sales. More »Halo 3: ODST Beats Out Madden, Mario & Marvel To Win September
PS3 Price Drop Makes It September's Top Console
The newer, slimmer, cheaper PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 and Wii during the month of September, according to new data from the NPD Group, the first time the console has bested both of its console rivals in the U.S. More »Madden Tops Charts Again, But Sales Plummet On PS2, Wii
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello had a right to be discouraged by sales of the latest Madden NFL football game from EA Sports. While it managed to be August's bestselling game in the U.S., sales were definitely down. More »NPD: PS3 Sales Gain Ground On Price Drop, Nintendo DS Still Tops
August video game hardware sales were, like most of 2009, down from the previous year. But at least PlayStation 3 sales were up considerably from the month prior, selling almost twice the amount thanks to a mid-month price drop. More »Wii Sports Resort Outsells All (Except NCAA Football) In July
Nintendo's Wii Sports Resort was the bestselling video game in the U.S. last month, moving more than a half million copies—and Wii MotionPlus add-ons—with one exception. It was actually outsold by EA Sports NCAA Football 10.* More »NPD: U.S. Hardware Sales Continue Decline, Xbox Holds Strong
It was another depressing month for the video game industry in the United States, the fifth consecutive monthly drop in a row. Hardware sales fell across the board, with the Wii, PSP and PlayStation 3 seeing the biggest year-over-year declines. More »NPD Top 20 Home To Ghostbusters, Nintendo Dominance
Yesterday, the NPD Group released its estimates for U.S. video game sales for the month of June, with Activision's Prototype and THQ's UFC 2009: Undisputed topping the list of bestsellers. That list was missing a few key releases. More »Prototype, UFC Beat Up The Competition In June
U.S. consumers liked what they saw in Activision's Prototype making the open world action game June's bestselling title by an impressive margin. Last month, its single-console sales doubled those of the game it was often compared to, Infamous. More »U.S. Console Sales Take Another Big Hit In June
The NPD Group's sales figures for the month of June are in and they are not pretty. On the hardware side, sales dropped a painful 38% year-over-year, with nearly every console seeing a drop in sales from June of 2008. More »Nintendo Tops U.S. May Hardware Sales Once Again As Sales Drop
The U.S. video game industry took another hit, right in the sensitive hardware region, as May sales show another month-to-month and year-over-year decline. Despite drops, Nintendo remains the hardware champ thanks to continued Nintendo DS and Wii sales. More »Nintendo And Wii Fit Top Unhealthy April Game Sales
U.S. video game sales in April weren't spectacular. They were down 23% year-over-year. Mind you, April 2008 was huge, with Grand Theft Auto IV and Mario Kart Wii rocketing to the top of the charts. More »Nintendo DSi Helps Nintendo Win April Hardware Sales Contest, Industry Still Down
Resident Evil, Pokemon, Halo Top March Software Sales
Nintendo Continues U.S. Hardware Dominance, Industry Hit Hard In March
Nintendo hardware continued to move in excess of over one million units a month in March, but the video game industry saw a severe drop in spending year-over-year, resulting in a 17% drop in revenue. More »Americans Still Buying Wii Fit At Alarming Rates
As Nintendo president Satoru Iwata already revealed last week, Wii owners in the United States are still buying Wii Fit as fast as their chubby little frames will allow, moving at near holiday sales rates. More »Nintendo Dominates US Hardware Sales Again With Big, Big January
No one was expecting Nintendo to sell Wii and Nintendo DS hardware at the record-breaking rate it had in December, but January's take was no drop in the pond, with the Wii dominating sales charts. More »The U.S.'s Top 20 Games From December Are An Odd Mix
The NPD Group's top ten bestselling video games contain very few surprises; it's filled with Nintendo super-hits for the Wii, hyper-violent shooters and Guitar Hero. But the top twenty games from December mix things up. More »Nintendo Says It's Responsible For 99% Of Game Industry Growth In '08 With Ridiculous Pie Chart
As has already been established, Nintendo is doing well for itself, shattering sales records in the United States with the Wii and Nintendo DS. And, according to Nintendo, it's 99% responsible for the industry's growth. More »U.S. Army Testing Out Recruitment "Arcades"
The U.S. Army wants you, gamers. It's testing a new kind of recruitment center, one the New York Times is calling a "model for recruitment in urban areas," one that smacks of old-school arcades. More »