June sales show Nintendo still on top

Mike Bantick
Tuesday, 24 July 2007 10:55

Your IT - Entertainment

NPD has released the U.S June sales figures for video game hardware and software.  In what looks to be the biggest year yet for the industry, the Nintendo gaming company is still reaping the largest pie slice.

Gamedaily.biz has given us Junes NPD supplied sales data in the video gaming industry.  Nintendo is sill heading the bunch with nearly 562,000 Nintendo DS units offloaded during the month.

Following in second place with 381.8K units delivered, was the DS’s big brother the Nintendo Wii.  Sony’s hand-held gaming and media device followed with 290.1K units sold. 

Microsoft Xbox 360 offloaded 198.4K and the Sony PS3 entered 98.5K U.S households during June.

Forgetting the brand-chest-beating over who is winning the console war, overall these sales show an industry wide  trending increase of 69 percent in hardware alone for June.  For the year’s half this is an almost doubling of the industry up 98 percent to US$1.7 billion.

Software sales also grew 22 percent during June, with the year’s first half up 24 percent from last year’s equivalent.

Nintendo has continued their success across into the software realm with the recent Mario Party 8 for the Wii filling top software rank of the charts. This may well be due to all those Wii owners starved for content, slaking their thirst for titles.

The top ten software sales for June in the U.S. were;

1. Wii Mario Party 8  -426.2K
2. Wii Play W/Remote – 293.2K
3. NDS Pokemon Diamond Version – 288.4K
4. NDS Pokemon Pearl Version – 214.7K
5. Xbox 360 Forza Motorsport 2 – 197.4K
6. PS2 Guitar Hero 2 – 197.35K
7. Xbox 360 Guitar Hero 2 – 177.6K
8. Wii Pokemon Battle – 157.9K
9. Wii Resident Evil 4
10. Xbox 360 The Darkness