nintendo wii
Hey guys if its game consoles its still Nintendo, its still leading the race by beating the arch rival big shots like Sony and Microsoft. According to NPD numbers for US sales for august Nintendo tops the chart by selling 403,600 game consoles whereas Microsoft Xbox stands at number two with 276,700 and the giant Sony is bubbling under at the third spot with 130,600 sales in the month of august.
nintendo2
nintendo
Nintendo is also among the favorites of next generation gamers. Yes, they have sold 9 million Nintendo Wiis, beating Microsoft 360 which is also not doing bad at 8.9 million sales, and gamers if we talk about Sony Playstation 3 they have sold only 3.9 total units in its lifetime. All you game boys out there if this is not enough Nintendo also have four games out of the top 10 in there bag viz. Wii Play at number five, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption at number six, Mario Strikers: Charged at the number seven spot, and Mario Party 8 in ninth place.
Microsoft is kicking good with there No.1 selling game Madden NFL 2008 for the Xbox with 896,6000 units sold. Microsoft is also preparing to launch Halo 3, which will surely bring attention to Xbox. This is the first time folks that Sony didn't do that well with the Madden games.
There's so much bad going on for Sony this month but Playstation 2 is still holding good at 202,000 units in the month of August and, Sony PSP didn't do that bad either at 151,200 units, and this can increase as the new slim PSP's are in the pipeline.
Via: Slipperybrick
Related Stories
Nintendo DS system records 653,000 sales in one week
Here is good news for Nintendo, as this week Nintendo of America has recorded number of sales in its first shopping week in the United States. Nintendo of America announced that the company has sold more than 653,000 Nintendo DS units along with...
New Nintendo gift giving feature boosts up sales
Nintendo Wii is play station's smallest game control till date. The new Nintendo Wii comes with a cool feature. Guess what? Nintendo now lets users select and send each other games while they are online. Hopefully this will increase the network...
Nintendo UK Boasts 105,000 Wii units record-breaking Sales
Until now the huge 50,000 sales figures was the hot news but now the figures have become a bit outdated as new sky touching figures are lay alongside. The fresh figures say that the Wii sales figures has surpassed the 1K mark within very first week of...
Nintendo registers 5 million DS sales in Japan
After Nintendo's launch in last December (that's merely 13 months) the Nintendo Co Ltd sold 5 million units in Japan. This is considered as the fastest sell in Japan video game history, Nintendo spokesperson informed. The closest to come is Nintendo's...
Robocop type weapon scanner to assist policemen
The image atop isn’t what we intended to begin this informative narrative with, but the secrecy maintained by the departments developing the Robocop type arms detector leaves us no choice. The detector would make things easier for the officers who..
