NPD: North US gamers love Wii-mote

Yashpal SharmaDec 15 2006

Four or five days ago the digital entertainment and gaming industry analyzes NPD Group presented its report that revealed some cracking stats concerning the sales of both the hardware as well as software. The stats declared Xbox 360 the winner in the race of next-gen consoles with selling more than 511,000 hardware in the month of Nov. while Wii was awarded as the runner up with selling around 476,000 units and PS3 the very last with transaction of 197,000 units out of 2 million shipped. Now NPD comes back with one more data catalog for the month of Nov. bringing forth the sales figures of console accessories in US.

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Stats are as follow:

Wii Remote controllers sold - 270,000

Nunchuk accessory - 153,000

Nintendo DS Lite Starter Kit -154,000

Xbox 360 wireless controller - 251,000

Xbox360 Play and Charge kit - 84,000

HD-DVD add-on - 42,000

Sixaxis-controller - 98,000

PS2 Memory Cards - 152,000

Dualshock controllers (PS2) - 186,000

Via: gamesindustry

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