Today the NPD Group released it's monthly video game sales numbers for the month of February 2010, and the results were honestly shocking; for the first time since the release of Halo 3 the Xbox 360 outsold the Nintendo Wii and the Sony Playstation 3. As Microsoft's own Aaron Greenberg said this afternoon the Xbox 360 also saw it's highest February sales in the console's history - with 422,000 units sold in just a 28 day month. The software sales results also gave Microsoft some love with multiple Xbox 360 games making the top 10; including Bioshock 2, Modern Warfare 2, Dante's Inferno, and more. Personally I think this is a great thing for Xbox 360 owners and numbers that should impress software publishers everywhere, pushing more games over to Microsoft's side. Check out a full statement from the NPD analyst below along with both the hardware and software sales results in table form.
"Honestly, I had expected the industry to perform somewhat better this month," stated NPD analyst Anita Frazier. "Nonetheless," she continued, "strong new releases, and Easter gift-buying bodes well for industry performance in March." Frazier also specified that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is now the third best selling game of all time at just under ten million copies sold.
Hardware Units Sold:
- PlayStation 2 101.9K
- PlayStation 3 360.1K
- PSP 133.4K
- Xbox 360 422.0K
- Wii 397.9K
- Nintendo DS 613.2K
Software Units Sold:
- BIOSHOCK 2* 360 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE Feb-10 562.9K
- NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Nov-09 555.6K
- CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* 360 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Nov-09 314.3K
- JUST DANCE WII UBISOFT Nov-09 275.4K
- SPORTS RESORT W/ WII MOTION PLUS* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Jul-09 272.5K
- CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* PS3 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Nov-09 252.8K
- MASS EFFECT 2 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Jan-10 246.5K
- DANTE'S INFERNO: DIVINE EDITION PS3 ELECTRONIC ARTS Feb-10 242.5K
- DANTE'S INFERNO 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Feb-10 224.7K
- HEAVY RAIN PS3 SONY Feb-10 219.3K
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