July NPD: Hardware sales slide, Wii Sports Resort soars

By Randy Nelson
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By now, you're already aware that Wii Sports Resort sold more than 500k copies in the US alone during July. Who would ever have thought that a Wii Sports sequel would do so well? Despite the game's success, the platform it calls home saw a 30% drop-off in sales for the month. In fact, see all that red down there? Sales of every console were down.

-DS: 539K227K (-29%)
-Wii: 253K108K (-30%)
-Xbox 360: 203K37K (-15%)
-PSP: 123K41K (-25%)
-PS3: 122K42K (-25%)
-PS2: 108K45K (-29%

Check out the software sales chart after the break.

  1. Wii Sports Resort (w/ Wii Motion Plus) – WII – Nintendo – 508K
  2. NCAA Football 10 – 360 – EA – 377K
  3. NCAA Football 10 – PS3 – EA – 237K
  4. Wii Fit (w/ Balance Board) – WII – Nintendo – 164K
  5. Mario Kart (w/ Wheel) – WII – Nintendo – 157K
  6. Mario Kart DS – NDS – Nintendo – 132K
  7. Pokemon Platinum Version – NDS – Nintendo – 116K
  8. Fight Night Round 4 – 360 – EA – 116K
  9. New Super Mario Bros. – NDS – Nintendo – 102K
  10. EA Sports Active – WII – EA – 97K

* Includes Collector's, Limited and Bundled Editions

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