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Games Report: Sony Gets Dusted


Nintendo and Microsoft game titles sold big in the U.S. for the month of January, leaving Sony picking up the crumbs.

 

Market research company NPD Group on Thursday released the top 10 software sales list for January. Nintendo sold the most by a wide margin, with the No. 1 game, Wii Fit, selling 777,000 units despite the higher price of $90. The second best-selling game after that was the Wii Play and Wii Remote bundle, which sold 415,000 units.

 

Of the top 10, six of them were for Nintendo consoles (with five of the games Nintendo exclusives), and the remaining four titles were Xbox 360 games.

 

While the Xbox 360 games were also available on the PS3, the significantly better sales on the Xbox 360 show Microsoft’s influence in the U.S.

 

In terms of hardware, Nintendo dominated charts once again with its Wii and DS consoles selling 679,200 and 510,800 units, respectively.

 

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 came in third with 309,000 consoles shipped.

 

Sony trailed with 203,200 consoles shipped.

 

Sony may see sales spike up with the release of Killzone 2, the highly anticipated PS3 exclusive that’s set to hit retail at the end of the month.