NPD Numbers for July.

Hardware  

1. Nintendo DS 538,900  
2. Nintendo Wii - 252,500
3. Xbox 360 - 202,900  
4. PSP - 122,800
5. PS3 - 121,800  

Software  

1. Wii Sports Resort  - 508,200  
2. NCAA FOOTBALL 10 (360) - 376,500    
3. NCAA FOOTBALL 10 (PS3) - 237,400    
4. Wii Fit - 164,300  
5. Mario Kart Wii - 156,600    
6. Mario Kart DS  - 132,200  
7. Pokemon Platinum (DS) - 116,400    
8.  Fight Night Round 4 (360) - 116,400
9.  New Super Mario Bros (DS) - 101,800
10. EA Sports Active (Wii) - 96,800    

On the bright side, Nintendo didn't get the top selling game of the month? 

360 sales stable from last year, Wii down over 50%, PS3 down almost 50%
 
Really is time for a Wii & PS3 price cut at the least.

" 360 sales stable from last year, Wii down over 50%, PS3 down almost 50%  Really is time for a Wii & PS3 price cut at the least. "

The Wii will probably get a huge boost for New Super Mario Bros. It's fallen far, but it's still in first. It was never going to stay on the pace it had forever, that was simply unsustainable. But it should stay in first for the rest of the generation, outside of maybe one or two months (like how the 360 narrowly beat in Halo 3's launch month).

Why so many DSs sold?  Don't get me wrong, I love the little handheld and have had many a good gaming hour spent with it, but unlike Japan (DQ IX) there didn't seem to be any associated game released to warrant those numbers.  Is it all about Mario Kart still?   Are new casual gamers picking up a unit for one or two games and that's the reason for the consistantly high sales numbers here (stateside)?  I'm just wondering, appart from core gamers, what motivates an average person to buy a DS at this point in its life cycle. 

ouch the wii is doing so badly. It's doing better than all the others, but somehow its doing badly. it pleases me
 
also NPD is USA only or something right?

The DS continues to have the best sales because it has the best lineup of games. There's such a vast library of games that it doesn't need big software releases to drive it's sales in any given month.

I can't believe that Mario Kart DS is still selling.  That game came out 2005?

" I can't believe that Mario Kart DS is still selling.  That game came out 2005? "

" @RHCPfan24:  Well, if you are referring to the bet, that is among Giant Bomb members, not the general public.  I guess they are going to look at all GB members who've registered their gamertags and calculate from that.  If it was going to be among the general public it would be a slaughter, and Jeff knows that. "

" @PenguinDust said:

" @RHCPfan24:  Well, if you are referring to the bet, that is among Giant Bomb members, not the general public.  I guess they are going to look at all GB members who've registered their gamertags and calculate from that.  If it was going to be among the general public it would be a slaughter, and Jeff knows that. "

Actually I was referring to the whole "if Wolfenstein sells more than Madden we will pay for your game" thing that came out of Raven Software. I have hope that Jeff may be right in his prediction though. The Bionic Commando/UFC fight was certainly close back then. But in terms of raw sales, yeah, Madden will win. "

" I can't believe that Mario Kart DS is still selling.  That game came out 2005? "

" @JJOR64 said:

" I can't believe that Mario Kart DS is still selling.  That game came out 2005? "

Well, it makes sense when you think about. There were 500,000+ new DS owners this month, and Kart and NSMB are the most likely games for them to buy with it. "

" 360 sales stable from last year, Wii down over 50%, PS3 down almost 50%  
 
Really is time for a Wii & PS3 price cut at the least. "

 The Beatles: Rockband, Wii Fit Plus, New Super Mario Bros Wii, it's titles like that which sell masses of consoles for Nintendo in the West, They've already said this year there will be no price cut, why should there be? even when they're 50% down in sales they still trounce the competition lol. It's crazy. I don't think we will until late next year, when a Black Wii will also retail at full price alongside a reduced white console.  "

To expand on your lists:

Hardware

Software (numbers unavailable)

The bet confuses me I mean someone has a shot of gin..big deal the effect wont be really noticable...do they have more gin after?
Could my confusion come from being Irish?

" @Linkyshinks said:

 The Beatles: Rockband, Wii Fit Plus, New Super Mario Bros Wii, it's titles like that which sell masses of consoles for Nintendo in the West, They've already said this year there will be no price cut, why should there be? even when they're 50% down in sales they still trounce the competition lol. It's crazy. I don't think we will until late next year, when a Black Wii will also retail at full price alongside a reduced white console.  "

Wii Sports Resort is a bigger name on Wii than those games, yet in the month WSR came out (this last month), Wii had it's worst month in years.  Generally, sadly enough, it seems this generation that games do not sell hardware, that goes for all platforms.  Outselling 360 by 25% is hardly trouncing, and it this rate 360 will soon be outselling Wii.  It's high time for a price cut anyways, and it will only benefit gamers. "

Worst month due to the economic climate, that all are facing. Yeah well this rate is not going to last long as I keep saying, wait till you see the firgures within the next two months,I believe they will show increased sales of both hardware and software on Wii, the Wii software sold will dwarf anything on 360, mark my words. "

6 months :?, where do you get that impression from, what figures, past NPD numbers?  There have been spurts of hardware sales in line with software releases as you would expect on a Nintendo platform. 
 
You cannot take one regions sales figures, draw conclusions and say it's true of the global picture.

Sony's HANDHELD sold more than their console.  MAN!  That's gotta sting a little.

It is crazy, It will look worse when the Go comes out.

" Sony's HANDHELD sold more than their console.  MAN!  That's gotta sting a little. "

" 6 months :?, where do you get that impression from, what figures, past NPD numbers? "

The difference is that the DS is the best selling system in the world, while the PSP sells pretty poorly outside of Japan. That it outsells the PS3 during some months is a pretty poor reflect on the state of PS3 sales right now (although the slim should remedy that).

" The difference is that the DS is the best selling system in the world, while the PSP sells pretty poorly outside of Japan. That it outsells the PS3 during some months is a pretty poor reflect on the state of PS3 sales right now (although the slim should remedy that). "

" @KuwabaraTheMan said:

" The difference is that the DS is the best selling system in the world, while the PSP sells pretty poorly outside of Japan. That it outsells the PS3 during some months is a pretty poor reflect on the state of PS3 sales right now (although the slim should remedy that). "

The PSP has sold better in the US than Japan. But why does that matter anyway? And the DS still hasn't passed the PS2 to become the best-selling system, though that seems inevitable. Besides, we don't need PSP sales to tell us that PS3 sales are stagnating. "

Nothing too surprising here.