August NPD: Xbox 360 and Madden tackle the competition

Posted by: 9/10/2010

Last month the Xbox 360 impressed by outselling everyone including the Nintendo Wii and DS. The console managed to repeat that result by topping the sales charts overall in August, claiming the number one spot in hardware. The 360 outsold the competition while Madden 11 took one and two in software with the Xbox and Playstation versions claiming those spots respectively for a total of almost 2 million units in its first month. The worries about Mafia II on the other hand proved to be true and the title only pushed around 120K on the Xbox while the PS3 version did make the top 10 but the NPD Group does not publish the amounts past the number 5 spot.

Check out the details below:

Hardware

Xbox 360 – 356.7K
Nintendo DS – 342.7K
Wii – 244.3K
PlayStation 3 – 226.0K
PSP – 79.4K

Software

Madden NFL 11 (360) – 920.8K
Madden NFL 11 (PS3) – 893.6K
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) – 124.6K
Mafia II (360) – 121.6K
New Super Mario Bros. (NDS) – 110.4K
New Super Mario Bros. (Wii)
Mafia II (PS3)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360)
NCAA Football 11 (360)
Wii Fit Plus (Wii)

Xbox