The numbers are in and once again Nintendo and Sony have topped the charts. Some of the results may be a bit surprising. Generally all my predictions have come true.
Nintendo DS Lite (Coral Pink)
The Nintendo DS outsold everything else. The DS and games for the DS lead the handheld war and the console war too. Then next in second place is, oh wait yes, it’s Nintendo again with the Wii. Games for the Wii topped the charts with Wii Sports, Wii Play and three Mario titles being in the top ten sellers this year. Another Mario, Pokemon and Nintendogs all made it into the top 20 giving them the lead across the board.
Wii Play (with Wii Remote)

Since the third place seller was the PSP, then the PS2. It seems like those wanting a DS that couldn’t get one bought a PSP or an inexpensive PS2. Fourth place goes to the PS2 in a surprising upset. It is the PS2 which outsold the PS3 this year. Finally in last place in world wide sales is the 360, seeing the Halo 3 bubble tapped out.

Week ending December 22nd 2007 had the greatest sales the video gaming business ever achieved in history. According to the data collected by VGchartz.com more than 5.4 million gaming systems and 21.6 million software units have been sold during the last week of the Christmas shopping season.

The worldwide breakdown in numbers:

Total Hardware sales, week ending 22nd December 2007:

Platform 22-Dec

DS 2,046,652

Wii 1,457,872

PSP 725,370

PS2 623,899

PS3 619,388

Xbox360 594,520

Top 20 Software sales, week ending 22nd December 2007:

Rank Software Title (bundles are included) Platform Sales

1 Wii Sports Wii 1,292,462

2 Super Mario Galaxy Wii 716,071

3 Mario Party DS DS 529,316

4 Wii Play Wii 500,902

5 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Wii 495,194

6 More Brain Training DS 487,693

7 Brain Training DS 377,394

8 Forza Motorsport 2 Xbox 360 326,761

9 Pokemon Diamond/Pearl DS 325,785

10 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Xbox 360 322,709



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