August Sales
The total sales of video game software and hardware has been released by the NPD Group. Their data is based only on video game items sold in North America in the month of August.
As usual, the Nintendo DS and Wii leads the hardware sales category. A total of 518.3K units of DSs were sold while 453K Wii units were sold last month.
As for video game software, the top three games are the same game that was released into several versions. The title is Madden NFL 09 which is the latest NFL game from EA Sports. The top game is the Xbox 360 version which sold 1 million copies. The Wii version only sold 15% of the sales compared to the Xbox 360 version.
The top-selling Wii game is Wii Fit which is in fourth place. The total sales of this game is 394.9K units according to the article at aussie-nintendo.com.
