Fri, Mar 12, 2010 | 05:35 GMT

NPD February 2010: Nintendo DS dominates, Xbox 360 outsells Wii and PS3

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February 2010′s dead and gone, but let’s remember it for what it was: a month during which videogame consoles were sold. Yep. For that alone, we’ll remember February 2010 for the rest of our… what were we talking about again? Oh well. It probably didn’t matter.

Check out the full list of hardware sales after the break.

Hardware Sales, February 2010

  1. Nintendo DS 613.2K
  2. Xbox 360 422.0K
  3. Wii 397.9K
  4. PlayStation 3 360.1K
  5. PSP 133.4K
  6. PlayStation 2 101.9K

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13 comments

#1

Michael O’Connor
12/03/10, 5:36 am

LOL. PlayStation 3 sold 360 (emphasis) thousand units. Cute.

Is it me, or are these sales higher than usual? I wonder what’s driving up 360 sales. Nothing of particular interest has been released this month on the format, that I can recall.

*checks* Up, definitely up. Surprising.

Poor Wii is losing it’s momentum.

#2

Erthazus
12/03/10, 6:36 am

Because 360 is an established market in the US. PS3 is just starting to have something for the US people like God Of War franchise.

#3

Blerk
12/03/10, 8:52 am

Uh… well that was unexpected! Those numbers do seem kind of high for February too. Surely Bioshock 2 couldn’t have been driving 360 sales?

#4

Blerk
12/03/10, 9:21 am

Indeed, that’s apparently the 360′s ‘best February sales ever’. So much for the analysts predictions yet again this month. :-D

#5

FeaturePreacher
12/03/10, 9:33 am

Congrats to Microsoft.

#6

onyxbox
12/03/10, 9:37 am

Perhaps there actually was shortage of PS3′s and Wii’s so people just got a 360 while they wait (they’re cheap enough these days aren’t they?).

Either that or all those FF13 adds convinced quite a lot of people that it was only going to be available on 360…. muppets!

:)

#7

onyxbox
12/03/10, 9:38 am

BTW: Bioshock was pretty good towards the end of the game. Dull at the start tho’

#8

DJ Deathstar
12/03/10, 11:45 am

Everyone forgetting that Mass Effect 2 did come out at the end of Jan so alot might have waited till Feb to get a console etc.

@2 if anything the fact that the 360 is an established market means its more more impressive that the sold so many as its easier to sell higher numbers of things people don’t own like the PS3 where as there is less people for microsoft to target at as more people already own 360′s

#9

Bulk Slash
12/03/10, 1:40 pm

Those are odd figures, much higher than Pachter predicted for all of them IIRC. So much for the experts. Hopefully the 360′s boost is due to Mass Effect 2, which really does deserve the success.

#10

The Hindle
12/03/10, 1:45 pm

Impressive for Heavy Rain considering the figures are based on 5 days of it being out.

#11

OlderGamer
12/03/10, 1:54 pm

Much higher for all systems then I would have thought.

I wonder how that PSPGo sold?

#12

reask
12/03/10, 2:15 pm

Pachter never gets it right anyway.
Great job to have.

#13

IL DUCE
13/03/10, 2:19 am

@1 well yeah nothing besides mass effect 2 coming out at the end of january, which was said but is an amazing game and probably the best of the year so far and might hold up with that title…and i love how last month when the ps3 outsold 360 for one month finally, these execs start talking shit…now we dont hear shit…

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