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Microsoft’s console has never set the Japanese charts alight, but six years after its launch falling sales are prompting some retailers to call time on Xbox 360.

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Sony’s announced sales of 1 million units for PS3 in Australia.

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Nintendo platforms were dominant in the US last month, while Xbox 360 led a lacklustre race against PS3.

Stats:

• PS2 – 117K
• PlayStation 3 – 131K
• PSP – 100.4K
• Xbox 360 – 175K
• Wii – 289.5K
• Nintendo DS – 633.5K

The January 2009 NPD hardware results have just been released, and, surprising no one, Nintendo is the definitive winner of the lot.

The results are as follows:

• Wii – 679,000
• DS – 510,000
• Xbox 360 – 309,000
• PS3 – 203,000
• PS2 – 101,000
• PSP – 172,000

The run down on all the January numbers can be found here.

Wii sold over 2 million units last month, according to NPD figures, while 360 outsold PS3 by more than 2:1.

DS beat 1.5 million units. It’s all go. Figures in full below.

• PlayStation 2 – 206K
• PlayStation 3 – 378K
• PSP – 421K
• Xbox 360 – 836K
• Wii – 2.04 million
• DS – 1.57 million

Nintendo console sales again flattened the competition in the US last month, with 360 comfortably ahead of PS3 following a heavy price cut. Find all the raw NPD data here.

• Wii – 687.0K
• Nintendo DS – 536.8K
• Xbox 360 – 347.2K
• PSP – 238.1K
• PlayStation 3 – 232.4K
• PlayStation 2 – 173.5K

Wii and DS contined to destroy the competition in American hardware sales in May, selling well in excess of 1 million units between them last month.

PS3 outsold Xbox 360, despite Michael Pachter’s prediction that the situation would be reversed. The news will comes as a blow to Microsoft, who had banked on GTA IV moving hardware for the firm. Full list below.

1. Wii – 675,100
2. Nintendo DS – 452,600
3. PlayStation 3 – 208,700
4. Xbox 360 – 186,600
5. PSP – 182,300
6. PS2 – 132,000

The data also shows that Wii’s install base in America has now hit 10.2 million units, and looks set to easily pass 360′s 10.27 million console sales next month.

Read the rest of our May NPD coverage here.

May NPD data has shown that total industry sales in the US hit $1.12 billion last month, a year-on-year increase of 37 percent.

Software sales rose 41 percent to $536.9 million, while hardware figures increased 34 percent to $428.6 million.

Sales of accessories were up 30 percent to $150.8 million.

Read the rest of our NPD coverage here.

According to this Kotaku piece, Wii’s American software and hardware sales for the first 18 months of its life have been the highest of any platform in history, Nintendo said today.

Speaking at the Electronic Gaming Summit in the US, NoA marketing head Cammie Dunaway said, “While we appreciate the impact the Playstation 2 had on sales and the industry, perhaps we are even more impactful.”

And here are the figures to prove it:

Software

1. Wii – 50 million
2. 360 – 28 million
3. PS3 – 20 million
4. PS2 – 42 million

Hardware

1. Wii – 9.5 million
2. 360 – 5.2 million
3. PS3 – 4.2 million
4. PS2 – 8.5 million

Like, blimey.

Well, if that’s all 360 can manage after such massive sales of GTA IV last month, we get the sneaking suspicion summer may not be so pretty for Microsoft. Xbox 360 just outsold PS3 in April in the US, moving 188,000 units compared to PS3′s 187,100.

Wii and DS lorded over it all, destroying the competition with 714,200 and 414,800 sales respectively. It’s almost embarrassing. Dull list:

1. Wii – 714.2K
2. Nintendo DS – 414.8K
3. PSP – 192.7K
4. Xbox 360 – 188.0K
5. PlayStation 3 – 187.1K
6. PlayStation 2 – 124.4K

We’re just going to put that headline on macro. Here’s Japanese hardware figures from February 18-24.

• Wii – 63,504
• PSP – 53,373
• Nintendo DS – 50,151
• PlayStation 3 – 14,060
• PlayStation 2 – 9,634
• Xbox 360 – 2,001

Says so here. And DS isn’t far behind, either. Here’s the list, figures being from February 11-17:

• Wii – 78,583
• Nintendo DS – 62,362
• PSP – 59,654
• PlayStation 3 – 17,637
• PlayStation 2 – 11,266
• Xbox 360 – 2,198

Wii’s still outselling everything else in Japan, still on top from last week’s chart. Note that PS3 and Xbox 360 sales have both almost halved, Devil May Cry 4 boosting those figures in the previous week.

Wii – 81,737
PSP – 75,912
Nintendo DS – 60,464
PlayStation 3 – 23,985
PlayStation 2 – 11,038
Xbox 360 – 3,615

Janco analyst Mike Hickey has given hardware sales estimates for the year, predicting a tie in the US for PS3 and Xbox 360 at 5 million units a piece, with Wii stealing the show with 8 million. Stealing the show, that is, apart from DS: Hickey expects Americans to buy another 8 million units of Nintendo’s handheld in 2008.

The main story here is PS3. While sales kicked in thanks to a price cut and a smattering of decent software towards the back of 2007, 2008 is likely to see a heavy price drop and the like of GT5, Killzone 2 and possibly FFXIII this Christmas. In a word, “boom”.

“We expect PS3 unit sales will perform exceedingly strong in CY08, due to a recently reduced price point, killer content coming into the channel (GTA), and Blu-ray currently having a decided edge in the high definition format war,” said Hickey. “We believe the slower relative adoption rate of Sony’s PS3 console was a reflection of an unfavorable retail price point ($600), lack of distinguishing content, highly competitive hardware options (Wii), and general value confusion over the console’s embedded Blu-ray player. Considering Sony has sold in excess of 120 million PS2 units globally, we anticipate the PS3 adoption rate could accelerate meaningfully in the coming years as the aforementioned issues are addressed and legacy PS2 players’ accelerate their transition to current gen.”

Full thing here.