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While Wii sales more than doubled from the 981,000 units Nintendo sold in November last year, monthly PlayStation 3 sales dropped. Despite it commanding a much stronger software line-up, Sony saw PS3 sales decline from 466,000 last November, to just 378,000 this November. The company's previous generation platform also dropped considerably, moving just 206,000 compared to 496,000 units during the same month last year.

Microsoft's hardware sales jumped from November 2007, but not by such a wide margin. It sold 770,000 in November last year, with 836,000 this year.

On the portable front, over 1.57 million Nintendo DSs were sold in the U.S. last month, almost four times the amount of PSPs sold by Sony.

• Wii - 2,040,000
• Nintendo DS - 1,570,000
• Xbox 360 - 836,000
• PSP - 421,000
• PlayStation 3 - 378,000
• PlayStation 2 - 206,000

Total hardware sales amounted to $2.91 billion for the month, up 10% from November of 2007.

"The expanded supply of Wii systems at retail was clearly evident in the sales figures this month," Anita Frazier, analyst for the NPD Group noted. "The 360 realized a nice unit sales bump over last November and the PS3 year-to-date unit sales growth is impressive."

 

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VGChartz preview:

NPD will report its figures for the USA videogame market for the four weeks ending November 29 in about six hours. Microsoft's boss just said he expected Xbox 360 to top PS3 2:1 in November...and given that NPD releases data to clients who pay for early data on Wednesdays you have to figure thats about what the NPD data shows. Remember to scale down the Americas data by 0.9 for our USA estimates. The *ed figures include games packaged with holiday bundles, see the link below to see what games were in the top ten not including the seasonal bundles.

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2633

	Game	Platform	Publisher	Americas Sales
1	Gears of War 2	X360	Microsoft	2,268,041
2	Call of Duty: World at War	X360	Activision	1,627,945
3	Wii Fit	Wii	Nintendo	889,128
4	Call of Duty: World at War	PS3	Activision	671,615
5	Wii Play	Wii	Nintendo	509,137
6	Mario Kart Wii	Wii	Nintendo	468,757
7	Resistance 2	PS3	Sony	408,289
8	Lego Indiana Jones: ToA*	X360	Lucas Arts	356,116
9	Left for Dead	X360	EA	355,911
10	Kung Fu Panda*	X360	Activision	345,953

 

Americas	8-Nov	15-Nov	22-Nov	29-Nov	Total	USA NPD Est
Wii	295,388	342,927	335,757	803,956	1,778,028	1,600,225
DS	175,280	209,263	295,766	909,924	1,590,233	1,431,210
X360	129,524	150,361	190,250	477,956	948,091	853,282
PSP	65,063	72,386	86,236	254,618	478,303	430,473
PS3	71,363	79,069	91,195	198,068	439,695	395,726
PS2	41,963	45,562	52,642	163,305	303,472	273,125