A graph projection based on Jan 2009 NPD would be sweet!

The Nintendo spin:

Nintendo kicked off 2009 the same way it finished 2008: with a bang. While the video game industry grew by $150 million (12 percent) year-on-year, Nintendo’s total sales grew by $300 million in January, offsetting declines on other platforms.

Sales of the Wii™ console in January were up 148 percent over January 2007, with nearly 680,000 units sold, according to the independent NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States. Since Wii launched in November 2006, it has sold more than 18 million units in the United States.

Sales of the Nintendo DS™ system in January were also up 99 percent over January 2007, and it once again was the top-selling portable system with more than 510,000 units sold. Since Nintendo DS launched in November 2004, it has sold more than 28 million units in the United States.

“Nintendo’s significant contribution to January’s industry growth validates our internal research showing that Nintendo continues to expand the gaming audience,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “We are excited to see that consumers, new and existing, are choosing to entertain themselves in new ways with the diversity of our software lineup.”

Similar momentum was witnessed in software sales, with 20 of the top 30 games of January made for Nintendo systems. Of those, five games made for Nintendo systems finished in the top 10 best-sellers of January. These games include Wii Fit™ at No. 1 with more than 777,000 sold, Wii Play™ at No. 2 with nearly 415,000 sold, Mario Kart™ Wii at No. 3 with more than 292,000 sold, New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS at No. 7 with nearly 135,000 sold, and Mario Kart™ DS at No. 8 with more than 132,000 sold.

I believe I'm the official LOTR fan on this site!

Nicely done though.

Awesome for Nintendo
Very good for Microsoft
Bad for Sony

Great for L4D
Skate is undertracked, it seems, so that's good as well. If it gets re-adjusted, then it may make it to 1m WW.

Nintendo's internal tracking is proven to be quite good once again. Week one in this graph is the week ending Jan 3 2009, the last December 2008 NPD week. The next three are for January NPD, and the last week had yet to happen, but Nintendo apparently performed well in this week too:

Week 2 is 70,000

Week 3 is 140,000

Week 4 is 260,000

So week 5 of 2009, the fourth week of January NPD was likely about 210,000, which makes sense given week two was shortages week, and week three and week four on average come out to about 200,000.

I am expecting Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii, and Wii itself to stay consistently high in Feb. too.

that means that 15 out of 20 from 11-30 are DS/wii.   Pretty crazy.

Good sales for everyone, especially Nintendo. And good hardware tracking by VGChartz.

Nintendo is officially the foundation of the industry again...all twelve monthly NPD hw records now belong to Nintendo (unless PS1 or GB had a peak higher in 1990-2002 since the data I found online goes back to 2002 monthly only)

That's just rude, not even counting Sony as "anyone"? 

Just because they're nowhere to be found on the sales charts does not mean they don't exist.

Please show some respect for the official industry leader.