NPD will release its data for the USA video game market over the five weeks ending January 2, 2010 at about 6:30 PM EST (a little less than five hours from now). We should also get some stats for the year 2009 as a whole.

Nintendo and Sony have already issued some press-releases for the period.

Nintendo

" We think we sold over 3m Wiis in December" (probably 3.1m/3.2m)

" DS set an all time yearly record for a hardware system in the USA (i.e. it sold at least 2.2m to get the record, but less than 3.0m since you'd have to think Nintendo would issue a different statement for DS if it was above Wii or 3m again)"

Sony

" PS3 had its best month ever in the USA. We sold 90% more than last December" (~1.35m ish is likely)

It was also an excellent month for software - we estimate that over 160 games sold over 100,000 units in the United States.

Our preview is here.

Cabela's big game hunter 2010? Really? Sigh. Nerf n Strike Elite? How can people say quality software sells on Wii?

X360 dominatiiiiion combo breaker over Ps3 in the to 20..9 vs 4.

Walmart was giving away a lot of those games with every purchase.

"Xbox 360 Elite 120GB +12 mo. Xbox Live + 4 Games at Walmart $349+ tax+SH Walmart has the 360 Elite 120GB Console w/ 12 month Xbox Live + Pure + Lego Batman and the choice of 2 of the following additional games:

Assassin's Creed 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Batman AA
Forza 3
Halo 3: ODST
L4D2
Madden NFL 10
NBA 2K10
Need for Speed: Shift
Tekken 6
WWE Smackdown v. Raw 2010"

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1752510

let's see, forza 3, halo 3 odst, pure, lego batman, madden nfl, cod2,AC2. This deal was I think for one week. The week before was 100$ giftcard, another week was 2 free games

OMGOMG ITS TODAY!?!

I'm surprised you forgot Darth. I've been looking forward to this all week. I posted in the Italy thread, anyone know when GFK and Nielson give their numbers?

well so much has been going on ye know, it just slipped my mind!

Even though this month should be entertaining nothing can ever top NPD April 2008

Already? ;)

You don't like then don't buy it

A market actually likes those games.

So your saying the games you play that kill things are so much better?

 That was truly a hilarious thread. I wasn't even a member here yet reading that one.