January NPD: PS3 Outsells Xbox 360 and DS

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According to the January NPD numbers, the PS3 outperformed expectations and did extremely well in sales, outselling the Xbox 360 in the United States for the first month ever.

Nintendo’s two systems, the Wii and DS, both underperformed, even though the Wii overall sold better than the PS3 in January.

In terms of software, Activision’s Call of Duty 4 blew the doors off of sales for another month, with 330,900 units sold in January. The Wii version of Guitar Hero 3 also sold extremely well, selling 239,600 units bundled with the guitar peripheral.

Here are the full January NPD Hardware and Software results, as reported by the SimExchange:

US Hardware – January 2008
Title Actual Units
Nintendo Wii 274,000
Playstation 3 269,000
Playstation 2 265,000
Nintendo DS 251,000
Xbox 360 230,000
PSP 230,000
Total Hardware Units 1,227,000

US Software – January 2008
Rank Title Actual Units
1 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) 330,900
2 Wii Play (Wii) 298,100
3 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) 239,600
4 Rock Band (Xbox 360) 183,800
5 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360) 182,700
6 Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) 172,000
7 Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360) 144,100
8 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3) 140,000
9 Mario Party DS (DS) 138,500
10 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS) 133,000
  Total Software Sales $610.6 Million


Source: TheSimExchange

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  • NJ

    You forgot PS2 at: 265,000

    Oh! Congrats Sony, hopefully more to come. Good to see PS3 getting the sales it deserves. Lovin the PS3, it’s awesome.

  • http://www.savetheinternet.com/ DavidGX

    It looks like the ps3 and xbox 360 both sold 230k… am I missing something?

  • http://www.savetheinternet.com/ DavidGX

    I was looking at the wrong thing.. whoops.. that’s what happens when you’re sick x_X

  • http://www.savetheinternet.com/ DavidGX

    Microsoft is saying it was because of hardware shortages due to the incredible holiday sales. I personally have reason to believe them because finding an Elite was a complete whore.

  • LC

    I wonder how many times you had to buy a 360 to find one that worked.

  • shamon

    i happy my $865 playstation 3 was not for nothing

  • http://www.savetheinternet.com/ DavidGX

    @ LC

    They all work when you buy them… for a while. Hopefully from here on out we’ll be hearing a lot less reports of RROD due to the improved internal configurations.

  • LC

    not sure how improved they are, i bought one on the 2nd of this month and five days later it wouldn’t boot passed the 360 logo.

    gonna see if i can find a store with any left later today.