According to NPD sales in February, the PSP has continued to show a strong continuation of sales. More specifically, the PSP sales jumped 38% compared to last February, selling 243,100 units worldwide. It would be logical to infer that the Slim PSP, as well as games such as Patapon and Wipeout Pulse contributed to the figures, and hopefully the sales on units and games will rise even more with the releases of FF7 - Crisis Core and God of War - Chains of Olympus this month in the US.
Also, an interesting point is that the PSP was not too far off in sales terms compared to the Xbox 360, which sold 254,600 last month.
In other news, the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 for a second month in a row, pushing 280,800 consoles.
Here are the rest of the NPD figures:
US VIDEO GAMES INDUSTRY - FEBRUARY 2008
Software: $668.7m (+47%)
Hardware: $480.0 million (+19%)
Accessories: $185.3m (+36%)
Total Games: $1.33 billion (+34%)
TOP-SELLING HARDWARE - FEBRUARY 2008
Nintendo DS 587,600
Wii 432,000
PlayStation 2 351,800
PlayStation 3 280,800
Xbox 360 254,600
PlayStation Portable 243,100
TOP-SELLING SOFTWARE - FEBRUARY 2008
Title / Publisher / Release Date / Units
1) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare* (360) / Activision / 7-Nov 296.2K
2) Devil May Cry 4* (360) / Capcom 8-Feb / 295.2k
3) Wii Play w/ Remote* (Wii) / Nintendo / 7-Feb / 289.7K
4) Devil May Cry 4* (PS3) / Capcom / 8-Feb / 233.5K
5) Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock* (Wii) / Activision / 7-Oct / 222.9K
6) Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS) / Sega / 8-Jan / 205.6K
7) Lost Odyssey (360) / Microsoft / 8-Feb / 203.6K
8) Turok (360) / Touchstone / 8-Jan / 197.7K
9) Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock* (PS2) / Activision / 7-Oct / 183.8K
10) Rock Band* (360) / MTV Games, Electronic Arts / 7-Nov / 161.8K
*Includes Collector’s, Limited, Legendary, Bundles (Guitars) Editions
