The DS Is About To Become The Biggest-Selling Console Of All Time 
Nintendo Continues Hardware Kill Streak In Slow April 
BioShock 2 Is Entitled To February's Top Spot For U.S. Sales 
Xbox 360 Notches Rare Triumph Over Wii In February 
Nintendo Hardware Sells Over 7 Million To Win December '09 
Nintendo DS, Wii Top U.S. Console Sales, Xbox 360 Bests PS3 Video games need a top 10 list. Movies have them, music has them, but the video game industry still hasn’t found a solid way to track the country’s most popular video games, according to Michael Gallagher, president of the Entertainment Software Association.
Remember that NPD study that defined extreme gamers as people who average 48.5 hours of play time a week? G4′s Patrick Klepek got two of these gamers to explain themselves.
The average US gamer is spending more time gaming than ever before, but only 4 per cent of the gaming population is classified by the NPD Group as “Extreme Gamers”. What kind of gamer are you?
According to retail research firm the NPD Group, the biggest-selling accessory in the United States is not a controller, memory card or chatpad. It’s a pre-paid points card for an online gaming service.
The Wii and Nintendo DS killed the competition in the United States last month, partly because the other hardware makers didn’t put up much of a fight. It was, bluntly, an ugly month for video game sales.
Sam Fisher used little stealth in his slaying of the competition in April, with Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction clearly visible at the top of April’s bestselling games list, according to the NPD Group.
BioShock 2 ended New Super Mario Bros. Wii‘s two-month hold atop the U.S. console sales charts, edging the Nintendo platformer by 7,000 units to take February’s top honours.
The Xbox 360 clocked in with a rare victory over the Wii among console sales in the United States for February, according to figures released today by the NPD Group.
