Nintendo, Activision Big Winners in NPDs

Super Mario Galaxy and Call of Duty 4 keep Americans amused around Thanksgiving.

November is traditionally one of the biggest months of the years for those buy games and those who sell them. This year, it's Nintendo doing most of the selling.

Both Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Super Mario Galaxy sold more than a million copies each during November, according to the latest sales figures from research firm NPD Group, reported by Wired.

Other games having a good November included music game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft's new action game.

NPD confirmed Ubisoft's own claim this week that Assassin's Creed had the best debut of any new franchise, besting last year's Christmas hit, Gears of War.

What's surprising is that aren't any DS games in the Top 10 for the month - surprising because the portable was by far the most popular piece of hardware in the US during November. Nintendo sold more than 1.5 million DSs, way more than the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and even Nintendo's own Wii.

The Top 10 games for November and the hardware sales chart are below:

Software

1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) - 1,570,000
2. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) - 1,120,000
3. Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360) - 980,000
4. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2) - 967,000
5. Wii Play with remote (Wii) - 564,000
6. Mass Effect (Xbox 360) - 473,000
7. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3) - 444,000
8. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) - 426,000
9. Halo 3 (Xbox 360) - 387,000
10. Assassin's Creed (PS3) - 377,000

Hardware

1. Nintendo DS - 1,530,000
2. Wii - 981,000
3. Xbox 360 - 770,000
4. PSP - 567,000
5. PlayStation 2 - 496,000
6. PlayStation 3 - 466,000

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo