November 2008
NPD sales data coverage: November 2 to November 29. Released on December 11,
2008.
November saw sales of
Nintendo's Wii console reach over 2 million units, an increase of more than 100% from the
year before. The console topped many people's This was largely in part to a large increase of supply by Nintendo. Even so, the console remains out of stock at many locations. Wii now holds the record for largest non-December month. The PlayStation 2 is the only other console to break the 2 million mark; it did so in December 2003.
Microsoft's Xbox 360 sold a strong 836,000
consoles, an increase of about 60K from last year. The
PlayStation 3 experienced a poor November, only selling 378,000 units which is actually
down from 2007. The number is only minimally larger than the seven year
PlayStation 2. All three of
Sony's systems are down from last year.