DS, CoD4 top December; DS, Halo 3 top overall 2007 NPD figures

Eager to find out which console or title sold the most this holiday season? How about for the entire year of 2007? Wonder no more as we give you the latest batch of stats from NPD that’s not only plump, but healthier than the average sales charts. Check out the numbers and why you should care about them in the full article.

The NPD Group has finally rolled out the North American sales figures for December and the full year of 2007 – and looking at them, it seems that the videogame industry in a whole should feel justified in popping open a champagne bottle or two. For not only did all the parties involved get a healthy boost in sales, but the industry in general received an annual growth of up to 43%, or US$ 17.94 billion. That’s a whole lot of growth, right there.

As usual, we see Nintendo taking the top spots in the hardware categories – with the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS garnering very healthy figures on both December and 2007 sales. On the software side, we see that the Xbox 360 leading with Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Bungie’s Halo 3, followed closely by Super Mario Galaxy and the all-time favorite Wii Play. All in all, a very interesting month and a very interesting year as far as sales figures are concerned.

To the figures, then:

December Hardware:

1. Nintendo DS – 2.47 million (from 1.53m)
2. Wii – 1.35 million (from 981K)
3. Xbox 360 – 1.26 million (from 770K)
4. PlayStation 2 – 1.1 million (from 496K)
5. PSP – 1.06 million (from 567K)
6. PlayStation 3 – 798K (from 466K)

2007 Hardware:

1. Nintendo DS – 8.5 million
2. Wii – 6.29 million
3. Xbox 360 – 4.62 million
4. PlayStation 2 – 3.97 million
5. PSP – 3.82 million
6. PlayStation 3 – 2.56 million

December Software:

1. Call of Duty 4 (Xbox 360, Activision) – 1.47 million
2. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo) – 1.40 million
3. Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock w/guitar (PlayStation 2, Neversoft/Budcat/Activision) 1.25 million
4. Wii Play w/remote (Wii, Nintendo) – 1.08 million
5. Assassin’s Creed (Xbox 360, Ubisoft) – 894k
6. Halo 3 (Xbox 360, Microsoft) – 743k
7. Brain Age 2 (DS, Nintendo) – 660k
8. Madden NFL 08 (PS2, Electronic Arts) – 655k
9. Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock w/guitar (Xbox 360, Neversoft/Activision) – 625k
10. Mario and Sonic: Olympic Games (Wii, Sega) – 613k

2007 Software:

1. Halo 3 (Xbox 360, Microsoft) – 4.82 million
2. Wii Play w/remote (Wii, Nintendo) – 4.12 million
3. Call of Duty 4 (Xbox 360, Activision) – 3.04 million
4. Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock w/guitar (PlayStation 2, Neversoft/Budcat/Activision) 2.72 million
5. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo) – 2.52 million
6. Pokemon Diamond (DS, Nintendo) – 2.48 million
7. Madden NFL 08 (PS2, Electronic Arts) – 1.90 million
8. Guitar Hero II w/guitar (PS2, Activision) – 1.89 million
9. Assassin’s Creed (Xbox 360, Ubisoft) – 1.87 million
10. Mario Party 8 (Wii, Nintendo) – 1.82 million