14 DAY TRIAL // The NPD Group, the organization that tracks sales in the gaming industry on the United States market, says that the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft has once more been the bestselling device for the month of May.
The overall value of the hardware market has gone down 42 percent when compared to the same period in 2012, a trend that will only be reversed by the launch of the PlayStation 4 from Sony and the Xbox 720 from Microsoft.
Microsoft says that its Xbox 360 has moved 130,000 devices to gamers, managing to beat the competition for the 28th consecutive month.
Nintendo and Sony have not offered any official sales numbers for their own hardware.
Nintendo is being quoted by VG247 as saying that, “In 2012, it took 30 weeks for Nintendo 3DS to sell 2 million units of first-party software. In 2013, the platform accomplished that same feat in 18 weeks.”