NPD Confirms April Hardware Hits A Slump, Nintendo Defies The Trends With DSi

The most noticeable thing about this month's NPD data was the fact that the PS2 outsold the PS3

by Sammy Barker Fri 15th May 2009

It's either a positive thing in the sense that there is still life in a very old console, or a negative thing in that the PS3 was very low on the hardware sales sheet. Alas, things weren't particularly much better for the XBOX 360 which only managed sub-200,000 sales itself. Especially considering it now retails for less than the Wii, you have to imagine Microsoft are a little worried. In fact even the Wii managed poor numbers by its own dizzy standards, albeit the release of the DSi managed to overturn what was was a disastrous month for the American hardware industry all around.

Check out the final numbers after the jump.

Nintendo DSi - 827,000
Wii - 340,000
Nintendo DS Lite - 215,000
Xbox 360 - 175,000
PlayStation 2 - 172,000
PlayStation 3 - 127,000
PSP - 116,000

sigh.