July's NPD Results Don't Make For Particularly Fulfilling Reading All Around.

The XBOX 360 won out this month (for the first time since 2007, apparently), but on the back of a new hardware launch, even Microsoft must be disappointed with a 2% drop over June.

The PlayStation 3 dropped 30%, pulling in figures of 215k. The system was down 90k units against June, but still managed to stay in touching distance of Nintendo's Wii which is suffering fairly large decline. Nintendo's system managed just 254k for the month of July.

The PSP dropped beneath the 100k threshold, shifting just 84k units for the month of July.

Despite the doom and gloom, it's probably worth remembering that July was a particularly sparse month in terms of software. NCAA Football 11 was the big seller, with the PS3 SKU taking the second spot.

The full figures are after the jump.

July NPD Hardware:

  • 360: 444K, down 9K (-2%)
  • DS: 398K, down 113K (-22%)
  • Wii: 254K, down 169K (-40%)
  • PS3: 215K, down 90K (-30%)
  • PSP: 84K, down 37K (-31%)

July NPD Software:

  1. NCAA Football 11 – Xbox 360 – EA – 368K
  2. NCAA Football 11 – PS3 – EA – 299K
  3. Crackdown 2 – Xbox 360 – Microsoft – 209K
  4. Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Wii – Nintendo – 193K
  5. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 – DS – WBIE – 142K
  6. Red Dead Redemption – Xbox 360 – Take-Two
  7. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 – Wii – WBIE
  8. Dragon Quest IX– DS – Nintendo
  9. New Super Mario Bros. Wii – Wii – Nintendo
  10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Xbox 360 – Activision

[source joystiq.com]