NPD April 2010: Trainwreck edition

Folks, I smell some bad news in the air and while it is about what's going on with Hollywood Video and GameCrazy, along with Sony's Ex-Linux fallout, that's not what I'm really going over. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, the NPD of April 2010 with some sad news

April 2010

System	Sales
Wii	277.2K
DS	440.8K
Xbox 360	185.4K
PlayStation 3	180.8K
Playstation Portable	65.5K
PlayStation 2	Unreported

March 2010

System	Sales
Wii	557.5K
DS	700.8K
Xbox 360	338.4K
PlayStation 3	313.9K
Playstation Portable	119.9K
PlayStation 2	118.3K

It's sad news all around. Sales of everything has plummeted. IT's a repeat of the 2008 April NPD, except this time the Wii and DS sales have dropped. The PS2 sales have not been reported this time and the PSP sales have dropped below 100K big time. Has the PSP's days been outnumbered here in America?

Now normally, I would go ahead and report on the NPD software sales. But right now, we are having problems since only the Top 5 games are recorded in terms of numbers(The top 10 games are shown, but only the top 5 have their sales data recorded). Which makes me wonder this. Do they like failure? But I can assure you this.

1) Sales of Software also came up short

2) Monster Hunter 3 was only out for 10 days

So you may not see big numbers. According to GoNintendo, Monster Hunter 3 may have sold up to 126K last month. Not too bad for a game that teaches players that Barney the Dinosaur is really a flesh eating dinosaur that's after your kids' brains.

Tomorrow, when I get a chance, I will post up the Software data, if the NPD releases it. In the meantime, enjoy the link below

Works Cited: GoNintendo Article on Monster Hunter 3 You can read more about it at NeoGAF