Nintendo Wii remains at the top of the charts

Nintendo Wii remains at the top of the charts

market research firm NPD Group has stated in its latest report that Nintendo continues to dominate the current generation videogame console market with their Wii gaming console.

Nintendo Wii led in videogame console shipments in April for the fourth consecutive month. In fact Nintendo managed to sell four times the number of Sony Playstation 3 units sold in the market last month.

It also sold more than twice the number of Microsoft Xbox 360 sold in the market. Pretty impressive figures indeed.

NPD added in their report that the total U.S. sales of videogames and hardware reached $838.6 million. This is a 20% improvement from the last year in the same month.

Nintendo was reported to have shipped as many as 360,000 units of their Wii gaming console in the market during the period. Sony in comparison could only ship 82,000 units of the Playstation 3. Microsoft did somewhat better with 74,000 Xbox 360s shipped in the market.