July NPD – Hardware sales crater, down 37%

By Patrick Garratt

Hardware sales in the US in July dived 37 percent year-over-year according to the just-released NPD.

Not much gap between 360 and Wii there, is there?

Here are your numbers. Percentage year-over-year differences in brackets, courtesy of Psychotext.

• PlayStation 2 – 108K (-30.55%)
• PlayStation 3 – 121.8K (-45.84%)
• PSP – 122.8K (-44.61%)
• Xbox 360 – 202.9K (-0.93%)
• Wii – 252.5K (-54.50%)
• Nintendo DS – 538.9K (-11.42%)