GTA 4 360 Tops U.S. Console Sales in April

May 15, 2008 3:30 PM

Sales-tracking firm NPD Group has released its U.S. sales figures for April, showing Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV as the month's top-selling console title and the Wii as the month's best-selling hardware.

While the Xbox 360 version of GTA 4 sold 850,000 more copies than the PlayStation 3 edition, the hardware race between the two consoles was far closer--the 360 outsold its shiny black competitor by a mere 900 units.

April hardware sales in the United States were as follows:

Wii - 714,200
Nintendo DS - 414,800
PSP - 192,700
Xbox 360 - 188,000
PlayStation 3 - 187,100
PlayStation 2 - 124,400

Meanwhile, April's best-selling console games in the U.S. were:

Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar, X360) - 1,850,000
Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii) - 1,120,000
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar, PS3) - 1,000,000
Wii Play (Nintendo, Wii) - 360,000
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo, Wii) - 326,000
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (Polyphony Digital, PS3) - 224,000
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness (Chunsoft, NDS) - 202,000
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time (Chunsoft, NDS) - 202,000
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Vicarious Visions, Wii) - 152,000
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward, X360) - 141,000

"It's unusual for three games to exceed the 1-million mark in a non-holiday month which just goes to prove that great content can succeed regardless of when it is launched," noted NPD analyst Anita Frazier.

Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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May 15, 2008 3:41 PM

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  May 16, 2008 2:19 AM
  
  On the 29th, though AlvinKlein in the other thread here mentioned:
  
  "5 days. This npd period includes 3 days in May."
  
  Still, pretty fucking impressive, and much deserved. I wonder what the sales would have been if it had come out at the start of the month.