14 DAY TRIAL // Unfortunately for statistics fans, the NPD Group no longer publicly shares the sales figures. The good news is that they still somehow manage to float their way to the surface of the Internet, courtesy of some gentlemen in the know.
As such, research analyst David Gibson has shared a few hardware sales figures for the month of April, providing some figures from NPD's United States March report via Twitter.
He said that Nintendo's platforms registered a total of 260k purchases, with the Nintendo 3DS being in the lead with 159k units sold, followed by the Wii U with "just over" 70k and the Wii with 28k.
He went on to reveal that Sony's handheld gaming system, the PlayStation Vita, registered "a little over" 10k units sold, while the company's previous generation handheld, the PSP, managed to sell "around" 5k units.
For now, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is doing wonders for the Wii U, boosting Nintendo's hardware sales, but they will soon need to revise their strategy and release more than just one modern update of a mascot platformer after another, if they want to see a visible increase in the number of hardware platforms moved.
The titans of the console world are doing better than the underdogs, with the Xbox 360 selling 111k units and the Xbox One moving 311k units. The PlayStation 3 and most notably the PlayStation 4 are said to be the top dogs in sales for the month, but the sales figures have not been publicly shared yet.