14 DAY TRIAL // The video game software data for June in the United States has been released by the NPD Group. As it was expected, Red Dead Redemption has claimed the top spot once again after last month, totaling a number of 963,200 of copies sold across both of the platforms it has been released on. The Xbox 360 version fared better with 582,900 discs sold, while the PlayStation 3 version managed to move 380,300 copies.
It seems that hurrying to declare the Nintendo Wii dead was a mistake, at least in the US. The June NPD sales chart contains no less than five Wii games, three of them admittedly being first party software. Super Mario Galaxy 2 slid in between the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of Red Dead Redemption at number two, selling 548,400. New Super Mario Bros. Wii caught the fourth place, moving 200,900 units. Wii Fit Plus did good as well, landing in at number six, with 148,000 discs sold, according to Nintendo.
There were two third party titles that fared very well on the Nintendo Wii in June, that is Ubisoft's Just Dance and TT Games' LEGO Harry Potter: Year 1-4 catching the fifth and ninth places, respectively. Toy Story 3 for the Nintendo DS also did quite well, getting on the seventh place. Both versions of THQ's UFC 2010: Undisputed entered the top ten that was released by the NPD Group, the Xbox 360 SKU on eight and the PlayStation 3 SKU on ten.
All software sales totaled at 531.3 million dollars, that is 15 percent less than last year's June results, that is 627 million dollars. The performance of the top ten games is somewhat similar though with June 2009, as the biggest part of the last month's revenue concentrated in the top four spots of the chart. There were notable absentees like Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, Transformers: War for Cybertron and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.