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April NPD Numbers: Nintendo Hot – Sony’s PS3, Not So Much

Unit sales figures for the Big Three in April are in.

The NPD Group sales figures for the month of April, as outlined here, show a strong hardware and software performance by Nintendo, with Sony’s hand-held and PlayStation 2 also performing well, in contrast to the PlayStation 3.

Nintendo moved 471,000 DS units and 360,000 Wiis, and even its Game Boy Advance sold 84,000 units – besting the PS3 by 2,000 units

The PS2 and PSP sales were 194,000 and 183,000 units, respectively.

Microsoft, meanwhile, registered in at 174,000 unit sales of the Xbox 360.

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