NPD records and milestones

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See also: Chart-Track records and milestones

Records and milestones for the United States based on NPD sales data

Note: hardware data only goes back to 2004 and incomplete software data to 2002. The records below may have been beaten at a date prior to 2002. This lists the console and handheld records separately.

[edit] Console sales records

Record	Sales
Largest hardware sales month	PlayStation 2 - 2,733,000 (December 2002) Nintendo DS - 2,470,000 (NPD December 2007)
Largest single-month hardware launch	PlayStation 2 - 500,000 in first week (sold out) Nintendo DS - 500,000 in first week (sold out)
Largest non-holiday, non-launch hardware month	Wii - 721,000 (NPD March 2008) [1]
Largest November hardware sales	Wii - 981,000 (NPD November 2007)[2] Nintendo DS - 1.53 million (November 2007)

[edit] Game sales records

Record	Sales
Biggest game sales month	Modern Warfare 2 - 4.7 million (NPD Nov 2009) Pokemon? - ?
Biggest selling new IP (single month)	Assassin's Creed - 1.357 million (November 2007)[3] Portable game ?
Consecutive Top 10 appearances	Wii Play - 16 (active) / Call of Duty 4 Xbox 360 - 6 Portable game ?
Most Top 10 appearances	Wii Play - 16 (active) / Guitar Hero III Wii - 7 (active)
Consecutive #1 rankings	Call of Duty 4 - NPD November 2007 to NPD February 2008

[edit] See also

• NPD Biggest video game launches
• NPD Best selling video games of all-time