- 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 2002 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.
Console sales records[]
Record | Sales |
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Largest hardware sales month | Wii - 3,810,000 (NPD December 2009)
PlayStation 2 - 2,733,000 (NPD December 2002) |
Largest single-month hardware launch | PlayStation 4 - 1,140,000 (NPD November 2013) [1] |
Largest non-holiday, non-launch hardware month | Wii - 803,000 (NPD October 2008) [2] |
Largest November hardware sales | Wii - 2,040,000 (NPD November 2008) [3] / Nintendo DS - 1,700,000 (NPD November 2009) [4] |
Game sales records[]
Record | Sales |
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Biggest game sales month |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 4.7 million (NPD November 2009) Pokemon? - ? |
Biggest selling new IP (single month) |
Assassin's Creed - 1.357 million (November 2007)[5] Portable game ? |
Consecutive Top 10 appearances |
Wii Play - 16 (active) / Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Xbox 360 - 6 Portable game ? |
Most Top 10 appearances | Wii Play - 16 (active) / Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Wii - 7 (active) |
Consecutive #1 rankings | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - NPD November 2007 to NPD February 2008 |