Rockstar Games' wild West epic Red Dead Redemption is still flying off shelves, the NPD Group said Thursday.
Reporting the U.S. videogame industry sales for June 2010, the research group said that the open-world action game moved nearly 1 million units last month. The game launched in May and sold 1.5 million copies that month. This, NPD said, makes it the best-selling title of 2010 so far.
Another May release, Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy 2, passed the million mark in June, selling over 500,000 copies. Wii's constant sellers Just Dance, Wii Fit and New Super Mario Bros. Wii were also on the top 10 games for the month.
On the hardware side, the surprise release of the new slim Xbox 360 model was enough to bump sales of Microsoft's console slightly above the Wii, although this won't be permanent.
As with last month, the presence of big-selling games and hot new hardware didn't do enough to keep the games industry from declining year-on-year – NPD says overall sales were $1.10 billion, a 6% drop from 2009.
Game Hardware Sales, June 2010
- Nintendo DS 510.7K
- Xbox 360 451.7K
- Wii 422.5K
- PlayStation 3 304.8K
- PSP 121.0K
Top 10 Game Sales, June 2010
- Red Dead Redemption, Xbox 360, Take-Two 582.9K
- Super Mario Galaxy 2, Wii, Nintendo 548.4K
- Red Dead Redemption, PS3, Take-Two 380.3K
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Wii, Nintendo 200.9K
- Just Dance, Wii, Ubisoft 174.8K
- Wii Fit Plus, Wii, Nintendo
- Toy Story 3, Nintendo DS, Disney Interactive
- UFC 2010: Undisputed, Xbox 360, THQ
- Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Wii, Warner Bros.
- UFC 2010: Undisputed, PS3, THQ
