Its NPD time once again and of course Nintendo is still on top, but not by much when it comes to the Wii. Sure its well over 100,000 units ahead of the 360, but the gap has gotten smaller over the past three months. If it gets any smaller we could see the Wii and 360 selling neck, and neck next month. Sales are down for pretty much every system as the industry fell 23 percent in May, but the Wii and DS combined to sell almost one million units, which is still way more than every other system combined. On the software side of things both the DS and Wii had a good month, as the two systems hold six of the top 10 spots for the month of May. Only one of them was for the DS though, which is odd, considering how many DS's sold last month.

The battle of the big fitness games is officially on, with round one going to Wii Fit, by just edging out EA Sports Active for the #2 spot. It was close though, and EA must be thrilled about debuting at #3 on the NPD top 10, with over 345,000 units sold in only two weeks. That's a great first month for a 3rd Party game, but 1st Party wise Punch-Out had a really good debut as well, at #8 selling over 156,000 units in just two weeks. Hopefully, both EA Sports Active and Punch-Out!! can keep up the momentum to stay on June's NPD top 10. The big news next month will be, if the Conduit will sell enough to get into the top 10, or not. I think it will be in there for sure, but how high will it go? Now that's the real question.

Hardware Numbers:

NDS 633,500
Wii 289,500
360 175,000
PS3 131,000
PS2 117,000
PSP 100,400

Software Numbers:

1. UFC 2009 UNDISPUTED - THQ - Xbox 360 - 679,600
2. Wii Fit - Nintendo - Wii - 352,800
3. EA SPORTS ACTIVE - Electronic Arts - Wii - 345,800
4. UFC 2009 UNDISPUTED - THQ - PS3 - 334,400
5. inFAMOUS - SONY - PS3 - 175,900
6. Pokemon Platinum - Nintendo - NDS - 168,900
7. Mario Kart Wii - Nintendo - Wii - 158,300
8. Punch-Out!! - Nintendo - Wii - 156,900
9. X-MEN Origins: Wolverine Uncaged - Activision Blizzard - Xbox 360 - 120,700
10. Wii Play - Nintendo - Wii - 109,800 

"The video games industry continues to struggle with difficult comparisons to last year, and this is the first month that industry sales have dipped below $1 billion since August 2007. Unit sales declined less than dollar sales did. The dollar sales decline was exacerbated by a decline in average retail prices for almost all of the categories. Every category declined versus a year ago with the exception of portable hardware sales which was bolstered by the continued strong sales of the Nintendo DS including both the DSi and the Lite. While there were some very strong new releases this month along with continued strong sales of evergreen games, this month's top 10 games sold 2.6 million units combined, whereas last year the top 10 sold 3.7 million units. Again, this illustrates how tough the comparisons are to last year." - NPD's Anita Frazier