Charts: US September

No sign of the financial crisis as the September numbers are delivered by NPD. It's a decline year-over-year, but that is hardly a fair comparison as it compares to "Halo3-tember" last and only losing 7 % while September 2007 was up 75 % from September 2006 thanks to Halo 3. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a huge success for Lucasarts getting a total of 1.4 million units across all platforms in its first month.

There is no way to ignore the amazing numbers that Nintendo pull out of their hat. September is a five week month, but 687K for Wii is a true accomplishment. But perhaps it is even more amazing to see the numbers that Wii Fit is doing. More than half a million in a non-launch, non-holiday month is extreme to say the least. Xbox 360 sees a moderate bump in sales thanks to the price cut while PS3 has about the same weekly average as in August (four weeks). While Microsoft see a healthy increase their price cut doesn't seem to effect the competition to any significant degree.

We've also decided to spice up the numbers with a few charts from our friends at Chartget!

Software

1. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Xbox 360) 610K
2. Wii Fit (Wii) 518K
3. Rock Band 2 363K
4. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 353K
5. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PS3) 325K
6. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (Xbox 360) 297K
7. Wii Play (Wii) 243K
8. Madden NFL 09 (Xbox 360) 224K
9. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Wii) 223K
10. Madden NFL 09 (PS2) 158K

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Hardware:

[Wii] 687.0K
[NDS] 536.8K
[360] 347.2K
[PSP] 238.1K
[PS3] 232.4K
[PS2] 173.5K

Source: NPD
Charts: Chartget!