Wii outselling 360 and PS3 combined in US

The latest NPD figures have shown that the Wii continues to dominate the US hardware market, with Nintendo shifting more consoles than Sony and Microsoft put together.

As reported by Gamasutra, 338,000 Wii units were sold during the month of May - compared to 155,000 Xbox 360s and 82,000 PS3s.

The DS did even better than Nintendo's home console, with 423,000 units shifted, while PSP sales totalled 221,000. The figure for PlayStation 2 stood at 188,000. Overall, hardware sales rose by 79 per cent during the month to hit USD 221 million.

Pokîmon Diamond topped the software chart with 331,000 units sold followed by Wii title Mario Party 8 (314,000), Spider-Man 3 for PS2 (249,000) and Pokîmon Pearl (238,000). Wii Play (227,000 unit) was at number five.

Xbox 360 dominated the second half of the top ten, with Forza Motorsport 2 (217,000) at number six and platform specific versions of Guitar Hero II (184,000) and Spider-Man 3 (140,000) at seven and eight.

Rounding out the chart were another 360 game, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (138,000), and the PS2 version of Guitar Hero II (131,000).