News | 1/14/2010 at 8:54 PM

Nintendo and Mario Dominate December Video Game Sales

Nintendo's console and mascot both sold incredibly well this holiday season, with the Wii setting a new record for consoles sold in a month, 3.81 million.  The New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a four player co-op title, was the leading seller for the month with 2.82 million copies sold.  

Other co-op titles on the list include Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, which sold a combined 2.75 million copies on the 360 and PS3.  Left 4 Dead 2 sold a respectable 728k copies as well on the 360.

There's a lot of happy families playing four player co-op this year, hopefully they enjoy it more than we did

Hardware - Consoles
- Wii 3.81million
- PlayStation 3 1.36 million
- Xbox 360 1.31million
- PlayStation 2 333,200
- Nintendo DS 3.31 million
- PSP 654,700

Software

1. New Super Mario Bros (Wii) 2.82 million
2. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) 2.41 million
3. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) 1.79 million
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360) 1.63 million
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) 1.12 million
6. Wii Play (Wii) 1.01 million
7. Mario Kart (Wii) 936,100
8. Assassin's Creed II (360) 783,100
9. Left 4 Dead 2 (360) 728,500
10. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (NDS) 656,700