Andrei Dumitrescu reports:
''The NPD, which charts both console and videogame sales in North America, has released its numbers for April and we did a rundown of those earlier in the day. Most of the commentaries on the Internet are focusing on the way Nintendo, through both the Wii and the DS, is creaming the competition, meaning the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3. And it really is so, as Nintendo managed to push more than 1 million units of its games consoles while its adversaries are hovering around the number of 188,000 games consoles sold.
But there's another element in the numbers that might become interesting.
PS3 and Xbox 360 sales have been slipping since March, by around 20%. This is unusual because of the fact that both consoles see this reduction in sales and because, traditionally, after a dip following the holiday season, console sales are usually stable or even rising a little as summer approaches.''
