Vgchartz reports that the Xbox 360 has lead the next-generation consoles in sales for the month of September. They attribute much of the gain to the release of Halo 3.
On October 18, 2007 at approximately 6:00 pm EST, NPD will release its data for the USA and Canada videogame markets - barring delay. The figures in the report will cover 'September' which is a five week period running from September 2 to October 6. The previous month was only four weeks. For the purposes of comparison, data from NPD and Vgchartz has been assembled below.
Over the five week September period, Vgchartz reported the following figures.
Platform....8-Sep....15-Sep....22-Sep....29-Sep.....6-Oct....Totals
DS........109,710...111,962...120,520...143,137...135,581...620,910
Xbox 360...75,690....88,658...103,530...122,834...129,986...520,698
Wii.......116,659....93,455....92,504....98,173....95,800...496,591
PSP........47,409....69,113....77,144....88,586....91,966...374,218
PS2........56,726....54,979....57,015....61,409....60,804...290,933
PS3........51,714....30,158....27,122....29,618....29,781...168,393
GBA........17,729....17,497....19,071....21,269....21,579....97,145