What a year 2008 was. Even though the week ending December 20, 2008 was bigger, over 2.6 million units of hardware sold for the final week of 2008. As a result, nearly 41 million units of hardware were sold in the Americas in 2008. Over 300 million games were sold for the year as well. Nintendo sold roughly 12 million Wiis consoles and 12 million DS portables for the year. Sony's three platforms managed to total about 11 million units for the year, and Microsoft's Xbox 360 accounted for the rest of the hardware sales. An impressive 47 games managed to sell over 1 million copies in 2008 as well. Twelve of those top 47 games sold over 2 million copies. All in all it was a massive year for videogame sales revenue, and given the volumes sold, it's clear that 2008 went out on a bang rather than a whimper despite the drop in sales at the very end of the year.
Wii - 774,400
DS - 894,911
Xbox 360 - 411,523
PSP - 242,216
PS3 - 192,934
PS2 - 129,999
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