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The NPD sales figures were recently released for the video game market for the month of April with the Nintendo DS and the Wii pulling away from Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Nintendo’s April sales of 471,000 units of its handheld Nintendo DS along with 360,000 units of its Wii gaming console combine for over 800,000 units sold!

Even the original Game Boy Advance outsold the Sony PlayStation 3 by selling 84,000 units. Not too shabby for a 10 year old system, aye?

Nintendo also had the four top spots of software sales with two new Pokemon games for the DS selling over 1 million units combines for the number one and two spots. The three and four spots were held by Wii games’ Super Paper Mario and Wii Play.

In a nutshell, Nintendo is stomping the competition in the U.S., with sales in the video game market going up 20%.