According to the latest NPD Group report, the North American gaming market has shrunk for the second consecutive month to reach double-digit margin. Nintendo is on a piece of good news: DS portable monthly sales broke through the million.

North America in April non-PC game hardware, software, the total value of the annex is only 1.03 billion U.S. dollars, up 17 percent decline. Hardware sales revenue 391,630,000 U.S. dollars, decreased by 8% year-on-year. DS sales that month more than one million, almost three times as much as their brothers and Wii, as follows:

DS: 104 million
Wii: 34 million
X360: 17.5 million
PS2: 17.2 million
PS3: 12.7 million
PSP: 11.6 million

Software sales revenue 510,740,000 U.S. dollars, up by 23%. Top six seats occupied areas and Nintendo monopolized the first four, and three X360, a PS3, as follows (game / platform / developer / sales):

1, “Wii Fit” (with balance board)-Wii-Nintendo -47.1 million

2, “Pokemon Platinum”-DS-Nintendo -43.3 million

3, “Mario Kart Wii” (with Wii Wheel)-Wii-Nintendo -21.0 million

4, “Wii Play” (with handle)-Wii-Nintendo -17.0 million

5, “Godfather 2″-X360-EA-15.5 million

6, “Resident Evil 5″-X360-Capcom-12.2 million

7, “New Super Mario Brothers”-DS-Nintendo -11.9 million

8, “Mario Kart DS”-DS-Nintendo -11.2 million

9, “Guitar Hero: Smith spaceship”-X360-moving as the snow -11.0 million

10, “Godfather 2″-PS3-EA-9.1 million

129.45 million U.S. dollars there are a variety of sales annex, down 15% year-on-year.