November NPD breakdown

November is often the best of times and worst of times for gamers. Good in the sense that we are given precious fuel in the form of several top-notch games, bad in the way that we can't pay our utility bills for the month as all funds had been diverted towards gaming. It's really a vicious cycle as upon buying all these games, we have to wait until we can pay our electric bill to play them or, which often is the case this time of year, we just go over to a friend's house and perform a hostile takeover on their gaming rig.

With the release of two new consoles this November, along with countless high-profile, AAA titles, it's no surprise that we spent a total of $1.7 billion. In the interest of creating a post that is both smooth and less-filling, we've gathered the top sellers and placed them into convenient bullet points:

Console Sales (units)

• DS: 918k

• PS2: 664k

• Game Boy Advance: 661k
  

• Xbox 360: 511k

• Wii: 476k

• PSP: 412k

• PS3: 197k
  

Software Sales (units and sales grossed)

• Gears of War: 1 million -- $61.5 million
  

• Final Fantasy XII: 896k -- $49 million
  

• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: 412k -- $20.2 million
  

• Guitar Hero II: 356k -- $20.2 million

You may go over the rest of the figures here.

[Via Joystiq]