April NPD: 360 sales double PS3, DS still on top

The NPD numbers for April have arrived, and things are looking good for Microsoft ... depending on how you look at it. Microsoft managed to sell 174,000 Xbox 360s in the month of April, more than doubling the 82,000 PS3s sold (incidentally, the Game Boy Advance sold 84,000). If you buy Microsoft's interpretation of the console war -- as in: our competition is the PS3, period -- then the Xbox 360 is kicking ass. Still, Sony and Nintendo have something to smile about, as the PSP, PS2, Wii, and DS all outsold the Xbox 360 in April. It's worth noting though, that the gap between the Xbox 360 and PS2 is significantly smaller than it was in March. It will be interesting to see if the revelation of Halo 3's release date will have an effect on Xbox 360 sales.

• Nintendo DS: 471K (10.9 million total)
  

• Nintendo Wii: 360K (2.5 million total)

• Sony PlayStation 2: 194K (38.2 million total)

• Sony PSP: 183K (7.4 million total)

• Microsoft Xbox 360: 174K (5.4 million total)

• Nintendo Game Boy Advance: 84K (35.7 million total)
  

• Sony PlayStation 3: 82K (1.3 million total)

• Nintendo Gamecube: 13K (11.7 million total)
  

• Microsoft Xbox: N/A

[Via Joystiq]