Once a month the NPD Group provides the press with retail sales figures for videogame software and hardware. It was the main way a lot of people learned how well a certain game had done in the month. We also had fun bringing you those numbers and elaborating on what they mean. Yesterday (October 12, 2010) NPD Group announced it won’t be providing sales numbers anymore.

The August 2007 numbers are in from independent analysts NPD group – and the results are in keeping with the last few months – it’s going to be a very interesting Fall for everyone.

2Overall, the Wii continues to dominate (as it has surpassed DS sales for the last few months and even became the worldwide console leader in Ju007ly), selling 403.6 thousand units. Hot on it’s heels is the DS (with 383.3 thousand) and the Xbox 360 (276.7 thousand). The Playstation 2 was next with 202,000, followed by the PSP (151.2 thousand), and bringing up the rear was the Playstation 3, with 130.6 thousand.

On the software side, the picture is much more balanced…