Not surprisingly, Madden was the biggest selling game... but not so much on Wii.
The NPD Group's August sales figures have been posted at the NeoGAF forums (an official outlet of the NPD), and Nintendo is on top once again. Wii took first place in the hardware race yet again, with just over 400,000 systems sold. Nintendo DS is right behind with over 380,000 units. In its second month of a price reduction, the PS3 sold roughly one third as many units as either Wii or DS, while Xbox 360 split the difference.
On the software side, EA's new Madden game easily conquered the month, with three versions (360, PS2, and PS3) in the top five. The Wii version of Madden NFL 08 is way down the list, selling fewer copies than the Xbox (not 360) version. Nintendo's top-selling software was Wii Play with a quarter-million copies sold, while Metroid Prime 3: Corruption followed with over 200,000 sold. Mario Strikers: Charged had close to 150,000 copies sold for the month.