Hello again, everyone. It’s the return of another feature we haven’t done in a couple of months – the NPD sales figures! Exciting, huh? Well, we figured since the numbers for January were now out, it would be a good time to start again, what with it being a fresh year and all that.

So, where do we begin? New Super Mario Bros. Wii held on to the top slot for another month, though it didn’t get anywhere near its astronomical December sales of over 2.5 million. Mass Effect 2 was hot on its heels, however, moving 572k in only six days on the shelves. Beyond that, the top ten was full of mainstays and titles with huge bases like Modern Warfare 2. Vigil’s first entry, the Joe Madureira-created Darksiders, cracked the bottom of the list, along with Ubisoft’s Just Dance and EA’s Army of Two: The 40th Day.

On the hardware front, nothing was too surprising. Nintendo led both the handheld and console leads, as usual. Meanwhile, Sony’s venerable PlayStation 2 didn’t even manage to crack 50k units. How much longer before Sony pulls the plug? It sounds like the PS2 is already on life support as it is, with a growing number of developers announcing less or no support for it this year. Hardware as a whole was down 21% from last year.

Hit the jump for the specific numbers for the last two months.

January 2010 Software Sales

1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) – 656,700
2. Mass Effect 2 (360) – 572,100
3. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) – 555,700
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360) – 326,700
5. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) – 310,900
6. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) – 297,600
7. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) – 259,000
8. Army of Two: The 40th Day (360) – 246,500
9. Just Dance (Wii) – 191,900
10. Darksiders (360) – 171,200

December 2009 Software Sales

1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) – 2,820,000
2. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) – 2,410,000
3. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) – 1,790,000
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360) – 1,630,000
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) – 1,120,000
6. Wii Play (Wii) – 1,010,000
7. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) – 936,100
8. Assassin’s Creed II (360) – 783,100
9. Left 4 Dead 2 (360) – 728,500
10. Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story (DS) – 656,700

January 2010 Hardware Sales

1. Wii – 465,800
2. Nintendo DS – 422,200
3. Xbox 360 – 332,800
4. PlayStation 3 – 276,900
5. PlayStation Portable – 100,100
6. PlayStation 2 – 41,600

December 2009 Hardware Sales

1. Wii – 3,810,000
2. Nintendo DS – 3,310,000
3. PlayStation 3 – 1,360,000
4. Xbox 360 – 1,310,000
5. PlayStation Portable – 654,700
6. PlayStation 2 – 333,200