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December may have been a bittersweet month for Nintendo.

Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter estimates that Nintendo sold about 2.6 million wii controller units last month, helping it to for a second time secure the absolute best spot in hardware sales. The analyst believes it had become trailed with the xbox 360 controller's 2.5 million unit sales plus the PlayStation 3's 1.2 million unit sales.

But that is not your entire story on December.

If Nintendo did in actual fact sell 2.6 million Wii units, actually it saw a 32 percent decline vary December 2009. Sony's PlayStation 3 can be seen unit sales decline 12 percent annually. And with 2.5 million unit sales, the Playstation can have seen 91 percent growth in contrast to December 2009.

Nintendo can have experienced not so good news for the portable front likewise. Pachter believes Nintendo sold 2.55 million DS units in December, representing a 23 percent decline year over year.

Overall, Pachter estimates that unit sales of game hardware industrywide were down 12 percent in December, in contrast to the last year.

Pachter examines the retail channel on a monthly basis and delivers sales forecasts, in line with his data, previous to NPD releasing its official count. NPD is anticipated to make December sales figures on Thursday.

Assuming Pachter's estimates are correct, they top off an exceedingly difficult year for Nintendo, which have easily bested your competitors for the reason that Wii's launch in 2006.

All year round, Nintendo struggled to push hardware on consumers. Through the six-month period ended that September 30, the firm posted a $24.6 million loss on poor Wii and DS sales. It sold 6.69 million DS units and 4.97 million Wii units because period. Within same six-month period last year, it sold 11.7 million DS units and 5.75 million Wii units.

For the part, Nintendo has kept a brave face to the trailing sales. This company states so it had another banner year actually, selling over 7 million units of Wii console in the third-consecutive time. However, it failed to point out that in 2008, it sold over 10 million Wii units and nearly hit the Millions of milestone again during 2009.

Within the portable side, Nintendo has acknowledged that DS sales are below we were looking at in '09 but expects that its upcoming 3DS platform, which allows gamers playing titles in 3D without glasses, to assist you to buoy sales. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said yesterday that he or she expects Nintendo to promote 4 million 3DS units by March, but acknowledged that potential health conditions associated with the device--namely, its potential to harm the vision of children under the age of 6--could contain a negative effects on earnings.

Nintendo's 3DS launches in Japan last month 26 for $300. It's supposed to be released from the U.S. in March.