NPD is reporting the total video game sale numbers for last year. Video games sales in total have topped $21 billion, which is an impressive 19% up from 2007. Surprisingly, the top selling game of the year was released in February of last year; Wii Play. Let’s take at the raw data:

Category / Total / Change

• Video Games: $21.33 billion +19%
• Video Games Hardware: $7.81 billion +11%
• Video Games Software: $10.96 billion +26%
• Video Game Accessories: $2.57 billion +14%

Game Software (in units sold)

1. Wii Play with Wii Remote (Wii, Nintendo) – 5.28 million
2. Mario Kart Wii (Wii, Nintendo) – 5 million
3. Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo) – 4.53 million
4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, Nintendo) – 4.17 million
5. Grand Theft Auto IV (360, Take-Two) – 3.29 million
6. Call of Duty: World at War (360, Activision) – 2.75 million
7. Gears of War 2 (360, Microsoft) – 2.31 million
8. Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, Take-Two) – 1.89 million
9. Madden NFL 09 (360, Electronic Arts) – 1.87 million
10. Mario Kart DS (DS, Nintendo) – 1.65 million

Hit the jump for December’s sales data.

THE NPD GROUP’S DECEMBER 2008 US GAME INDUSTRY SALES

Category / Total / Change

• Video Games: $5.29 billion +9%
• Video Games Hardware: $1.88 billion +2%
• Video Games Software: $2.75 billion +15%
• Video Game Accessories: $662 million +8%

Hardware Sales (in units sold)

• Nintendo DS: 3.04 million
• Wii: 2.15 million
• Xbox 360: 1.44 million
• PlayStation 2: 410,000
• PlayStation Portable: 1.02 million
• PlayStation 3: 726,000

Game Software (in units sold)

1. Wii Play with Wii Remote (Wii, Nintendo) – 1.46 million
2. Call of Duty: World at War (360, Activision) – 1.33 million
3. Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo) – 999,000
4. Mario Kart Wii (Wii, Nintendo) – 979,000
5. Guitar Hero World Tour (Wii, Activision) – 850,000
6. Gears of War 2 (360, Microsoft) – 745,000
7. Left 4 Dead (360, Electronic Arts) – 629,000
8. Mario Kart DS (DS, Nintendo) – 540,000
9. Call of Duty: World at War (PS3, Activision) – 533,000
10. Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii, Nintendo) – 497,000

via GameSpot