NPD Group has released the market performance results for May 2008, and already the PR armies at Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have began to churn out their reformatted versions of the results. Of course, each one talks only about what they've achieved so far in the fifth month of the Year of the Rat, but what happens when we put them all together? Yes, we get the full NPD May story.

Ahead of the NPD Group's report on video game sales, analysts have given out their predictions for the month of May, including everyone's favorite analyst, Michael Pachter. So what's he up to now? Find out after the link.

The performance of Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360) back in the prime of springtime was a grand turnout for both the developers and publisher Take-Two Interactive. For all it's million selling feats though, it couldn't improve the sales of either Microsoft or Sony's next generation consoles. And as you can guess, the Nintendo Wii reigns supreme over all in hardware sales by as much as 3 to 1. Get the facts straight at the full story.

January and February were Sony months so to speak, as the PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 for both periods. The record was broken when the March sales figures were published by the NPD, but industry analyst Michael Pachter believes that the PS3 will prove to shine once again in April. More Pachter predictions of the NPD's April numbers in the full article.

It's been around a month since the last NPD Group sales data were reported, and the new results are in for the month of March. According to the report, Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Brawl, proved to be a "smash" hit.

That's not the only game that did well last month, though. More on the statistics in the full article after the jump.

Even with all the hype surrounding the current-generation platforms, the NPD group says these game systems haven't been able to tap into the online gaming market. The most recent reports suggest that PC online gaming is still the dominant medium, while consoles come in a far second. The study also says a lot of people don't seem keen on owning more than one game system. More details after the jump.

February's turning out to be a big deal for the console wars, as Sony's PlayStation 3 has outsold the Xbox 360 for the second month in a row. This victory was underlined by Blu-ray's victory over the HD DVD format last month. What does Sony have to say on the matter? Read the full article to find out.

The February data from the NPD are now in, and once again, it's time to see which pieces of gaming hardware and gaming software made the charts.

Curious as to how accurate the sales forecasts were? Then turn to the full article after the jump for the results.

February has drawn to a close and in a few days' time we'll be seeing how well the industry is doing once the NPD group releases their numbers. In the meantime, it's time once again for industry analysts to place their bets on the winning console. Check out the full article for the forecasts of video game industry analysts Michael Pachter and Jesse Divnich.

After Microsoft had response to the numbers released by NPD Group for January, it's now Sony's turn to provide its comments. This was done by SCEA CEO Jack Tretton in a press release issued to us.

See what Tetton had to say by clicking the "read more" link below.