During February video games sales dropped 15% in the United States. Most credit goes to a large drop in sales of Nintendo Wiis after their post-holiday shortage, and therefore a continuation of the normal post-holiday gloom in the video game market as a whole.

Even with big name titles like Bioshock 2, market performance did not meet expectations. Bioshock 2 arguably helped Xbox 360 sales take the lead in February. The down and dirty information is below.

Here’s the February 2010 hardware sales breakdown, with growth compared to February 2009.

Sales - Item - % change

613k – Nintendo DS (-4%)
422k – Xbox 360 (+8%)
397k – Wii (-47%)
360k – PlayStation 3 (+30%)
133k – PSP (-33%)
102k – PlayStation 2 (-63%)

And the February 2010 software sales breakdown.

Sales - Title - (Format)

563k – BioShock 2 (Xbox 360)
556k – New Super Mario Bros. (Wii)
314k – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360)
275k – Just Dance (Wii)
273k – Sports Resort w/Wii Motion Plus (Wii)
253k – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)
247k – Mass Effect 2 (Xbox 360)
243k – Dante’s Inferno (PS3)
225k – Dante’s Inferno (Xbox 360)
219k – Heavy Rain (PS3)

via Matt Peckham, PC
World, with information provided by NPD Research Group.