There has been a lot of criticism that the PSP has been loosing steam but things are starting to look up for the system. Right now the PSP has managed top sales and new great games coming out for the system, it’s future looks bright.

The Sony PSP has been somewhat of a failure everywhere outside of its native Japan. All of the elements were there to make the PSP a great and best-selling handheld but for various reasons it has failed to live up to its promise. Meanwhile, Nintendo has continued its dominance of the hand-held market with its innovative, and above all fun, DS.

It’s that time of the month again. No, not that time of the month, but the other time of the month, when NPD reveals the hardware and software sales data for the US, and we then argue about what it all means. The Wii is continuing its dominance, outselling the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined, but the bigger news is that the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 by more than just a few thousand this time around.

The 3G iPhone, otherwise known as the iPhone 2 is currently being unveiled by Steve Jobs today at the WWDC. Why am I mentioning this on a gaming website? Because apparently, the iPhone is about to become a competitor to Nintendo, and Sony in the handheld games console market.

The Nintendo Wii has been kicking the Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360’s butts on a monthly basis for the last year. However, it was assumed that the release of Grand Theft Auto 4 in April would put a stop to that and allow them to catch up. Not a chance.

While consoles such as the PS3 may appear to have a higher concentration of good games, knowledgeable gamers may also consider the total number of quality games currently available for each console before buying. It seems that on this score, the Xbox beats the PS3 and Wii quite convincingly.

Ah, Blockbuster, love of our early days as budding gamers, how we adored thee! But how tragic and sorrowful your fall from grace has been. Blockbuster is trying desperately to get gamers to fall in love with it again, this time by not only debuting hot new release games like Grand Theft Auto 4 and Mario Kart on the new release wall, but also by jumping into the retail biz and selling hardware to gamers.

It’s all well and good selling millions of units of hardware, but unless people are also buying software for it too, then you may as well give up now. NPD has issued it’s latest U.S. software attach rates for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii as well as the PSP and DS, and it makes for interesting reading.

Yesterday, Nintendo signalled that it wouldn’t be cutting the price of either the Wii or DS over the next twelve months. While the news may disappoint those that haven’t yet succumbed to the mainstream appeal of the consoles, I think Nintendo is right to gold prices where they are.

The official NPD sales figures for the US gaming industry were finally released yesterday, and they showed the Wii massively beating the Xbox 360 and PS3, while the Xbox just pipped the PS3 to second place in the home console battle. All three companies have now responded to the sales data, and all spin it to their own advantages.