In the portable market, Nintendo's DS sold 491,000 units to easily beat the PlayStation Portable's 193,000 units.

"The console portion of the market made significant gains at 26 percent across hardware, software and accessories, while the portable side of the market stalled, declining 14 percent," NPD said. "Year-to-date the portable segment of the market is still up 7 percent."

Top Ten best-selling games in the U.S. in October were, according to NPD Group:

1) Fable II, Xbox 360, 790,000 units

2) Wii Fit, Wii, 487,000 units