Los Angeles  - Nintendo, the world's largest maker of game consoles, continued to dominate the US video game market in 2008, according to figures released Friday.

The top seller was Nintendo's Wii console which sold 10,224,000 units in the US last year. This was followed by the Nintendo DS portable gaming unit, which sold 9,951,000 units, according to figures released by researcher NPD Group.

Third place was taken by Microsoft's Xbox 360 and the next three spots were taken by Sony machines for the Playstation Portable, Playstation 3 and Playstation 2.

The research also showed that the Wii sold 2.15 million units in December, while the DS sold more than 3 million - the first time any system has passed that benchmark. December was also the first time that total revenue for the video game industry passed the 5-billion- dollar mark.

Total revenues for 2008 were 21.33 billion dollars, a 19 per cent increase over the 17.97 billion dollars earned in 2007. (dpa)