Look away PlayStation 3 (PS3) fans, what you’re about to read will not bring you joy. The latest sales figures from the NPD Group show that the Nintendo Wii outsold the PS3 four to one in the US market in April.April was the fourth consecutive month where Nintendo dominated next-generation console hardware sales in the US, with the Wii selling 360,000 units, compared to 174,000 Xbox 360s, and just 82,000 PS3s.

Wii also did well in the software charts, with Super Paper Mario coming in at number one, with 352,000 units sold, and Wii Play With Remote, coming in at number two, with 249,000 units sold. Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360 came third with 197,000 units sold.

Despite some analysts predicting the the PS3 will take off in 2008, it’s getting harder to see this happening.

With Wii continuing to dominate both the hardware and software charts (in the US and Japan), it’s becoming less attractive for games developers to develop games for the PS3.

With fewer games, the PS3 becomes less attractive to gamers, which means that less hardware will be sold (hardware superiority means nothing if there aren’t enough games to show it off).

Let’s hope that the analysts are right, and that the PS3 makes a comeback next year. Otherwise it looks like this round of the console war will be dominated by Nintendo.