Enterbrain data shared in a market data report from Capcom gives us a list of Japan’s top-ten videogame publishers, based on market share in 2009.

New Super Mario Bros., the Nintendo DS game, jumps back on the top 10 chart.

Meanwhile, StarCraft II, unsurprisingly, was the best-selling game of the month.

The Xbox 360 led North American sales in July, beating out even the Nintendo DS.

The resulting increase in the number of hardware unit sales as compared to June ’09 was a whopping 35%.

Red Dead Redemption and Mario Galaxy 2 lead software sales again, while Lego Harry Potter and Toy Story 3 make their debut. Meanwhile, a certain older title rebounds into the top-ten…

43% of total software units sold were online capable in the month of May.

Interestingly, while the amount of time spent playing PC and console games increased by 6% and 9% over last year respectively, gaming time dedicated to portable systems dropped sharply by 16%.

Overall, software sales in May 2010 grew 4% over the same period in 2009, with the majority of top-ten occupants being new releases.

Total industry spend in 2009 was a little over $15 billion. Of that, used games, digital games and other channels of spending accounted for over $4 billion.

The segment of “extreme gamers” represents 4% of the entire American gaming population.

Not all that great, unfortunately. April 2010 was the fourth-worst month in the history of the industry since September 2000.

Videogame revenue was down across the board in April 2010, and it would appear the handheld segment of the market was the real culprit.

During the period of January – April 2010, where all other segments of game revenue were down compared to the same period in 2009, accessory sales were up by 2%. Here’s part of the reason.