NPD: Nintendo on top with hardware, games

Posted Apr 18th 2008 12:45PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News

Well, we're all familiar with this sight. Nintendo is on top again, with the NPD numbers for March reporting that the Nintendo kicked ass with the Wii and, you guessed it, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. We won't do any further introducing of the sales figures, as that's what you're here for anyway.

Hardware sales in the U.S. for the month of March were:

- Wii: 721K

289K (40%)
- DS: 698K

110.4K (15.8%) [Update: Fixed typo in growth number]
- PSP: 297K

53.9K (18.1%)
- Xbox 360: 262K

7.4K (2.8%)
- PS3: 257K

23.8K (9.3%)
- PS2: 216K

135.8K (62.9%)

Well, well, it looks like Pachter was dead on about the hardware figures. Head on past the break for the software sales.

Gallery: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

March Software
1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) - 2.7 million
2. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (Xbox 360) - 752.3K*
3. Army of Two (Xbox 360) - 606.1K
4. Wii Play w/ remote (Wii) - 409.8K
5. God of War: Chains of Olympus (PSP) - 340.5K
6. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP) - 301.6K
7. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) - 264.1K
8. Major League Baseball 2K8 (Xbox 360) - 237.1K
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) - 237K*
10. Army of Two (PS3) - 224.9K

* - Includes bundles and special editions

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: business, march, npd, sales, salesfigures, smash-bros-brawl

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-18-2008 @ 1:52PM

Max Headroom said...

Those look like holiday sales numbers for the Wii. In March!

4-18-2008 @ 6:30PM

hvnlysoldr said...

I was mildly disappointed the announcer didn't shout the game name like the other two.

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