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by Chris Faylor, Apr 16, 2009 3:35pm PDTOffering a glimpse into the fascinating world of game sales, research group NPD has released its take on the software and hardware sales in the US over 3/1/09 to 4/4/09.
New releases dominated the software chart, with Resident Evil 5 surpassing 1.5 million units thanks to a dual-platform debut, and Halo Wars racking up an impressive 639K.
Meanwhile, Nintendo continued its dominance of hardware sales charts.
The month's ten best-selling consoles games were:
- Resident Evil 5 (Capcom, 360) - 938,000 units
- Pokemon Platinum Version (Game Freak, DS) - 805,000 units
- Halo Wars (Ensemble, 360) - 639,000 units
- Resident Evil 5 (Capcom, PS3) - 585,000 units
- Wii Fit (Nintendo, Wii) - 541,000 units
- MLB 09: The Show (Sony, PS3) - 305,000 units
- Killzone 2 (Guerrilla Games, PS3) - 296,000 units
- Wii Play (Nintendo, Wii) - 281,000 units
- Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii) - 278,000 units
- Major League Baseball 2K9 (Visual Concepts, 360) - 205,000 units
As for hardware, March brought about the following results:
- Wii - 601,000 units
- Nintendo DS - 563,000 units
- Xbox 360 - 330,000 units
- PlayStation 3 - 218,000 units
- PSP - 168,000 units
- PlayStation 2 - 112,000 units
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Plenty of smokes chips and soda and yahoo, what a great game. I was a bit skeptical at first but it ties in quite nicely and maybe because we played next to each other made it a bit more enjoyable but man, grats to them, this is a fine game, albeit a bit short.
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(I'm fully expecting the game to have sold like hotcakes, unfortunately, which means we'll have 2000 titles in the next year to deal with)
It also looks like the 360/PS3 had a good month, as opposed to the Nintendo doing poorly. It seems to be a theme of 3rd party devs to bemoan Nintendo's ability to sell, while their own titles don't do as well. I think they might do better if they put out better games.
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