April NPD: Mortal Kombat, Xbox 360 tops the charts

Posted May 12, 2011 at 9:58PM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: News Tags: april, Microsoft, mortal kombat, news, Nintendo, NPD, sales, Sony

The NPD results for the month of April has been revealed, with Warner Bros and Netherrealm Studios' Mortal Kombat reboot topping the software charts and the Xbox 360 still reigning supreme in the hardware department.

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"April 2011 represents the first month that new physical retail sales of content showed growth in both units and dollars since November of last year," said NPD analyst Anita Frazier. "The Xbox 360 platform generated the greatest unit sales of new physical content at over 3.5 million units for the month, followed by the Nintendo DS platform. The Nintendo DS, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 platforms all generated greater unit sales of content versus April 2010."

Mortal Kombat is the best selling game of the month, which sold just less than 900,000 units, according Frazier, with Portal 2 and Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars taking the second and third spot respectively. "The content slate was stronger this year versus last April," concluded Frazier. "Five games sold more than 250K units in April 2011 as opposed to just two last April."

Here's the top 10 software sales result for April 2011:

Mortal Kombat 2011 (Warner Bros. Interactive) (PS3, 360)
Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) (360, PS3, PC)
Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (LucasArts) (Wii, NDS, 360, 3DS, PS3, PC)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision Blizzard) (360, PS3, NDS, Wii, PC)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters (Electronic Arts) (360, PS3, Wii)
Crysis 2 (Electronic Arts) (360, PS3, PC)
Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft) (Wii)
Michael Jackson The Experience (Ubisoft) (360, Wii, PS3, NDS, PSP)
Pokemon White Version (Nintendo) (NDS)
NBA 2K11 (Warner Bros. Interactive) (PS3, 360)

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The people have spoken Zipper, You officially killed Socom. A dead man beat out Socom. It didn't even crack the top ten. I don't know why they thought COD fans would drop their real game and buy some nexgen Socom game. They should have left it as it was. Looking forward to Slant 6 Resident Evil shooter.

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stop it this subject is dead...ps3 isnt up an well the Wii yea right. when was it any time a game was on all consoles an the Wii was the best system to play it on. dead an stupid subject

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