NPD announces US software sales for March 2009, Sony and Nintendo respond |
Another Xbox 360 game, Halo Wars, got the third spot by moving 639,000 units. The PS3 version of Resident Evil 5 was in fourth place with 534,500 units sold. Wii Fit came in fifth with 541,000 units sold. Wii Fit was the only title in the top five that didn't reach sales expectations.
With the hardware and software sales now announced, Sony and Nintendo have also sent out their own statements about the March 2009 sales report. Both companies echoed the optimism Microsoft exhibited in their own statement.
Sony chose to focus on the software that they're bringing out this year. Understandable, considering sales of both the PS3 and PSP dipped since February 2009. SCEA's Patrick Seybold had this to say:
The best part of what PlayStation has to offer this year is a relentless string of AAA games. We've lined up mass entertainment appeal from the hard core gamer who can't wait to get their hands on a game like MAG, the industry's first 256-player shooter, to the casual gamer who wants to take their RockBand skills on the road via the PSP.
Likewise, Nintendo seemed pleased with how the March numbers turned out, both in hardware and software. Here's a part of their press statement:
"Nintendo systems accounted for 58.4 percent of the video game hardware sold in March, more than all other systems combined," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "Consumers continue to be attracted to the wide range of software available and the great value of Nintendo systems."
Four games published by Nintendo finished in the top 10 best-sellers of March. These include Pokémon Platinum Version at No. 2, Wii Fit at No. 3 with more than 541,000 sold, Wii Play at No. 8 with more than 281,000 sold and Mario Kart Wii at No. 9 with more than 278,000 sold.
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so the third party games like resident evil 5 and MLB the show managed to sell more than a top AAA tittle like killzone 2. Killzone 2 was alright not the best shooter but had crazy graphics. I guess ill go buy halo wars since it did so well. And still waiting for those awesome AAA tittles to come out for the ps3 and i dont mean future tittles cause their not out yet so they dont count until they come out.
is a first party game made by Sony. Looks like Killzone didn't do too hot in the U.S. but try combining both last months 4 days of sale and see which comes out top cause I have no idea what they sold last month.
"I guess ill go buy halo wars since it did so well"
That's gotta be one of the stupidest comments I've ever read, your basically saying game sales have something to do with a games quality. If that's the case than Wii Play is the Greatest Game ever made and the Yakuza series is total garbage. Besides a ton of people bought Halo Wars just for the Halo 3 map packs. The game sold over a million copies but if you play online you'll see less than 3k people and walk into any gamestop and they'll be flooded with used copies. People paid 80 bucks for some Halo maps which isn't crazy considering they also paid 60 bucks for a Halo 3 demo (Crackdown) Gamestop was also flooded with used copies of that game