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Old April 18th, 2008, 09:53 PM
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Nintendo totally and utterly dominated March in terms of harware sales in March. The Wii and DS alone took over 58% of all sales compared to ever other system released. The industry as a whole made over $1billion in America alone showing that the gaming industry is growing at a phenominal rate. Finally, Xbox 360 faired a little better than the past few months beating the PS3 into 2nd place plus gaining a respectable 4 titles in the top 10 software sales. Full details below.

Industry Sales
Mar-07 Mar-08 CHG
Total Video Games $1.1B $1.7B 57%
Video Games Hardware $377.9M $551.3M 46%
Video Games Software $579.1M $945.6M 63%
Video Game Accessories $139.5M $220M 58%

Hardware Sales
Hardware Mar-08
PlayStation 2 216K
PlayStation 3 257K
PlayStation Portable 297K
Xbox 360 262K
Nintendo DS 698K
Wii 721K

Software Sales
Platform Title Publisher Release Date March Units
WII SUPER SMASH BROS: BRAWL NINTENDO OF AMERICA Mar-08 2.7M
360 *TOM CLANCY'S RAINBOW SIX: VEGAS 2 UBISOFT Mar-08 752.3K
360 ARMY OF TWO ELECTRONIC ARTS Mar-08 606.1K
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA Feb-07 409.8K
PSP GOD OF WAR: CHAINS OF OLYMPUS SONY Mar-08 340.5K
PSP CRISIS CORE: FINAL FANTASY VII SQUARE ENIX INC Mar-08 301.6K
WII GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK ACTIVISION Oct-07 264.1K
360 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 2K8 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE Mar-08 237.1K
360 *CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION Nov-07 237K
PS3 ARMY OF TWO ELECTRONIC ARTS Mar-08 224.9K
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Hmmm Wii killed all.
360 beats ps3 by 5k...
not much to say really.
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lol link to TT, nice
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Old April 19th, 2008, 12:08 AM
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lol link to TT, nice
lol I know. To be honest it's pretty bad when a gaming site has got to such a state that it has to wait a full day to post the NPD results and they're from a Technology site...
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Old April 19th, 2008, 06:52 PM
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Hmmm Wii killed all.
360 beats ps3 by 5k...
not much to say really.
360 continues to dominate software....
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so have they released the colored wiis yet?
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360 continues to dominate software....
Sure it is one of the nintendos hyped franchises but ssbb sold better than all the 360 titles combined.
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Sure it is one of the nintendos hyped franchises but ssbb sold better than all the 360 titles combined.
wait til next month...plus, compare it to Halo 3 or COD4.
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Compare it to a casual shooter and then a generic shooter?
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Oh well let's face it... Even though I hate the Wii (And I love Nintendo), the console war is over
I don't know who will be second place though...

P.D. Did you see the PS3 GTA IV bundle?!?!
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