NPD Reports Nintendo Finished March with Top Game, Top Hardware
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 at 5:50pm by Press Release
In March, Nintendo again defined industry momentum in both home and portable video games sales, according to the independent NPD Group, which monitors retail activity in the video game industry. More than 720,000 Wii™ systems sold in March, representing the highest monthly sales total outside of holiday months (November or December) to date, while Nintendo DS™ also sold through nearly 700,000 systems.
Nintendo also finished with the top-selling U.S. game of March. Super Smash Bros.® Brawl, which launched March 9, came in at No. 1 with 2.7 million units sold.
“Nintendo systems represented 58 percent of all video game hardware sold in March in the United States,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “We expect our momentum to continue with big upcoming game launches like Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit.”
Other March U.S. statistics, according to NPD, include:
- Three Wii games finished in the top 10, including Super Smash Bros. Brawl at No. 1, Wii Play™ at No. 4, and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock at No. 7.
- Nintendo DS has now sold more than 19 million units in the United States alone since it launched in November 2004.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
link?
April 17th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Received the press release via email from Nintendo, deepthought.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I think deepthought wanted a link to your e-mail, Blake, ID, password, and all…
April 17th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Haha!
April 17th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
For reference:
PlayStation 2 216K
PlayStation 3 257K
PlayStation Portable 297K
Xbox 360 262K
Nintendo DS 698K
Wii 721K
April 17th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
More good news for Nintendo. I wonder what Iwata does with all this money. By now I’m sure at least his desk and office chair are made entirely out of stacks of money.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Well, Pachter was wrong about the PS3 beating the Xbox 360. Methinks Malstrom is laughing all the way to the bank about that one (look up his past articles for his thoughts on that particular analyst
).
In other news, the Wii beat both of the other consoles combined. In March. Oh, the DS did too. This is SICK.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
found via NPD via joystiq:
http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/npd-nintendo-smashes-march-software-sales-skyrocket-63/
1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl—Wii—Nintendo—2.7 million
2. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2—Xbox 360—Ubisoft—752.3K*
3. Army of Two—Xbox 360—EA—606.1K
4. Wii Play w/ remote—Wii—Nintendo—409.8K
5. God of War: Chains of Olympus—PSP—Sony—340.5K
6. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII—PSP—Square Enix—301.6K
7. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock—Wii—Activision—264.1K
8. Major League Baseball 2K8—Xbox 360—Take-Two—237.1K
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare—Xbox 360—Activision—237K*
10. Army of Two—PS3—EA—224.9K
now about that password Blake… (after posting, I thought someone might reply ‘zelda?’, but I guess that was too obvious…hehhe..)
April 17th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Whoa, Brawl has outsold (or sold as much as) all the other non-nintendo top 10 games combined this past month.
Brawl - 2.7 million
The others - 2.69 million (give or take a few 10 thousands)
Now that’s some major butt kicking right there.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
why would 08 be different? great to see wii crushing the competition as always and 08 may get worse. i have high hopes for wii fit in the u.s and europe
April 17th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
@Jack
Wii was also only 15mil from beating PS2, PS3 and Xbox360 combined. You’re right, SICK.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
I have a question.
So IS there any more room to put ANOTHER well deserved feather in the Wii’s Cap?
The game is good fun, that is for sure.
Next up Mario Kart.
April 18th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Also interesting that TWO PSP games beat out the one PS3 game on the list.