NPD March 2012

[brebaz]

Overall Retail Industry:

Down 25% year over year.


Software:

01. Mass Effect 3 (360, PS3, PC)** Electronic Arts - 1.18 Million excluding PC, 4:1 Xbox:PS3, over double ME2's opening
02. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (360, PS3)** Capcom USA - 582K
03. MLB 12: The Show (PS3, PSV) Sony (Corp)
04. NBA 2K12 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PC, PS2) Take 2 Interactive
05. SSX 2012 (360, PS3) Electronic Arts
06. Street Fighter X Tekken (PS3, 360)** Capcom USA
07. Mario Party 9 (Wii) Nintendo - 230K
08. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360, PS3, Wii, PC)** Activision Blizzard
09. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja (360, PS3) Namco Bandai Games
10. Major League Baseball 2K12 (360, PS3, Wii, NDS, PSP, PC, PS2) Take 2 Interactive

**(includes CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware)

Other Software:

XX. Kid Icarus - 135K
XX. Super Mario 3D Land - 100K
XX. Mario Kart 7 - 118K

Lifetime:
SM3DLand: 1.98 Million
MK7: 1.58 Million


Hardware:

Xbox 360 - 371K (-14.3%)
PlayStation 3 - 337K (-7.7%) [PR Math]
Nintendo 3DS - 225K (-43.8%)
Nintendo Wii - 175K (-39.7%)

Source

Everything is down it seems. Also, there's no PSvita numbers yet!

[The Black Wolf]

The Nintendo 3DS is doing incredibly well. So is the PS3 and Xbox 360.

[brebaz]

After the price cut and finally some good games the 3DS should.

[coolguy]

i read on naother forum that the vita sold 200 k if its right its kinda low

[TDbank24]

The PS3 is doing great. To be going that strong with Sony's back being up against the wall all generation really shows the strength and resolve of the PS brand.

[brebaz]

i read on naother forum that the vita sold 200 k if its right its kinda low

If it indeed sold 200k that is not bad at all. Sony need more qulaity games for the PSvita.

[Soldier 95B]

Any surprises there? Well for me, I am surprised to see the Xbox version of ME3 sold 4:1 to the PS3 version. I am also PLEASANTLY suprised to see that MLB The Show 12 is a homerun. Baseball games are not usually huge sellers, but The Show has proven it is the shiznit.

[Morganator]

i read on naother forum that the vita sold 200 k if its right its kinda low

Well, it is kinda overpriced. Not to mention, people know that Sony will most likely release an updated version in a year or two with a price cut. In fact, I'm banking on that being the case. I'm waiting for an improved version myself.

[radgamer420]

Any surprises there? Well for me, I am surprised to see the Xbox version of ME3 sold 4:1 to the PS3 version. I am also PLEASANTLY suprised to see that MLB The Show 12 is a homerun. Baseball games are not usually huge sellers, but The Show has proven it is the shiznit.

Actually I'm not surprised by either. The Show always does great (blows away the 2k baseball game) and I pretty much expected the 360 version of ME3 to outsell the PS3 version although I wasnt expecting it to be 4:1. I was expecting maybe 2:1. Good numbers for both 360 and the PS3. I wish we had the Vita numbers.

[Soldier 95B]

Some other numbers:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57...?tag=cnetRiver

• Total spending on Xbox hardware, software, and accessories hit $430 million, more than was spent on Sony's PS3 and Nintendo's Wii combined.
• Sales of consoles and other hardware touched $323.5 million, a 35 percent drop from March 2011.
• High definition console systems fared better than many other hardware platforms
• Video game accessory sales declined by 8 percent to $222.5 million year over year. The industry actually sold more physical accessories than a year ago, but sales were down as a result of a drop in the average selling price.
• Although the NPD doesn't publicly share sales breakdowns by platform, Microsoft executive Aaron Greenberg did share that Xbox 360 sales for the space opera Mass Effect 3 were 943,000 units for the month.

[Sylar]

Any surprises there? Well for me, I am surprised to see the Xbox version of ME3 sold 4:1 to the PS3 version. I am also PLEASANTLY suprised to see that MLB The Show 12 is a homerun. Baseball games are not usually huge sellers, but The Show has proven it is the shiznit.

i'm guessing it's all the people who've played all the previous games wanting to carry over the saves.

[O.J. Mayo]

WHo is buying all those Nintendo Wii's at this point? I mean seriously 175k

[Yungstar 2006]

considering we have multi million selling consoles and lots of hype, i guess AAA Mass Effect 3 didn't do to well...

[JVH]

Some other numbers:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57...?tag=cnetRiver

• Total spending on Xbox hardware, software, and accessories hit $430 million, more than was spent on Sony's PS3 and Nintendo's Wii combined.
• Sales of consoles and other hardware touched $323.5 million, a 35 percent drop from March 2011.
• High definition console systems fared better than many other hardware platforms
• Video game accessory sales declined by 8 percent to $222.5 million year over year. The industry actually sold more physical accessories than a year ago, but sales were down as a result of a drop in the average selling price.
• Although the NPD doesn't publicly share sales breakdowns by platform, Microsoft executive Aaron Greenberg did share that Xbox 360 sales for the space opera Mass Effect 3 were 943,000 units for the month.

Are Live fees included in this ?

[bigCman123]

considering we have multi million selling consoles and lots of hype, i guess AAA Mass Effect 3 didn't do to well...

"OVER DOUBLE ME2'S OPENING"

Yeah I don't think so... This isn't Call of Duty dude, ME3 is doing great compared to the previous games.

I think it's ridiculous that Raccoon City is doing well, because I have heard nothing but overwhelmingly negative things about it.

[Yungstar 2006]

"OVER DOUBLE ME2'S OPENING"

Yeah I don't think so... This isn't Call of Duty dude, ME3 is doing great compared to the previous games.

I think it's ridiculous that Raccoon City is doing well, because I have heard nothing but overwhelmingly negative things about it.

less than a mil on 360 and less than 250,000 on ps3.

you sure that can be classed as "doing great" on multi-million selling systems?
i'd class that as under-performing at best.

[AaronSOLDIER]

Wow, the Wii really is on its last legs pretty much everywhere.