March 2009 US Software Sales
Rank | Platform | Title | Units Sold | Last Month | Lifetime to Date
01 360 Resident Evil 5 938,000 n/a 938,000
02 NDS Pokemon Platinum 805,000 n/a 805,000
03 360 Halo Wars 639,000 n/a 639,000
04 PS3 Resident Evil 5 585,000 n/a 585,000
05 Wii Wii Fit 541,000 644,000 6,487,900
06 PS3 MLB ’09: The Show 305,000 n/a 305,000
07 PS3 Killzone 2 296,000 323,000 619,000
08 Wii Wii Play 281,000 386,000 10,469,396
09 Wii Mario Kart 278,000 263,000 5,724,000
10 360 Major League Baseball 2K9 205,000 n/a 205,000
March 2009 US Hardware Sales
Rank | Platform | Units Sold | Last Month | Lifetime to Date
01 Nintendo Wii 601,000 753,000 19,685,900
02 Nintendo DS 563,000 588,000 29,201,900
03 Xbox 360 330,000 391,000 14,886,400
04 Playstation 3 218,000 276,000 7,488,100
05 Playstation Portable 168,000 199,000 14,878900
06 Playstation 2 112,000 131,000 46,000,000+
Great to see that finally there’s a month where the top game sales are not Wii titles. To no one’s surprise, the 360 version of Resident Evil 5 sits atop the charts, at almost a million sold in US alone for the 360 version. Add the PS3 version to that and in its first month of launch it’s already sold over 1.5 million. Pokemon Platinum claims second, which makes me wonder if there really are more Resident Evil fans out there than Pokemon fans. I would have thought the opposite to be true! Halo Wars also had an astounding sales month for a RTS title on the 360, but maybe not so good for a Halo title. I guess it evens out. Killzone 2 also had a respectable month, selling almost the same number of copies it sold last month. Perhaps it has staying power for PS3 owners after all. The rest of the top ten are comprised of 09 releases of MLB games on the 360 and PS3 as well as the usual Wii top titles for sale.
What’s very interesting is that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on the DS was also released in March, but did not even crack the top 10 game sales last month. With a DS install base of over 29 million in the United States, it comes as a huge surprise to me that of those 29 million, not even 205,000 copies were sold. The console versions sell millions, but the DS sold practically nothing! Well, to be fair, the DS also had a huge flood of releases last month, so they probably ended up cannibalizing each other a bit.
NPD Sales Results for March 2009 [NeoGAF]
