NPD has revealed its March US retail sales data, and as several analysts predicted, despite BioWare's Mass Effect 3 topping the charts, overall it's not pretty. Total game industry sales dropped 25 percent to $1.1 billion, as total software across consoles, portable and PC fell 26 percent to $585.1 million, while hardware sales plunged 35 percent to $323.5 million.
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So all of the hardware dropped for consoles as well as for it's software. Interesting...
The retail picture for the industry is going to continue to be ugly. Digital is becoming more and more important and NPD doesn't offer any monthly digital data.
EDIT: On a side note, as a baseball nut and a HUGE fan of MLB The Show, very happy to see it doing well on the charts.
582k copies of Raccoon City sold. Looks like Slant Six gets the last laugh.
bring on the new hardware...
There wasn't any games worth getting aside from Mass Effect 3. I mean there are some niche titles, but when a bad game like Raccoon City is getting crazy sales like it is, you know gamers are starving for new games.
I don't know why publishers all release their games so late in the year, I wish they would spread them out a bit more like last year. I mean didn't we have a lot more as far as quality games around this time last year? L.A. Noire, Portal 2, Crysis 2 and Homefront I believe all released early in the year.