Sales for March 2010
Hardware Sales (USA + Japan) for March Platform United States Japan Total Year Over Year Change PlayStation 2 118,000 8,975 126,975 -3.89% Xbox 360 338,000 13,529 351,529 -3.34% PlayStation Portable 119,000 233,478 352,478 -9.84% PlayStation 3 313,000 194,794 507,794 +51.98% Wii 557,000 164,228 721,228 +7.51% Nintendo DS 700,000 207,801 907,801 +14.70% USA Top Ten Software Sales Title Platform Publisher Monthly Sales God of War 3 PS3 Sony 1.10M Pokemon SoulSilver version DS Nintendo 1.02M Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Square Enix 828.2K Battlefield: Bad Company 2 360 EA 825.5K Pokemon HeartGold version DS Nintendo 761.2K Final Fantasy XIII 360 Square Enix 493.9K New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii Nintendo 457.4K Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PS3 EA 451.2K Wii Fit Plus Wii Nintendo 429.6K MLB 10: The Show PS3 Sony 349.2K Commentary Pokemon, Final Fantasy, and Battlefield BC2 all outsold God of War 3 when combining SKUs. PSP sales have really dropped in the US, but are extremely strong, and even outselling the DS in Japan. In the US, and only in the US, 360 consoles continue to outsell PS3, despite PS3 having a better price/value ratio and a higher quality game library that sells higher volumes to a smaller user base. Interpretation : In the US, the Xbox 360 is selling on brand name, and not hardware quality, software library, or price/value ratio. By most metrics, PS3 has cumulatively surpassed the 360 in Japan and regions other than Japan and US. Only in the US does the 360 maintain a cumulative sales lead. (We don’t yet have complete Japan software sales for March. The data is available, but would require too much effort to compile. garaph.info is about a month out of date)
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Sales for March 2010