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According to a new post at GameLife, the NPD group is reporting stellar $1.7 billion in hardware and software sales for the month of March 2008. Nintendo took the biggest piece of the pie, with the Wii (721 thousand) and DS (698 thousand) and the insane sales of top title Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii), at a staggering 2.7 million units. The PSP also had an excellent month, with third place sales (297 thousand) and two games in the top ten sales chart (God of War: Chains of Olympus and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII).

Here are the charts, from the post:

HARDWARE
Wii 721K
Nintendo DS 698K
PlayStation Portable 297K
Xbox 360 262K
PlayStation 3 257K
PlayStation 2 216K

SOFTWARE
WII SUPER SMASH BROS: BRAWL NINTENDO OF AMERICA 2.7M
360 *TOM CLANCY’S RAINBOW SIX: VEGAS 2 UBISOFT 752.3K
360 ARMY OF TWO ELECTRONIC ARTS 606.1K
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA 409.8K
PSP GOD OF WAR: CHAINS OF OLYMPUS SONY 340.5K
PSP CRISIS CORE: FINAL FANTASY VII SQUARE ENIX 301.6K
WII GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK ACTIVISION 264.1K
360 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 2K8 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE 237.1K
360 *CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION 237K
PS3 ARMY OF TWO ELECTRONIC ARTS 224.9K
*Includes collector’s edition, limited edition, or bundled SKUs

Overall, the post reports that March sales were up 51% from the preceding year. Traditionally, March (and for that matter, spring in general) is a bit of a down time for the industry, but it appears that that trend is no longer. Here’s to a very healthy game industry.

Read [GameLife]

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