March 2011 NPD Thread of ME3 Sales in Red/Green/Blue, Vita last seen flying away!

[Onslaught X]

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]
Playstation Vita - Over 200k?
Nintendo 3DS - 225K (-43.8%)
Nintendo Wii - 175K (-39.7%)

Overall

“While it was a disappointing month, and first quarter, for new physical retail sales of video games hardware, software and accessories, it wasn’t entirely unexpected given guidance we’ve seen from several sources.”

“Outside of new physical retail sales, we find that the consumer spend on content on used games, rentals, subscriptions, mobile games, social network games, digital full game downloads and add-on content accounted for an additional $2.5 billion to $2.7 billion across the U.S., U.K., France & Germany in Q1 2012.”

Hardware

“Hardware really slowed down this month and all systems saw a unit sales decline versus last March, and on an average sales per week basis, versus February 2012. That said, the high definition console systems fared better than many other hardware platforms.”

“The Xbox 360 is the best-selling console system for the last 15, and the best-selling hardware platform overall for the past 8 months.”

Software

“High definition platform unit sales of software were flat to last year which is a bright spot in this month’s reporting. “

“Mass Effect 3 sold more than twice as much as did Mass Effect 2 during its introductory month in January 2010.”

“In a list of the top 10 SKU’s for the month (as opposed to top titles as listed here), 3DS Kids Icarus: Uprising would have been among the top selling individual SKU’s for the month of March.”

“Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure was the 15th best-selling title for the month. The accessory items are selling phenomenally well. The three character pack SKU’s were all among the top 10 accessory items for the month of March.”

Accessories

“Accessories were up slightly in unit sales for the month, but down in dollars due to a decline in average retail selling price. Interestingly, among the top ten accessory SKU’s for the month, only three were “traditional” accessories while the remainder were either point or subscription cards, or Skylanders character packs.”

[Bane]

I'm surprised they gave the ME3 console breakdown and I'm a bit sad that Resident Evil made no. 2.

That's a bad dip for the 3DS.

[CorruptedDragon]

So the 360 sold 944k while the ps3 sold 236k on Mass Effect 3.

[Onslaught X]

I'm surprised they gave the ME3 console breakdown and I'm a bit sad that Resident Evil made no. 2.

That's a bad dip for the 3DS.

That's a YoY #, 3DS launched in March last year.

[Onslaught X]

So the 360 sold 944k while the ps3 sold 236k on Mass Effect 3.

Something like that. That # more or less lined up with the UK as well.

[thejnc]

I don't understand what this means

“In a list of the top 10 SKU’s for the month (as opposed to top titles as listed here), 3DS Kids Icarus: Uprising would have been among the top selling individual SKU’s for the month of March.”

But sounds like Kid Icarus did ok. Besides ME3, that is the only new title I bought from that list that month.

[michealo]

Glad to see MP9 chart.
ME3 less than I expected, overall.
Surprised at MLB:the show

[thejnc]

Glad to see MP9 chart.
ME3 less than I expected, overall.
Surprised at MLB:the show

They were pushing the shit out of the bundle for The Show though. Get both vita and PS3 version for $20 less. So the few of us that have a Vita probably bought 2 copies of The Show. I just bought the vita version, but I was close to ordering both.

[michealo]

Curious to see if TW:12 charts for April, it launched very late in march.
I flat put ignored it this year.

[CorruptedDragon]

Glad to see MP9 chart.

[michealo]

Hah, one of the few games my fiancé loves to play.
That and Lego games of course, has batman II already preordered on 360 (yes, she was a bona fide MAD when I met her)

[chipvideo]

Hah, one of the few games my fiancé loves to play.
That and Lego games of course, has batman II already preordered on 360 (yes, she was a bona fide MAD when I met her)

So is she still MAD?

[Bane]

Hah, one of the few games my fiancé loves to play.
That and Lego games of course, has batman II already preordered on 360 (yes, she was a bona fide MAD when I met her)

I was really disappointed to learn they changed a lot of the achievements to SP only for the lego games. I've a friend who would put his gamertag on my 360 and we'd co-op the achievement list. Ended up taking back the two I recently bought when I found out what they did.

[michealo]

So is she still MAD?

Certainly, prefers the controller layout (against my logical persuasions).

[rm082e]

Seriously, are we just guessing at Vita numbers? Are there no reports available?