March NPD 2010: A God Meets his Final Fantasy

[BreakABone]

PlayStation 2 118.3K
PlayStation 3 313.9K
PSP 119.9K
Xbox 360 338.4K
Wii 557.5K
Nintendo DS 700.8K



GOD OF WAR III* PS3 SONY Mar-10 1.10M 1
POKEMON SOULSILVER VERSION NDS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Mar-10 1.02M 2
FINAL FANTASY XIII PS3 SQUARE ENIX Mar-10 828.2K 3
BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY 2 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Mar-10 825.5K 4
POKEMON HEARTGOLD VERSION NDS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Mar-10 761.2K 5
FINAL FANTASY XIII 360 SQUARE ENIX Mar-10 493.9K 6
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Nov-09 457.4K 7
BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY 2 PS3 ELECTRONIC ARTS Mar-10 451.2K 8
WII FIT PLUS W/ BALANCE BOARD* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Oct-09 429.6K 9
MLB 10: THE SHOW PS3 SONY Mar-10 349.2K 10

This was an insane month.
GoW 3 took top billing for those who made the bet, but fF 13 combined beat it.

Wii has 2 games in there and still managed to be top selling.
Poor Red Steel 2.

[Angrist]

Ok it's official now: you don't need to launch a game in the holiday season for it to sell.

[magus113]

Originally Posted by Angrist

Ok it's official now: you don't need to launch a game in the holiday season for it to sell.

I don't think that's been a big selling point for a while. The kind of marketing people are doing for new games is ridiculous. Companies are shelling out big bucks for this.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Angrist

Ok it's official now: you don't need to launch a game in the holiday season for it to sell.

This has been proven quite often this generation, but I do find it funny you came to that conclusion this month.

When you have GoW 3, which is arguably the 2nd biggest franchise Sony has.
Final Fantasy which is the biggest RPG franchise.
And Pokemon which is the 2nd biggest franchise in history.

Not exactly underdogs.

[TheSlyMoogle]

not to mention it was a pokemon remake.

Glad the sells for the 360 version of FF13 were pretty good though. I expected them to be pretty meh, but near 500k is significant.