Hardware

Wii - 721,000
NDS* - 698,000
PSP - 297,000
360* 262,000
PS3 - 257,000
PS2 - 216,000

Software

1. Wii Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 2,700,000
2. 360 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2* - 752,300
3. 360 Army of Two - 606,100
4. Wii Wii Play - 409,800
5. PSP God of War: Chains of Olympus - 340,500
6. PSP Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - 301,600
7. Wii Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - 264,100
8. 360 Major League Baseball 2K8 - 237,100
9. 360 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare* - 237,000
10. PS3 Army of Two - 224,900

^The numbers to the right represent units sold.

*All incarnations of the product line (DS vs. DS Lite, etc.)

These numbers are amazing. I didn’t expect Brawl to do quite as well as it did, which is a rather pleasant surprise, especially when you consider the game was only out for 13 days in March; that’s a little over 200,000 units moved every day. As you can see, some games got that number over the course of the entire month. DS games seem to have slipped off the top 10 entirely, but the Wii is doing just fine, and of course Wii Play moves as many units as it can, as usual.

Across the board, though, video games sales are just plain old up; over the same month last year, sales grew by 57% or $600,000,000; video game software alone rose 63% and netted $945,600,000. Those numbers are incredible, especially for the month of March. It appears that the major releases of Brawl, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, and Army of Two gave both hardware and software a major boost; where did those extra DS hardware sales come from, though?