March NPD Sales: Resident Evil 5 Breaks 1.5 Million, Pokemon Platinum and Halo Wars Debut Strong

April 16, 2009 3:35 PM

Offering a glimpse into the fascinating world of game sales, research group NPD has released its take on the software and hardware sales in the US over 3/1/09 to 4/4/09.

New releases dominated the software chart, with Resident Evil 5 surpassing 1.5 million units thanks to a dual-platform debut, and Halo Wars racking up an impressive 639K.

Meanwhile, Nintendo continued its dominance of hardware sales charts.

The month's ten best-selling consoles games were:

Resident Evil 5 (Capcom, 360) - 938,000 units
Pokemon Platinum Version (Game Freak, DS) - 805,000 units
Halo Wars (Ensemble, 360) - 639,000 units
Resident Evil 5 (Capcom, PS3) - 585,000 units
Wii Fit (Nintendo, Wii) - 541,000 units
MLB 09: The Show (Sony, PS3) - 305,000 units
Killzone 2 (Guerrilla Games, PS3) - 296,000 units
Wii Play (Nintendo, Wii) - 281,000 units
Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii) - 278,000 units
Major League Baseball 2K9 (Visual Concepts, 360) - 205,000 units

As for hardware, March brought about the following results:

Wii - 601,000 units
Nintendo DS - 563,000 units
Xbox 360 - 330,000 units
PlayStation 3 - 218,000 units
PSP - 168,000 units
PlayStation 2 - 112,000 units

Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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JasonReece

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April 16, 2009 3:38 PM

Is this one of the first cases of a title selling almost a million, 700K, and then a publisher firing that developer?
- melkore
  
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  April 16, 2009 3:48 PM
  
  I know Eidos was not happy with Tomb Raider selling over a million soon after release.
- Chris Faylor
  
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  April 16, 2009 3:50 PM
  
  Ensemble was closed before Halo Wars even released. One of the spin-off studios, Robot, is developing additional Halo Wars content.
  - PsychoFanatic
    
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    April 16, 2009 4:08 PM
    
    have we heard why? it almost doesn't make any sense