Nintendo Switch Leadership, PlayStation 5 Success, Monster Hunter Rise and Outriders Head Off – NPD March US Sales Report

Company NPD, which tracks sales of games and consoles in the United States, released a report for March 2023. He was marked by leadership again Nintendo Switch

  • Nintendo Switch topped the March Iron Chart in terms of console sales and dollar-denominated revenue.
  • Overall, Nintendo Switch leads US sales for 28 consecutive months, continuing to increase its record (the previous one belonged to Xbox 360, which ranked first in the American iron chart for 21 consecutive months).

  • The PlayStation 5 ranked second in sales in March and second in sales revenue. At the same time, in terms of sales speed in the first five months since the launch, the PlayStation 5 bypasses all other consoles on the market (that is, it sells better than the PlayStation 4, Switch and other systems were sold in their first months)

  • Nintendo Switch ranks first in terms of quarterly sales in pieces (Jan-Mar 2023), while PlayStation 5 ranks first in terms of revenue in dollar terms.

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At the end of March, the American market grew by 18% compared to the same period a year earlier and reached a turnover of $ 5.6 billion

In the first quarter, Americans spent $ 14.9 billion on games, consoles and accessories, up 30% from a year earlier.

Controller DualSense for PlayStation 5 became the most successful accessory in March in terms of sales revenue and is the highest grossing accessory for the first quarter of 2023 overall.

In the game chart …

  • Shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War returned to first place in sales. This is the most successful project in the last twelve months in the country.
  • Role-playing action Monster hunter rise for Nintendo Switch, which started on March 26, took the second place in the March chart. New project based on sales revenue in the USA Capcom has already bypassed the final figures of all past parts of the series Monster hunterexcept for multiplatform Monster hunter world
  • Cooperative shooter Outriders debuted at # 3 on the March overall chart and ranked third best-selling games of the month on platforms Xboxdespite the presence of a subscription service in the catalog Xbox Game Pass
  • The racing game Mario Kart 8 climbed from ninth to sixth place in a month. She is officially the most successful representative of the racing genre in its entire history in USA
  • Platformer Crash Bandicoot 4 jumped from 65th place to 15th after the release of the Switch version.
  • Almost half of the chart consists of exclusives for Nintendo Switchdespite the fact that NPD has no eShop sales data for them (except for Monster Hunter Rise).

Most successful games in March in the USA by sales revenue (only cartridges are counted for Nintendo games, discs and digital copies for the rest):

Most successful on PlayStation platforms:

On Nintendo platforms:

On Xbox platforms:

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