Hardware spending in March 2020 grew 63% when compared to a year ago, to $461m. Nintendo Switch hardware sales more than doubled when compared to a year ago, while PlayStation 4 and Xbox One each grew by more than 25 percent.
Nintendo Switch set a new all-time record for hardware unit sales in a March month, besting the previous high set by Nintendo Switch in its March 2017 launch month.
Nintendo Switch generated the highest first quarter unit sales for any hardware platform since the Nintendo DS in the first quarter of 2010.
Dollar sales of tracked Video Game Software grew 34% in March compared to a YA, to $739m. March tracked software spending reached its highest total for a March month since 2011 ($787m). Total first quarter tracked software spending fell 8 percent, to $1.4B.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons was the best-selling game of March 2020, despite the lack of digital tracking for Nintendo published software. Animal Crossing: New Horizons instantly becomes the 2nd best-selling game of 2020.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons achieved the 3rd highest launch month physical dollar and unit sales of any Nintendo published game in tracked history. Only Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Dec 2018) and Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Mar 2008) sold more in the launch month.
Launch month dollar sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons have exceeded the lifetime sales of all other Animal Crossing franchise games, making Animal Crossing: New Horizons the best-selling game in franchise history.
MLB The Show 20 was the 3rd best-selling game of March 2020, and instantly becomes the 5th best-selling game of 2020. MLB The Show 20 is the fastest selling game in MLB The Show franchise history, with launch month sales exceeding those of MLB The Show 19.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was the #2 best-selling game of March 2020 and is now the best-selling game of 2020 year-to-date. March sales of Call of Duty franchise titles reached a new all-time high for a March month, exceeding the previous peak set in March 2010.
March 2020 tracked spending across Video Game Hardware, Software, Accessories and Game Cards totaled $1.6 billion, gaining 35 percent when compared to a year ago. This is the highest reported spend for a March month since the $1.8 billion achieved in March 2008.
Year-to-date 2020 tracked spending across Video Game Hardware, Software, Accessories and Game Cards totaled $3.0 billion, declining 4 percent when compared to a year ago.
The only industry to grow during a pandemic! Oil BTFO
Ethan Moore
>Nintendo Switch generated the highest first quarter unit sales for any hardware platform since the Nintendo DS in the first quarter of 2010 It prints money.
>Pandemic >12 year high in the vidya market Kek absolutely based vidya fans carrying the economy. Apologise, Texas.
Jayden Morris
nintendo is for babies
William Morgan
See, this is why third-parties barely try on Nintendo platforms.
Jordan Wilson
cause they cant compete with quality and will rather bail out than being publicly shamed?
Ryan Ortiz
Seems like the end of the decade/begging of the next has been kind to Nintendo >80s ended with Gameboy >90s ended with Pokemania >2000s ended with Wii and DS fever >2010s ended with Switch as the hot item
Noah Gomez
No Granblue Fantasy Versus on the top 20.
Xseed delay didn't help.
Mason Miller
Absolutely. EA’s fucking pissed that their garbage port of FIFA isn’t a best seller, so they never port anything.
Elijah Peterson
what does the asterisk mean
John Torres
doenst include Digital sales (Nintendo dont like to share their digital sales numbers)
Brayden Howard
Not enough people in the US who buy a game just for a gacha code.
Joshua Hill
>Nintendo Switch set a new all-time record for hardware unit sales in a March month, besting the previous high set by Nintendo Switch in its March 2017 launch month. Damn, Animal Crossing has ascended.
Aaron Sanders
>Show me figures or fug aff
Gotta pay for those.
Zachary Hill
Persona 5 above ZOOM Eternal and RE3Demake and people say that the anime/japanese audience doesn't exist on PS4 LMAO
Andrew Torres
>gacha shit >fighting game >pos4 What did you expect?
Oliver Rogers
>Doom Eternal in 6th place Yas Forums btfo
Dylan Turner
How can a game about doing nothing carry so much power?
Josiah Wood
It doesn't help that they never officially released the mobile game it was based off in the west.
Gabriel Davis
Why do other publishers give NPD their digital sales? Is it literally just for dickwaving?
Benjamin James
its the only non nintendo games where digital sales aren't included
Luke Bailey
its the millenial/ zoomer dream.
own property own a house have friends work hard pay your debt
Luis Powell
YAY MYSTERY DUNGEON
Aiden Campbell
other than working hard I think that's everyone's dream, no? that or some fetish thing
Parker Stewart
Based fucking Nintendo, making worthwhile exclusives. Also, I'm fucking shocked by The Show. Is Snoy the dev or just the publisher? I didn't know they had first party baseball games. Also, how is it selling so well? I know third worlders love to buy the monthly rehash of divegrass, but baseball is basically dead and only cared about in the US and Japan somewhat.
David Ward
well the thing is they just do the same cycle every time >new nintendo console >third party just shits out a late full priced port when it's on other systems for $10 >it doesn't sell >"see no one buys nintendo for third parties!"
Jace Perry
>Nintendo Switch set a new all-time record for hardware unit sales in a March month, besting the previous high set by Nintendo Switch in its March 2017 launch month. So the Switch sold more than a million in March 2020? Fucking Christ...
Anthony White
working hard more as in, knowing that you are gonna actually be able to pay your debt,
not like IRL where ballooning interest make it a dream to get out of big debts
Tyler Russell
>work hard That's the Boomer's mantra. (real Boomer, not maymay)
Colton Harris
snoybois are gonna FREAK!
William Jenkins
He's making a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that the current generation in the USA cannot actually achieve these things realistically.
