The NPD Group has launched their figures for online game {hardware} and software program gross sales for March 2017 and noticed massive proportion will increase yr over yr in nearly all classes, with the largest leap being in {hardware} as Nintendo launched the Swap.
That mentioned the Nintendo Swap was the primary console bought in March.  The chart topper was not solely a greatest for the month of March amongst its friends, nevertheless it was additionally a greatest for Nintendo itself, topping it’s earlier greatest vendor the Gameboy Superior which launched over 15 years in the past.  NPD says that the Swap was one of many largest successes of any {hardware} launch since 1995.  We gave the console excessive marks in our evaluation of the Nintendo Swap.
Surprisingly sufficient, nonetheless, Ubisoft hit the highest of the software program record with Ghost Recon: Wildlands beating out The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the highest spot.  For all of the flak it caught, Ghost Recon: Wildlands has had the second greatest debut ever for a Tom Clancy title and is the most effective vendor of the entire nice video games we’ve seen in 2017 so far.  The Division nonetheless holds the highest spot for a Tom Clancy debut although.  Mass Impact: Andromeda got here in third, and that noticed gross sales tail off behind that of which we noticed for Mass Impact 3.  The highest 5 was rounded out by a few PlayStation 4 exclusives with Horizon: Zero Daybreak and MLB 17: The Present.
You’ll be able to take a look at the complete prime ten beneath:
NPD Software program High 10 March 2017
It’ll be fascinating to see if Nintendo can sustain the tempo with their Nintendo Swap gross sales.  There was clearly a variety of pent-up demand for the brand new Legend of Zelda sport, however the summer season seems to be trying sturdy for the console with Splatoon on the horizon.  To tide Swap house owners over, and to presumably entice new curiosity when consoles lastly come again in inventory, the wonderful Mario Kart 8 Deluxe might be arriving later this month.
– This text was up to date on March eighth, 2018