Top 10 Best Selling Games of March 2015 (USA)

What were the Top 10 best selling games in March 2015 in the United States?

The newest NPD numbers are in, and so are the top lists of the highest selling game systems and games for last month in America.

Here is the full Top 10 of March 2015:

    1. Battlefield: Hardline (Xbox One, PlayStation 4, 360, PS3, PC)**
    2. Bloodborne (PS4)**
    3. Grand Theft Auto V (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3)**
    4. Mario Party 10 (Wii U)** — 290,000 copies sold (retail + digital)
    5. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3, PC)**
    6. MLB 15: The Show (PS4, PS3)
    7. Minecraft (360, PS3, Xbox One, PS4)
    8. NBA 2K15 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3, PC)**
    9. Borderlands: The Handsome Collection (PS4, Xbox One)**
    10. Final Fantasy: Type 0 HD (PS4, Xbox One)

** Includes: CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware. Physical retail copies only.

Here’s the Battlefield: Hardline TV commercial…

System Sales in March 2015:

    1. PlayStation 4 — Returns to the #1 overall platform spot
    2. Nintendo 3DS — Sales around 270.000 for the month; The New Nintendo 3DS XL boosts 3DS Family to the best-selling handheld spot
    3. Xbox One
    4. Nintendo Wii U — Sales around 85.000 for the month
    5. Xbox 360
    6. PlayStation 3
    7. PlayStation Vita

Note: Only the first four spots are confirmed. The rest are estimates, no complete hard sales data was released for the month.

Check out the PlayStation 4 Spring games sizzle reel…

Analysis of the game and hardware sales numbers:

Although NPD doesn’t by far track all digital sales, retail still gives a good impression of last month’s best selling video games.

To quote NPD industry analyst Liam Callahan…

About video games he said:

“New games like Battlefield: Hardline and Bloodborne faced a tough comparison to the March 2014 launch of Titanfall, a sci-fi multiplayer shooter, and Infamous: Second Son. Total sales were down 3 percent from $405.6 million in March 2014 to $395.4 million in March 2015.

Physical software sales decreased by 6 percent from March 2014 as strong growth of [PS4, Xbox One, Wii U] helped to partially offset the sharp declines of seventh generation consoles, which were down 52 percent, and physical PC games, down 64 percent. A bright light in the portable space was the increase in 3DS software sales of over 20 percent from March 2014.

March 2015 software sales showed growth across all three eighth-generation consoles — PS4, Xbox One, Wii U. They collectively increased by 58 percent versus March 2014. This is a sign of the health of the eight generation console space; especially when considering the strong March 2014 software releases as a comparison, such as Titanfall and Infamous: Second Son.

The launch of Bloodborne ranked as second overall in software sales this month. But also has the second-highest sales for the debut month of a first-party game on the PS4, after Infamous: Second Son, in March 2014.”

About hardware he said:

“Consumers in the U.S. spent $963.7 million on software, consoles, and accessories in March 2015. Down 6 percent from $1.02 billion during the same period in March 2014. The big drag on revenue was new hardware sales, which were down 21 percent from $393.4 million in March 2014 to just $311.1 million in March 2015.

This is the seventeenth month of sales for the Xbox One and PS4, whose combined cumulative hardware sales are over 50 percent higher than the combined seventeen-month cumulative sales totals for the Xbox 360 and PS3.”

Credits: NeoGAF

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