If you add Hardware, Software and Accessory sales for the games industry in March, you come out with a total take of $1.7 billion, a rise 57% over March 2007. "You'd never know that the U.S. economy was under distress by looking at the video games industry sales figures," NPD analyst Anita Frazier said in a statement.
Software sales for the month were also much better than expected, amounting to a take of $945.6 million. "The amazing year-over-year increase in software sales isn't just explained by a few top games," Frazier said. "As compared to last March, twice as many SKU's achieved sales in excess of 100K units this month."
Super Smash Bros. Brawl topped the charts easily by moving 2.7 million copies, followed by Ubisoft's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 with 752,000 copies sold.
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