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- PSP: 40,886 7,232 (15.03%) - DSi: 40,673 13,007 (24.23%) - PS3: 16,701 3,661 (17.98%) - Wii: 13,349 2,176 (14.02%) - Xbox 360: 10,134 2,322 (29.72%) - DS Lite: 6,869 1,860 (21.31%) - PS2: 4,531 863 (16.00%)
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Respected industry news site Gamasutra gives their monthly detailed analysis of NPD numbers. They cover some essential features of the retail landscape in March 2009. Read on for details about first-night sales of the Nintendo DSi, price drops for PlayStation hardware, Capcom's strong software sales, and the fate of third-party software on the Wii.
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Michael Pachter, analyst for Wedbush Morgan, isn't freaking out, and he wants you to know that you shouldn't be either. He notes, while speaking on the subject of March NPD numbers, that even though the month saw hardware sales numbers drop across the board, that really has more to do with extraordinary sales for all comparable months
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A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay $4.5m (£3m) in damages.
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PlayStation 2 112K PlayStation 3 218K PSP 168K Xbox 360 330K Wii 601K Nintendo DS 563K
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Empire: Total War, the latest installment of developer Creative Assembly's Total War RTS franchise, was the bestselling PC title in the States during March, according to the NPD Group. A new entry on the monthly chart, Empire: Total War held off competition from February's two bestsellers, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and The Sims 2 Double Deluxe, to take the top spot.
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For once, someone at GameStop wants customers to be able to pay less. Of course, the items CEO Dan DeMatteo thinks are overpriced happen to be consoles, which don't have much of a retail markup -- so dropping the price on them would only give consumers more to spend on stuff with bigger markups.
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Countering recent claims by Microsoft, the game sales performance gap between Sony's PlayStation 3 the Xbox 360 isn't as big as many think, Sony is claiming. The statistics are intended to suggest that not only are unit sales fairly similar on both platforms -- but that the PlayStation 3 actually has a higher per-title attach rate.
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Game industry growth, at least as far as NPD data goes, is likely to languish in March and April, say analysts like Wedbush Morgan and EEDAR. That's because it's tough to post growth against the period in 2008 that saw the strong releases of both Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Grand Theft Auto IV.
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- DSi: 53,680 3,721 (6.48%) - PSP: 48,118 6,030 (11.14%) - PS3: 20,362 2,463 (10.79%) - Wii: 15,525 1,751 (10.14%) - DS Lite: 8,729 321 (3.82%) - Xbox 360: 7,812 2,963 (61.11%) - PS2: 5,394 148 (2.82%)
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