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The Wii and Nintendo DS killed the competition in the United States last month, partly because the other hardware makers didn’t put up much of a fight. It was, bluntly, an ugly month for video game sales.
Sam Fisher used little stealth in his slaying of the competition in April, with Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction clearly visible at the top of April’s bestselling games list, according to the NPD Group.
Last month, the Nintendo DS had a hell of a month, selling more than 700,000 units to portable gamers in the U.S. That was the same month the larger Nintendo DSi XL launched. How’d it do?
As it is wont to do, Nintendo dominated hardware sales in the United States in March, the Nintendo DS and Wii combining to move more than a million shiny new game machines last month.
First month figures for Final Fantasy XIII are in, with the North American version of Square Enix’s role-playing game epic moving more than 1.3 million copies in the United States. The vast majority of those were on the PlayStation 3.
Well-read sales analysis enthusiasts are already well aware that some of January’s most anticipated games did not become January’s bestselling games. While some new properties, like THQ’s Darksiders, managed a top ten showing, some settled for the top 20.
