March US Xbox 360 sales detailed

By Robert Purchese Published 15 April, 2011

No home console stronger in 2011.

For a third consecutive month, Xbox 360 has been crowned North America's best-selling home console.

Microsoft revealed a March tally of 430,000 Xbox 360 sales: a significant amount more - 28 per cent more - than in March 2010.

In only one of the last 10 months has Xbox 360 not been top of the home console pile.

Gamers are spending the largest amount of money on Xbox 360 goods, too. Combined spend on hardware, software and overpriced accessories - oh did I say that out loud - reached $457 million.

In software, eight of the top 10 best-selling March games were multi-platform and are available on Xbox 360. Microsoft picked out Homefront, Crysis 2, Dragon Age II and Call of Duty: Black Ops. These are games Microsoft and Xbox 360 have run special promotions for.

The DS was March's best-selling console, although sales figures are unknown. The Nintendo 3DS sold just under 400,000 units in the week following its 27th March launch.

Sony is yet to reveal PlayStation 3 sales for March.

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Comments (49) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • DUFFMAN5 #1 1 year ago

    Great. 360 is all kinds of awesome.

  • GamesConnoisseur #2 1 year ago

    x360 selling more than launch month of 3DS looks bad for Ninty, but actually 3DS was only selling from 27th March onwards, so only last three days plus 1st day would sold a lot anyway.

    So more sensible to wait a few more months when in its normal stride then we can start talking about hardware performances, comparing etc.

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #3 1 year ago

    So DS was the best selling console in the US then?

  • LetsGo #4 1 year ago

    360 rules the roost in the states while the PS3 is ahead worldwide.

    Close!

  • ziggy_played_guitar #5 1 year ago

    The thing with the US market and why every company wants/needs to be ahead, is because they spend a shitload of money in games and accessories, there's no consumer like the American.

  • KrazyFace #6 1 year ago

    Of corce 360 owners have spent the most, their stuff costs the most!!!

  • MojoDex #7 1 year ago

    EUROgamer!

  • FladgeMangle #8 1 year ago

    Historically insular and xenophobic nation buys own goods. News?

    They have their own cars, they have their own sports and now they have their own games console. Hardly front page news on EUROgamer is it?

    American football more popular that rugby in America! World shrugs.

    A rather obvious and sad attempt to put a positive spin on the global situation with 360 sales, which is compounded by the fact that it's totally unnecessary. The 360 is doing and has done very well and deservedly so.

    Don't be such a tragic fanboy Rob.

  • woodnotes #9 1 year ago

    3DS + NDS = >800k in March. Crazy stuff.

  • pantherjag #10 1 year ago

    No surprise this really, the US is the 360 market. PS3 figures for Marh in the US are about 320,000 units sold. Worldwide figures show the PS3 on about 750,000 for march with 360 at about 620,000 for anyone interested

  • ziggy_played_guitar #11 1 year ago

    @MojoDex : When Europe realeses a console I think EUROgamer might be able to go all way fascist and hide in its bunker, but since the consoles (and computers for that matter) are only made in USA and Japan, you should hear them big boys.
    Edited by ziggy_played_guitar at 15/04/11 @ 10:07

  • telboy007 #12 1 year ago

    You lot should take a leaf out of thumpers book, if you aint got nothing nice to say dont say nuffin at all.

    This is a gaming site, that gives us news about games. Amazing.
    Edited by telboy007 at 15/04/11 @ 10:10

  • nuanimal #13 1 year ago

    I'm just surprised people are still buying consoles.

    Doesn't everyone who wants one, have one by now? Aren't we mainstream enough yet? Or is there some consiparcy with consoles self-destructing after their out of warranty?

  • MojoDex #14 1 year ago

    @ziggy_played_guitar

    kindly explain how american sales matter, even remotely to europeans?

  • ziggy_played_guitar #15 1 year ago

    Kindly, if a console, or any device, or product fails in America it'll die world-wide (hence Europe). Kindly can you point me a single device which hadn't any success in America but was succefull ? Like it or not, economy (fuck it... everything) is global, and America counts more, consumer wise (consumer wise? dude.... they so as they please!) than the rest of the world. Blunt, unfair? probably, but the truth is, they make, the consume we follow. And the 51st state follows better than any other nation.
    Kindly.
    Edited by ziggy_played_guitar at 15/04/11 @ 10:24

  • KrazyFace #16 1 year ago

    HAHAHAHA! WOOOW the negz!!!!

    @FladgeMangle: Never a truer word spoken mate, also I'd give you another + for that name of yours... WIN!

  • MojoDex #17 1 year ago

    truth is though europe as a continent produces higher sales figures than north america does. this site is eurogamer and i rarley see european figures here, yet us figures daily! fi wanted american news id be on ign.

  • ziggy_played_guitar #18 1 year ago

    I'll be waiting for that device, product. Wake me when you need me.

  • Gurgeh #19 1 year ago

    Console sales are only part of the picture - it's the games people buy that make the money (plus the peripherals). I doubt MS or Sony make any real profit just from the base hardware even this far into the product lifecycle when component costs have been reduced.

  • Daikon #20 1 year ago

    @ziggy_played_guitar

    Kindly can you point me a single device which hadn't any success in America but was succefull

    Commodore 64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, PC-Engine, MSX.

    So there.

    Edit: Oh, and three-headed Philishave.
    Edited by Daikon at 15/04/11 @ 11:05

  • MojoDex #21 1 year ago

    thank you Daikon! a bit of my research turned the ford escort discontinued in 04' in the states, but yours are far better!

  • ziggy_played_guitar #22 1 year ago

    Commodore 64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, PC-Engine, MSX.

    And you can find those brands in shops right now, right, along with the Sonys; Microsofts and Apples of the world. Next time you go out, you might see someone walking with a pair of Nikes, listening to his iPod, before getting home and playing on his 360, then maybe watch a bit of CSI before going out to watch an American movie. Designed in the USA, made in China consumed in Uk. Give them the money.

    If Commodore and Sinclair had the sucess in USA they might exist nowdays. There's no escape they have us by the balls, and beware Moody's or Finch might lower our rate to AAA- if we don't behave.
    Edited by ziggy_played_guitar at 15/04/11 @ 11:33

  • Farzlepot #23 1 year ago

    Europe is the larger marketplace. If you could only crack one continent for some arbitrary reason - Europe or North America - I think given the choice most companies would rather have Europe. Sony have sold more PlayStation 3s here than they have in America, and in the last generation the figure was more-or-less even.

    If it weren't for the taxes and the legislation and the cost and the fact that fewer Europeans (comparatively speaking) buy consoles, anyway.

  • ziggy_played_guitar #24 1 year ago

    If it weren't for the taxes and the legislation and the cost and the fact that fewer Europeans (comparatively speaking) buy consoles, anyway.

    Have to agree with this, though it's a shitload of ifs, isn't it ?

  • MojoDex #25 1 year ago

    ziggy_played_guitar please don't move the goal posts, you asked for 1 device. daikon gave you several. because one device failed does not imply the company did. look at microsofts zune!

  • customfirmware #26 1 year ago

    Didn't know there was so much share holders on EG.

  • Scopeh #27 1 year ago

    Why are we getting American sales figures of EUROgamer? What did the 360 sell in Latvia, thats what i want to know!

  • charming_fox #28 1 year ago

    To all your 'EUROgamer' nuggets, would you rather the BBC, what with it being short for BRITTISH Broadcasting Corporation only report news that is British?

    nob-piss

  • davisorle #29 1 year ago

    Post deleted at 15:13:14 09-05-2012

  • ziggy_played_guitar #30 1 year ago

    you asked for 1 device. daikon gave you several. because one device failed does not imply the company did.

    So tell me, what's Commodore and Sinclair selling nowdays. Sorry about PC-Engine and MSX, I have no idea what those are.

  • UkHardcore23 #31 1 year ago

    It's great to see the old dog is still going strong!

  • SpaceMidget75 Verified Senior Software Developer, Minerva Computer Services #32 1 year ago

    I thought it was fairly obvious that Ziggy was talking about the current global market. The world was slightly different when the Speccy ruled the roost here!

    Also, wasn't it the American company that successfully moved into the 16bit gen with the Amiga and the UK company that went on to make an electric trike? ...you sort of just re-enforced his point!
    Edited by SpaceMidget75 at 15/04/11 @ 12:35

  • roquey Verified Lead Quality Assurance Tester and Compliance Specialist, Universally Speaking #33 1 year ago

    @Ziggy you never stated any current product. again moving goal posts.

  • onyxbox #34 1 year ago

    all this spin these days ... sony sell 50 million sell through... MS sold more in North America... blah blah blah... make me want to tear out my brain and stamp on it.

    I dread to think of what 'The War' is going to be like when the next round of consoles come out... I feel like screaming already :/

  • Beek4257 #35 1 year ago

    Ah MSX ... I had one of those back in the early eighties. I fondly remember those awesome gamecartridges by Konami (Metal gear! No loadtimes! 1983!). Though strictly taken it was a Home Computer, not a gamesconsole.

    And if I remember correctly it was cancelled because it wasn't succesful in the US (as opposed to the C 64 and Atari).

  • telboy007 #36 1 year ago

    @KrazyFace

    Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes HD
    * Xbox Live Arcade - 1200 Points (£10.20)
    * PSN - £11.99

    You sir, are wrong.

  • MaybeLater #37 1 year ago

    @davisorle

    Ask and you shall receive; I'll like to commend Mr Purcheese for his off-hand, some might say flippant, comment on the overinflated price of Xbox 360 accessories. It's refreshing to find a journalist with the stomach to approach an issue from an honest, human and individual perspective as opposed to buying into a redundant, vacuous adherence to mythical consumerist impartiality. More of this type of thing please. Hussar!

  • metalangel #38 1 year ago

    @MaybeLater: Why are you calling a hussar? Do you want them to gallop up and chop Robert's head off?

  • rotmm #39 1 year ago

    FladgeMangle, "Historically insular and xenophobic nation buys own goods. News?

    They have their own cars, they have their own sports and now they have their own games console. Hardly front page news on EUROgamer is it?"

    And there was me thinking you were talking about Japan for awhile there.

  • AdamAsunder #40 1 year ago

    Overpriced and unreliable. My third wireless mic has just given up the ghost.

  • Ryze #41 1 year ago

    And of course - KrazyFace swears he's not a Sony fantard.

    Arsehole.

  • electrolite #42 1 year ago

    Shut the fuck up complaining about a games site reporting US sales figures you backwards, insular hillbillies. It makes you look really stupid.

    Gaming is a worldwide business, US sales figures are a huge part of the overall sales picture. It's news. If you don't like it don't open a thread that includes the words 'US' 'sales' and 'detailed'.

    FFS.

  • inutaihanyou #43 1 year ago

    I should just say that PS3 sales are also strong in the US. They aren't AS strong as the other consoles, but this is no Japan, we buy PS3's at a significant rate

  • frazzl #44 1 year ago

    @LetsGo

    Actually the PS3 is not ahead of the 360 worldwide despite what you may have read here 2 weeks ago. MS went on record in January stating that they had SOLD 50 million 360s worldwide. Just recently Sony has gone on record stating they have sold 50 million PS3s worldwide (a few months behind the 360 obviously). You can read it here:

    [link url=http://www.gamespot.com/news/6308755.html?tag=latestheadlines%3Btitle%3B1
    ]http://www.gamespot.com/news/6308755.htm...[/link]

    Both consoles are doing well although not as well as the Wii, which for some reason still sells reasonably well.

  • Adinnieken #45 1 year ago

    @FlandeMangle Yes, people from the US are so xenophobic. They buy Chinese, Korean, and Japanese electronics left and right. They buy Japanese, Korean, and German cars. Can't get enough of Swedish BIY furniture. They eat Italian, Chinese, Mexican, and Japanese food by the bucket full. Plus, they're one of the most welcoming nations to foreign immigrants and tourist on this planet.

    Yeah, truly xenophobic.
    Edited by Adinnieken at 17/04/11 @ 15:09

  • Adinnieken #46 1 year ago

    @ziggy_played_guitar There isn't a gaming system manufactured in Japan or the USA. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo manufacture all their products in China.

  • Adinnieken #47 1 year ago

    @Farzlepot In North America you have 3 languages you have to worry about. English, Spanish, and French (for Quebec). Europe has a crap load of languages you have to localize for. That's one reason why games often take longer to show up in Europe than they do in other markets. Though I haven't quite understood why the UK/Ireland often gets delayed as well, since there are only minor differences in English in the US and UK/Ireland.

    It's not like people in the US care when we have to read an extra "U" in some words, or deal with words that end in "tre" rather than "ter". The sooner we can convince folks in the UK to use US English, the sooner we can get them to start saying Ah-lum-min-num right. :D

  • TheJuriel #48 1 year ago

    Europe is hard, because it's made up of DIFFERENT PLACES.

  • Junglist95 #49 1 year ago

    nuanimal said:
    "Or is there some consiparcy with consoles self-destructing after their out of warranty?"
    You mean like "Planned Obsolescence, Perceived Obsolescence" - [link url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KLyYKJGk0&feature=player_embedded
    ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KLyYKJG...[/link]

    charming_fox said:
    "To all your 'EUROgamer' nuggets, would you rather the BBC, what with it being short for BRITTISH Broadcasting Corporation only report news that is British? "

    BBC = Brussels Broadcasting Corporation - Fixed!!!