Monopoly Go helps push March sales up 4% | US Monthly Charts

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Circana today released its sales report for US spending on games in March, showing growth for the fourth consecutive month.

Overall spending was up 4% to $4.89 billion, while spending on content (physical and digital games, add-on content, and subscriptions across all platforms) was up 9% to $4.25 billion.

With spending on accessories up 9%, hardware was the only category that saw spending decline. Consumer spending on hardware was down 32% to $391 million for the year.

The console and PC market had a strong selection of new releases in March, but the real driver for game spending was mobile, which accounted for 89% of the year-on-year growth, accoring to Circana.

Monopoly Go, Royal Match, Roblox, and Candy Crush Saga topped Sensor Tower's mobile chart, in that order. Coin Master moved up a spot this month to round out the top five.

"The top four games remain unchanged and continue to maintain a significant gap from the rest of the field, with Monopoly Go still holding a commanding lead over second place Royal Match," said Sensor Tower's Samuel Aune.

Console content spending was up 3%, while PC content spending (grouped with cloud and non-console VR) was up 2%.

Capcom's Dragon's Dogma 2 was the best-selling console/PC game of March, with launch-month sales more than 11 times higher than those of the original 2012 Dragon's Dogma.

In its first month on sale, the sequel has already topped the combined lifetime sales total for Dragon's Dogma and its expansion Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

While it was relegated to second place, Helldivers 2 continued to sell, and Circana has it as the seventh highest US dollar sales of any Sony-published game after just two months on sale.

All six of the new releases in the Top 20 finished in the top half of the list, with MLB: The Show 24 ending up in third place despite its performance not including digital sales for the Switch, Xbox One, or Xbox Series X|S.

Princess Peach: Showtime finished in sixth with WWE 2K24 in ninth despite being similarly