PS5 Sales Momentum Has Surpassed PS4, Resident Evil 4 Bumps Off Hogwarts Legacy in March

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The former NPD Group (which is now named “Circana” for some reason) has released its full North American sales data for March, which was a somewhat mixed bag of a month. Players spent $4.6 billion on games, additional content, and hardware in March, a 5 percent year-on-year decrease. Hardware sales were up 10 percent year-on-year, driven by the red-hot PS5, but software and content sales were down 7 percent. Perhaps the biggest news is that PS5 has now surpassed PS4 sales on a “time-aligned basis.” That means Sony has sold more PS5s in the console’s first 29 months than they sold PS4s in its first 29 months. In fact, the PS5 set a Sony March hardware record, which was previously set by the PSP (yes, the PSP) which sold 620k units in March 2005.

On the software front, the Resident Evil 4 remake debuted at #1, bumping Hogwarts Legacy to #2, but, as mentioned, software sales were still down year-on-year as last March the juggernaut that was Elden Ring was tearing up the charts. Other new releases included MLB The Show 23 at #3 and WWE 2K23 at #7. Meanwhile, The Last of Us Part I rose another spot from last month to #5 on the strength of the HBO series and the game’s PC release.

Here are March’s top 20 games according to Circana:

1 - Resident Evil 4

2 - Hogwarts Legacy

3 - MLB The Show 23

4 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II

5 - The Last of Us Part I

6 - FIFA 23

7 - WWE 2K23

8 - Elden Ring

9 - Madden NFL 23

10 - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

11 - Minecraft

12 - Octopath Traveler II

13 - Metroid Prime Remastered

14 - Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

15 - God of War Ragnarok

16 - Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe

17 - Dead Space

18 - NBA 2K23

19 - Sonic  Frontiers

20 - Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

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