Microsoft releases March NPD Numbers for Xbox One and Xbox 360

Written by Brandon Hofer on April 17, 2014

News: Microsoft reveals numbers that shows how much hardware and software they sold in the month of March.

Microsoft has just released the March NPD Results and to no ones surprise Titanfall on XBox One is the number one selling game. Along with that comes the new that Microsoft has more than 5 million Xbox One consoles that have been sold-in to retailers since launch. The XBox One is off to a strong start with global Xbox One sales outpacing the Xbox 360 by more than 60 percent at the same point in time. Xbox One fans are spending an average of five hours per day on Xbox One and collectively have totaled more than one billion hours of time spent in games and apps on the console.

Some of the highlights that were in the March 2014 NPD Group results include:

Xbox One continues selling at a strong pace with 311,000 units sold in the U.S. in the month of March, surpassing Xbox 360 sales by more than 60 percent at the same point in time.

Xbox 360 continues to grow its install base with 111,000 units sold in March in the U.S., more than any other seventh generation console.

Xbox One continues to see impressive software sales with an average of 2.9 games sold per console.

With Xbox One and Xbox 360 combined, the Xbox platform sold the most games across all console platforms with 4.1 million games sold. Xbox One sold 1.4 million games in March and Xbox 360 sold 2.7 million, totaling 49 percent of the total software market share (Xbox 360 and Xbox One combined).

Also during the month of March, Xbox One and Xbox 360 games in the top 10 title lists were as follows:

Xbox One

Xbox One held four top titles in the generation eight top 10 console game title list in the U.S. including: “Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare,” “Call of Duty: Ghosts,” “Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes” and
“Titanfall.”

Xbox 360

Xbox 360 held six top titles in the generation seven top 10 console game title list in the U.S. including: “Minecraft,” “Dark Souls II,” “The Lego Movie Video Game,” “Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare,” “Call of Duty: Ghosts” and “South Park: The Stick of Truth.”

What do you think about these numbers for March? Tell us in the comments section below.

source: Xbox Wire