March 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware and software up!

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Mr. Sega said:

Aquamarine said:

PC is included in my numbers, but it's a pretty much completely inconsequential market.

For example, February release XCOM 2 by Take-Two is #63 in the PC Amazon charts.....and yet despite it having released in February it sold something ike 2,000 in the NPD PC figures for March.

Far Cry Primal is currently #269 in the PC Amazon charts....that's why 318K is the combined figure for PS4 + XBO + PC even though 179K PS4 + 139K XBO = 318K....the physical PC market is pretty much dead. They just keep it alive because it literally costs the dev teams zero extra work and they can keep print runs super tiny to squeeze that extra few cents of profit out.

The Division is #36 in the PC Amazon markets and it was higher back when it launched, so obviously that was at the top of the PC market for March. But still...such a small launch given 1.78 million PS4 + XBO and 25% console digital sell-through and 739K sold on Steam worldwide...it's pathetic.

Even a big launch has very low numbers. PC games on retail are more dead than I thought.

PC Games in March accounted for $7.2 million dollar spend at retail in the US

Compared to $425.8 million for Console games at retail in the US. 

The difference is huge. PC Retail is dead.