April 18, 2013
Fueled by strong starts for Luigi's
Mansion™: Dark Moon and Pokémon™ Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, and
the continued strength of Fire Emblem Awakening, Nintendo 3DS™ crossed
20 million total units of software sold at retail in the United States,
according to the NPD Group.
Some notable sales numbers* achieved by Nintendo in March include:
- Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon sold nearly 365,000 physical units
in March, and has now sold more than 415,000 combined physical and
digital units to date.
- Fire Emblem Awakening sold an additional 64,000 combined
physical and digital physical copies in March, and has now sold more
than 240,000 combined units to date.
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity sold more
than 145,000 combined physical and digital units for the month.
- Total sales of Nintendo 3DS software at retail increased by more than
50 percent over March 2012.
That momentum should only grow in the next few months as Nintendo
prepares for a massive slate of Nintendo 3DS software releases,
including: LEGO® City Undercover: The Chase Begins
on April 24, Donkey Kong Country™ Returns 3D
on May 24, Animal Crossing™: New Leaf on June 9 and Mario
and Luigi™: Dream Team on Aug. 11.
Additionally, in a Nintendo Direct that aired on April 17, Nintendo
announced or provided more details about new entrants in the Yoshi's
Island™, Mario Party™, The Legend of Zelda™ and Mario
Golf™ franchises for the Nintendo 3DS system.
Wii
U™ owners have a ton of great games to look forward to from
Nintendo and its third-party partners, including Game & Wario™
on June 23, Pikmin™ 3 on Aug. 4, Disney's Planes from
Disney Interactive on Aug. 6 and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
Blacklist™ from Ubisoft® on Aug. 20. At the upcoming
E3 trade show in June in Los Angeles, Nintendo expects to show
attendees upcoming Wii U games from the Mario Kart™, Super
Mario Bros.™ and Super Smash Bros.™ franchises.
*Data regarding physical sales of games in
March are from the NPD Group. Data regarding digital downloads of games
and combined physical/digital life-to-date numbers are from Nintendo's
internal sales figures. All numbers are specific to the United States
only.
