- total industry sales fell 10 percent year-on-year to $992.5 million
- hardware sales fell 32 percent to $221.6 million
- total software sales (including PC games) inched up two percent to $602.4 million
- Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon placied sixth

"The performance of new launches was a major driver of the overall software growth for this month, with games launching in March 2013 selling over 40 percent more units than new launches in March 2012. There were positive trends for new launches that were seen across consoles, portables, and PC. There were actually fewer new launches - about 20 percent less new games - than last March, but March 2013 launches generated close to 70 percent more dollar sales per SKU than last year.” - NPD analyst Liam Callahan

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