Ghost Recon: Wildlands, Zelda Top March 2017 Sales

Big month for gaming.

By Seth G. Macy

The top-selling game in the US for March 2017 was Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands, followed by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Breath of the Wild came in at second place in spite of digital sales not being accounted for in NPDs tally. Similarly, Horizon Zero Dawn and MLB 17: The Show had strong showings on the top 10 list without accounting for digital sales.

Last week, Nintendo revealed it sold 906,000 Switch consoles in the first 28 days of the console's release, and sold 925,000 copies of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for Switch during the same period, giving it the highest attach rate for "any non-bundled title" on new hardware since NPD began tracking in 1995.

The Wii U version of Breath of the Wild sold 460,000 copies. The top-selling game for February 2017 was Ubisoft's For Honor, in spite of having only been on the market for 12 days that month. It fell to sixth place for March.

Here are the top 10 best selling games for March 2017 according to The NPD Group.

• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Mass Effect: Andromeda
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• MLB 17: The Show
• Grand Theft Auto V
• For Honor
• NBA 2K17
• Nier: Automata
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

According to NPD, March "will go down in history books as the month Nintendo broke records." Switch was Nintendo's biggest-ever hardware launch, and "the second biggest launch for any video game platform" since NPD began tracking numbers.

Helped along by Switch, hardware spending doubled over the same period last year, coming in at $485 million. Overall spending was also up compared to March 2016.

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