Xbox Series X: March 2022 was the best month of sales for Microsoft in the USA

Analyst Mat Piscatalla from the NPD Group has the latest information on US hardware and software sales in quantities and dollar sales for March 2022.

Dollar sales with hardware sales in March 2022 has therefore fallen by 24% compared to the same period of the previous year by 24% to $ 515 million.

With $ 1.2 billion, hardware sales fell 15% lower in the first quarter of the year than in the same period of the previous year.

The delivery difficulties of the manufacturer and a general decline in experience-oriented expenses are the reasons for lower values.

Furthermore, Xbox Series X | S was not only the best-selling hardware platform in March 2022, but also in the first quarter also with the dollar sales. Where the Nintendo Switch in these periods was leaders in the quantities, as Piscatella writes.

Own new records set Microsoft in dollars as well as in quantities for its Xbox hardware in March 2022 for its own platform. In March 2022, earlier Xbox records in the quantities in 2011 and the dollar sales from March 2014 could be cracked.

In the software, Elden Ring continues to show strongly on the Xbox. The role-playing game led the list of best-selling premium games in March 2022, followed by Call of Duty: Vanguard and WWE 2K22. Forza Horizon 5 landed on fifth place.

Also strong was the Xbox Elite Controller Series 2, which was the best-selling accessories in March and remains the best-selling accessories in the current year.