‘BioShock Infinite’ Tops Game Sales In March

BioSh0ck Infinite sold more copies than any other game in the United States in March.

The game has been a massive success among critics and topped weekly UK sales charts since it has been released. That means that the king of March sales in the United States isn’t exactly a surprise.

The sales numbers are still pretty impressive especially when you take into account that the video game market needed a title like this to boost sales quite badly this spring.

In total, the newest iteration of the popular series sold 878,000 copies in the month of March. That beat out rival games like Tomb Raider who saw a record first month for the company but still had to “settle” for second place on the March sales chart.

Even with two incredibly popular titles, video game sales across the entire spectrum were down about 10 percent from March of 2012. It wasn’t bad news for every company that was involved in the video game industry though.

Industry analysts say that the Nintendo 3DS actually saw an increase of about nine percent over the previous March. Games like Luigi’s Mansion 2 and Monster Hunter 3 were able to drive interest in the handheld device higher than its been in quite a while.

BioShock Infinite and Tomb Raider were just two of the eight new releases that occupied the top 1o on the March sales charts. Gears of War Judgment, God of War: Ascension, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, MLB 13: The Show, Luigi’s Mansion 2, and The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct were the other new games at the top of the rankings.

Of the top 10 games, only NBA 2K13 (ranked seventh) and Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (ranked 10th) weren’t released in March.