NPD - Top 10 software sales for April 2015

1. Mortal Kombat X (PS4, Xbox One)
2. Grand Theft Auto V (PS4, Xbox One, PC, 360, PS3)
3. Battlefield: Hardline (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)
4. MLB 15: The Show (PS4, PS3)
5. Minecraft (360, PS3, Xbox One, PS4)
6. NBA 2K15 (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)
7. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)
8. Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3)
9. Super Smash Bros. (3DS, Wii U)
10. Borderlands: The Handsome Collection (PS4, Xbox One)

- total new physical game software and hardware sales was up 3 percent from $579.5 million to $595.7 million
- hardware was down 4 percent from $191.9 million to $183.9 million
- $256.7 million on new games in April, up 13 percent year-over-year from $227.6 million
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3D was the fifth best-selling game if you do not combine sales for platforms
- 3DS’ sales have increased by 65 percent compared to the same 4-month period in 2014
- Wii U sales are up 15 percent in the first four months of 2015 compared to that period in 2014
- Pokemon OR/AS have now sold over 3 million combined digital and physical copies in the U.S. alone
- Super Mario 3D World has sold more than 2 million copies on the Wii U since it came out in November 2013
- If the top 10 software list was ranked on a SKU basis rather than a title basis, Mario Party 10 would make the list