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NPD has delivered their sales data for the month of March, and things look very familiar. The Xbox 360 has pulled ahead of the PlayStation 3 after a couple months of the PS3 being in the lead, but Nintendo continues to dominate with their Wii and DS hardware, the only two that saw a significant increase over February sales. The PSP rose a respectable amount, with the Xbox 360 also inching up, but both the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 dropped in number sold from last month. Don't take my word for it, though. Here's those sweet forum-flamewar-fanning numbers:

March 2008 Hardware Sales

• Nintendo Wii -- 721,000
• Nintendo DS -- 698,000
• PlayStation Portable -- 297,000
• Xbox 360 -- 262,000
• PlayStation 3 -- 257,000
• PlayStation 2 -- 216,000

February 2008 Hardware Sales

• Nintendo DS -- 587,600
• Wii -- 432,000
• PlayStation 2 -- 351,800
• PlayStation 3 -- 280,800
• Xbox 360 -- 254,600
• PlayStation Portable -- 243,000

As unchanging as the hardware sales might appear to be this month, software tells a totally different story. After four big months as the number-one selling game, Call of Duty 4 has been replaced by Super Smash Bros. Brawl. That's not a huge surprise, but what is shocking is that immediately upon losing it's number one spot, Call of Duty 4 plummeted to ninth on this month's charts. Making impressive debuts alongside Brawl this month are Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 and Army of Two. Along with its hardware boost, the PSP had two major releases last month -- God of War: Chains of Olympus and Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core -- both of which landed squarely in the middle of the top ten. 2K Sports's MLB 2K8 hit a fly ball to eighth place, beating out competing March baseball release MLB 08: The Show. Here's the digits:

March 2008 Software Sales

1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) -- 2,700,000
2. Rainbow Six Vegas (360) -- 752,300
3. Army of Two (360) -- 606,100
4. Wii Play/w Remote (Wii) -- 409,800
5. God Of War: Chains Of Olympus (PSP) -- 340,500
6. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP) -- 301,600
7. Guitar Hero III (Wii) -- 264,100
8. MLB2K8 (360) -- 237,100
9. Call Of Duty 4 (360) -- 237,000
10. Army Of Two (PS3) -- 224,900

February 2008 Software Sales

1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) -- 296,200
2. Devil May Cry 4 (Xbox 360) -- 295,200
3. Wii Play (Wii) -- 289,700
4. Devil May Cry 4 (PlayStation 3) -- 233,500
5. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) -- 222,900
6. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo DS) -- 205,600
7. Lost Odyssey (Xbox 360) -- 203,600
8. Turok (Xbox 360) -- 197,700
9. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PlayStation 2) -- 183,800
10. Rock Band (Xbox 360) -- 161,800