Murderer’s Creed Shadows has third greatest US launch month in collection historical past | US Month-to-month Charts

Murderer’s Creed Shadows topped Circana’s charts for US sport gross sales in March 2025, whereas month-to-month online game {hardware} spending slipped 25% year-on-year.

The most recent entry in Ubisoft’s collection is the second best-selling sport of the 12 months within the US up to now after Monster Hunter Wilds. Circana famous Murderer’s Creed Shadows completed first in full sport greenback gross sales on Xbox, and second on each PlayStation and Steam.

One commentary shared by Circana’s Mat Piscatella on BlueSky is that it was the third greatest debut in launch month greenback gross sales for the collection behind solely 2012’s Murderer’s Creed 3 and 2020’s Murderer’s Creed Valhalla.

Different new entries within the chart embody MLB: The Present 25 in second place (not counting digital gross sales on Change and Xbox), together with the most recent within the WWE 2K collection at quantity 4, and EA/Hazelight co-op sport Break up Fiction at quantity 5.

Decrease down the charts, anime tie-in Bleach: Rebirth of Souls got here in ninth place, whereas Nintendo’s Xenoblade Chronicles X remaster made seventeenth place on bodily gross sales alone. 18th place noticed the debut of a remaster for the primary two video games in Konami’s Suikoden RPG collection.

In cellular gaming, Sensor Tower’s Samuel Aune mentioned the market did expertise contraction in comparison with March 2024, however identified the highest ten video games had been usually seeing success.

The primary cellular sport for March by shopper spending is as soon as once more Monopoly Go, adopted by Sweet Crush Saga which rises two locations, and Final Battle: Survival which drops a spot. Pokémon Go climbed 4 locations to quantity six within the charts.

“Six out of the highest ten noticed double digit development month over month, with Pokémon GO seeing 42% enhance in shopper spend because of the Unova Tour occasion,” Aune mentioned. “Sweet Crush Saga noticed 12% development, permitting the venerable puzzle sport to retake the #3 spot from Final Battle: Survival, which solely grew 1.6%.

“Coin Grasp additionally had a superb month, with 15% development.” Coin Grasp climbed two locations to quantity seven.

Total spending declined 6% to round $4.7 billion versus final March, whereas spending up to now for 2025 – $13.7 billion – is 12% behind 2024’s whole in the identical timeframe.

{Hardware} spend, as talked about, as soon as once more skilled a dropoff within the US, in a sample much like February’s outcomes. The overall online game {hardware} spend in March 2025 was $286 million, the bottom March whole since 2019 ($279 million).

PS5 spend nonetheless leads, whilst {hardware} greenback gross sales fell 26% in comparison with March 2024. Xbox Sequence gross sales dropped 9% versus the identical time interval, whereas the Nintendo Change dropped 37%. Piscatella says digital-only SKUs have accounted for 75% of Xbox Sequence and 50% of PlayStation 5 {hardware} gross sales within the 12 months up to now.

Listed below are the highest 20 promoting video games from the interval February 2 to March 1, 2025, knowledge courtesy of Circana:

^Digital gross sales on Nintendo platforms not included.

^^Digital gross sales on Nintendo and Xbox platforms not included.

*Digital gross sales not included for marked titles.