{"id":46655,"date":"2026-04-23T04:19:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46655"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:19:37","slug":"march-2026-was-a-huge-month-for-console-sales-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46655","title":{"rendered":"March 2026 Was A Huge Month For Console Sales In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4686488-switch2large.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Circana&#8217;s latest monthly sales report revealed that not only was spending on software up year-over-year, but spending on hardware grew as well.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of gaming hardware in the US during March 2026 rose by 69% compared to March 2025, reaching $500 million. Circana said the Switch 2 &#8220;drove the overall gain&#8221; for March 2026, with spending on PlayStation 5 increasing by 3% compared to March 2025. The report had no data about Xbox.<\/p>\n<p>The Switch 2 was the best-selling console platform in the US for units sold and dollars for March 2026 and the year so far, with the PS5 coming in second for March 2026 and year-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/march-2026-was-a-huge-month-for-console-sales-in-the-us\/1100-6539556\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circana&#8217;s latest monthly sales report revealed that not only was spending on software up year-over-year, but spending on hardware grew as well. Sales of gaming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3577,1560,3621,4521,945],"class_list":["post-46655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-console","tag-huge","tag-march","tag-month","tag-sales","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}