March 2020 NPD: Animal Crossing powers March to blockbuster game sales

March wasn’t a good month for anyone. But it was slightly less awful for people who sell video games. That’s especially true if the video game is Animal Crossing: New Horizons. With people in the United States isolating themselves for much of the month, many people obviously turned to safe at-home entertainment. As a result, consumers in the U.S. spent $1.597 billion on gaming hardware, new full games, and accessories plus game cards, according to the March 2020 NPD report.

That is the most March money the industry has generated in NPD’s reporting since $1.8 billion in 2008. Here are the full numbers: