Bucking pretty much every economic trend in the world, video game sales were way up again last month.

Nintendo’s ‘’Super Smash Bros: Brawl'’ for the Wii was the month’s top-selling game with 2.7 million units sold.

Coming in a distant second was ‘’Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2′’ from Ubisoft with 752,300 units and ‘’Army of Two'’ from Electronic Arts Inc. with 606,100. All three games hit store shelves in March.

Hardware sales grew 46 percent to $551.3 million from $377.9 million, with Nintendo’s Wii and portable DS far outselling every other system. The Japanese company grabbed 58 percent of the game hardware market during the month as Wii shortages seemed to abate.

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