After a strong showing in the U.S. video game sales charts for early March, the fortunes of Microsoft's Xbox changed dramatically and the console ended up barely registering in the top 20 for the full month, according to data released on Wednesday. After registering six top-20 titles in the NPDFunworld report for March 3-16, the Xbox ended up with only two top-20 games for the full month, at Nos. 19 and 20. The performance is also down from February, when Xbox had three top-20 titles, including two in the top 10. Those two top-10 titles completely disappeared from the March results. Microsoft recently lowered its worldwide fiscal-year shipment forecast for the console by up to 40 percent after disappointing sales internationally.
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