The data released Friday by the Port Washington, New York based leading global market research company, NPD Group revealed that Nintendo sold more high-end video game consoles in the U.S. in the month of March than Sony and Microsoft combined.

According to NPD, Nintendo sold 721,000 units of Wii, Microsoft sold 262,000 units of Xbox 360, and Sony sold 257,000 units of PlayStation 3. Nintendo Wii sales surged due to the launch of the hit game Super Smash Bros. Brawl -- a Wii exclusive. The game sold 2.7 million copies in March, which made it the month's top selling title. God Of War: Chains Of Olympus, and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII were two other Wii titles that were listed among top five games sold in March.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 and Army Of Two, the two Xbox 360 titles grabbed the second slot among top sellers, but neither crossed the one million sales mark.

The global market research firm articulated that Nintendo also dominated the portable system market. It sold 698,000 Nintendo DS units. Sony's PlayStation Portable counted sales of 297,000. Sony also sold 216,000 PlayStation 2 systems in March.