Perfectly on schedule, NPD Group has posted sales information for the month of July 2011, and the numbers aren’t anything to brag about. Summer has routinely been a soft spot for the gaming market, and 2011 hasn’t changed that. Hardware across the board saw a drop year-over-year, with digital sales making a strong run. In [...]
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July 2011 NPD Results Are In, Catherine Didn’t Make the Cut
Thursday, August 11th, 2011Mortal Kombat Shows No Mercy in April 2011 NPD Results
Friday, May 13th, 2011NPD Group has posted the results for April 2011, and as in months past they’re a bit surprising. Mortal Kombat (a game we love to death) has returned in a vicious manner, and despite being on one fewer platform, it managed to outsell Portal 2, a game that some have considered to be “Game of [...]
NPD Tightening Grip on Sales Numbers Even More
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011The NPD Group is one of the leading market research firms that tracks, among other things, hardware and software sales for video games. Back in October, the company decided to no longer include hardware sales numbers in its monthly reports, and now it sounds like the group wants even less information to be given out [...]
Sony Responds to January NPD Results with Pure Confidence
Friday, February 18th, 2011The January 2011 NPD results were finally revealed, and Sony made quite a showing with several key titles making the list. Although sales were down for the industry last month, Sony had no problem succeeding due to the likes of games such as LittleBigPlanet 2, and Dead Space 2. As usual, the company responded to [...]
January 2011 NPD Results Show Some Software Surprises
Friday, February 18th, 2011January’s NPD software results are in, and they’re as unpredictable as ever. While LittleBigPlanet 2 scored over 350,000 sales in its first couple of weeks, Call of Duty: Black Ops is still on top despite coming out back in November. Dead Space 2 has managed to secure the #3 spot while only being on the [...]
Call of Duty: Black Ops Destroys Records in November
Friday, December 10th, 2010Call of Duty: Black Ops was a monster of a release back when it initially released, generating $650 million worldwide in just five days, smashing sales records in all of entertainment history (not just games). The rest of the month proved to add more money to that massive pile according to the latest NPD software [...]
NPD August Numbers: PS3 Up, Madden Rushes Ahead
Saturday, September 11th, 2010The NPD Group releases monthly statistics for video game consoles (among other things). The numbers for August are in for the United States, and the PlayStation 3 showed growth in console sales.
July 2010 NPD Results Revealed
Thursday, August 12th, 2010The July 2010 NPD sales data has been released. For ill informed readers, the NPD Group is the leading independent video game research firm, that monitors and tracks video game hardware and software sales in North America. Check out the full figures for hardware and software below.
June 2010 NPD Results Revealed
Thursday, July 15th, 2010The June 2010 NPD sales data has been released. For ill informed readers, the NPD Group is the leading independent video game research firm, that monitors and tracks video game hardware and software sales in North America. Check out the full figures for hardware and software after the jump…
NPD Group Releases New Figures on Used Game Sales and More
Thursday, June 17th, 2010The NPD Group, one of the leading market research groups for the video game industry, has released data focusing not on sales hardware figures, but rather, “video game content”; things such as used video games, rentals, subscriptions, digital full game downloads, downloadable content, and mobile game apps. The numbers are certainly worth a look, and go to show how much weight the used game cycle carries.
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