April NPD data - massive sales, GTA IV result
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in America, Casual, MMO, PC, PS3, PSN, Retail, Trade, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | No Comments »
NPD's confirmed that online game subscriptions in the US now exceed more than $1 billion per year, Next-Gen reports. The billion-dollar figure includes three categories: MMO, casual and console revenues. "Now that ... Read more..Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in America, Retail, Trade | 11 Comments »
Here it is: Next-Gen's published its monthly NPD analysis feature, which is pretty much starting to be an essential read. Good graphs this month, with solid use of line and ... Read more..Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in America, DS, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS2, PS3, PSP, Retail, Sony, Trade, Wii, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Sleep, like lunch, is for wimps. We don't need it. You do, and we accept that, which is why we get up when Mr Sun is still sleepy-bobos to make ... Read more..Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in America, Retail, Trade | No Comments »
In a note based on last night's NPD figures, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research analyst Jesse Divnich called March a "perfect storm" for American games sales. "Super Smash Bros. Brawl fulfilled ... Read more..Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in America, Microsoft, PS3, Retail, Sony, Trade, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Speaking to Next-Gen, Xbox 360 group product manager Aaron Greenberg has expanded on the company statement about March's NPD figures - which showed that 360 gained a slight lead on ... Read more..Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Canada, DS, Nintendo, Retail, Trade, Wii | No Comments »
Woohoo! There should be more Canadian involvement in all this NPD stuff. Nintendo Canada issued a press release last night saying Wii had won above the diving line for March, ... Read more..Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in America, PS2, PS3, PSP, Retail, Sony, Trade | No Comments »
Sony steadfastly ignored the fact PS3 was outsold by Xbox 360 in the US in March in a press release issued last night, instead focussing on NPD data showing "100% ... Read more..Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in America, Microsoft, Retail, Trade, Xbox 360 | 5 Comments »
Microsoft must be feeling very pleased with itself. It didn't even feel the need to mention PS3 once in its NPD statement, instead focussing heavily on GTA and the fact ... Read more..Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in America, DS, Nintendo, Retail, Trade, Wii | No Comments »
Nintendo issued a muted statement last night to its stellar success in the US last month, saying only that its American business defined momentum for the industry and it expected ... Read more..Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in America, Retail, Trade | 4 Comments »
NPD figures released last night show that both Michael Pachter and Colin Sebastian underestimated sales in the US last month - the analysts predicted growth of 47 percent and 35 ... Read more..Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in America, Nintendo, Retail, Trade, Wii | 4 Comments »
Probably not the most giant surprise of all time, but Super Smash Bros. Brawl was the biggest selling game in America last month, with 2.7 million units sold. It was ... Read more..Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in America, PS3, Retail, Trade, Wii, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
Pachter was wrong: March's NPD data shows that Xbox 360 outsold PS3 last month in the US, moving 262,000 units to PS3's 257,000. Microsoft's obviously rather happy about that, as ... Read more..Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in America, DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Retail, Trade, Wii, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
Wii was the biggest selling games hardware in America in March, NPD data released last night has shown. The only serious challenge to the result came from DS, so Nintendo's ... Read more..Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in America, Trade | No Comments »
According to NPD, 72 percent of all Americans played a videogame in some shape or form last year, an 8 percent rise over the previous year. Apparently, 40 percent of US ... Read more..Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in America, PC, Retail | No Comments »
Here. NPD's done its remi-regular trick of releasing US PC sales data, apparently for fun. This time it's for the week ending March 22. The Sims: FreeTime - Electronic Arts The Sims ... Read more..Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in America, Retail | 5 Comments »
Those boys really do love their graphs. Next-Gen's beaten the February NPD data to death, hung it up in a tree and set fire to it, just for completion's sake, ... Read more..Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in America, DS, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS2, PS3, PSP, Platform holders, Retail, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360 | 8 Comments »
You need to know what's happening at US retail. It's so important you know what PS3's attach ratio was for February. You may die if you don't. Thankfully, then, we ... Read more..Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in America, PS3, Retail, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
Jesse Divnich, analyst for prediction market the simExchange, has said that PlayStation 3 has now gained real momentum in the US and that Microsoft must cut the price of the ... Read more..Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in America, DS, Nintendo, Platform holders, Retail, Wii | No Comments »
Nintendo's response to last night's NPD figures focused on the fact DS and Wii had acheived nothing short of stunning success in America last month. "The latest video game industry sales ... Read more..Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Platform holders, Xbox 360 | 7 Comments »
Microsoft's response to last night's NPD data was a tad more muted than Sony and Nintendo's - unsurprising as Xbox 360 was beaten into fifth place out of six consoles ... Read more..Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, America, Retail, Shooter | 3 Comments »
Call of Duty 4 on Xbox 360 topped US games sales for February, according to NPD data released overnight. Note that five of the top ten games are on 360, ... Read more..Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in America, DS, PS3, PSP, Retail, Wii, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
Here they are, then. NPD released sales data for the US market in February overnight, and Microsoft was right to call it early. Xbox 360 got a proper shoeing in ... Read more..Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in America, Charts, PC, Retail | 7 Comments »
We're not sure why this has happened, but there we are. NPD has released PC sales figures for the week ending March 1 in the US. Amazingly, the Sims is ... Read more..Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in America, Retail | No Comments »
This shows that while M-rated games have declined in percentage in the US market in the last year, the amount of them being sold has risen 64 percent compared to ... Read more..Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in America, PS3, PSN, PlayStation Store, Sony | 3 Comments »
In a statement made following the release of NPD sales data yesterday, Sony has claimed that 7.9 million downloads were made from PlayStation Network in January, up from 6.6 million ... Read more..Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, America, DS, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS2, PS3, PSP, Retail, Shooter, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
Wii sold 274,000 units in America in January, according to NPD data released yesterday, making it the best selling US console for the money. PlayStation 3 came second, outselling Xbox 360. ... Read more..Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Activision Blizzard, America, EA, Retail, Take-Two, Trade | No Comments »
Ahead of NPD data to be released later today, Pacific Crest analyst Evan Wilson has said that he expects a 33 percent drop for Take-Two's US sales for the month, ... Read more..Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in America, MMO, Retail | 2 Comments »
So says this. From now on you can expect American sales data on subscription-based MMOs from NPD. Should give the internet something to write about four times a year. "These new ... Read more..Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in America, Charts, PC | No Comments »
NPD's release American PC sales data for the week ending January 26. A list that will come as a shock to precisely no one, we're sure. World Of Warcraft (Blizzard) Call Of ... Read more..Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
The chaps over at Gaming Today have gone to town on Microsoft's take on 2007's NPDs (official US sales data), being less than kind to the corporation's assertations that Xbox ... Read more..Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in PC | No Comments »
Call of Duty 4 was the best selling PC game in America in December, pipping World of Warcraft to the top spot. Just goes to show that some things in ... Read more..Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in PC | No Comments »
Uh oh. Just proving that even people that count for a living aren't infallible, NPD has admitted it made a mistake in its recent list of 2007's PC game sales ... Read more..
