The above headline shouldn't come as a great surprise to many gamers, what with November having been a deadly obstacle course of top-tier franchises and console debuts. Surviving the month with wallet unscathed was quite impossible, a fact clearly reflected in the NPD's sales data for the period which typically sees manufacturers clash in full force, guns blazing. Consumers caught in the cash crossfire spent an impressive $1.7 billion in total, with console, software and accessory sales all seeing notable increases. The NPD's Anita Frazier told GameDaily BIZ that she expects this to be a record-breaking year for the industry, with total sales expected to come in at $14 billion. In the interest of having you maintain consciousness, we've put the most pertinent information into those convenient bullet-point things (it also ties in nicely with our earlier gun metaphor):
Console Sales (units)
- DS: 918k
- PS2: 664k
- Game Boy Advance: 661k
- Xbox 360: 511k
- Wii: 476k
- PSP: 412k
- PS3: 197k
- Gears of War: 1 million -- $61.5 million
- Final Fantasy XII: 896k -- $49 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: 412k -- $20.2 million
- Guitar Hero II: 356k -- $20.2 million
[Update 1: PSP information added.]
