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November NPD: Black Ops 2 reigns in Black Friday month, Halo 4 follows
November was yet another month in which the physical retail video game industry brought in less cash than it did in 2011. Specifically, total sales for the month were down 11 percent: $2.55 billion this year, as compared with $2.87 billion during the same period last year. It's worth noting, ...
NPD: Dishonored sold 460K in October, XCOM hit 114K
October had two scrappy underdogs in Dishonored and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The meticulous murder-em-up sold 460,200 units, according to the NPD, while the XCOM revamp from Firaxis sold 114,000 units. Dishonored and XCOM: Enemy Unknown launched on October 9 for Xbox 360, PS3, PC and through digital ...
October NPD: Downward trend continues, NBA 2K13 dunks at the top
Based on the NPD's purview, the physical sales sector of the video game industry continued its downward year-over-year trend as October came and went, raking in $755.5 million for the period ending on October 27, as compared with the straight-up $1 billion the industry earned during the same period ...
Analyst: Borderlands 2 sold 1.4 million in US [Update: NPD confirms]
Even though Borderlands 2 bested sales of the first game by 234%, it wasn't able to sell more copies than Madden NFL 13 in September. According to Macquarie Capital analyst Ben Schachter, 1.4 million physical copies of Borderlands 2 were sold in the US at retail since its launch – we've ...
NPD: Hardware sales up, Borderlands 2 beats 1's sales by 234%
According to the latest report from NPD, sales of the DS, 3DS, PS3, Vita and Xbox 360 are up on an "average sales per week" basis compared with August, suggesting momentum heading into the holiday season. The Wii U "has the potential to reinvigorate retail sales of hardware" when it drops on ...
NPD: Sleeping Dogs sold 172K across PS3 and Xbox 360 in August
Darksiders 2 managed to come out on top in August NPD-tracked sales, selling 247,000 copies across PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, whereas Sleeping Dogs sold 172,000 across PS3 and Xbox 360, an NPD rep confirmed with Joystiq. PC sales for Sleeping Dogs were omitted from the report because it was only ...
NPD: Darksiders 2 sold 247K copies in August
Darksiders 2 brought Death to top of the NPD charts for the month of August, having launched on August 14 in North America. In close to two weeks – the cut-off for NPD's August period was August 25 – the Vigil Games sequel managed to move 247,000 copies at retail, GI.biz reports. This ...
August NPD: Software sales stabilize somewhat, Darksiders 2 takes first place [Update: Nintendo chimes in]
Despite the fact that hardware and software sales in the physical channel are still down when compared to August in 2011, market stabilization in the software sector (along with promising signs from the first week of 3DS XL sales) helps to reassure that 2012's ever-downward spiral may not be ...
NPD: Number of US mobile gamers surpasses core, totals down
There are 211.5 million people playing games in the United States, a loss of 12 million players (5 percent) from 2011's numbers, the NPD reports. Not all of the gaming categories lost players, however: Mobile gamers rose 9 percentage points to take 22 percent, and digital gamers gained 4 percentage ...
July NPD: Downward year over year trend continues, NCAA Football 13 tops sales [Update: Microsoft responds]
This year's long and storied history of an ever-declining physical sales channel in the gaming industry continued during the month of July, as overall sales performance in the non-digital spectrum brought down 20 percent fewer dollars than in 2011 – $548.4 million in July of 2012 versus ...
