Entries in 'npd' (172)
NPD: July games market down 29%
July proved another tough month for video games retailers in North America, with the overall value of the market declining 29 per cent year-on-year with a total value of $1.19bn.
Music game revenues plummet
A bit of digging at the latest NPD results for the North American games market has shown that revenues generated by leading music genre brands Guitar Hero and Rock Band ...
US: 2009 releases fail to perform on Wii
Almost all 2009 releases on Wii have been outsold in the States by games launched in previous years, with only EA Sports Active standing tall.
NPD: Microsoft dubs Live ‘untold phenomenon’
An unsurprisingly upbeat Microsoft has heaped praise on the continuing success of Xbox Live in its response to the June NPD figures and the news that Xbox 360 was the ...
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NPD: Has digital stolen retail’s missing sales?
The notion that games are recession proof is now well and truly forgotten – but perhaps the rise of both digital downloads and free-to-play online gaming is as big a ...
NPD: Prototype keeps Nintendo from the top
Over-the-top free roaming action title Prototype topped the June software charts in the US, with the 419,900 sales enjoyed by the Xbox 360 SKU bettering both high-profile new arrivals and ...
NPD: DS dominates hardware market
Amidst the gloom of yet more annual falls in the US video games market, hardware sales for June were better than expected hitting $1.7m – NPD had expected that number ...
NPD: US market suffers further decline
Gaming’s recession-proof credentials took a further knock overnight with news that the North American video games market suffered its fourth successive month of decline in June, falling 31 per cent ...
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NPD: Wii sets US sales record
The US video games market may well be starting to struggle in the face of the global recession, but Nintendo is undoubtedly fairing best in the face of economic instability ...
US: Tiger Woods series tops $500,000,000
EA Sports’ Tiger Woods series has generated more than $500,000,000 in sales in the US to date.
NPD: Hardware suffers sharp dip
Mirroring the overall decline seen in the US video games market in May, hardware sales for the period suffered a sharp fall – year-on-year sales of consoles dropped 30 ...
NPD: Big US market declines in May
May proved to be another tough month for US games retailer with market research body NPD stating that the market suffered a 23 per cent year-on-year drop in revenue in ...
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NPD: 360 has the digital edge over PS3
North American stats behemoth NPD has revealed that 18 per cent of Xbox 360 owners who subscribe to Microsoft’s Gold Membership “regularly” download content – markedly higher than the 10 ...
Video games are more popular than cinema
More people in America play video games than go to the cinema, according to a recent survey carried out by the NPD group.
NPD: Hardware and software suffers in April
The US saw an 8 per cent year-on-year decline in hardware sales while software tumbled 23 per cent, according to data provided bythe NPD group.
NPD: April stung by 17% sales slide
The US videogame market has seen its second successive fall in sales, dropping 17 per cent year-on-year.
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CANADA: Q1 sales fall by 8.5 per cent
Stats from sales analyst NPD have shown that the Canadian video games market suffered a like-for-like fall in sales in Q1 – the first time the territory has shown an ...
Sony and Microsoft wage Metacritic war
Amidst all the talk of NPD’s March year-on-year hardware sales comparisons, chart-topping software battles and third party revenue numbers, Sony and Microsoft both chose to play the PR game ...
NPD: Hardware and digital sales surge for Microsoft
Microsoft was understandably upbeat following the release of NPD’s March statistics, which showed that Xbox 360 was the only console to see year-on-year hardware sales increases.
NPD: Sony talks software not hardware in March response
Sony neglected to make any mention of PS3 hardware sales in its response to NPD’s March numbers, which showed year-on-year declines for the machine, and instead chose to focus ...
NPD: Nintendo positive despite Wii sales drop
The lack of a March-based Easter has not only dented NPD’s previously untouchable clean run of strong monthly US sales results, but also chinked the previously unblemished armour of market ...
