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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 the period. Sales reached $863.3m – significantly down on the $1.12 generated in May 2008 and the first time the …

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 per cent of PS3 owners who do the same. Membership of the Xbox Live Gold service is also on the …

More people in America play video games than go to the cinema, according to a recent survey carried out by the NPD group. Around two-thirds (63 per cent) of North Americans have played a game in the past six months, whereas only 53 per cent have gone to the movies …

The US videogame market has seen its second successive fall in sales, dropping 17 per cent year-on-year. Sales reached $1.03 billion, according to research firm NPD. That figure includes sales of software, hardware and accessories. Last year, April sales reached $1.24 billion. Coupled with the 17 per cent year-on-year decline …

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 annual dip since figures began in 2002. Edge reports that retail sales of hardware and software fell by 8.5 per …

Nintendo claims that Rockstar’s commercially underperforming DS title, GTA Chinatown Wars, is selling in line” with other third-party AAA titles for the DS. Before NPD offered its March sales figures for North America, analysts gave conflicting predictions on the outcome of the critically adored title. EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich predicted that …

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 on another front – Metacritic review aggregations. In its post-March response, Sony stated that: Approximately one in every three PS3 titles …

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. The 360 sold 330,000 units throughout the month, a 25 per cent increase on the same month in 2008. The numbers, the platform holder …

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 on its unquestionably strong 2009 software line-up. Guerilla’s Killzone 2 has now sold more than one million copies worldwide since its …

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 leader Nintendo. Sales of its Wii console fell 17 per cent compared to march 2008, with 601,000 units shifted. It’s …