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Resident Evil 5 sold over 1.5 million units across North America in March, according to the latest NPD figures. Capcom’s newest instalment in the undying franchise was in fact the most popular title for any single platform, with the Xbox 360 edition (938,000) even managing to outsell the lucrative Nintendo …
Read More »NPD: Xbox sales jump amid hardware downturn
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 managed to buck trends in March by becoming the only console to enjoy a year-on-year sales boost. The Xbox 360 sold 330,000 units across North America in March; a figure which Microsoft was pleased to explain accounted for a 25 per cent year-on-year sales increase. The system’s …
Read More »NPD: March market suffers 17% sales slide
The North American video game market has been dealt a heavy yet expected blow as the latest NPD figures show year-on-year declines for March. The US market generated a total of $1.43bn in March; a significant 17 per cent fall from the same period last year, and a slight trim …
Read More »US: Consumers predict increased games spending
Leading US statistics body NPD has found that the majority of North American gamers say that they expect to spend more on their hobby this year than they did in 2008. Numbers in the recent Entertainment Trends in America report state that 65 per cent of the 10,000 people questioned …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: News round-up
This week in Retail Biz, Granger Games has opened the first of four new stores as GAME wins best specialist at the Oracle Retail Week Awards.Elsewhere, the DSi has hit two million units sold in Japan, February’s NPD data was released for all to see, and the new Woolworths expects …
Read More »NPD: February market up year-on-year
The North American video games market has once again defied the global credit crunch by showing significant year-on-year gains for the month of February – and Nintendo is the company that continues to impress. Figures from NPD showed that February was up 10 per cent compared to the same month …
Read More »NPD: Sony silent after January losses
Sony is the only one of the three platform holders to not yet issue a statement after NPD’s January stats for the North American market showed that PS3 was the only major console to see an annual decline in monthly sales . The numbers showed that whilst Wii sales grew …
Read More »NPD: Nintendo continues to expand the market
Nintendo remained seemingly untouchable in January according to the latest NPD stats, and has claimed that the growth seen in both the Wii and DS market is helping the overall games sector by offsetting declines on other platforms ”. The overall January market in North America grew by $150m compared …
Read More »NPD: Xbox Live growth spearheads strong January for Microsoft
Xbox 360 has continued to defy expectations by posting yet another monthly annual sales increase, with January sales of Xbox 360 climbing by 33 per cent year-on-year to hit 309,000 units according to NPD . January was also the strongest ever month for the firm’s online platform Xbox Live, which …
Read More »NPD: January market sees 13% growth
The latest results from stats firm NPD show that the North American video game market grew 13 per cent in January compared to the same month the year before to reach a total value of $1.33bn. The results are hugely impressive not only due to the darkening global economic situation, …
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