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NPD Group has revealed that almost one third of US gamers would rather buy their games digitally than in a shop. The firm surveyed 8,500 consumers as part of its Online Gaming 2012 report. It asked if a game was available to buy physical and digital at the same time …
Read More »Diablo III tops US May chart
Blizzard’s Diablo III was the best selling game in the US in May, according to NPD’s latest numbers. The achievement doesn’t even take digital sales into account, which in Diablo III’s case would have been sizable. There were four other new entries in the US Top Ten – Rockstar’s Max …
Read More »GameStop sales fall but chain ‘outperforms market’
Same-store sales at US retailer GameStop dropped 12.5 per cent year-on-year. These include sales at stores which have been open for at least one year, and exclude revenue generated at newer shops. The games chain blamed the decline on a lower demand for new games, but said it had outperformed …
Read More »April NPD: Prototype 2, Xbox 360 on top; sales down year-over-year
US retail results have arrived for April. NPD’s latest report states hardware sales accounted for $189.7m, accessories brought in $148.6m, and software sales contributed $292.1m. In terms of year-over-year, accessories saw a very marginal increase, while hardware and software sales saw dramatic drops. Microsoft continued to dominate the US hardware …
Read More »March NPD: Mass Effect 3 on top, year-over-year decline
The sales figures for March have arrived via the NPD, with Mass Effect 3 out in front and overall numbers down compared to March 2011. Industry sales during the past month totaled $1.10bn, 25 percent less than the same period in 2011. Hardware sales were down 35 percent, accounting for …
Read More »NPD: $1.29bn for Q4 used, digital and social games in Europe
Consumers across UK, Germany and France spent over a billion dollars on non-new physical games in the last three months of 2011. According to new data from NPD looking at ‘all monetization methods outside of new physical retail sales’, used games, game rentals, subscriptions, digital full-game downloads, social network games, …
Read More »Now US reports drastic video game market falls in February
The latest numbers from sales tracker NPD show that the US video games market suffered a 20 per cent year-on-year decline to $1.06bn in February. The news comes after MCV revealed yesterday that the UK market suffered a 29 per cent decline last month. Back in the US, software suffered …
Read More »US: Digital games account for $400m in January
The NPD Group estimates that downloadable, social, mobile and other form of non-physical games took up to $400m in sales last month. The research firm’s data shows that hardware and boxed sales were down 34 per cent year-on-year in January – coincidentally also around the $400m mark. NPD analyst Liam …
Read More »Xbox 360 and Call of Duty still king in US
Microsoft and Activision had the best performing products in the US last month. Xbox 360 was the top selling hardware for a sixth consecutive month, while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 topped the best-selling games chart. However, the Top 10 games did not sell well enough to prevent sales …
Read More »US game sales drop by $390 in January
A lack of new releases and the comparatively strong sales in 2011 saw the US video games market drop by almost $400m last month. NDP data shows that combined sales of hardware, software and accessories fell to $750.6m, down 34 per cent from the $1.14bn taken in January. Both software …
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