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Like after the establishment of every other product type, surveys and studies are being done to see how Smart TVs are settling in as a part of the consumer electronics market. The results aren't exactly promising.
That isn't to say that Smart TV's haven't been selling well. While normal monitors... |
28 December 2012
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Many are trying to point fingers and blame someone or something for how poorly the PC market is going, but it is hard to find a scapegoat, even now that Windows 8 tablets have been found wanting. We've already written about the Windows 8 tablet market and how sales of such devices are almost non-existent. Sadl... |
29 November 2012
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Smartphone adoption continues to be on the rise, according to research conducted by the NPD Group, and Apple’s iPhone is leading the pack in Q3 2011 with not one, but two device models - iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS.The market research company showed in a report this week that the share of mobile devices that are l... |
15 November 2011
05:31 GMT |
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It is very common for analysts to come out and say what is what on the IT market and its various segments, so the update on the notebook situation wasn't unexpected, even if its implications, to some extent, were. As some users may or may not know, the July-August period is otherwise known as the back-to-schoo... |
17 September 2011
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The NPD Group has published its sales tracking data for the month of August in the USA and the overall downward trend is being kept, with a 23 decline, while Deus Ex: Human Revolution managed to defeat its opposition despite being on sale for just five days during the tracking window.August was another example of the... |
9 September 2011
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The NPD Group has published its sales tracking data for the month of August in the USA and the overall downward trend is being kept, with a 23 decline, owed largely to the fact that the traditional Madden NFL release was pushed from its mid-August slot to the end of the month, which falls outside the NPD's regul... |
9 September 2011
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Right after the NPD Group released its monthly hardware and software sales charts, Microsoft and Sony have posted official statements about their performances, highlighting the areas where they managed to beat the competition.The NPD Group posted the sales charts for the month of July earlier today, with Microsoft�... |
12 August 2011
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Hello and welcome to a new edition of A Gamer's Week, our regular round-up of the most important pieces of news in the gaming industry as well as the most important original features we ran here at the games section of Softpedia.First up, you can check out the review of the surprisingly interesting Harry Potter ... |
17 July 2011
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The NPD Group has published the video game sales chart for the month of June, showcasing the solid lineup of Take-Two Interactive, which occupies the first two spots, with L.A. Noire, once again in the number one spot after last month, and Duke Nukem Forever, while the PlayStation 3 exclusive Infamous 2 rounds off th... |
15 July 2011
18:01 GMT |
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The NPD Group has once again showcased its sales tracking data for the month of June and not much has changed as opposed to May, with Microsoft's Xbox 360 once again leading in terms of sales, while its competitors, the PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii, are struggling to keep up with the extremely popular console.
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15 July 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The latest NPD hardware and software sales data has arrived, and from it we can extrapolate quite a lot of interesting information, especially in terms of the battle between the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
It seems that the holiday months, November and December, were pretty good to Sony, which managed to sell an i... |
14 January 2011
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According to this month's NPD software sales data, Halo: Reach has dominated the opposition, managing to sell around 3.3 million copies in North America.The NPD Group, even though it will not reveal concrete sales data from now on, with its monthly sales charts, has still revealed the top 10 best selling games d... |
15 October 2010
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Although the NPD Group has announced that it will no longer provide concrete sales data, the charts for the month of September are still being revealed, although we can now only rely on sales figures from the actual hardware manufacturers.For the month of September, the Xbox 360 continues its surge, and for the fourt... |
15 October 2010
17:21 GMT |
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The Android mobile operating system managed to take the crown from RIM's BlackBerry OS on the US smartphone market. According to NPD’s latest wireless market research, Google's Android operating system was present on 33 percent of all smartphones sold in the United States market during the second qua... |
5 August 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Market research firm NPD Group has been looking closely at Apple’s recent desktop sales and has come to the conclusion that introducing a $999 Mac mini Server alongside new iMac models is a very smart thing to do. The Vice President of Industry Analysis with market research firm NPD Group, Stephen Baker, has h... |
11 January 2010
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NPD will release the October 4-October 31 numbers tomorrow, and most analysts agree that the five-percent growth in sales September saw won't be making a comeback. Electronic Entertainment Design and Research's Jesse Divnich and Wedbush Morgan Securities' Michael Pachter took a fine comb and sorted thr... |
11 November 2009
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A nine-month revenue of $17.1 billion is a big number even for corporate giant Nintendo. Not only that, but the company even expected another big holiday season with figures to further increase its revenues. But as time progressed, their expectations weren't met and by July sales fell by 40 percent and profits b... |
21 October 2009
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When things happen over and over for a couple of times without bringing anything new, they're labeled as repetitive and usually shunned by society for their lack of creativity. Bun when they ignore what the world thinks of them and persevere in their cycle, they slowly become traditions. One such repetitive cycl... |
16 October 2009
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The holiday season is creeping about and it's almost at our door. Most people face the yearly enigma of what gift to buy for whom, but gamers, at least amongst themselves, don't really have that problem. Nothing brings more joy to the mouse or controller jokey like a nicely wrapped new game, so they're... |
15 October 2009
05:54 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 is a fairly popular console as it managed to beat its arch rival, the PlayStation 3, in terms of sales thanks to its low price, and is still trying to catch up to the huge success of the Nintendo Wii, which reigns supreme over the current generation of consoles. But there was at least one reason to be h... |
24 August 2009
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important news from the gaming industry in the last seven days. This week was a very interesting one, filled with speculations, reports and, to top it all off, the sales charts from the NPD group showing software and hardware sales ... |
15 August 2009
04:11 GMT |
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The gaming industry certainly sees a lot of titles appear every month, but, as every market has its highs and lows, there are “dry” periods when very few new things appear in order to make the gamer drop some of his holiday budget on new titles. Such was the case in the month of July, as the NPD group re... |
14 August 2009
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As we reach the middle of the month, the NPD group has just revealed its statistics regarding how everything related to video games sold in the past month. Meant to record the highs and lows of the gaming industry and to declare the winners in the console war, these charts serve to enlighten us as regards the latest ... |
14 August 2009
14:41 GMT |
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The NPD console charts have come and gone, but the sales analysis groups have also revealed their stats about the PC gaming market and how it fared during the month of June. To almost nobody's surprise, the game that reigned supreme was Electronic Arts' The Sims 3 title. The game, which is exclusive to the... |
29 July 2009
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Charts and sales rule the world around us, and now, thanks to the NPD group, we can see how they ruled the world of video games in the month of June. Don't forget that what was said in the hardware chart is also true for this software one. Drops were registered across the board and a comparison to the month of ... |
17 July 2009
15:21 GMT |
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The console war is underway on many fronts, among the top three companies involved, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. But what really sets the hierarchy is the monthly charts from the NPD Group research company, which charts retail sales across the United States for both consoles and video games made for them. While las... |
17 July 2009
13:11 GMT |
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The PC platform has been doomed by many critics and analysts largely because it has been the prime target for piracy and that many gamers just can't keep up with the upgrades necessary to their configurations in order to run all of the most recent games.But things are still going along quite nicely, and games ar... |
23 June 2009
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The NPD hardware charts have always been a deciding factor in the console war between the Nintendo Wii, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. Even though the companies behind the devices have always battled in statements and new features, the sales numbers never lied. As always, after we've seen the groups reveal... |
12 June 2009
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The console war between the top three devices, the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii, has been waged in statements, features and services, but, in the end, the deciding factors were the sales charts released by the NPD group every month, tracking the retail sales of both hardware and software in the United Sta... |
12 June 2009
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The PC gaming market has been deemed by many analysts as dying and some have said that, soon, no big company will bring its titles to it. But every week, the sales data from the NPD group, which charts the retail market, and digital download services Steam and Direct2Drive, offer a much more optimistic picture for th... |
10 June 2009
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The PC platform hasn't been going through the best of times in recent years, but it is still continuing to sell quite a lot of games, even though piracy is a big problem for it. In order to see just what titles are selling and which aren't, here is our weekly PC Sales Charts, with data from the NPD Group fo... |
27 May 2009
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The PC platform is declared doomed at the beginning of every year by some analysts who say that this is the year when the PC will finally die and be overtaken by consoles. But luckily the old platform keeps on fighting and it still making a hefty profit for companies that choose to bring their games onto it. As alwa... |
20 May 2009
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The PR department is a very important part of almost any company, as it is essential to maintain a good corporate image even when things aren't going so well financially. Console manufacturers have some very big public relations departments as getting a positive spin on results from sales-tracking services is es... |
18 May 2009
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The PC platform has been doomed time and time again by a lot of analysts and/or developers over the past few years. From the fact that it would be consumed by piracy to users eventually realizing the advantages of consoles, the PC was seemingly destined to be forgotten by gamers. But that's not true, as a lot o... |
18 May 2009
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The NPD hardware and software charts arrived at the end of last week, giving the PR departments of all the three major companies in the industry, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony, plenty of time to analyze the numbers and put a positive spin on them, in order to make it look like their company is doing great. April'... |
18 May 2009
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PC gaming has been doomed by various analysts and developers in the gaming industry for quite some time. Its fate was sealed, in their opinion, by consoles, which hold the key to the future of virtual entertainment because of their low piracy rates and the more developer-friendly platforms. But things are still goin... |
28 April 2009
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PC gaming has been condemned by quite a lot of developers and publishers to a slow and painful death, but luckily things are going pretty good for the old platform, which is still fighting the good fight against the current generation of consoles in terms of game sales. As always, we have just received the PC Sales ... |
23 April 2009
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PC gaming hasn't been going through the best times in recent years, and, at least according to some analysts, it will be dying out in a matter of months or possibly years, succumbing to the popularity of consoles, which are more user friendly to gamers and, in some cases, piracy free. But the platform is still ... |
21 April 2009
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Nintendo is saying that, in its first week, the Nintendo DSi has sold more than 435,000 units in North America, which is pretty good considering that the previous model, the DS Lite, only sold around 226,000 units when it was initially put out in June 2006. That's almost double, and signals the fact that the DSi... |
21 April 2009
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Software sales for March 2009 are 17% lower than those for March 2008, which benefited from the release of Nintendo's Super Smash. Bros Brawl. The overall value of videogame sales is about 792 million dollars and the big title of the month of March is Capcom's Resident Evil 5, which moved close to 1,5 milli... |
17 April 2009
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Another week has passed and another fresh batch of data from the three biggest video game suppliers in the world of PC gaming has arrived for us to dissect and see just what were the trends in both retail and digital sales. So, without further ado, here are this week's PC Sales Charts from the NPD group, Steam a... |
14 April 2009
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The PC has been condemned by quite a lot of developers and analysts to a slow and painful death at the hands of piracy and low sales. But the PC Gaming Alliance has proven to us that companies which bring their titles onto this platform can make a decent profit.The PC sales charts of this week showcase some of the co... |
3 April 2009
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PC gaming has two sides when it comes to sales charts, as you can either choose to follow the NPD charts, which only feature retail sales, or go for services like Steam of Direct2Drive, which can't be ignored, due to the increasing popularity of digital downloads. But one very big factor in terms of digital ser... |
25 March 2009
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Last week we've seen the NPD hardware charts arrive from the famous market research firm. The results weren't very shocking, as the hierarchy is the same as in the last few months, with Nintendo's Wii dominating its opponents, and the Xbox 360 having the upper hand on the PlayStation 3. But things are... |
23 March 2009
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Talking at the 2009 DICE Summit NPD Group, analyst Anita Frazier announced that at least 6 million people had taken up gaming in the last year, if the data collected by the company she represents are correct. Even if there are significant problems with the industry as a whole, mainly because of the impact of the worl... |
24 February 2009
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PC gaming has entered these recent few years in a cone of shadow largely due to the fact that piracy and the troubles encountered with the different configurations have made developers adopt consoles as their main platforms.But this doesn't mean that games don't sell on the PC, as we have just received the ... |
19 February 2009
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The NPD Group has conducted a new study regarding the way customers approach buying and storing videogames. The study was commissioned by the Content Delivery and Storage Association and the Entertainment Merchants Association and shows that a lot of gamers, around 11%, have at least one game in the original packagin... |
29 October 2008
15:41 GMT |
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It's obvious that only one gaming console manufacturer can have the biggest sales and the best revenue. For September, as with all the months of 2008, Nintendo is the clear winner, with the Nintendo Wii coming first in sales and the Nintendo DS second, leaving a trail of dust for the third placed console, t... |
21 October 2008
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A quick glance at the NPD data for the United States related to the month of September showed a picture that seemed gloomy to most people. After all, sales of videogame related hardware went down and big releases like Madden NFL and Mercenaries 2 failed to become blockbusters. But the analysts who watch the vid... |
20 October 2008
15:21 GMT |
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The NPD Data concerning gaming consoles sales for September are out and the big surprise is how much the Microsoft made Xbox 360 managed to outsell the PlayStation 3, reverting the early year trend which put the Sony made console in front in the sales department.The overall sales of hardware have amounted to around 4... |
17 October 2008
22:51 GMT |
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