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The NPD Group, the organization that tracks sales in the gaming industry on the United States market, says that the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft has once more been the bestselling device for the month of May.
The overall value of the hardware market has gone down 42 percent when compared to the same period i... |
17 May 2013
03:29 GMT |
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The NPD Group says that Injustice: Gods Among Us, the fighting game from NetherRealm and Warner Bros, is the best selling video game for the month of April in the United States. The rest of the top ten is made up of: Dead Island: Riptide – Techland BioShock Infinite – irrational Games Call of Duty: Blac... |
17 May 2013
03:11 GMT |
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The NPD Group, an American company that tracks sales, is releasing a new Online Gaming 2013 report that reveals that 72 percent of gamers in the United States are playing games online.This represents an increase of 5% over last year and the firm also says that the actual hours spent online has increased by about 9 pe... |
3 May 2013
20:31 GMT |
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BioShock Infinite, the video game developed by Irrational Games and publisher by 2K, has managed to sell 878,000 copies at retail in the United States in the five days since its March 26 launch, which guaranteed it first place in the NPD Group software chart.The actual number is quoted by VG247 even if the tracking f... |
21 April 2013
17:02 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which tracks both software and hardware sales linked to the video game industry, says that the overall value of sales declined during March in the United States by a full 10 percent when compared to the same period last year.
Liam Callahan, an analyst for the firm, is quoted by GamesIndustry.biz as sa... |
19 April 2013
03:19 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft is the bestselling piece of hardware sold on the United States market during March, moving 261,000 units and generating record sales.
Data from the NPD Group quoted by GamesIndustry.biz also shows that the hardware sector has seen an overall decline, although the tracking fir... |
19 April 2013
02:48 GMT |
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Tracking firms the NPD Group, Digi Capital and iResearch have announced that digital game sales, including both full titles and downloadable content, are increasing by one third each year on the North American and the European markets.
GamesIndustry cites data shown during the Game Developers Conference, which revea... |
1 April 2013
12:01 GMT |
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The NPD Group is no longer offering actual sales numbers during its monthly report about the United States video game market, but an analyst at Macquarie Capital says that the Nintendo Wii U home console has only managed to sell 66,000 units during February.
The game-focused hardware performed much worse than the Xb... |
18 March 2013
20:31 GMT |
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Dead Space 3, the mix between action and horror from developer Visceral Games and publisher Electronic Arts, is the bestselling video game for the month of February on the United States market, according to the NPD Group.The rest of the top ten includes:Call of Duty: Black Ops 2Crysis 3NBA 2K13Metal Gear Rising: Reve... |
15 March 2013
18:32 GMT |
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The NPD Group reports that the value of video games related sales in the United States for the month of February declined by 27 percent when compared to the same period last year, with the Xbox 360 once again topping the hardware charts.
Microsoft says that its home console has managed to move 302,000 units to gamer... |
15 March 2013
08:24 GMT |
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A report from the NPD Group, which tracks video game hardware and software sales in the United States, says that about 29 percent of players intend to buy one member of the next generation of consoles on launch.
The polled gamers were selected because they are over nine years old and play for at least five hours dur... |
4 March 2013
21:31 GMT |
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The NPD Group reports that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the first-person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision, is the bestselling game for the month of January 2013 on the United States market.
The rest of the top ten includes:
Far Cry 3 – Ubisoft
Just Dance 4 – Ubisoft
NBA 2K13 &ndash... |
15 February 2013
05:05 GMT |
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The NPD Group says that overall video game sales for the month of January 2013 on the United States market have grown by 9 percent when compared to the same period of last year, but that’s only because an extra week was added to the tracking period this year. In real terms, the industry has seen a decline of a... |
15 February 2013
04:57 GMT |
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The NPD Group is releasing figures for overall consumer spending in the United States linked to video games during 2012, showing that the total has decline by no less than 9 percent when compared to 2011.The overall value for spending linked to the video game industry reached 14.08 billion dollars (10.3 billion Euro)... |
6 February 2013
20:11 GMT |
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The NPD Group announces that the Microsoft-made Xbox 360 home console has managed to be the best selling piece of video game hardware on the United States market for the month of December, with sales of 1.4 million units.
It’s been two full years since the Xbox 360 climbed to number one and since then, it has ... |
11 January 2013
05:47 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the first-person shooter developed by Treyarch and published by Activision Blizzard, has managed to take the number one position in the United States chart for the month of December.
Second place has gone to Just Dance 4, the motion-based game from Ubisoft, and Halo 4, the Master Chief exp... |
11 January 2013
03:27 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the shooter that continues the long-running franchise from Treyarch and Activision Blizzard, has been named the bestselling video game of 2012, coming out ahead of Madden NFL 13, the American football simulation from EA Sports.
The rest of the 2012 top ten for the United States market, as ... |
11 January 2013
02:38 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, the analyst watching the video game industry for Wedbush Morgan, believes that the NPD Group compiled sales data for the month of December in the United States will show an industry-wide decline of 11 percent.
The main reasons for the continuing decline for the month that includes the strong Christm... |
8 January 2013
18:51 GMT |
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The NPD Group has made public the fact that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the first-person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, manages to sell 7.5 million units during the month of November in the United States.
According to Gamespot, the impressive number was delivered to players in 11 d... |
10 December 2012
03:29 GMT |
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The United States video game market has failed to halt its decline during November of this year, posting a decrease in overall revenue of 11 percent in order to reach 2.55 billion dollars (1.967 billion Euro).
The decline in November was the smallest for 2012, but the industry continues to face an unfavorable overal... |
7 December 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the first-person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, has managed to sell better than Halo 4, from 343 Industries and Microsoft, on the United States market for the month of November.
The rest of the top ten includes, according to the NPD Group, as quoted by G... |
7 December 2012
03:24 GMT |
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The NPD Group reveals that NBA 2K13, the basketball simulation title from Visual Concepts and 2K Games, was the best-selling game in the United States for the month of October, while the Xbox 360 continues to lead the home console pack. The overall news for the industry, as cited by IGN, is increasingly bleak as the... |
9 November 2012
05:23 GMT |
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The video game market has continued to decline during September in the United States, with the overall value of sales, as reported by the NPD Group, dropping by 24 percent when compared to the same period of 2011. Madden NFL 13 became the best-selling title for the month, while the Xbox 360 from Microsoft continued t... |
12 October 2012
05:07 GMT |
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Doug Creutz, an analyst who is watching the video game industry for Cowen & Company, has revealed that he expects the NPD Group sales figures for September, which will be revealed later during the week, to show a 28 percent decline in packaged game sales when compared to the same period last year.
The analyst says t... |
10 October 2012
16:31 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released hardware and software charts for the month of August for the United States market and has revealed that, when compared to the same period in 2011, the overall value of sales has declined by 20 percent, a trend that has been apparent all through the year. Overall, video game sales have reac... |
7 September 2012
08:30 GMT |
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The NPD Group, the same company that delivers the monthly sales charts for the United States, has launched a new report which shows that the number of gamers in the United States has declined during 2012 for the first time in years.
The report is called Gamer Segmentation 2012: The New Faces of Gamers and it says th... |
6 September 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Gamestop, the specialist video game retailer, has revealed that pre-order numbers for all the big titles launched during the third and the fourth quarter of this year have increased when compared to the same period in 2011. Tony Bartel, who is the president of Gamestop, has stated, “We have a very robust reser... |
22 August 2012
12:21 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released figures showing that the year-on-year increase in digital sales of the second quarter has reached 17 percent, an impressive figure that it still not enough to offset the decline seen in the physical space.
Anita Frazier, who is an analyst at the NPD Group, stated, “While this growth ... |
10 August 2012
13:01 GMT |
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The NPD Group for July has shown yet another month of decline for the video games industry in the United States, with a decrease of overall sales of 20 percent over the same period of 2011 which has seen the overall value drop to 548.4 million dollars (446.1 million Euro).
Hardware has seen the biggest drop, of 32%,... |
10 August 2012
04:59 GMT |
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The video game industry has experienced a long decline during the last year, as shown by the NPD Group figures for monthly sales on the United States market, but at least one video game company leader is sure that a new generation of consoles, coming in 2013, will be able to reverse the trend.
John Riccitiello, the ... |
23 July 2012
05:55 GMT |
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A new set of rumors from media giant Vivendi suggests that the company might be getting ready to actually sell shares of video game publisher Activision Blizzard on the open market after failing to find another investor who was willing to make a bulk purchase.
The list of companies that Vivendi has already talked to... |
16 July 2012
04:09 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released its figures for the United States market for the month of June, showing an overall decline over the same period of 2011 of no less than 30 percent, with the value of sales dropping to 699 million dollars (572.7 million Euro).
The biggest drop was linked to the hardware space, where the swi... |
13 July 2012
03:54 GMT |
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The NPD Group is set to release the official sales figures for June in the United States before the end of the week, and at least one analyst believes that the decline, when compared to the same month in 2011, is likely to reach 34 percent. In a note to investors, Michael Pachter, who is watching the video game indu... |
10 July 2012
04:43 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts is aiming to become a company that is 100 percent focused on digital game distribution and sale, and that means that the sale information, which is offered each month by the NPD Group, is becoming less and less important to the company and no longer impacts its long-term strategy.
Frank Gib... |
4 July 2012
17:31 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which offers monthly retail numbers for the United States video game market, has announced that during the first quarter of 2012 the industry has managed to generate sales of 3.4 billion dollars (2.69 billion Euro).
According to the firm, new retail-based purchases accounted for 1.5 billion dollars (1... |
4 July 2012
12:01 GMT |
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A new report from the NPD Group shows that gamers are becoming more comfortable than ever with buying the digital versions of their favorite games rather than the physical ones.
The 2012 Online Gaming report from the firm which also offers monthly tracking data for the United States market shows that 30 percent of t... |
2 July 2012
08:34 GMT |
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Doug Creutz, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for Cowen & Company, has officially confirmed that Diablo III, the action role-playing game from developer Blizzard, has managed to sell 1 million units at retail in May on the United States market.
The analyst has also revealed that Max Payne 3, the th... |
16 June 2012
05:29 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released the hardware and software charts for the United States market in the month of May, showing that the Xbox 360 from Microsoft has managed to once again be the bestselling gaming device while Diablo III from Blizzard has performed better than Max Payne 3.
Overall, the game industry has posted... |
15 June 2012
08:10 GMT |
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The NPD Group posted its results for April for the United States market late during last week, showing yet another decline of over 30 percent in sales when it comes to both hardware and software sales, and it seems that the drop is a symptom of a wider shift in the number of games that big publishers are ready to rel... |
14 May 2012
16:51 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released its sales figures for the month of April in the United States, showing yet another big drop when compared to last year, when it comes to both hardware and software sales.
The company says that the video game industry has seen a drop to a low of 630.4 million dollars (488.1 million Euro) fo... |
11 May 2012
09:50 GMT |
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An analysis firm suggests that upcoming sales figures for the United States video game market from the NPD Group will show a decline of 25 percent when it comes to both hardware and software, compared to the month of April in 2011.
A report from the analysis firm Piper Jaffray, from Michael Olson and Andrew Connor, ... |
4 May 2012
09:32 GMT |
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A report from the NPD Group has shown that 40 percent of those gamers who have engaged with a free-to-play title have ended up making at least one in-game payment in order to enhance their experience or to extend their playtime. The Freemium Games Market report has surveyed more than 6,000 individuals, including bot... |
24 April 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released its figures for the hardware and software sales on the United States market for the month of March, with the Xbox 360 and Mass Effect 3 taking the number one positions for the period. Overall, the industry has showed a decline of 26 percent when compared to the same period of 2011, with th... |
13 April 2012
05:46 GMT |
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Despite the launch of the high-profile Mass Effect 3, developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts, and the continuing honeymoon period for the PlayStation Vita handheld from Sony, the numbers that the NPD Group will publish this week are expected to show yet another year-over-year decline.
Michael Pachter,... |
11 April 2012
02:34 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which tracks video game related sales on the United States market, has announced that the industry has declined by 20 percent when compared to the same period of last year, with overall sales coming in at just 1.06 billion dollars (801.2 million Euro).Video game hardware sales were actually a bright sp... |
9 March 2012
04:56 GMT |
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January 2012 was a very bad game for video games, according to the NPD Group, with the value of the industry declining by a whopping 34 percent when compared to the same period of last year, but major hardware makers Sony and Microsoft have released upbeat statements related to the results. A statement from Microsof... |
13 February 2012
02:31 GMT |
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The overall value of sales for the video game industry, combining retail games sales and hardware, has seen a drop of 34 percent in the sales figures delivered by the NPD Group for the month of January in the United States, when compared to the same period of last year. Overall revenue came in at 750.6 million dolla... |
10 February 2012
05:17 GMT |
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The NPD Group has announced worse than expected sales data for the month of January 2012 on the United States market and blame has been assigned to video game publishers who have failed to deliver any high profile title during the 28-day period that makes up the sales month.
New video games sold at retail, including... |
10 February 2012
04:31 GMT |
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The Australian division of the NPD Group has announced that traditional retail sales linked to video games have declined by 12.8 percent in the territory during 2011, although much of the lost revenue has been recuperated via non-traditional means, mainly digital revenue linked to subscriptions and streaming.
The Au... |
6 February 2012
20:31 GMT |
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This is not the first time a research firm calculates Apple’s Q4 smartphone share for 2011 to put the iPhone on top, but it can’t hurt to have The NPD Group confirm the numbers.
According to the firm, Apple beat Samsung and LG to become the best-selling U.S. handset maker in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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6 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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