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The NPD Group figures for hardware sales, linked to the month of February and the United States market, show that the Xbox 360 from Microsoft has again managed to be the best-selling home console, easily beating the numbers posted by the Nintendo Wii.
And speaking about the month of March, Doug Creutz, who is an a... |
14 March 2011
11:26 GMT |
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The video game that took up most of my time this week was Dawn of War II: Retribution, the new strategy game from Relic and THQ, which got a review from Softpedia and a series of Gamer Diaries.We also have a review for the High Definition remake of Beyond Good & Evil and have started a new set of diaries that focus o... |
13 March 2011
08:41 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released its sales results for the month of February on the United States market, surprising quite a few people by showing an increase of about 3 percent in terms of sales for the video games industry, as both hardware and accessories managed to do better than analysts predicted.
The total of new... |
11 March 2011
05:45 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released its sales figures for the month of February 2010 in the United States and even though the industry performed better than expected, beating the same period in 2010 by 3 percent when it comes to sales, the software segment was mostly disappointing, seeing a decline of 8%.Hardware did better t... |
11 March 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Colin Sebastian, who is an analyst watching the video game market for Lazard Capital, has said in a research note that he expects the NPD Group numbers that will be released shortly to show a decline in the revenue derived from video game hardware and software for the month of February.
The decline will be between... |
9 March 2011
09:57 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, the analyst that watches the video game industry for securities firm Wedbush Morgan, has said that he expects February to be another pretty bad month of gaming, with the market going down in value by about 6 percent when compared to the same period in 2010, making it the third consecutive month of de... |
8 March 2011
13:31 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released the hardware and video game sales chart for the month of January for the United States market, but the company no longer offers actual sales numbers for hardware, so analyst Michael Pachter stepped into the breach in order to offer a clearer picture of sales during last month.The Wesbush Mo... |
21 February 2011
16:41 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which puts out monthly sales information for the United States market, has released its figures for January and the 2010 blockbuster Call of Duty: Black Ops has managed to top the software sales chart, with the first new entry coming just in third place.
Overall software again performed better than ... |
18 February 2011
08:50 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which watches the United States market, has released its monthly sales charts for video game hardware and software for the month of January 2011 in the United States, with the overall industry seeing a drop in sales of 5 percent when compared to the same period of 2010.
Overall retail sales reached ... |
18 February 2011
05:22 GMT |
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Surging iPad shipments have propelled Apple to a 17.2% share of worldwide mobile PC shipments in Q4 ’10, placing the company at the top of the market share ranking by DisplaySearch, a market research and consulting firm specializing in the display supply chain.
According to preliminary results from the Displ... |
16 February 2011
10:02 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which tracks sales of both video games and consoles for the United States market, believes that, in order for the markets to grow significantly, devs need to develop and use new technology that has surprising uses for potential customers.
Anita Frazier, who is an analyst commenting on monthly data f... |
15 February 2011
13:31 GMT |
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The NPD Group, the company that tracks hardware and video game sales for the North American market, has announced that internal projections show that overall spending on gaming during 2010 has reached between 15.4 and 15.6 billion dollars, which is pretty much the same number as reported for 2009.
The number stand... |
20 January 2011
17:51 GMT |
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The NPD Group has revealed sales data for the month of December 2010 for both hardware and software categories, showing that the Nintendo DS is the biggest selling game consoles while Call of Duty has managed to take home the video game number one. Overall the industry has gone down by 6 percent when compared to Dec... |
14 January 2011
05:15 GMT |
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The NPD Group has revealed its sales data for the month of December for the North American market, showing that Call of Duty continued its good run at the top of the software chart while the Xbox 360 has been the only console to see an increase in sales. A look at all the data shows that December was not a huge mont... |
14 January 2011
05:13 GMT |
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The NPD Group is expected to put out the hardware and video game sales charts for North America for the month of December later this week and ahead of them analysts have said that they are expecting a pretty good month for the gaming industry, with the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft seeing a significant increas... |
11 January 2011
04:59 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which tracks hardware, software and accessories sales in North America, has released its charts for November, showing that the Nintendo DS is still the best selling gaming device for the month while the Xbox 360 from Microsoft continues to lead in the home console battle. Overall the video game indust... |
10 December 2010
05:08 GMT |
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The NPD Group, the company which offers information on monthly hardware and video game sales for the United States market, has released figures for November that show the first person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops as being the best sold title for the period, with the action adventure Assassin's Creed coming in... |
10 December 2010
05:06 GMT |
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Analysts have suggested that the sales figures, which the NPD Group will release for the month of November in the United States, will show another increase in sales of video games mainly on the strength of the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops, the first person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activisio... |
8 December 2010
13:41 GMT |
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The NPD Group has put out its sales information relating how the video game industry performed in the United States during the month of October and one of the companies which has quite a bit to cheer about is Microsoft, who sells the Xbox 360 home gaming console and publishes titles for it.Larry Hryb, aka Major Nelso... |
18 November 2010
04:27 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released its slimmed down sales figures for the month of October on the United States market and in a surprising development the basketball simulation NBA 2K11 from publisher Take Two has managed to emerge as the best seller in video game sales, beating out the analyst favorite Medal of Honor and th... |
17 November 2010
05:32 GMT |
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The NPD Group has announced that the Xbox 360 home gaming console from Microsoft is the only gaming device tracked by the firm which has seen an increase in sales when compared to the October of 2009, with the Nintendo DS managing to still be the best selling platform for the same month.Overall the video game industr... |
17 November 2010
05:27 GMT |
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An analyst watching the video game industry has stated that video game sales for the month of October in the United States will actually see an increase over the same period of 2009, mainly powered by the release of Medal of Honor, the first person shooter from DICE, Danger Close and Electronic Arts, and Fallout: New... |
16 November 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Analysts have offered their predictions for hardware and software sales for the month of October, just as the NPD Group, which tracks industry sales for the North American market, is preparing to put out the sales figures for last month.Both Michael Pachter, from Wedbush Morgan, and Jesse Divnich, who works with EEDA... |
16 November 2010
04:43 GMT |
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The NPD Group, a market research firm which tracks hardware and video games sales for the United States market, has talked about its decision to limit the actual sales figures that it is offering in its monthly reports, which some have criticized as making the public less aware of the trends and tendencies in the vid... |
26 October 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, who is analyst watching the video game industry for Wedbush Morgan Securities, has said that the video game industry will manage to see a growth of 2.4 percent for the month of September over the same period of 2009, with the NPD Group numbers set to be released later in the week set to confirm the e... |
13 October 2010
13:41 GMT |
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The NPD Group, the market research company which has offered both hardware and software sales charts for the video game industry in the United States every month, has announced that it will be limiting the amount of data it will make public.The company has said that starting with the data for the month of September, ... |
13 October 2010
03:42 GMT |
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The NPD Group, a market research company which watches the video game industry and publishes the monthly charts for the North American hardware and software market, has conducted research that shows that only about 15 percent of consumers are interested in picking up video games and consoles are gifts this year, a cl... |
12 October 2010
17:51 GMT |
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A new report from the NPD Group, which tracks video games sales and hardware in the United States, has stated that only 6 percent of consumers in the United States have downloaded any form of content using their home gaming consoles.Only about 15 percent of them connected other devices, like the PC or Mac, and downlo... |
29 September 2010
13:31 GMT |
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The NPD Group has revealed data that shows that the overall units sales moved through digital distribution on the PC platform are higher than those registered sold through brick and mortar stores on the United States market.For the initial six months of 2010 full digital downloads accounted for about 11.2 million sal... |
22 September 2010
15:01 GMT |
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The figures for the North American market launched by the NPD Group for the month of August has show the video game industry decline in terms of sales by about 10 percent over the same period of last year, with the software segment being the hardest hit, despite the very successful launch of the Electronic Arts made ... |
10 September 2010
07:50 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released its sales data for the North American market for the month of August, showing an overall decline in sales of about 10 percent, and the newly relaunched Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft selling better than the DS line of handhelds, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Nintendo Wii.The ent... |
10 September 2010
06:07 GMT |
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Analyst Michael Pachter, who is working for Wedbush Morgan, has predicted that the NPD Group numbers that will be released later in the week will show a drop in both hardware and software sales on the North American market for the month of August, accentuating the slump in the video game industry that has been taking... |
9 September 2010
05:34 GMT |
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A new report from the NPD Group, called “Social Networking Gaming”, has revealed that about 20 percent of the population of the United States has played at least one video game using a social network, with a significant number of those engaged in this kind of titles having no previous experience with othe... |
24 August 2010
06:01 GMT |
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It's been another week dominated by Starcraft 2 wins and losses in multiplayer but we had the time to put together a Weekend Reading segment about how 3D can find a living home on the PC through the efforts of companies like Nvidia and a EndWeekGame article talking about what titles we spent time with this weeke... |
15 August 2010
08:11 GMT |
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The numbers offered by the NPD Group shows that the new Xbox 360 from Microsoft has sold better for the month of July than the Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation 3 from Sony, topping the hardware chart.The new console, which is all black, is quieter and uses less energy than the initial design of the Xbox 360, has mana... |
13 August 2010
04:38 GMT |
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NCAA Football 11 from Electronic Arts for the Xbox 360 game console is the best selling video game for the month of July, according to figures from the NPD Group, but the company says that not included Starcraft 2 managed to sell more than 700,000 at the end of the month.The overall value of video game sales reached ... |
13 August 2010
03:47 GMT |
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This week was marked by Blizzard's decision to actually renounce its initiative of linking forum posting from players of Starcraft II and World of Warcraft with their real names, after a flurry of opposition from gamers. But there are other news that are worth parsing and for those who are interested in more opi... |
18 July 2010
10:01 GMT |
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It seems that after a tough month of May the video game industry should be getting ready for more bad news when the NPD Group launches its figures for the month of June. It seems that there are more PlayStation 3 Slim consoles available to eager customers and that the new smaller Xbox 360 generated an increase in sal... |
14 July 2010
16:41 GMT |
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The NPD Group figures for May were pretty grim, showing that the video game industry dropped about 5% when compared to the same period of 2009, with sales of consoles being the worst hit and Super Mario Galaxy 2 not managing to sell more than 1 million units in its launch month.Speaking to MCV Michael Pachter, who is... |
9 July 2010
02:01 GMT |
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The NPD Group numbers for May showed up last week, after a short delay, and they prove the videogame industry slid down 5% when compared to the same month last year. But despite the gloomy news, the three big companies that make both hardware and videogames raced to put a positive spin on the news.Cammie Dunaway, who... |
5 July 2010
02:02 GMT |
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This week, we took a close look at the way Ubisoft revitalized the Prince of Persia series with The Forgotten Sands, with both a review of the title and a series of game diaries offered to those who want to know more about it. We also have a review of the fresh Magic the Gathering game on Xbox Live Arcade and Steam a... |
4 July 2010
09:01 GMT |
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A lot of North American gamers have played Red Dead Redemption, the open world action title created by Rockstar and published by Take Two, but that was not enough to make the month of May a very good one for the video game industry. Overall value of sales is down about 5% when compared to the same period of last year... |
2 July 2010
05:30 GMT |
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Analysts were talking, as late as this week, about May being a month of growth for the videogaming industry when compared to 2009. The numbers from the NPD Group for North America disprove the idea, with the delayed figures showing that the industry has slumped by about 5 percent when compared to the same period in 2... |
2 July 2010
04:26 GMT |
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A recent study by the NPD Group shows that gamers in the United States spent no less than 4.5 and up until to 4.75 billion dollars during 2009 on used games, rentals, subscriptions, digital downloads and downloadable content. The figure also includes mobile applications. Taking into account the new figures, the resea... |
21 June 2010
04:22 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which tracks both hardware and videogame sales on the United States market and launches monthly sales reports, has announced that it will be delaying the outing of its data for the month of May for up to three full weeks as the information technology infrastructure of the company is undergoing what is ... |
4 June 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Recent research coming from the NPD Group, which also tracks both consoles and videogames sales for the United States market, shows that the average time spent playing games has increased in 2010 when compared to the same period in 2009. Players in the United States aged over 2 have used 13 of their free hours to exp... |
1 June 2010
02:02 GMT |
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It's a bad April for the videogame industry, the NPD Group, the organization that tracks sales for both hardware and software on the North American market, saying the month saw a drop of 26% over the same period in 2009, which is the fourth biggest ever drop in one year. The overall value of sales has plummeted ... |
14 May 2010
19:01 GMT |
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April is a cruel month for videogames, the overall value of sales on the all-important North American market dropping to 766.2 million dollars from just over 1 billion during the same period of last year.Also, the hardware sector saw a drop both when compared with April 2009 and when put next to the figures posted fo... |
14 May 2010
17:01 GMT |
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It's always interesting to take a look at the sales charts, for both hardware and software, which the NPD Group puts out for individual months for the United States market, especially because of the rivalry between the big console makers. But for those looking for some reading, this Sunday we also have an EndWee... |
18 April 2010
04:41 GMT |
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March has been an interesting month for videogames, with quite a few high profile launches happening, and the NPD Group figures which came out show that God of War 3, the ending of the revenge saga featuring Spartan Kratos, managed to be the best sold game of the month in the United States, selling about 1.10 million... |
16 April 2010
05:21 GMT |
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