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NPD data EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Demon's Souls sales are 'impressive' 48 Games like Demon's Souls aren't supposed to sell well. A super hardcore, obscure RPG published by Atlus? Yeah, those games don't sell well. Except the game actually is selling well, at least by i... October NPD: Sales down all around, Ucharted 2 number 1 21 Sales for videogames were down 19% from the month for September. Plus the release of the biggest PS3 exclusive of the year wasn't enough to keep the PS3 at the top. It's not all bad news though! ... September NPD: Half a million PS3 sold, outsold Wii 52 I don't know what it was. Was it the price drop? Was it that people are just tired of the Wii now? Hell freezing? Something!Hardware: The NPD Group has just released their data, and that data say... Less spending on games this holiday season, says NPD 21 Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst of the NPD Group said, “I think consumers will be looking for the right gift, rather than the most extravagant or expensive one."That means that y... NPD says 170 million gamers in the US 21 Rejoice ye gamers, you are not alone. No, there are many of us and we hold hands in peace and harmony across America... or we're shooting each other online. Either way there's 170,000,000 of us a... Greenberg talks a lot, says 360 is good, PS3 is not good 29 While the NPD results showed bad news for most of the videogame industry, at least one company is riding high. That company is Microsoft, and you can always be sure that with success comes some s... Game industry sees biggest sales slump in nine years 28 With the NPD results rolling in, it's been made clear that things are not all roses and gumdrop rainbows in the land of videogames, with the industry seeing a fourth consecutive month of decline.... The Conduit sells under 72K in US during June 74 Those who argue against so-called "hardcore" games on the Wii have some fresh justification, with news that The Conduit failed to break into the top five Wii games for June and shifted ... June NPD: Prototype vs inFAMOUS concluded ... Prototype won 65 The Prototype versus inFAMOUS war -- which was a totally serious war that everybody cared about and had huge ramifications on the game industry -- has finally concluded after a bitter and bloodso... Online gaming is up 22 percent in May, retail games down 7 Over 87 million visitors hit online gaming sites in May, which is up 22 percent from last year. Where are they playing? Sites like EA Online and Nickelodeon Casual Games, or the biggest, Yahoo! G... April NPD: Games down 17 percent, DSi rocked 7 We'll make quick work of this month's NPD data, as it closely mirrors the previous month's data. This is the second month that the games market has dropped, down 17 percent again. Hardware sales ... March NPD: Gaming's first big dip in a long time 17 March sadness? They called gaming recession proof, but it sure didn't seem that way after looking at the March NPD data. It's probably too early to call either way, but industry-wide sales have f... NPD: Gamers to maintain or increase gaming purchases in 2009 15 Recession? Whatever. Even if we have to live in a dumpster and eat Doritos crumbs, gamers will still get our game on. Let's say you have $80 left over after you pay your bills at the beginning of... The day that evil won: Wii Fit outsells Halo 3 in the U.S. 113 Lets start with the facts.Nintendo is a giant, evil corporation that is hellbent on ruining videogames, the world, and everything. The only things standing in their way are a local, "Mom and... December NPD: highest single month for game sales ever 15 It just goes to show that Americans will still have their Christmas -- and games -- regardless of any downturn of the economy. Sales hit a massive $5 billion in December. Gamasutra says that's eq... November NPD: Santa is bringing games for Christmas 5 ...and they're likely to be Nintendo games and systems. You may have already heard, but Nintendo sold 2.04 million Wii consoles last month. That's the record for most sold in November... ever. As... October NPD: The holiday ramp-up 6 It's that time of month again where we take a quick look at the NPD data to see how the games industry is doing. We're over our shame for the incorrect predictions we put out in August for Septem... September NPD: The Force was unleashed 10 Okay, so we were wrong. Last month I predicted that September would be a strong month for games, but it turns out that the whole industry saw its first decline in sales since early 2006. Even sti... Games: it's spreading to the girls now 9 Well, that's not how the NPD put it. They say that this year young girls are fitting more gaming into their busy girly schedule than they did last year. The NPD Group's study, called -- no kiddin... Number munchers: The top-selling console games of the year detailed 11 The NPD Group and Gamasutra have teamed up to reveal the top five best-selling games for the three major consoles. While there are still a reasonable amount of big-budget titles on the horizon, i... August NPD: the calm before the holiday storm 7 Last month was crazy for the industry. Game sales were up 41% over last year. But, as summer winds down, so does the videogames industry. We're in what you might call that pre-holiday season lull... Spore expected to sell two million units 16 Colin Sebastian, Lazard Capital Markets Senior Vice President, outlined his Electronic Arts sales expectations to gamesindustry.biz. Sebastian expects Spore to sell two million units in the US an... Console sales falling in Japan, Nintendo panics and jumps out of a window 21 According to gamesindustry.biz data, the Japanese hardware sales week ended on August 24 shows a fall in console and handheld sales.The Wii sold a mere 35,173 unit compared to its previous mark o... NPD: 174 million gamers in the US 13 We knew it was high, but we probably would not have guessed that the NPD Group's total tally for gamers the US was as high as 174 million. This number would represent half the population of the U... July NPD: Summer heat shows no signs of cooling down 12 Summer is supposed to be the time where the game industry calms down and takes a break before the fall/holiday rush, right? I don't know if the industry is on break or not, but the consumers aren... NPD Group: 22 percent of gamers are young and heavy 13 A new report by the NPD Group that Gamasutra is carrying called “Games Segmentation 2008,” shows that the majority of videogame players are what the group classifies as “Young H... Nintendo still owns European sales charts 11 The sales charts for the week ended on July 27th reveal that Germans dig Drakensang, but still really enjoy Nintendo software. The Spanish are once again trying to diversify their portfolio by bu... Nintendo owns European sales charts 22 The last time we talked Spain and Germany sales charts, we found that Super Smash Brothers Brawl had toppled Metal Gear Solid 4 for the top spot. The week ending on July 13 shows Nintendo’s... June NPD shows that Spore is supreme 13 Today, the NPD Group released the sales data for all US PC software sold before June 21. EA and Maxis’ penis-monster invention tool, Spore Creature Creator, came out on top of the list. Als... May NPD: PS3 outsells Xbox 360, GTA IV sells like crazy 35 It's that time of month again where I plow through the NPD numbers and subsequent "big three" responses and try to make sense of it all. This month we see the same spin recipe we've see... April NPD: Mario Kart Wii takes a back seat to GTA IV 11 Duh. Going through the releases on April's NPD data from the "big three," two of them are touting Grand Theft Auto IV sales records, while the other is saying that they sold the most sy... March NPD: PS3 barely loses lead over Xbox 360, Nintendo continues to dominiate 38 It's that time of the month again, when I plow through the NPD numbers and try to make sense of each of the big three's press releases. Sony's PlayStation 3 continues to have a good run, though t... Feburary NPD: PS3 outsells Xbox 360 again, Wii & DS make up 50% of hardware 24 If you had to boil down this month's NPD numbers to one statement, it wouldn't be about any particular system (despite how my headline reads). "Videogames are blowing up" would probably... January NPD: PS3 outsells Xbox 360 65 Ah, this is refreshing. I don't say that as a fanboy of any particular console, but more as the person who digs through the NPD data every month. It's nice to see something different!The PlayStat... Call of Duty 4 rules the world (in sales for 2007) 36 Activision announced today that Call of Duty 4 has nabbed the coveted "most units sold worldwide for calender 2007" title. So, how many units had to be sold to beat out the likes of Hal... December NPD: Everyone says that they won 10 In a sense, I guess everyone does win in December. But the releases sent to us by Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft on December's NPD data all seem to point to their victories over something, and mos... Spin-free: November NPD software numbers 21 November was a great month for hardware sales, but it was even better for software, with sales up 62 percent to an incredible $1.3 billion. These days, it's in high fashion to "claim" t... Spin-free: November NPD hardware numbers 18 Even though the monthly NPD data is used by all game companies to gauge sales and successes, we have to be mindful of how those numbers are presented. This highly competitive industry has quickly... Captian Obvious helps analysts predict Nintendo dominance for November sales 15 The great thing about our favorite superhero, Captain Obvious, is that he is always willing to lend a helping hand when it comes to reporting information to the general public. Hell, he even regu... NPD: Halo 3 shoots down the competition again 20 Before we could finish mourning the loss of our beloved NPD numbers, they were somehow resurrected and we're now reunited in nerdy statistical bliss. Ah, this just feels right.October's number sh... October software sales up 50% thanks to dogs in witty garb 15 Unfortunately, I'm not serious about the reason for software sales doubling for the month of October, but I can tell you if these dogs approached me on the street and told me to purchase twice th... NPD Number Nazi: No more NPD numbers for you! 19 There's some new bad news for all of the game news junkies (I'm with you, guys) out there. Newsweek's Level Up blog tells us that the NPD is going to start cutting back on the data they've normal... Pachter's September predictions: Halo 3 and Xbox 360 sales, PS3 and PS2 cuts 23 Armed with the new NPD data, our favorite games industry analyst, Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter, has announced some eye-popping predictions for September.First off are the predictions that we ... Nintendo and Madden take top positions in August NPD results. 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