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One of the things I’m jealous of North America for is their ability to track and publicise pretty much everything but in this instance, gaming sales.
The NPD track all gaming related sales in North America (excl digital and Wallmart) and then publicise the results monthly ... [»]
It’s been - and, for the next two months - will continue to be an absolutely incredible year for gamers. We’ve gotten an amazing array of games on all available platforms - too many, some might think. Which of the fantastic releases we’ve gotten this year has had the most sales though? The answer may surprise you.Thanks to Nintendo’s year-end financials, we’ve got the details - and according to the NPD, which charts sales in ... [»]
A few days back we posted about Michael Pachter’s predictions that the Xbox 360 would dominate the September NPD’s with the PS3 quite far behind and the Nintendo Wii languishing in last place. Well the official stats are out and we ... [»]
The NPD figures are in and Microsoft and Rockstar are celebrating all the way to the bank once more. Just to clarify, NPD figures only count North American sales figures but seeing as that’s one of the biggest, if not the ... [»]
Since the NPD, who track sales figures in North America, stopped publishing the exact sales figures the monthly sales announcements haven’t really been the exciting monthly moments they used to be but this month has thrown up some surprises so we’re going to take a look quickly.First up we have the hardware sales which haven’t ... [»]
Here on Lazygamer, we’ve pretty regularly used sales figures provided by the NPD Group – the market research company that’s tasked with generating monthly lists of top selling games software and hardware in the United States. The figures have been helpful in seeing how well the industry in general is performing – and also to stimulate debate.Last year, the ... [»]
Unfortunately all the regions in the world have now decided that gaming console sales figures are now a big secret and as such it’s becoming more and more difficult to accurately track the progress of the respective consoles. The NPD in ... [»]
November is a big month for electronic device sales in the Us. Thanks to Black Friday – the day after thanksgiving and the traditional start of Christmas shopping - and its many incredible deals, high-priced items like consoles have a tendency to fly off shelves.November’s hardware sales tend to paint a pretty accurate picture of what the American public wants – and will be getting – for ... [»]
We’ve had some massive titles released this year so far with the likes of Red Dead Redemption, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Halo Reach and God of War 3 all hitting retail shelves since January this year. But the question is which titles have lived up to ... [»]
In what’s likely to be a blow against trolls and overzealous console fanboys, the NPD – who has routinely supplied monthly console hardware sales figures – have announced that they will no longer be doing so. How in the hell are fanboys supposed to anonymously point digital fingers and laugh over the internet, misguidedly pointing out ... [»]
The NPD group (the American market research group that analyses pretty much everything you can think of) has released some fresh and rather surprising information on the amount of console gamers who make use of downloadable content across America.For a country with the kind of connectivity that it has, the results ... [»]
It was bound to happen sooner or later; NPD has released market research for the first six months of 2010. Their findings have shown that digital downloads have sold more than physical copies of games from retail stores and online shops.Of course, their findings are based on market research conducted in ... [»]
Are people over the Wii and its motion-controlled gaming? Is that fad coming to an end? Well, it possibly would have been, had Microsoft and Sony not been so keen to introduce their own waggle via Kinect and Move respectively.As evidenced by the latest NPD figures the once insurmountable Wii seems to be in a steady decline – while sales of the Xbox 360 and PS3 ... [»]
With the release of the new slim and trim Xbox 360 it would be no surprise to see Microsoft running to the top of the NPD sales charts for a short while just as Sony did last year. And with the July NPD results out we see Microsoft sitting pretty ... [»]
It was teased last week that Microsoft would be walking away with the console prize in June and at the same time it is no surprise that Rockstar are on top of the software sales though Super Mario Galaxy 2 did push them right ... [»]
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