May NPD: Injustice still on top, 3DS surges in popularity

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  May NPD: Injustice still on top, 3DS surges in popularity

  Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 17 Jun

  May was a relatively quiet month for new releases (it’s the calm before the storm of E3,) and while the industry suffered an overall decline in both software and hardware sales once again, a few companies did manage to generate some respectable sales during the month: WB Games’ Injustice proved that people never get tired [...]

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  April NPD: Injustice Gods Among Us beats down the competition

  Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 16 May

  Has it been a month already? I’m still busy playing through all the games I bought in March, and apparently a lot of you guys are too: according to the NPD sales data released today, April was a pretty slow month for the industry. Only 4 out of the top 10 bestselling games for the [...]

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  March NPD: BioShock Infinite soars as overall industry sales nosedive

  Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 18 Apr

  The NPD Group has released their monthly sales listings for March, and despite strong performances from big triple-A titles like BioShock Infinite and Tomb Raider, overall industry revenue has continued to decline as the current generation of consoles winds down.

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  February NPD: Dead Space, Crysis and Metal Gear cut up the competition

  Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 14 Mar

  The NPD numbers for February are out, and while overall software sales across the industry continued to fall, a handful of big hits managed to perform quite well.

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  January NPD: It was a bad month

  Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 14 Feb

  2012 was a rough year for the games industry, and it looks like 2013 is shaping up to be even worse.

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  Overall 2012 NPD charts show overall decline in game sales

  Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 12 Jan

  The retail analysts at NPD just finished compiling their sales data for last December and their overall analysis of 2012 as a whole, and the numbers confirm what we already knew: 2012 was a bad year to be in the games industry.

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  November NPD: Call of Duty, Halo, and the Xbox 360 top the charts

  Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 07 Dec

  NPD sales date for the month of November has just been released, and there’s no surprises this month: Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Halo 4 predictably dominated software sales, while Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was once again the best selling console of the month.

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  October NPD: Sales decline but industry remains hopeful for holiday season

  Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 On: 11 Nov

  Overall sales across the entire games industry has been slowly declining throughout 2012, but game companies everywhere remain hopeful that the predicted strong holiday season will propel them to end the year on a high note.

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  September NPD: Sports games and Borderlands help industry recover from a weak summer

  Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News On: 13 Oct

  The NPD Group has finished tallying sales figures from September, and things are starting to look up for the games industry: total industry sales were up 67% from August’s disappointingly weak figures.

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  August NPD: Darksiders 2 reaps in a ton of cash as overall sales decline

  Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 On: 10 Sep

  The NPD Group has once again released sales figures for the past month, and the story in August was pretty much the same as every other month in 2012 so far: a handful of titles managed to do some good business, but overall sales within the industry continue to fall.

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  First Quarter 2012 Physical Retail Down 26% Says NPD

  Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News On: 02 Jul

  NPD released their first quarter 2012 gaming industry sales data today which showed that consumers spent about $1.5 billion on new physical video game and PC software, down 26% from $2.03 billion last year. While digital sales are up from last year they’re still not enough to offset shrinking physical retail sales as the game [...]

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  NPD: Overall game sales decline, despite Diablo 3′s massive success

  Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 On: 15 Jun

  Diablo 3 sold even better than expected, but the success of Blizzard’s latest loot RPG couldn’t stop the downward trend that the entire industry has been facing ever since the year started. Full breakdown after the jump:

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