The Ouya sold out at most stores on its launch day, but the news about the system has been pretty negative since then: despite looking like a successful launch, NPD analysts say that Ouya sales in its first month weren’t actually all that impressive, and now …
The NPD’s for June are out, and things have turned out pretty much the way that most people expected them to: The Last of Us has ridden the wave of nearly unanimous critical acclaim all the way to the bank, the 3DS continues to prove that …
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: …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
