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NPD’s Top 20 US video games sales report for May 2009

by PJ Hruschak on Jun 12, 2009 at 07:31 PM

Independent research company NPD Group has released its US video game sales numbers for May 2009. The best selling game for the month was THQ’s new release, UFC Undisputed 2009 for Xbox 360 (the PS3 release came in fourth). Six Wii games made the chart followed closely by the Xbox… Continue Reading »

NPD Update: Nintendo systems a big hit in March 2009

by Jessica Moen on Apr 21, 2009 at 09:03 AM

Nintendo is booming in sales lately, especially last March (2009). According to independent research group NPD, the Wii and DS lead US sales in March with the Wii selling US$601,000 and the DS more than half a million, even before the launch of DSi on April 5, 2009. Last month… Continue Reading »

Game industry rakes in more than $20 billion in 2008

by Brian Allen on Jan 29, 2009 at 10:24 AM

It’s hard to tell from all the closures, layoffs and other bad financial info we talk about all day but according to research firm NPD Group, the video game industry pulled down huge profits in 2008. According to NPD’s stats, computer, video game and peripheral sales added up to $21… Continue Reading »

A force is unleased on September 2008 NPD charts

by Jason Townsend-Rogers on Oct 17, 2008 at 01:38 PM

The NPD report has been released for September 2008 and Star Wars fans sure made a Force-ful impact. Along with the positive news that total game sales were $1.27 billion, Star Wars fans had the pleasure of seeing their games place high on the charts. The console iteration of Star… Continue Reading »

NPD’s US videogames sales report for June 2008

by PJ Hruschak on Jul 18, 2008 at 09:00 PM

Independent research group NPD Group has releases its US video game sales numbers for June 2008. A few games dominated the month, especially Lego Indiana Jones, which took four of the top 20 sales spots. Likewise, Guitar Hero titles took four spots (Guitar Hero: Aerosmith was three of them). Topping… Continue Reading »

Gamers slowly taking over the US

by Pulkit Chandna on Apr 7, 2008 at 08:41 PM

The gaming population is on the rise, making up 72% of the entire US population, according to a new NPD report that was released last Wednesday (April 2, 2008). That figure is for the year 2007 and is up 64% from 2006. NPD found that 58% of all the people… Continue Reading »

Call of Duty 4 continues to dominate January sales, Xbox Live

by Christopher Buckner on Feb 15, 2008 at 02:28 PM

It seems that a week doesn’t go by that we aren’t reporting about something great happening with Infinity Ward’s world-wide number one hit, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Now the NPD Group, one of the world’s leading market research companies, has placed Call of Duty 4 on top as… Continue Reading »

NPD’s US videogames sales report for May 2007

by PJ Hruschak on Jun 18, 2007 at 05:43 PM

Nintendo takes four of the top five spots in NPD Group’s May 2007 sales report, the with the top spot remaining Pokémon Diamond which sold more than 331.2 thousand units in the US. Activision’s Spider-Man 3 broke the streak to grab the number 3 slot and, with the help of… Continue Reading »

NPD’s top 20 US games report for April 2007

by PJ Hruschak on May 22, 2007 at 07:43 AM

Nintendo takes the top four spots in NPD Group’s April 2007 sales report, the top two being the duo Pokémon releases, Diamond and Pearl (cue the Prince song) for the DS. The number 3 and 4 slots were both Wii releases, Super Paper Mario and Play (with the WiiMote), respectively.… Continue Reading »

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