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Sony: US PS3 hardware sales up 14% year on year
Platform holder responds to low NPD figures with positive sales trend
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US physical game sales hit lowest since October 2006
Physical sales decline 14 per cent in May to $743.1 million, LA Noire tops software charts
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NPD: Mobile accounts for around half of all full game downloads
Study reveals extent of market share for mobile devices
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US sales down 4% despite handheld launches
Software slumps but hardware and accessories up year-on-year
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Analysts estimate 750,000 3DS sales in US
Homefront, Crysis 2 should be biggest home console titles for March
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NPD clamps down on media access to sales data
Group asks analysts not to discuss sales and remove media from mailing lists
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NPD: We're defining the digital market
Retail tracking group confident of collating true US sales data; advisory council in place as more publishers sign up
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Hardware and accessories help US market rebound in Feb
Call of Duty: Black Ops becomes best-selling game ever in US, surpassing Wii Play with 13.7m units sold
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NPD: US games market still shrinking 5% year on year
Jan figures show drops in software and hardware but peripherals on rise
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NPD: 29 per cent of US game sales are digital
Plus 10 per cent of game purchases funded with help from trade-in
Opinion
Hard Numbers
NPD's redaction of sales figures is just a symptom of a wider truth - industry statistics are no longer meaningful
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NPD: News of beleaguered industry "caused unnecessary angst"
Sales tracker acknowledges less retail reporting "a hard pill" for some to swallow
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NPD results show 8% decline in September
<shout>UPDATE:</shout> Hardware unit sales revealed; software sales for Wii dropped 38 per cent year-on-year
Feature
Without the tools to track success... accurately
Why the videogames industry should be providing more information on sales, not less
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NPD tightens reporting of monthly sales figures
No hardware or software unit figures to be released by US sales monitor
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NPD: Downloads now bigger than boxed sales on PC
Research does not show download service sales figures, but claims overall PC sales down 14%
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NPD: 10% of US social gamers have made virtual purchases
Survey claims 57m Americans are on the Facebook game bandwagon – 20% of the population
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Red Dead Redemption: US biggest-seller of 2010 so far
NPD: Rockstar on top but Nintendo dominate rest of Jan-June chart
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US customers spent $15bn on games in 2009
NPD says over $4bn went on extra content such as subs, DLC and pre-owned
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NPD delays May US sales results
Monthly charts may be up to three weeks late as NPD update IT infrastructure
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Extreme gamers play nearly 50 hours per week
Research from The NPD Group suggests 4% of US gamers play for almost 2 full days per week
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NPD: Software up 10%; God of War III month's best seller
Sony title sells 1.1m; PS3 platform sees 4 games in the top 10 for March
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NPD: Industry sees growth of 6% in March
Nintendo accounts for 59% of hardware sold; DS sales reach 700k
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Online game purchases 'undisrupted' by economy
NPD study shows no significant changes in volumes of digital sales in past 3 years