Another month, another column on the latest NPD Group sales estimates. Gamasutra is graciously hosting my article:
Direct link to Gamasutra story about February 2011 NPD data.
Some stuff folks might be interested in:
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Direct link to Gamasutra story about February 2011 NPD data.
Some stuff folks might be interested in:
- Elaboration on the shifting situation for consoles. Starting from comments made by Doug Creutz of Cowen & Company, a look at the share of hardware and software share in two comparable 12-month periods.
- MvC3 roughly 1:1 between Xbox 360 and PS3.
- 44K Killzone 3 bundles.
- Some info on attach rates for a variety of games (but not everything you'd want, so sorry). I already know y'all will yell at me because of the scales, but those were the limitations for the data I was given.
- Points cards were $56.5 million in February 2011, up from $37.2 million a year ago. I believe these are the first hard values we've ever gotten for points cards.
- Not in the article, but of interest perhaps: Killzone 2 LTD is 956K, presumably without hardware bundles. (There was a KZ2/PS3 bundle in the U.S. as I recall.)
- Working on a firm NDS figure (esp. for the prediction thread). It's around 454K. PSP around 78K.
![attach-rates-action-games.png](http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/feature/6303/attach-rates-action-games.png)
I'll be around some of day, so when you find mistakes, please let me know. I'll try to answer questions too, if there's something you think I got wrong or that would be worth chatting about.
As always, I'm up for corrections, comments, etc. Please don't take a lack of immediate response personally -- I may simply not be here. My
In case you'd like to review previous threads:
2007: Oct Nov Dec
2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2011: Jan