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NPD Sales Results For January 2011 [Up4: Analyst Data (Lots Of Games)]
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BlazingDarkness
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it's all the fat moms feeling guilty post holiday seasonThrei said:
ukresistance
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Where is Mass Effect 2?
http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/17/calling-all-gamers-u-s-video-games-sales-dip-5-percent-in-january/
Video game players may have been too busy playing with their Christmas toys last month, as U.S. sales of video games fell 5 percent in January. Total sales of game hardware, PC games, console games and portables fell to $1.16 billion from $1.22 billion a year ago, according to market researcher NPD. And January a year ago was down from the year before that.
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NPD said U.S. retail game hardware sales fell 8 percent to $324.0 million from $353.7 million. Game software fell 5 percent to $576.0 million from $606.8 million a year ago. Accessories were up 6 percent to $235.1 million from $222.8 million a year earlier, largely because of sales of Microsofts Kinect motion-sensing accessory for the Xbox 360, as well as Sonys PlayStation Move wand-like controller.
Video game players may have been too busy playing with their Christmas toys last month, as U.S. sales of video games fell 5 percent in January. Total sales of game hardware, PC games, console games and portables fell to $1.16 billion from $1.22 billion a year ago, according to market researcher NPD. And January a year ago was down from the year before that.
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NPD said U.S. retail game hardware sales fell 8 percent to $324.0 million from $353.7 million. Game software fell 5 percent to $576.0 million from $606.8 million a year ago. Accessories were up 6 percent to $235.1 million from $222.8 million a year earlier, largely because of sales of Microsofts Kinect motion-sensing accessory for the Xbox 360, as well as Sonys PlayStation Move wand-like controller.
SabinFigaro
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Disappointed to see DKCR bottomed out after Christmas, but I would hope it is a steady seller throughout the Wii's lifetime.
Hiro_Kunimi_80
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=387389ukresistance said:
Version 3.0
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Wow, my tastes must be getting really divergent. It used to be that I'd own half or more of the top 10 games in a given month. This month, 0, although I'm just late in picking up Dead Space 2.
BlazingDarkness
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doesn't seem to be any buzz about itapana said:
even the GAF thread is small
Aquavelvaman
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I hate the way the platforms aren't segregated, especially with games like Black Ops where they are clearly different games with the same title.
Patriotsbball5460
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Easily the strangest NPD Top 10 in months!
Shocks for me:
LBP at #4
Zumba Fitness even charting
Dance Central charting this late after release
DCUO charting
I am also surprised by Michael Jackson charting again
Shocks for me:
LBP at #4
Zumba Fitness even charting
Dance Central charting this late after release
DCUO charting
I am also surprised by Michael Jackson charting again
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Does the increase in accessory money seem really low to anyone else considering how much Move and Kinect cost and how important of accessories they are?
LBP (1) had rather poor sales the first couple months, enough anyway that there were a few articles about it.
Wikipedia tells me that "SCEE President Andrew House announced at Gamescom 2010 that the game has now sold over 4.5 million worldwide", so I guess it was a slow burner.
polyh3dron
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I could have sworn it was available on PSN and XBLM as well.SailorDaravon said:
Dead Prince
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must be a slow month because LBP2 came out in January 18th. giving it a 11 day sale. or it did massive.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Guevara said:
Or that Sony overestimated demand of it so there were lots on store shelves and that they bundled it with almost everything (LBP is currently being bundled with the PS3 controller).
BruceLeeRoy
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Wow wasn't expecting to see LBP2 on there. Nice.
Graphics Horse
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SailorDaravon said:
2 might be enough, how many more copies did Just Dance 2 sell?
BruceLeeRoy
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Good lord I am shocked that DC Universe charted.
GrotesqueBeauty
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I'm curious how close DKCR came to the top 10. Good to see Dead Space 2 have a strong opening, it's very much deserved. Now to wait for some numbers so we can gain a little perspective.
GitarooMan
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Really? I would have been surprised not to see it, especially because it's January.BruceLeeRoy said:
Caesar III
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Funny to see Zumba that high so soon. And I wasn't aware it is out on all platforms. I guess this helped a lot to rank that high. That said I know about 4 who will prolly buy it when it's available here in Europe.
snoopeasystreet
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software said:
hardware said:
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Basileus777
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It's January, I'm don't know what's so shocking about LBP2 charting.
Not sure why LBP2 charting would surprise anyone. The first game clearly sold pretty well over time and was a high quality game. Which usually results in the sequel selling far more at launch. And.. its January..
Need more numbers to make things interesting anyhow.
Need more numbers to make things interesting anyhow.
Megadragon15
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You really do live up to your tag.Speevy said:
Patriotsbball5460
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Elios83 said:
I've been looking, but nothing so far. Usually Aaron Greenberg or Stepto will tweet about how well MS did.
elrechazado
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classicSpeevy said: