NPDs

NPDs headlines

• NPD June - Lego Batman 2 tops, hardware plummets

  As predicted, the NPD is reporting US sales figures took a nosedive for the seventh consecutive month.

• Pachter predicts 34% YOY decline in NPD's June sales report

  When the NPD Group releases its June sales report later this week, Michael Pachter isn’t banking on good news.

• NPD May - Diablo III beats out multi-plats, 3DS tops hardware

  The NPD Group’s monthly report on US retail sales shows a significant dip in overall sales, but strong performances from Blizzard’s Diablo III and the 3DS.

• Pachter predicts March NPD declines, hardware cuts ahead

  Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter expects a grim result in this week’s NPD report – but expects a PlayStation 3 price cut this year.

• Pachter: Slow April game sales suggest "something is terribly wrong"

  Before particularly nasty natural disasters, there’s this phenomenon where animals somehow see it coming and find high ground atop a hill or something of the like. See that hill over there? There are analysts gathered atop that hill. The end times are near.

• Mass Effect 2 becomes best-selling January release ever in only one week

  Shepard and the crew vas Normandy may have been leapfrogged by Nintendo’s portly plumber, but that didn’t stop Mass Effect 2 from taking home a nice consolation prize. You know, nothing special. Just the award for best-selling January release ever.

• September NPD - PS3 bested only by DS in the US

  Price-cuts and Slim’s launch have done wonders for PlayStation 3 in this month’s NPD: the console sold over 491k in the US September. DS was the overall best selling hardware though, with sales of 524k. Wii sold 462k, Xbox 360 managed 352k, and there were sales of 190k for PSP and 146k for PlayStation 2. […]

• September NPD - Raw Data

  PlayStation 2 146.0K PlayStation 3 491.8K PSP 190.4K Xbox 360 352.6K Wii 462.8K Nintendo DS 524.2K HALO 3:ODST 360 MICROSOFT (CORP) Sep-09 1.52M 1 WII SPORTS RESORT W/ WII MOTION PLUS WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Jul-09 442.9K 2 MADDEN NFL 10 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-09 289.6K 3 MARIO & LUIGI:BOWSER’S INSIDE STORY NDS NINTENDO OF […]