NPD: Game Industry Records Best November Ever
NPD: Game Industry Records Best November Ever
Posted 12/10/2010 at 6:49am
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Not only did the games industry post a positive month in November, 2010, it posted the best November ever, getting a lot of help from Microsoft's Kinect and Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops, according to the NPD Group.
Total sales climbed to $2.99 billion, an 8 percent jump from last November. Gamers spent $1.46 on software (up 4 percent), $1.08 billion on hardware (up 2 percent), and $413.3 million on accessories such as the Kinect (up a whopping 69 percent).
"November sales represent the best November on record in terms of new physical retail sales," said NPD industry analyst Anita Frazier. "It bests November 2008 by roughly $30 million, and that time frame was at the height of the music/dance genre sales."
The Nintendo DS dominated the hardware scene, while the Xbox 360 was the best selling non-handheld console for the month. On the software front, Call of Duty: Black Ops became the best selling game in its launch month with 8.4 million units, NPD noted.
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crazitrain02
December 10, 2010 at 11:31am
I haven't seen any sales reports yet from Blizzard on WoW: Cataclysm, but I'm sure that it already beat out Black Ops within the first 48 hours. If anybody remembers the last expansion for WoW, there was 8.5 million copies sold in the first 24 hours, and Black Ops only has 8.4 million copies for the entire month.
schneider1492
December 10, 2010 at 11:11am
wow a whole $1.46 you would never se me spend that mutch lol.
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