With both the Xbox Series X|S and PS5 releasing in the month of November, it was going to be interesting if the Nintendo Switch could keep its best selling console for the month (in the U.S.) streak going. Look’s like we now have confirmation that the streak is still alive. According to the NPD Group
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Many stay-at-home activities have seen a rise over the last year due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. More and more people are finding ways to properly social distance while still keeping their sanity by either doing things they already enjoy or discovering new hobbies to take on. As such, video game usage has reportedly seen
As it does around this time every month, The NPD Group today released the latest sales information for the video game market in the United States today for the month of July 2020, with the period’s biggest winner being an expected one. Divulged by NPD’s Mat Piscatella in his always comprehensive thread on Twitter, Sucker
Alongside June’s software sales charts, the NPD group revealed some interesting information regarding the sales of hardware over the same period in the United States. For the first month since February, and since the pandemic really started to become a problem, console sales have dropped. The group reports that when compared to sales in June
Considering just how well we already knew that Final Fantasy VII Remake did in terms of sales after Square Enix announced that the game had shipped 3.5 million copies in only three days, it should come as no surprise that the long-awaited action RPG also did fantastically in the newest monthly NPD charts. The sales totals
The NPD Group has now officially revealed the final sales totals for the month of December 2019 meaning that the year’s biggest winners in the United States have now been unveiled. In the realm of software, Activision and Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ended the calendar year of 2019 as the best-selling game. Additionally, it
Some brand new sales numbers made their debut thanks to The NPD Group, and so far Pokemon Sword and Shield is continuing to break its franchise global sales records. According to the Twitter thread from Mat Piscatella, a video game industry analyst at The NPD Group, the latest installment in the long running series has
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the PlayStation brand, The NPD Group’s Mat Piscatella recently revealed some new statistics via Twitter regarding the best-selling titles in PlayStation’s history in the United States. To the surprise of probably no one at all, Piscatella said that Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V is the highest dollar selling game in
Despite a rather rough debut, BioWare and EA’s Anthem still did enough to end up as February 2019’s best-selling game. In the new NPD sales chart tracking video game sales in the United States, Anthem debuted as the top-seller of the month. Anthem has now become the second highest-selling game of 2019 currently only trailing that of Kingdom Hearts
With the new year having just started, there is plenty of possibility to see from the state of the gaming industry at large heading into 2019, as we’ve seen from one of The NPD Groups analysts sharing their thoughts on the state of gaming sales in the new year. The NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella
With a bit of a delay compared to the usual timings, the NPD delivered its monthly statistics for the U.S. market, related to the month of June. We learn via Analyst Mat Piscatella that the NES Classic Editon was the best selling hardware platform units-wise, while the PS4 was the best-seller among current-gen consoles and had
Today NPD Analyst Mat Piscatella released a new blog post making his prediction for the US market in the holiday season 2018, and for the whole year. According to Piscatella, it’ll be a very tight race for games, but Red Dead Redemption 2 will be the best-selling game (in dollar sales) of both the fourth quarter
Today NPD disclosed its statistics for the month of May 2018 related to the United States Market, by way of Analyst Mat Piscatella. We learn that total video game sales are up 13% in May, and 15% year-to-date. State of Decay 2 was the best-selling game for the month, while the PS4 was at the
Today NPD disclosed its statistics for the month of April 2018 related to the United States Market. The numbers came from Games Industry Analyst Mat Piscatella, who posted an extensive video on YouTube. First of all, it’s a triumph for God of War, which isn’t just April’s top-selling game, but it set a dollar sales
It’s that time of the months again, and NPD announced its figures for the US market in the month of March, by way of Analyst Mat Piscatella. We learn that PS4 was the best selling console of the month, and remains the best selling hardware year-to-date. Hardware spending declined 32% year-on-year (understandably, since March is
Today the NPD released its statistics for the U.S. market in the month of December, brought to is in video form by Analyst Mat Piscatella. Video game spending during the month grew 10% year-on-year, reaching 3.3 billion dollars. This was driven by hardware that grew 27% thanks to Nintendo Switch, SNES Classic, revitalized 3DS, and
The Nintendo Switch is certainly doing very well, and NPD Analyst Mat Piscatella expects it to be very successful next year as well, especially if Nintendo manages to launch the new Pokémon game that Nintendo teased earlier this year. Piscatella gave his insight on the Resetera forum mentioning that the Switch is “on pace to
The NPD is seen as one of the most authoritative sources of statistics for video games in the United States, and its dedicated Analyst Mat Piscatella had some interesting insight to share on the Resetera forums. Firstly, Piscatella mentioned that the winner for hardware in the month of November is a coin flip situation. “It could