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The NPD Group provided a reminder this week that the market growth is not guaranteed. The gaming industry in the United States ended the year (2007) with sales records of retail sales of nearly $ 18 billion.
The NPD Group this week, research firm Industry published data from U.S. retail sales for the period of January 2008. While software sales for the month rose 11 percent to nearly 611 million, hardware sales fell by one quarter to about $ 378 million. Combine that with a modest decline in sales of accessories the whole sector fell 6 percent for the month, posting $ 1.18 billion compared to January 2007 of 1.25 billion take.
Despite this, the month contained indications that the industry has actually increased. Because the 2007 reporting period January was five weeks long as opposed to this January to four weeks span. Analyst Anita Frazier said the numbers are much rosier when that adjustment was taken into account.
The big winner in the games market was console software which was nearly 50 percent higher compared to the year last.
Hardware sales were down and much of it has to do with the poor quality of supply that the statement was supported by a statement from Microsoft saying the Xbox 360 was suffering from temporary shortages.
Result of longstanding Nintendo on its competitors was also reduced. The Wii once again the console sales took the crown by a narrower margin than in previous months. In a month that saw significant advances for the PlayStation 3 has chosen Blu-ray disc, Sony's system ran nearly neck and neck with the Wii, selling 269,000 systems compared to the Nintendo 275,000. 3rd place Nintendo DS accumulated 251,000 sales, while Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable brought up the rear, the sales of 230,000 units each.
Familiar faces dominated the software list, with Modern Warfare and Call of Duty 4 for Xbox 360 again beaten all challengers, punctuated with 331,000 sales. Another favorite Guitar Hero on Wii and Xbox 360 took third and fifth, respectively, Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii has ended sixth and the DS edition of Mario Party in ninth.
These data NPD Group U.S. FOR THE GAME INDUSTRY SALES January 2008
Category Total Change
Video Games: $ 1.18 billion -6%
Video Game Accessories: $ 191 million -4%
Games Video Software: $ 550 million +11%
Video Games Hardware: $ 378 million -25%
Total sales per week: $ 295 million +18%
Hardware Sales (units sold)
Wii: 274000
PlayStation 3: 269,000
Nintendo DS: 251,000
PlayStation Portable: 230,000
Xbox 360: 230.000
Game Software Top 10 (units sold)
1) Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat (360, Activision) – 331.000
2) Wii Play with Wii Remote (Wii, Nintendo) – 298.000
3) Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii, Activision) – 240,000
4) Rock Band (Xbox 360, MTV Games) – 184,000
5) Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360, Activision) – 183.000
6) Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo) – 172.000
7) Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360, EA) – 144000
Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat (PS3, Activision) – 140,000
9) Mario Party DS (DS, Nintendo) – 139.000
10) Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS, Sega) – 133.000
A statement CEO of Electronic Arts John Riccitiello is confident the company's revenue will increase to approximately 6 billion dollars by the year 2011, with at least 900 million in digital revenue streams like downloadable content, in-game advertising and subscriber fees. This would represent a growth of 71 percent over 2008 revenue forecast year, it should reach about 3.5 billion dollars.
More news announcements made by EA yesterday included a release date of September 7 for Spore (and possible PS3 and Xbox 360 versions).
About the Author:
David is the owner of ConsolesMarket.com, which has thousands of consoles & games listed on the site at fantastic prices. http://www.consolesmarket.com . The site helps you compare the market as it has other merchants offering a full range of products for you to compare.
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Nintendo and Sony Close on Sales in January 2008
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How much money can I get buy selling 40 Playstation 2 and Xbox 40 games in a garage sale?
Please help they have to have the sale garage tomorrow its my only day to have one:)
I would say 5.10 dollars apiece. Mine tend to sell well. But it depends on whether you have a lot of people that play in your city.
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