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Nintendo and Sony Close on sales in January 2008
The NPD Group this week reminded us that the market growth is not guaranteed. Game Industry in the U.S. ended the year (2007), record retail sales of nearly $ 18 billion.
This week the NPD Group Company Research Industry published in the U.S. retail sales Period January 2008. While software sales for the month rose 11 percent near 611 million U.S. dollars, hardware sales fell in one quarter to about $ 378,000,000. Combine that with a slight decline in sales of accessories, the global industry was 6 percent in the month, registering 1.18 billion U.S. dollars in Compared with January 2007 of 1.25 billion take.
However, the month figure indicates that the industry has increased. This is because the period January 2007 has been five weeks instead reports Janvier span four weeks. The analyst Anita Frazier said the numbers are much more optimistic than the setting when taken into account.
The big winner in the market for games console software is that it was nearly 50 percent over last year.
Hardware sales were down and much that has to do with the poor that the statement was supported by a statement from Microsoft saying the Xbox 360 suffers from temporary shortages.
result of competitors Nintendo has long also been reduced. The Wii console sales crown back by a narrower margin than in previous months. In a month that saw significant advances for the PlayStation 3: the choice of format Blu-ray disc system Sony has almost head to head with the Wii, selling 269,000 systems compared to 275,000 Nintendo. 3rd place Nintendo DS sales 251 000 Accumulated while the Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable brought up the rear, selling 230,000 units.
Familiar faces dominate the list software, Modern Warfare Call of Duty 4 on Xbox 360 once again beat all rivals, are responsible for sales of 331,000. Another favorite Guitar Hero for Wii and Xbox 360 was third and fifth respectively, Super Mario Galaxy for Wii was the sixth and the DS edition of Mario Party in ninth.
These data NPD GAME FOR U.S. industry of Sales for January 2008
Category Total Change
Video Games: $ 1,180,000,000 6%
Video Game Accessories: $ 191 000 000 -4%
software Video game: $ 550 million 11%
Video Games Hardware: $ 378,000,000 -25%
Total Sales per week: $ 295,000,000 18%
Hardware Sales (units sold)
Wii: 274 000
PlayStation 3: 269.000
Nintendo DS: 251 000
PlayStation Portable: 230,000
Xbox 360: 230,000
Sat Software Top 10 (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) – 144 000
Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat (PS3, Activision) – 140.000
9) Mario Party DS (Nintendo DS, Nintendo) – 139 000
10) Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS, Sega) – 133 000
A statement from the CEO Electronic Arts John Riccitiello is confident the company's revenue increased to approximately $ 6 million in fiscal year 2011, with at least 900 income stream million dollars as a digital downloadable content, advertising in video games and subscription fees. This would represent growth of 71 percent compared with its forecast income for fiscal 2008 should reach approximately $ 3.5 billion.
Other new announcements made by EA yesterday included a release date of 07 September Spore (and possible PS3 and Xbox 360 versions).
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