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We’ve brought you Microsoft’s response to The NPD Group’s analysis of videogame sales in the US for December 2011, now let’s turn our attention to what Sony has to say about the PS3’s performance for the month.
According to Sony the “PlayStation 3 closed out a banner 2011 with a bang, showing increases in hardware, software and peripherals year to date.”
Microsoft has issued their response to The NPD Group’s December analysis of videogame sales in the US.
Microsoft, who are happy with their “strong holiday sales,” were quick to point out that the Xbox 360 was the best-selling current-generation console in the US for 2011. According to the publisher the Xbox 360 outsold the second place console by over 2.7 million units.
Now that we know how the videogame industry performed in the US for the month of December, we can turn to see what titles earned a spot in the Top 10 for 2011.
Despite what should have been busy festive season sales, the latest figures from sales tracking firm The NPD Group show that retail sales over December 2011 in the US dropped by 21% to $3.99 billion from $5.07 billion in December 2010.
Even more alarming was that hardware sales declined by 28% to $1.32 billion while accessories fell 27% to $628.7 million. Software sales suffered the least, recording a 14% drop to $2.04 billion.
Call of Duty has in years gone by appeared at the top of the UK’s end-of-year entertainment property sales rankings, both in terms of units sold and overall revenue, but it looks as though 2011 was a little different.
Singer Adele has managed to outdo the world’s most dominant videogame with her latest album, ‘21,’ and in terms of unit sales at least, has outsold Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 by a margin of over one million copies.
Taking into account the price of a music album versus a copy of a game, Modern Warfare 3 is still safely the highest earner of last year in 2011, but that doesn’t make Adele’s feat any less notable.
UK sales tracking firm UKIE has revealed the top-selling games of 2011 in the UK, and unsurprisingly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is slap-bang at the top of the all formats sales listing, followed by FIFA 12 and Battlefield 3.
Familiar ‘faces’ in the fitness and dance genres are included in the top ten, as well as open-world offerings in the fantasy, comic book, sci-fi and contemporary categories.
Lists of top-selling games across individual platforms have also been released - find out what were the hottest games of 2011 in the UK below:
During a recent and interesting CES 2012 presentation, Microsoft revealed a number of incredible facts and figures alongside an intriguing announcement for PC owners.
Activision has today announced that after the publisher’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 broke entertainment sales records following release by generating $400 million on day one of availability, the shooter has managed to rack up a whopping $1 billion in revenue in just 16 days.
Sales tracking firm The NPD Group has just released its latest report concerning the US videogame industry, this time for the month of November 2011, revealing sales across hardware, software and accessory market segments to be flat year-over-year as revenue rose just 0.4% to roughly $3 billion compared to $2.99 billion in November 2010.
After shipping ten million units and selling five million copies during the week of launch, EA’s chief financial officer Eric Brown has revealed that Battlefield 3 from DICE has gone on to sell an additional three million units since late October.
Microsoft recently sent out word that its Xbox 360 managed to sell nearly 1 million units during the week of Black Friday in the US, and over the course of the Thanksgiving holiday in the country.
This news follows an announcement by Nintendo that on Black Friday (November 25th) alone, the Wii sold half a million units.
Bethesda Softworks has today announced that the studio’s just-released open-world fantasy-based action RPG, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, has enjoyed “an enthusiastic reception by gamers across the globe” and successfully shipped seven million units worldwide, with “[more] than 50% of launch units” sold in the first two days of availability.
Can we safely assume, then, that over 3.5 million units of Skyrim were sold in 48 hours?
Sales tracking firm The NPD Group recently released its latest report on the US videogame industry, this time for the month of October 2011, revealing an overall sales increase of just 1% across videogame hardware, software and accessory sales in the region, up to $1.08 billion compared to $1.07 billion in October 2010.
Both hardware and software sales saw revenue increases as compared to the same reporting period last year, but accessories dropped by 5%.
In a report on VGChartz (i.e. not an official source), the site claims that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has managed to sell over nine million units on day one of sale, making it by far the best selling game in the series, as well as the biggest selling videogame and entertainment property ever.
In a bit of unexpected news today, Sony has announced that after releasing early last week, Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 3 went on to sell almost 4 million units on day one of availability!
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