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It debuted at the number two spot on last month's NPD Group's statistics.

Market research firm The NPD Group has released a new report on gamers» spending habits on downloadable content.

Activision has been rather quiet on the Destiny 2 front since the game's launch, but The NPD Group confirmed this morning that it was the best - selling game during the month of September.

The NPD Group reported US sales of video game products in the month of September grew 39 % when compared to a year ago, reaching $ 1.2 B in the month.

According to The NPD Group, Nintendo added another 280,000 Switch consoles to its tally last month, and the newly - launched Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold more than 459,000 copies (in just two days) to take the top spot on the list of best - selling games.

According to the NPD Group's recounting of the best - selling games in June, Tekken 7 (# 1) and Injustice 2 (# 2) took the top two spots.

The largest groups are Action games which represent 22.3 % of sales and NPD group estimates this is 80 % male, second is Shooters at 21.2 % of the market (78 % male) while Sports games are 15.3 % of te market (85 % male).

The first year for Nintendo's Switch continues to go swimmingly, and another exclusive release for the console has claimed the top spot in The NPD Group's monthly tally of best - selling games.

NetherRealm Studios has done it again... The NPD Group (via GamesIndustry.biz) has revealed that Injustice 2 was the best - selling game in May.

Now that 2017 full year data for the video game category from The NPD Group is in the books (check out our video for all the detail), it's time to get the report card.

NPD Group has just released gaming statistics for July 2017, and it's clear that Nintendo is performing extremely well thanks to the Switch.

Diablo III became the first PC game to lead US videogame sales since Starcraft II two years ago, but it wasn't enough to prevent sales from suffering a 28 % drop from May 2011 to May 2012, according to the NPD Group.

According to market research firm, The NPD Group, Moshi Monsters was the No. 1 toy license in the UK for the month of April.

Late yesterday, NPD group employee Mat Piscatella released and detailed info on the February 2018 NPD numbers, detailing February's hottest selling software in the United States.

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, The NPD Group's Liam Callahan confirmed that the game industry saw a year - over-year sales increase thanks to Halo 5 and the debut of Microsoft's Xbox One Elite Controller: «Overall sales across physical software, hardware, and accessories experienced a modest 2 % growth in October 2015 compared to October 2014.

* Data regarding physical sales of games in February are from the NPD Group.

Anita Frazier from NPD Group: «While hardware sales realized the greatest percentage growth over 2006 due to the closely scrutinized console hardware transition, each category under the video games industry umbrella reached their own «personal bests» in terms of annual sales.»

Activision has announced that according to data from the NPD Group, the company's market share in calendar year 2007 was 17.7 % — a 7.2 % increase over the same period last year — which in fact makes them 2007's number one publisher in the US.

According to the NPD Group, Call of Duty 4 and Guitar Hero III were the number one and three best - selling titles across all platforms.

«We are delighted that according to the NPD Group's latest data, PS4 was January's top - selling console in the United States.

January broke records in the US as games sales were up 59 per cent year - on - year compared to January 2017, the NPD Group's monthly charts reported.

* Data regarding physical sales of games in June are from the NPD Group.

According to data from market researcher NPD Group, Americans bought $ 446.9 million worth of video game hardware during the month, a 17 percent jump from the same month a year ago.

The NPD Group's QC process highlighted a data issue within digital data for Sept 2017.

«Sea of Thieves generated the highest launch month sales for any title produced by developer Rare since tracking by The NPD Group began in 1995.»

The NPD Group will soon release their sales data for September, and it seems Nintendo is once again sitting pretty atop the hardware charts.

«In September, the Nintendo Switch system was once again the top - selling current - generation console hardware, according to the NPD Group.

The NPD Group have released their full January sales data, and it was a good month for Japanese publishers.

The NPD Group hasn't publicly released their full November sales report yet, but The Wall Street Journal's Sarah Needleman has revealed NPD sales figures for the month's two highest - profile games, Activision's (NASDAQ: ATVI) Call of Duty: WWII and EA's (NASDAQ: EA) Star Wars Battlefront II.

Video games, electronics, and apps make up a combined 22 percent of kids» licensed product dollar sales in the U.S. * — on par with the volume represented by toys, which is the number one licensed industry at most retailers, according to the U.S. Kids License Report from global information company The NPD Group.

The PlayStation 4 outsold the Nintendo Switch and the Xbox One in February, the NPD Group reported.

Call of Duty: WWII earned a spot at the top of The NPD Group's list of best - selling games for both November and December, and now the tracking firm has confirmed that Activision's shooter was also the best - selling game for all of 2017.

The market research company NPD Group reported in August 2008 that sales of video game hardware and software increased by 28 percent in July 2008, reaching almost $ 1.2 billion [source: Fox News].

«2017 was a special year for the industry, and for everyone who loves games,» said Mat Piscatella, The NPD Group's video game industry analyst.

The hand - held DS outsold the Wii in November 1.53 million units to 981,000, according to sales figures compiled by NPD Group.

According to The NPD Group (via GamesIndustry.biz), Capcom's unique Action RPG helped push the industry to its best performance in January since 2011.

PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, March 6, 2013 — According to Core Gaming 2013, the latest report from global information company, The NPD Group, within the US population ages 9 and older, almost half play video games on what would be considered a core gaming device, but only 14 percent, or 37.5 million people, would be considered a core gamer *.

UPDATE: The NPD Group has since confirmed to MCV that the record Microsoft is claiming still applies after the PS4 launch.

Yesterday, NPD Group revealed its figures for software sales during the month of August.

Nintendo told us all about their record - setting sales month last week, but the NPD Group made it official today when they revealed their retail report on the video game industry for March 2017.

WASHINGTON — January 18, 2018 — The US video game industry generated a record $ 36 billion in revenue in 2017, up 18 percent from 2016, according to new data released today by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and The NPD Group.

Not surprisingly, gamer scooped up these new titles by the armful, with Ubisoft's Far Cry 5, Microsoft's Sea of Thieves, Sony's MLB The Show 18, and Nintendo's Kirby Star Allies taking the top four spots in The NPD Group's monthly tally of best - selling games.

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But perhaps most surprisingly, the Xbox One debut of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds landed at # 7 after just a few weeks on sale (PC sales weren't included in the NPD Group's calculations).

However, when asked by MCV to confirm this neither Microsoft nor the NPD Group nor Sony have as yet offered further comment.

The news comes courtesy of The NPD Group's February 2018 report (via GamesIndustry.biz), which estimates that Nintendo sold more than five million Switch consoles in the US over the previous 12 months.

Instead, Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands was the best - selling game last month, likely due to Nintendo's unwillingness to share their digital sales figures with the NPD Group.

NPD Group Account Mananger ANZ, Luis Gil, confirmed that 65,917 consoles were sold in the first three days, saying, «Xbox One now also hold the record for the highest console sales in launch week, more than doubling Nintendo Wii's previous record of 32,900 units.»

You can find The NPD Group's complete list for the Top 20 best - selling games from December 2017 after the break.

A trio of new releases stood atop the NPD Group's recounting of the best - selling games of August 2016, but Madden NFL 17 unsurprisingly took the top spot.