A recent report from
NPD noted that one in every five smartphones purchased in the U.S. is now 4G - ready.
That being said,
NPD noted that Sony's PlayStation 4 is still the best - selling hardware platform year - to - date.
NPD noted that the PlayStation 4 remained the best...
At the same time,
NPD notes that retailers such as Nordstrom, Abercrombie and Fitch and Aeropostale will be offering more items at full price and minimizing promotions this holiday season.
Not exact matches
Darren Seifer, food consumption industry analyst for
NPD Group,
notes that most adults say the best protein sources are animals.
«I'd rather buy something online because I'll know instantly if I've gotten it or not,» says Cohen of
NPD, who
notes that scoring a Black Friday deal online makes it unnecessary to wait until Cyber Monday.
I want to
note that philosophicalpastor is someone who helped me understand and begin to recover from the personal and family trauma caused by working with / for / under an
NPD church leader — PP has been a long - distance friend for many years now.
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Note: Gamasutra shows that Trials HD may have ranked even higher, though this also raises the question of whether it's fair to compare what appears to be worldwide sales of XBLA games to U.S. - only
NPDs)
There were a lot of HUGE games released in October this year, but the
NPD Group
noted it was always going to be a tough comparison given that the massively successful Battlefield 1 came out in October 2016.
Shadow of War sales were 20 percent better than the launch month of Shadow of Mordor back in 2014, the
NPD Group
noted.
Huberty's research
note uses data from
NPD Group, which shows overall U.S. notebook sales declining 4 percent year - over-year for 2010.
NPD's Rubin
noted that the perfect business - oriented e-reader would have the wireless connectivity of the Kindle and the power of a tablet PC.
Her research
note used data from
NPD Group, showing overall U.S. notebook sales declining 4 percent year - over-year for 2010.
Michael Cader at Publishers Lunch is offering an important caveat,
noting that The State of Digital Publishing in Canada, an annual report, is a survey of 50 responding publishers, not the marketplace data exercise we frequently see conducted by Nielsen or
NPD and others.
Note that the data is accurate as of 1995, when
NPD started their database and covers both digital and physical sales made in that period.
Worth
noting, however, is that the
NPD does not take into account Xbox Game Pass.
Hardware performed particularly well, hitting $ 278m (# 200m), a 119 per cent increase year - on - year, with
NPD's VG industry analyst Mat Piscatella
noting that «in dollar sales, the gap between the top - selling platform and the third best - selling was only 3 percent.»
Moving on to software, it's important to
note that the
NPD's reports are solely based on physical retailers.
The
NPD Group & GfK Chart - Track
noted that physical software sales in 2015 were down year on year in North America and Europe, however the decline in revenue has been offset thanks to the increase in digitally distributed games, including full - game downloads, add - on content, and free - to - play games.
«The launch month of Destiny 2 was well short of the original iteration by a material amount,» Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson writes in a
note to clients Friday, citing the
NPD data.
«The launch month of Destiny 2 was well short of the original iteration by a material amount,» Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson wrote in a
note to clients Friday, citing the
NPD data.
Data
Note: The information in this press release is from Mobile Phone Track —
NPD's consumer tracking of U.S. consumers, aged 18 and older, who reported purchasing a mobile phone.
Steam has about 20,000 game titles on its platform,
noted Mat Piscatella, industry analyst for U.S. games at
NPD.
NPD also
notes some other trends in the wireless headphone space, pointing out that companies increasingly want to add additional features beyond audio quality onto their earbuds: