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Research in Motion's Blackberry Curve moved past Apple's iPhone to become the top - selling smartphone in the United States in the first quarter of the year, research firm NPD Group reported Monday.

It's debated very heavily and passionately amongst fanboys, bloggers, and forum jockey's everywhere, is the data found on VGChartz up to par with NPD reported numbers?

AirPods currently make up 85 percent of totally wireless earbud revenues, according to analyst firm NPD Group.

The Australian video and computer games industry tipped over the $ 2 billion mark in 2013, with traditional hard - copy retail sales hitting $ 1.14 billion and digital sales reaching an estimated $ 899 million, according to data from NPD Group Australia.

While Apple doesn't provide specific sales data, the latest report from NPD analyst Ben Arnold says that AirPods are leading the category of totally - wireless earphones by a huge margin.

Though it is not reflected in NPD numbers microtransactions are a big part of EA's plan.

«The product pipeline at Nike is just remarkable right now,» explains Matt Powell, an analyst with NPD Group and a major voice in the sneaker industry.

According to a study by NPD Group, in - store dining and grocery store prepared foods takeout has grown nearly 30 % since 2008.

Latin America, actually, is a hot spot for NPD at the moment, with food industry thriving with innovation and catching up with Europe and North America.

We don't have Echoes numbers, but based on how it did in Japan and the fact that it was # 7 in NPD for the month it released in, its probably around 500k +.

The best - selling game console this year, the Wii, has sold more than 5 million units this year, David Riley of NPD said.

[40] According to Nintendo, the company had sold more than 20 million SNES units in the U.S. [41] According to a 2014 Wedbush Securities report based on NPD sales data, the SNES ultimately outsold the Genesis in the U.S. market.

«The industry drove the highest April hardware dollar sales since April 2011,» said NPD group in their report.

«Tablet PC demand in 2014 is being affected by falling demand for the 7» class in emerging regions and in China, where many local white - box brands have experienced lower - than - expected shipment growth,» said Hisakazu Torii, vice president, smart application research at NPD DisplaySearch.

Sales numbers are based on NPD data from December 2017, and include Xbox One X sales.

The latest NPD results have given Microsoft reason to brag; Xbox 360 is the top - selling console in the US for the 16th consecutive month, taking nearly half (47 %) of all hardware sales.

The plastic - backed AMOLED display in the 42 - millimeter Apple Watch is pegged at an approximate all - in cost of $ 27.41 per unit, market research firm NPD DisplaySearch said on Monday, compared to the $ 45 per unit estimate from IHS for the 4.7 - inch Retina display in the iPhone 6.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit shifted 417,000 copies in November in the US, latest NPD figures show, landing the Criterion title at # 7 on the software totem pole for the month.

The book sold 3,200 copies since it was published in the fall of 2014, according to tracking company NPD BookScan.

The latest NPD sales data in North America may explain why; the PlayStation 4 has outsold the Xbox One for the fourth consecutive month.

When NPD releases numbers, when journalists write articles about consoles and when the war is finished one thing remains constant: all three consoles are included in the equation.

Here's the full NPD chart:

first thing first those who only care about NPD only are the Xbox guys, everybody knows that, kind of audacious that you try to spin that around.

But the sales numbers of these titles could actually even be higher since NPD doesn't include digital sales records.

Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 2017 print books volume tracked by NPD BookScan ™ grew 1.9 percent in the U.S. wit...

But as NPD Group recently reported, TCL is the fastest growing TV brand in the U.S. — thanks in part, no doubt, to rave reviews of its stellar and affordable P - Series TV — and with the Thursday, October 5 announcement of the monstrous TCL 75 - inch C - series 4K Roku TV for just $ 2,000, the company is in a better position than ever to clinch the pole position.

Actually December charts can tell us little until we have semi-official hardware numbers, since in the holiday season we've had a lot of new entries of huge IPs such as Black ops, Assassin's creed, Hitman, Halo, Fifa, Far cry etc. on consoles that by now have a solid userbase, so it's not a surprise that Mario is not charting, in fact it didn't chart in November NPD top 20 either, yet Wii U has had pretty decent launch sales there.

Analyst firm NPD estimates that more than a third of U.S. smartphone sales are of the prepaid variety, and with the savings it's easy to see why.

They had them as double the actual number sold when NPD numbers were released.

And nowhere is this more evident than the monthly NPD ranking of best - selling games, which was topped by Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V, a game that was originally released almost three years ago.

Exacerbating Nike's struggles is shoppers» increasing preference for classic and casual styles over performance products designed for actual athletic use, according to Matt Powell, an analyst for researcher NPD Group.

ECPA now has access to the most comprehensive, multi-channel data provided by NPD Book (formerly Nielsen Book); including retail POS, publisher direct sales, digital sales, and consumer data.

A recent report from NPD noted that one in every five smartphones purchased in the U.S. is now 4G - ready.

Speculations haven't been the kindest for Nintendo's new handheld, after Nintendo kept its initial sales under wrap after it had launched, and March NPD numbers showing a lower number than what was publicly expected.

The August NPD sales data is a toss - up.

What are your thoughts on this months NPD results?

Nintendo's new amiibos have outsold the Wii U's biggest titles in 2014, recent NPD figures have shown.

Andreas and Ronnie talk about EA buying Popcap, Sony investing money into Pub Fund, 2011 game NPD sales and much more in the news section.

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«Switch had the biggest hardware launch for a Nintendo platform and the second biggest launch for any video game platform since 1995, the time NPD began tracking this category.

That said, we expect the July NPD numbers to paint a more complete picture of the game's eventual success or failure as the Wii's great hardcore hope.

However, NPD also revealed that its year - on - year numbers revealed a hardware decline in the US in September, dipping 23 per cent.

IGN has reported that Xbox One has won NPD for October According to a statement from Microsoft, the Xbox One saw 81 percent growth compared to October 2014.

Chilled desserts are another category with significant NPD using salted caramel flavours taking place.

While some pundits have suggested a correlation between rising iPad sales and a decline in netbook shipments, others - including NPD Group analyst Stephen Baker - believe other factors carry more weight.

16th January 2011 - On this weeks edition of onCAST Andreas, Derrin and Ronnie discuss December NPDs, 1 million people have purchased Minecraft, Homefront DLC to be timed exclusive on Xbox along with Borderlands,... Read More