Many stay-at-home activities have seen a rise over the last year due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. More and more people are finding ways to properly social distance while still keeping their sanity by either doing things they already enjoy or discovering new hobbies to take on. As such, video game usage has reportedly seen
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Looking back at the launch of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you would think that the stars had aligned. The game was already massively hyped up, with everyone from kids to grown adults like myself, ready to get back into Tom Nook’s latest entrepreneurial adventure. Pair that up with an incoming pandemic resulting in stay-at-home orders and
With last month’s sparse release lineup, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare returns to the top of the United States NPD Charts in February 2020. According to the sales data from the NPD Group, last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was the best-selling game in the United States for February 2020. It was followed by
Some brand new sales numbers made their debut thanks to The NPD Group, and so far Pokemon Sword and Shield is continuing to break its franchise global sales records. According to the Twitter thread from Mat Piscatella, a video game industry analyst at The NPD Group, the latest installment in the long running series has
It’s no secret that Marvel’s Spider-Man from Insomniac Games has been a massive success both critically and commercially. We know the game topped PS4 charts as well as NPD sales data in September and today we learned it broke yet another record. According to NPD Group’s Mat Piscatella on Twitter, Marvel’s Spider-Man is now the fastest
It’s that time of the month once again, ladies and gentlemen. As is custom near the end of every month, the NPD Group has today released the sales figures for the video game industry in the U.S. today, this time for the month of November 2018. The biggest headliner this month, and one we learned
Console exclusives, which are usually first-party nowadays, have always been a hallmark of the gaming industry and are often some of the games hardcore fans look forward too most. This year has seen some standout exclusives including God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, and Forza Horizon 4, all of which received critical acclaim and sold well.
Mat Piscatella, a member of the NPD Group, always gives us snippets of how games are selling for us analytic nerds out there. I am always fascinated to see the data behind the curtain, and this time around, Mat gave us a good one. Here are the top 10 selling games for PS4 and Xbox One
Like it or not, software sales are often one of the strongest metrics to measure a game’s success. While we can bandy on about Metacritic scores and how it feels to play a particular game, developers and publishers alike must always keep one vigilant eye on their sales figures. After all, passion alone doesn’t keep
NPD Group, which tracks U.S. video game sales, has released information to show that Nintendo Switch was the highest selling console for the month of October 2017. However, the Nintendo dominance doesn’t stop there, as the Super NES Classic Edition charted as the number 2 spot. Taking into account the sales gathered from the Nintendo