October’s Gaming Tally is….
Industry trackers, NDP, is putting a figure to October’s gaming tally on games and related softwares close to 1.1billion. This is just for October alone? Geezus. It is 73% higher than Oct 2006. I guess it must be 1) the great games XBox has to offer 2) the Great games in general but mostly because of Xbox. :)
The holidays are here again, as the game industry opened the fourth quarter in a big way, according to the industry-tracking NPD Group. The firm today released its US retail sales figures for October, and NPD analyst Anita Frazier put the industry’s yearly growth-to-date in perspective.
“This year sales have already achieved the annual sales number for 2005,” Frazier said, “and the two biggest months are yet to come. I think we’ll see not only record-breaking revenues but record-breaking year-over-year growth when the final numbers are tallied.”
Game sales for October were up 39 percent to $513.9 million, with hardware sales up 127 percent to $469.7 million. Factor in accessory sales, which Frazier said increased sharply alongside the hardware sales, and the industry as a whole for the month took in $1.1 billion, up 73 percent from October 2006.
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