2.63 Billion dollars in November
The game sale hiked up 2.63billion dollars worth just in November alone!
Earlier this week, analysts weighed in with their predictions of the US game-industry sales for the month of November. Today, the industry-standard research firm NPD Group weighed in with the real deal, reporting a staggering $2.63 billion in non-PC game hardware, software, and accessory revenue for the month. The total pushed the game industry’s year-to-date total to $13.12 billion, and puts it on track for a record annual total of $18 billion to $19 billion, according to NPD analyst Anita Frazier.
“If the year had ended on December 1, 2007 would be up 5 percent versus last year,” said Frazier. “Thanksgiving fell earlier in the reporting month this year than it did last, which certainly helped fuel part of the incredible 52 percent increase over last year.”
Though Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all tried to spin their “Black Friday” sales last month, the latest dispatch from the console-war front leaves no doubt as to the victor. Over 981,000 Wiis were sold during NPD’s November reporting period, besting the Xbox 360’s 770,000-unit total and more than doubling the Playstation 3’s 466,000-unit tally. Sony’s most venerable platform, the PlayStation 2, continued to outpace its younger brother with 496,000 units in sales.
Nintendo’s dominance of the handheld space was even more staggering, with the DS’s 1.53 million-unit haul almost tripling the 567,000 PlayStation Portables sold during the period.
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