NPD Group
The NPD Group is a market research company which tracks US video game hardware and software sales.
NPD Group News
Call of Duty 2020 is reportedly ‘a gritty Black Ops reboot’
Sledgehammer also said to be making a free-to-play CoD for release in 2021
CD Projekt’s market valuation hits $8 billion
Value has risen 17% in the past two months alone
Half of the past decade’s top 20 US games were Call of Duty
Activision and Rockstar games dominate the best-seller rankings
Nintendo increases Mario Maker 2 course limit for second time
Players can now upload up to 100 levels; Number of playable courses exceeds 10 million
PS5 and Xbox Series X ‘unlikely to cannibalise Switch sales’
NPD survey suggests Nintendo console is considered “supplemental” to rival hardware
Mario Maker 2 adds Link, speedrun mode in version 2 update
Plus new items and enemies in time for Christmas
Modern Warfare’s ‘200 player’ Battle Royale detailed in datamine
Post-release mode will reportedly add twist on player respawns
Modern Warfare PC update includes fixes for cutscene stuttering
Call of Duty patch also features overall stability improvements and fixes
Modern Warfare is already 2019’s best-selling game in the US
While The Outer Worlds debuts at No.2 on October's software sales chart
Death Stranding reviews ‘suggest mid-level sales’, says NPD analyst
"If I had to make a call, I'd say a top 20 selling game of the year," says Mat Piscatella