Thursday, November 27, 2014

NPD September and October 2014: Happy Thanksgiving

While all of you are enjoying your turkey, I will do another month comparison of the NPD sales.  Here we have both September and October of 2014 software sales

First for September:

At number 11:  Hyrule Warriors by Nintendo for the Wii U.  I stand with Ganondorf

At number 10: Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls by ActivisionBlizzard for the PS4, Xbone, 360, PS3 and PC.  No one can stop Death

At number 09: Disney Infinity 2.0 by Disney Interactive for the 360, PS3, Wii U, PS4 and XBone.  PC version now available on Steam

At number 08: The Sims 4 by EA for the PC.  Now with 20% more uncut features

At number 07: Minecraft by Mojang and 4J Studios for the 360 and PS3.  Now owned by Microsoft

At number 06: NHL 2015 by EA for the PS4, XBone, 360 and PS3.  Where's Wayne Gretezky when you need him?

At number 05: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor by Warner Bros Interactive for the XBone, PS4 and PC.  Gollum loves the precious

At number 04: Super Smash Bros by Nintendo for the 3DS.  Wait.  How did that get up there?

At number 03: FIFA 15 by EA for the PS4, XBone, 360, PS3, Wii, PSVita and 3DS.  Wait, how did a Wii title make it onto the Top3?

At number 02: Madden NFL 2015 by EA for the 360, PS3, XBone, and PS4.  Boy it's been awhile since we had some serious competition

And at Number 01: Destiny by ActivisionBlizzard for the XBone, PS4, 360 and PS3.  World of Warcraft this ain't.

And yet, despite the free game deal, the XBone could cut it above the Playstation 4 that month.  What was really surprising was that Super Smash Bros made it onto the list and it managed to outsell games liek Disney Infinity 2.0 and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor.  Who knows what Nintendo has in stall for this year.

Now let's take alook at October's sales

 At number 10: Minecraft by Mojang for the 360, PS3 and PS4.  An Xbone version is due out soon.

At number 09: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor by Warner Bros Interactive for the PS4, XBone and PC.  Keep your eyes peeled for the final chapter of the Hobbit due out on December 17th

At number 08: Madden NFL 2015 by EA for the 360, PS3, XBone and PS4.  That's a long drop

At number 07: FIFA 15 by EA for the PS4, XBone, 360, PS3, Wii, PS Vita and 3DS. How there isn't a Wii U version, but a Wii version is beyond me.

At number 06: Skylanders: Trap Team by ActivisionBlizzard for the 360, PS3, XBone, PS4, Wii, Wii U, 3DS and Mobile platforms.  Kaos Rises again

At number 05: Destiny by ActivisionBlizzard for the 360, PS3, XBone and PS4.  I still can't believe they're doing a Destiny 2

At number 04: Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel by Gearbox software and 2K Games for the 360, PS3 and PC.  Who needs a Next-Gen system just to play this game?

At number 03: The Evil within by Bethesda Software for the 360, PS3, Xbone, PS4 and PC.  Hey what happened to Alien Isolation?

At number 02: Super Smash Bros by Nintendo for the 3DS.  How well will the Wii U version do?

And at number 1: NBA 2K15 by EA for the PS4, XBone, 360, PS3 and PC.  And why Madden doesn't show up on the PC is beyond me.

 Other than Alien Isolation, Sunset Overdrive didn't even make the Top 10 this time around. 

Interesting, while Hardware was up 59% YoY, Software sales are down 28%. 

Black Friday is around the corner.  Will Microsoft be able to claim the feast?  Or will Sony make them a turkey?  Stay tuned.

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