NPD: January Sales

Via the NPD Group:

January 2011 sales are down 5% from January 2010. Total US Games Sales reached $1.16B, versus 2010's 1.228B.

Video games sales totaled $1.18B in January 2010 and are down 4% for $1.14B.

Hardware sales: An 8% shift downward to $324.0MM.

Software sales: 5% decline to $576.0MM

Accessories saw a 6% rise to $235.1MM

That brings the total software sales down 6% from January 2010 to $603.1MM.

Top 10 Games, All platforms:

1 - Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, WII, NDS, PC), Activision Blizzard
2 - Just Dance 2 (WII), Ubisoft
3 - Dead Space 2 (360, PS3, PC), Electronic Arts
4 - Little Big Planet 2 (PS3), Sony
5 - Zumba Fitness: Join the Party (WII, 360, PS3), Majesco
6 - NBA 2K11 (360, PS3, PSP, WII, PS2, PC), Take 2 Interactive
7 - Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (360, PS3), Ubisoft
8 - Dance Central (360), MTV Games
9 - Michael Jackson The Experience (WII, DS, PSP), Ubisoft
10 - DC Universe Online: The Next Legend Is You (PS3, PC), Sony
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Numbers unconfirmed by NPD:
3 - Dead Space 2 (360, PS3, PC), Electronic Arts, 452K
4 - Little Big Planet 2 (PS3), Sony, 353K
10 - DC Universe Online: The Next Legend Is You (PS3, PC), Sony, 195K

Xbox 360 - 381,000 (+15%)
Wii - 319,000 (-32%)
PS3 - 267,000 (-3.6%)

[HelghastDrake]

wow LBP2 at number 4 and DC universe online at number 10, impressive.

[DonnieDarko]

Yawn

[LordMarius]

If you have some numbers spilled them Cat.
Good job LBP2 <3

[N4GAddict]

Never heard of Zumba Fitness: Join the Party before

[Megaton]

Really? Michael Jackson? REALLY?!

[NeoBasch]

Um... wow at Dead Space 2. It nearly beat Just Dance 2. Just goes to show there's a market beyond casual gaming. Third party is here to stay.

[Otheros00]

1 - Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, WII, NDS, PC), Activision Blizzard
2 - Just Dance 2 (WII), Ubisoft

These two doesn't deserve to be on the chart.

[Montrealien]

why not?

[RyuCloudStrife]

that PS3 exclusives are making it to the top 10 of the chart, considering that it has the least amount of console sales.

Good going

[jneul]

lol vgc overtracked 360 again they have had 360 at around 110-130k sales for the past few weeks and in case you cant do maths that actually is more than 381k and its more than a 10% error margin, if you work it out and be nice and only divide 381k / 4 you get an average of 95.25k sales, if you be horrible because there actually is 5 weeks in january 381k / 5 = 76.2k per week, vgc are a joke

[saimcheeda]

no site trusts their numbers, u cant edit a console sales page on wikipedia based on their numbers. Its prohibited!

[Nineball2112]

Mods, this is a duplicate!!!

;-) j/k

Looks like "casual" games are making more and more headway.

[falloutnut]

NEW HERE, JUST WANT TO KNOW IF THERE IS ANY WAY TO TRANSFER MY OWN GAME SAVES TO ANOTHER ACCOUNT ON THE SAME MACHINE. MY MACHINE. I HAVE LOST, AND FORGOTTEN MY LOG IN INFO FOR THE ACCOUNT I STARTED THE GAME ON,AND WANT TO CONTINUE TO PLAY,BUT ON THE ACCOUNT THAT I CAN LOG IN WITH. CAN ANYONE HELP? THANKS.

[HarryMonogenis]

Erm.. machine? You really need to explain a bit more -- and no shouting, please, the moderators will wake up cranky!

[acky1]

I love you Cat!

Happy sony fanboy day! How fitting is it that my 30 day ban ended on this exact date. Lets all take a moment of our time to remember the sony soldiers who fought bravely in the fanboy war of 2007. My thoughts are with you.

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Sony 'til I die

[falloutnut]

sorry, wasn't shouting. just looked like it. my machine is my ps3, and all the game saves are my own.