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NPD: Modern Warfare 2 Sells 6 Million, New Super Mario Bros. 1.39 Million In November The Xbox 360 clocked in with a rare victory over the Wii among console sales in the United States for February, according to figures released today by the NPD Group.
The average number of hours spent per week on online gaming is up 10 per cent, to eight hours a week, according to the results of a study released by the NPD Group today.
Well-read sales analysis enthusiasts are already well aware that some of January’s most anticipated games did not become January’s bestselling games. While some new properties, like THQ’s Darksiders, managed a top ten showing, some settled for the top 20.
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Wii fever swept the United States in January, another 465,000 units of Nintendo’s white wonder snatched up by consumers. Hey, when you’re selling that many copies of New Super Mario Bros you’re gonna need a Wii to play it on.
Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros. Wii had a big January, following its 2.8 million copies sold in December ’09 with another 650,000-plus copies to Mario-hungry Wii owners in the United States.
Publisher Activision Blizzard is hoping for a better year for the video game industry in 2010, expecting retail and digital sales to up 8 per cent in the US and Europe. And it’s calling the Wii to perform strongest this year.
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