NBA 2K11 Top Selling Video Game This October - NPD

[RaychelSnr]

This month's NPD report was very kind to Take Two and 2K Sports, as NBA 2K11 topped software sales charts this month. Software sales overall are up 6% over last year, which is a good sign. What wasn't a good sign, and it could be a sign of trouble ahead for the gaming industry is a 26% drop in hardware sales.

Madden, FIFA and Smackdown vs. Raw all made appearances in the Top 10 this month as well.

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"Per the NPD's new reporting methods, the following titles cover all released platforms and there are no total sales numbers by title. 1) NBA 2K11 (360, PS3, PS2, PSP, WII & PC) 2) Fallout: New Vegas (360, PS3, PC) 3) Medal of Honor (360, PS3 & PC) 4) Fable III (360) 5) Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (360, PS3, WII, PC & DS) 6) Halo: Reach (360) 7) Just Dance 2 (Wii) 8) FIFA Soccer 11 (PS3, 360, WII, PS2, PSP, DS & PC) 9) Madden NFL 11 (360, PS3, WII, PS2 & PSP) 10) WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 (PS3, 360, PS2, WII & PSP)"

[dcsoldier]

not shocking at all

[Boilerbuzz]

Hardware sales "drop"... Misleading. There is no new hardware. Install bases are huge. There is no new major console on the horizon. So, yeah. The sales will level off. The market is saturated.

[InSainn]

It's too bad sales doesn't always reflect game quality, if it did NHL 11 would be in there somewhere and Madden would be out.

[Tyrant8RDFL]

NBA2K11 should really continue to sell well. I really hope so since this is a solid title, and the team that worked on this game deserves great profits for their efforts.

[ChaseB]

Quote: Originally Posted by InSainn

It's too bad sales doesn't always reflect game quality, if it did NHL 11 would be in there somewhere and Madden would be out.

I think NHL was in there last month, which is still pretty good for a hockey game.

[travis72]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tyrant8RDFL

NBA2K11 should really continue to sell well. I really hope so since this is a solid title, and the team that worked on this game deserves great profits for their efforts.

Yeah they do. Game is the best to date although it has some issues that need cleared up but they did a great job this year. Hopefully the patch fixes the issues and does not break anything in association like last year ala big men shooting 3's. With EA out of the picture this year this is a good time to get evn more people on board and put EA down even farther. I would say they are down for the 8 count about right now and a patch that fixes without breaking this year could be the knockout punch.

[bhurst99]

It's incredible how well FIFA sells in the U.S., beating Madden. Obviously, Madden has been out much longer but still it's remarkable given how much more popular football is than soccer.