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The NPD Group provided a reminder this week that the market growth is not guaranteed. Industry the game in the United States finished the year (2007), record retail sales of nearly $ 18 billion.

This week the NPD Group Company industry-research released U.S. retail sales for January 2008 Period. While software sales for the month rose 11 percent nearly 611 million U.S. dollars, hardware sales fell by around a quarter to $ 378 million. Combine that with a slight decline in sales of accessories, of the overall industry was down 6 percent for the month, posting $ 1.18 billion compared to January 2007 of 1.25 billion take.

Despite this, the month contained indications that the industry has actually increased. This is because the period of January 2007 has been five reports weeks instead Janvier span four weeks. The analyst Anita Frazier said that the numbers are much rosier when that adjustment has been taken into account.

The big winner in the games market is console software which was nearly 50 percent compared to last year.

Hardware Sales were down and much of that has to do with the poor that the assertion was supported by a statement from Microsoft saying the Xbox 360 suffers temporary shortages.

Nintendo result of longstanding competitors has also been reduced. The Wii was again the console crown sales by a narrower margin than in previous months. In a month that saw significant advances for the PlayStation 3: choice of disc format Blu-ray system Sony has almost neck and neck with the Wii, selling 269,000 systems compared to the Nintendo 275,000. 3rd place Nintendo DS 251,000 Accumulated sales while the Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable brought up the rear, selling 230,000 units.

Familiar faces dominated the software list, with Modern Warfare Call of Duty 4 on Xbox 360 once again beat all challengers, account for 331,000 sales. Another favorite Guitar Hero on Wii and Xbox 360 took third and fifth respectively, Super Mario Galaxy on Wii was sixth and the DS edition of Mario Party in ninth.

These data NPD FOR GAME INDUSTRY U.S. sales for January 2008

Category Total Change
Video Games: $ 1.18 billion 6%
Video Game Accessories: $ 191 million -4%
Video game software: $ 550 million 11%
Video Games Hardware: $ 378 million -25%
Total Sales per week: $ 295 million 18%

Hardware Sales (units sold)
Wii: 274,000
PlayStation 3: 269.000
Nintendo DS: 251,000
PlayStation Portable: 230,000
Xbox 360: 230,000

Thurs Software Top 10 (units sold)
1) Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat (360, Activision) - 331,000
2) Wii Play with Wii Remote (Wii, Nintendo) - 298.000
3) Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii, Activision) - 240,000
4) Rock Band (Xbox 360, MTV Games) - 184,000
5) Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360, Activision) - 183,000
6) Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo) - 172.000
7) Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360, EA) - 144,000
Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat (PS3, Activision) - 140,000
9) Mario Party DS (DS, Nintendo) - 139.000
10) Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS, Sega) - 133,000

A statement from Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello is confident the company's revenue will increase to approximately $ 6 billion in fiscal year 2011, with at least $ 900 million revenue stream as digital downloadable content, in-game advertising and subscription fees. This would represent growth of 71 percent compared to its revenue forecast for fiscal 2008, it should reach approximately $ 3.5 billion.

Other new announcements made by EA yesterday included a release date of September 7 for Spore (and possible PS3 and Xbox 360 versions).

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