This year, we'll buy more tablets than notebooks for the first time ever. But by 2017, we'll buy six times more tablets than laptops.
Streaming services like Spotify are helping the music industry claw back to growth.
The overall market is growing faster than the retail segment, which was up just 9 percent.
This month-by-month breakdown shows how severely game sales have changed from 2011 to 2012.
Mobile gamers are starting to focus more on playing only on mobile devices.
The monthly sales drop are getting to be a familiar thing. While gaming continues to grow as a business, sales through digital distribution are growing while purchases at physical retail locations is falling.
Sales of software and hardware continue to take a beating, down 29 percent, as the industry adjusts to how people consume and play games.
U.S. video game sales for the month of June are expected to be down 34 percent compared to a year ago, according to a forecast released overnight by analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities.
Sales are a closely watched barometer …
Gamers spent $3.4 billion on both physical and digital games in the first quarter, according to market researcher NPD Group.
Consumers spent nearly half of that amount, $1.5 billion, on PC and console games in physical stores. Meanwhile, they spent …
Video game sales at retail stores have been sinking this year. But 67 percent of all gamers have reported buying at least one game in either a physical or digital form in the past three months, according to market researcher …
Video game sales fell 28 percent in May, with total industry sales falling to $516.5 million from $718.9 million a year ago, according to consumer market research firm NPD Group.
Video game sales fell 25 percent in March, with total industry sales falling to $1.10 billion from $1.47 billion a year ago, according to market researcher NPD Group. That happened despite the launch of sci-fi blockbuster Mass Effect 3 from …
Digital game sales reached a total of $3.33 billion in the fourth quarter in the U.S. and Europe, according to the NPD Group. The U.S. number is up 9 percent from a year ago, though comparison data isn’t available for …
Video game sales fell 20 percent in February, with total industry sales falling to $1.06 billion from $1.33 billion a year ago, according to market researcher NPD Group.
The poor performance in February was a little better percentage-wise compared to …
Video game sales crashed 34 percent in January, with total industry sales falling 34 percent to $750.6 million from $1.14 billion a year ago, according to market researcher NPD Group.
The lousy performance of video game sales in physical retail …
Video game sales failed to live up to high hopes in December, with total industry sales falling 21 percent to $3.99 billion from $5.07 billion a year ago. For the year, game sales were $17.02 billion, down 8 percent from …
Seventy-three percent of small and medium businesses in the U.S. intend to purchase tablets in the next 12 months, but these companies won’t settle for any old tablet — they want iPads.
The iPad is the most-considered tablet by businesses …
The total amount that consumers spent on games in the third quarter was $4.2 billion, down 11 percent from the same period a year ago, according to market research NPD Group.
That number includes the money spent by consumers on …
The holidays came early for a lot of gamers in November, with releases ranging from Uncharted 3: Drake’s Fortune to Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 and the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Starting Friday, everybody else will start piling …
U.S. retail video game sales can’t seem to get out of their summer funk. In September, the trend continued as overall retail game sales fell 6 percent from a year ago, according to market researcher NPD Group.
That comes after …
