NPD has revealed the latest videogame industry sales figures in the US which show that November 2010 was the best November ever thanks to the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Microsoft’s Kinect.
The report shows that sales reached $2.99 billion in November which was up 8 percent on last year when sales of $2.76 billion were reached. The previous record was in 2008 and this November improved on that by around $30 million.
Black Ops has now become the seventh best selling game of all time reaching sales of 8.7 million units to date. The game accounted for 25% of all videogame sales during November.
The top selling lists on all platforms for November were as follows:
Call of Duty Black Ops
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
Just Dance 2
Madden NFL 11
Fable 3
Donkey Kong Country returns
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
Gran Turismo 5
NBA 2K 11
Wii Fit Plus
Published: Dec 10, 2010 03:04 am