NPD Sales June 2016

[bdoughty]

Overall:

June retail game sales are down 22% year over year.

Hardware was down 42% year over year.

Console and Handheld game sales were down 20% year over year.

Physical and Steam PC software sales were down 20% year over year.


Software:

Overwatch*
Grand Theft Auto V
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Doom 2016**
Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End**
NBA 2K16
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Destiny: The Taken King
Minecraft**

*No Battle.net sales
**No digital sales

Notes:
- This is a revenue ranking. Previous threads were unit rankings.
- “Poor comparisons for new launches were a major reason for the software sales decline seen this June,” said Callahan. “June 2016 launches decreased 67 percent, translating to 1.8 million fewer units, and nearly $114 million fewer dollars.”
- “Specifically, the top new launch of June 2015 was Batman: Arkham Knight, which sold over five times the amount of unit and dollar sales generated by the top June 2016 new launch, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” said Callahan.
- “May 2016 launches sold 84 percent more in June compared to May 2015 launches last June, when looking at dollar sales. April launches fared poorly due to a comparison to the performance of April 2015 launches like Mortal Kombat X with a drop of 70 percent in June sales.”


Hardware:

PS4: #1 platform

Notes:
- “Declines in average prices by 15 percent, coupled with a 32 percent decline in units resulted in hardware spending totaling $181 million, a 42 percent decrease versus last June,” the NPD analyst explained. “[Current-generation] hardware, the primary driver of this decrease, saw sales decline 43 percent, or $117 million.”
- “After 32 months since the launches of the PS4 and Xbox One, the combined cumulative hardware sales for these two consoles exceed the sales of their predecessors by 40 percent at the same point in their lifecycles,” said Callahan.

[bdoughty]

Just FYI: NPD is now including digital sales for select games and will be expanding this in the future. Also as mentioned above, the top 10 list is by revenue made over the month, not individual sales. Which makes NBA 2K16 still on the list in June even more impressive as the PSN+ sales were not a factor in this. NBA Live should just quit and make a college game.

[Rudy]

Wonder what kind of price cut we will see on the older hardware soon. Will MS keep making the older versions? I expect Sony still will.