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...World of Warcraft. For the first nine months of 2009, Guitar Hero World Tour and Call of Duty: World at War were respectively the #1 and #2 bestselling titles in North America (NPD Group) and Europe (Chartrack and Gfk). Blizzard...

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...been feeling the pressure. September sales of the newest competitor "The Beatles: Rock Band" -- released with great fanfare on Sept. 9, 2009 -- beat "Guitar Hero 5," according to market research firm NPD Group. On NPD's list of September...

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...with new releases like The Beatles: Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5. However, Pachter said the NPD Group's figures showed the brands generating just $115 million combined. "What's striking is the low overall dollar figure for the two games,...

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...email address. The NPD Group's September hardware sales report fails to mention two other important platforms viciously battling for gamer's attention-Rock Band and Guitar Hero, two games that saw big releases last month. So who won?

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...nearing an end, the system may see a big boost in sales simply as a Blu-ray player. The NPD Group also stresses just how big Guitar Hero was this year. "If Halo 3 was the game of the year (in terms of sales), one has to recognize the...

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...in dollars. Overall, the Xbox 360 contributed the most to industry unit and dollar sales as sales of 360 hardware, software and accessories comprised 32 percent of the month's revenues, said Anita Frazier, an analyst at NPD. Five of the top...

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...with success though. "If Halo 3 was the game of the year (in terms of sales), one has to recognize the tremendous success of the Guitar Hero franchise," the NPD Group's Anita Frazier wrote at the end of last year. "Guitar Hero games sold...

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...PM on Fri Jan 16 2009, 4,425 views The NPD Group's top ten bestselling video games contain very few surprises; it's filled with Nintendo super-hits for the Wii, hyper-violent shooters and Guitar Hero. But the top twenty games from December...

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...lessons that emerge from the list of the 10 top-selling console games of 2007. The list, released recently by the market research company NPD Group, highlights the soaring popularity of mass-market franchises like Guitar Hero and the Wii at...

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