Black Ops 2, Far Cry 3 Top U.S. Sales Charts for January

[Adam91]

It's been reported that Black ops 2 and Far cry 3 were the best selling games in period of Dec 30th 2012 - Feb 2nd 2013. More details below.

 

Credit to lil dog for this article.

 

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IGN

 

 

The NPD Group has revealed the top ten best-selling games in the United States for the month of January.

 

The best-selling titles in the United States for the period between December 30, 2012 and February 2, 2013 were the following:

 

Call of Duty: Black Ops II (360, PS3, Wii U, PC)**

Far Cry 3 (360, PS3, PC)

Just Dance 4 (Wii, 360, PS3, Wii U)

NBA 2K13 (360, PS3, Wii, Wii U, PSP, PC)**

Madden NFL 13 (360, PS3, Wii, PSV, Wii U)

DMC: Devil May Cry (PS3, 360)

Halo 4 (360)**

Assassin's Creed III (360, PS3, Wii U, PC)**

Skylanders Giants (Wii, 360, PS3, 3DS, Wii U)**

FIFA Soccer 13 (PS3, 360, PSV, Wii, Wii U, 3DS, PSP)

 

NPD analyst Liam Callahan noted that January marked an unusual five-week reporting period for NPD, but noted that “an adjusted figure can be computed for trend purposes: multiplying January 2013 sales figures by 0.80 (four-fifths) will normalize the five-week period to a four-week level.”

 

“Overall retail video game sales (hardware, software, and accessories, would be down 13 percent, instead of up 9 percent, if sales were normalized to account for the 5-week January,” Callahan noted. “When taking into account the 5-week month of January 2013, normalized sales of hardware were down 17%. Based on looking at trends of a normalized January 2013, software dollar trends were down 19% from January 2012.”

 

Callahan said Far Cry 3’s ranking marks “the first time since January 2002 with Final Fantasy X that a December launch has ranked second in the following January.” He added that Ni No Kuni “was just outside of the top ten game ranking at eleventh” but would have ranked at #7 if sales of individual games weren’t combined into groups by platform.

 

Callahan added that PlayStation 3 software was down 2% compared to last year (when adjusting for the five-week period), and 3DS sales were only down 4%. He also noted that accessory sales were up 4% compared to a year ago, and that “Skylanders accessory sales continue to impress and made up five of the top ten accessory SKUs sold this month.”

 

On the hardware front, Callahan notes “Xbox 360 led hardware sales again this month. This is the eighteenth consecutive month the platform led overall hardware sales and the twenty-fifth consecutive month it has led console hardware sales.” Microsoft said in a statement that 281,000 Xbox 360s were sold in the United States in January and that $338 million was spent on Xbox 360 games, consoles and accessories for the month.

 

While Nintendo didn't provide specific sales figures this month, Gamasutra reports that "cumulative three-month Wii U sales are down 38% vs. Wii's first three months on the market."

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[Guest Chase Lancer]

I'm actually pleased with Halo's place in this list.. Considering every other game before it (And below it) is on more then one console at the very least, and Halo still even managed to get on this list and end up 7th (How fitting.) on the list with 9 other games that are all multi-plat?.. Yea, I'd say that's pretty ******* impressive. Well done 343i!