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Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Leads U.S. Game Sales & Nintendo Switch Reaches New Milestone in April 2022 NPD Group Report PlayStation 5 Hits 19.3 Million Lifetime Shipments As Sony Reports Sales Gains & Sets Ambitious Annual Hardware Target Nintendo’s Annual Results Decline Slightly Amidst Hardware Shortages During The Company’s Best Year Ever for First Party Software Sales Xbox Hardware Market Share Gain Propels Microsoft Gaming Revenue to Best Non-Holiday Quarter in Company History Xbox Series X|S & Elden Ring Show Strength in March 2022 During Another Month of U.S. Game Sales Declines Elden Ring’s Huge February 2022 Debut Isn’t Enough to Offset Fourth Straight Month of Declines for U.S. Game Sales PlayStation 5 & Pokémon Legends Arceus Headline Third Straight Month of Declines for U.S. Games Industry Sales Nintendo Switch Ships Over 100M Lifetime Units, Passing Wii & PlayStation During Nintendo’s Best Holiday Quarter Since 2009 PlayStation 5 Shipments Reach 17.3 Million as Sony Reports Best Third Quarter PlayStation Operating Profit Ever & Lowers Hardware Forecast Xbox’s Best Holiday Sales Result Pushes Microsoft’s Annual Gaming Revenue to Record $16 Billion Switch, Call of Duty & Mobile Boost U.S. Games Industry Spending to Record $60B in 2021 Seven Major Games Industry Predictions for 2022 U.S. Game Sales Decline Double-Digits in November in Difficult Hardware Supply Environment U.S. Games Industry Sales Set October Record as Seven New Titles Enter Top 10 List Nintendo Reduces Annual Switch Target in Mixed Yet Still Impressive Financial Report PlayStation Records Best 2nd Quarter Sales Ever While Profit Falls Over 20 Percent Microsoft’s Xbox Division Records Best First Quarter Sales Ever PlayStation 5 Breaks Nintendo Switch Streak in Record September for U.S. Games Sales Madden & Mobile Score Big in Record August Report for U.S. Games Industry Sales Hardware & Zelda Propel U.S. Games Industry Spending to Record High July Nintendo Reports Second Best First Quarter Results Since 2009 Sony Reports Biggest First Quarter Ever for PlayStation Revenue Microsoft’s Xbox Division Sets New Annual Sales Record in 2021 Xbox & Ratchet & Clank Set Records in June 2021 U.S. Games Industry Sales Report The Top 10 Highlights of Gaming’s Biggest Show: E3 2021 Resident Evil Feasts During Upbeat May U.S. Games Industry Sales Report E3 2021 Preview & Predictions Spectacular MLB Shows Well in April During Slight Decline in U.S. Games Industry Sales Switch & Software Sales Milestones Produce Nintendo’s Most Profitable Year Ever Sony & Microsoft Gaming Division Sales Launch To New Record Highs Switch & Monster Hunter Give Rise to Record March for U.S. Games Industry Super February 2021 U.S. Game Sales Boosted by Mario & Switch Familiar Franchises & New Hardware Lift U.S. Games Industry to a Record January Seven Major Games Industry Predictions For 2021 Call of Duty & Nintendo Top a Record Year for U.S. Game Sales in 2020 CD Projekt Didn’t Have To Rush Cyberpunk To Meet Fiscal Demands, But Did Anyway Marvel’s Avengers & Nintendo Assemble at the Top of September’s U.S. Game Sales Charts Forget Console Wars: Sony & Microsoft Can Both Win Next Generation Madden Wins & Nintendo Sets a Record in August Games Industry Sales Report Microsoft Reveals Xbox Series S, Leaks Hint to Series X Price & Release Date Ghost of Tsushima & Nintendo Power July 2020 U.S. Games Industry Sales Let’s Count Just How Many Records Video Game Sales Set in April 2020 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Rings in a Rallying of March U.S. Sales Results Will PlayStation 5 Launch This Year? Sony Thinks So, But What About Me? Now That We Know Specs, How Much Will PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X Cost? Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Highlights Quiet January U.S. Games Sales Report Sony, Ubisoft, Activision & Take-Two Earnings Recap: It’s a Numbers Game New U.S. Video Game Sales Report Reveals the Best Sellers of 2019 & the Decade Star Wars & Pokémon Shine in the States During November Pre-Holiday Sales Rush Call of Duty Leads October U.S. Video Game Sales Chart to a Near Record Month Sony’s PlayStation 4 Becomes Second Best-Selling Home Console of All Time NBA 2K20 & Borderlands 3 Heat Up the U.S. Video Game Charts in September Madden NFL 20 Remains Victorious as U.S. Video Game Sales Slow in August Madden Scores & Fire Emblem Soars in July’s Monthly U.S. Game Sales Report Sony Should Focus on Internal Investment & Partnerships Over Acquisitions Ahead of Next PlayStation May 2019: New U.S. Video Game Sales Last Month Were Slowest May in Over Two Decades Mortal Kombat 11 & Nintendo Switch Kombine to Top April’s U.S. Video Game Sales Report Sony Reveals Record Gaming Sales But No New PlayStation Release Just Yet Nintendo Reports Best Results in Nearly a Decade Despite Missing Switch Target Microsoft’s Annual Gaming Revenue Exceeds $11.6 Billion For The First Time Can Resident Evil 2 Remake Outsell Its Predecessors? Earnings Preview: Nintendo’s Last Decade & Why Its Bright Future Starts Now ESA Report: Essential Facts About Computer & Video Games Industry Mass Effect: Andromeda Game & Sales Preview Analysis of Destiny’s Release Timeline, And How Will Rise of Iron Fare? Which Indie Video Game Has More Sales Potential: Mighty No. 9 or No Man’s Sky? What is Activision Blizzard’s Actual Business Mix After KING Acquisition? How Healthy is Nintendo’s Financial Position Ahead of Earnings & NX? Prediction: Which Console Exclusive Will Sell More: Uncharted 4 or Quantum Break? What Do New Gaming Console “Iterations” Need to be Successful? How Much Did The Division Actually Sell Day One? Gaming Journalists & Crowd-Funding: Cool or Conflict? Can The Division Replicate Destiny’s Success as a Shared-World Shooter? Far Cry Primal & The Division Releasing Together Impact Ubisoft Sales? Can Twitter Break Through Its Plateau & Grow? Disney Record Results But Market Outlook Negative?