wraggster
January 16th, 2015, 20:02
http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/crop/3000x1705+0+0/resize/630x358!/format/jpg/quality/85/http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/midas/74aa4d7bc68db26ed284b83665805ef4/201402271/451287745.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/16/npd-console-sales-2014/)Console fanboys, get ready to gloat -- or mope. Actually, (nearly) everybody can be cheered by the latest data from NPD, which showed console sales up a cool 20 percent from last year to to over $5 billion. Leading the final charge was Microsoft's Xbox One, which topped the charts in December for the second (http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/11/xbox-one-outsells-ps4/) straight month. Its recent success can likely be chalked up to attractive holiday pricing (http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/27/xbox-one-holiday-2014-price-drop/), since Sony's PS4 was consistently eating its lunch (http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/13/npd-console-sales-february-2014/) prior to that. Either way, it came at a good time for Microsoft, since the last two months of the year are far and away the strongest for consoles.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/16/npd-console-sales-2014/
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/16/npd-console-sales-2014/