NPD February 2014 Figures: PS4 Continues To Win The Next Gen Battle

Ps4 winning next gen battle

<p>The NPD figures have been released for February 2014 and show that PS4 is extending its lead over Xbox One in the American market&period; Whilst 258000 Xbox Ones were sold last month&comma; Sony has confirmed that the PS4 sold more&comma; although they did not give a specific number&period; Thanks to the release of Donkey Kong Country&colon; Tropical Freeze&comma; which sold  130&comma;000 copies&comma;  Wii U sales were up 25&percnt; over last year&period; However that still only puts the number sold at around 82&comma;000&comma; well below its next gen console rivals&period; Unfortunately&comma; we so far have no numbers for the sales of 3DS or PS Vita&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the software side of things&comma; the top 10 combined SKUs can be seen below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ol>&NewLine;<li>Call of Duty&colon; Ghosts &lpar;Xbox 360&comma; PS3&comma; Xbox One&comma; PS4&comma; Wii U&comma; PC&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>The Lego Movie Videogame &lpar;Xbox 360&comma; PS3&comma; 3DS&comma; Wii U&comma; Xbox One&comma; PS4&comma; Vita&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>NBA 2K14 &lpar;Xbox 360&comma; PS4&comma; PS3&comma; Xbox One&comma; PC&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Thief &lpar;PS4&comma; Xbox One&comma; 360&comma; PS3&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Grand Theft Auto V" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;rockstargames&period;com&sol;V&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"homepage">Grand Theft Auto V<&sol;a> &lpar;Xbox 360&comma; PS3&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Battlefield 4 &lpar;PS4&comma; Xbox One&comma; 360&comma; PS3&comma; PC&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Assassin’s Creed IV&colon; Black Flag &lpar;Xbox 360&comma; PS4&comma; PS3&comma; Xbox One&comma; Wii U&comma; PC&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Lightning Returns&colon; Final Fantasy XIII" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;finalfantasy13game&period;com&sol;lightningreturns&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"homepage">Lightning Returns&colon; Final Fantasy XIII<&sol;a> &lpar;PS3&comma; Xbox 360&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Minecraft &lpar;Xbox 360&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Bravely Default &lpar;3DS&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;<p>With few big releases last month&comma; most games that charted are the same as last month&period; Call of Duty&colon; Ghosts retains the number 1 spot for the 4th month in a row&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s joined by 5 other 2013 releases&comma; NBA 2K14&comma; GTA V&comma; Battlefield 4&comma; Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed IV&comma; and the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Whilst Take Two&&num;8217&semi;s basketball game continues to sell strongly&comma;  EA&&num;8217&semi;s sports games FIFA 2014 and Madden NFL 25 have both dropped out of the chart&period; Although <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Lego Marvel Super Heroes" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;videogames&period;lego&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;lego-marvel-super-heroes&sol;about&sol;features&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"homepage">Lego Marvel Super Heroes<&sol;a> also dropped out &comma;  the series success has continued with  The Lego Movie Videogame being the highest selling début game this month&period; It beat out the Thief reboot  which landed in 4th place and the latest instalment in the Final Fantasy XIII series&comma; Lightning Returns&comma; which is in 8th place&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Perhaps the biggest surprise this month are the sales of the 3DS exclusive&comma; Bravely Default&period; Nintendo had a similar surprise this time last year with the success of another RPG&comma; Fire Emblem&colon; Awakening&period; Yet this new IP has done even better with over 200&comma;000 sales with digital and retail combined&period;  In other good news for Nintendo RPG fans&comma; <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Pokémon X and Y" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;pokemon&period;com&sol;pokemonxy&sol;en-us" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"homepage">Pokemon X and Y<&sol;a> sold another 130&comma;000 copies this month&comma; bringing their total sales in the United States to over 3&period;4 million<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Overall the USA videogame market is currently quite strong&period; Total retail sales are up 9&percnt; YoY whilst hardware sales in particular are up 42&percnt; YoY&period; Both Xbox One and PS4 have big titles launching next month in the form of Titanfall and Infamous&colon; Second Son&period; It will be interesting to see how these game effect the next gen battle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;venturebeat&period;com&sol;2014&sol;03&sol;13&sol;february-2014-npd-playstation-4-and-xbox-one-continue-fighting-it-out&sol;">Venturebeat<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"zemanta-related-title" style&equals;"font-size&colon; 1em&semi;">Similar Articles From Around The Web<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style&equals;"margin&colon; 0&semi; padding&colon; 0&semi; overflow&colon; hidden&semi;">&NewLine;<li class&equals;"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style&equals;"padding&colon; 0&semi; background&colon; none&semi; list-style&colon; none&semi; display&colon; 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