“In July 2015, LEGO: Jurassic World was the highest-selling game on a unit sales basis”.
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However, the biggest factors in these presented Microsoft and Sony features is not actually limited to technicality; price has a huge say in determining which one is the more reasonable proposal for playing older games on newer/different hardware.
Moving ahead, the NPD report also pointed out other analytics about console sales, notifying that consoles sold over only two percent better in July 2015 then what the sales were in July 2014.
Software sales overall didn’t do that well, but again with the fallout of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 sales, that’s to be expected.
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Hardware and accessories up, software flat.
Meanwhile, software sales barely rose year-on-year, staying steady $184.4m. Furthermore several gaming titles have also been announced for claiming top spots on the gaming charts for July, reportedly Lego: Jurassic World which was launched last month in June, is one of them along with Batman: Arkham Knight leading the charts. Microsoft’s pixel-building game Minecraft came in third.
“After 21 months, combined Xbox One and PS4 hardware unit sales are close to 50 percent higher than the combined sales of Xbox 360 and PS3 after 21 months on the market”, Callahan added. In the case of Arkham Knight, for instance, bundles accounted for a notable slice of the sales. Both games are published from Warner Bros.
Xbox marketing boss Mike Nichols said in a statement: “Xbox One and Xbox Live continued to see strong sales and engagement in July”.
As has been the case in previous months, sales of games over the Internet are an even brighter spot for the industry.
Whether this means that the relationship between EA and Microsoft will continue to strengthen – especially when it comes to EA Access bundles – remains to be seen, but it looks for sure as if EA Access will remain exclusive to Xbox One.
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“The biggest growth drivers in July were mobile and PC, which combined accounted for about 60 percent of the total digital games market”, wrote SuperData CEO Joost van Dreunen.
