{"id":62577,"date":"2014-03-14T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T07:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62577"},"modified":"2014-03-14T10:06:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T08:06:41","slug":"call-of-duty-ghosts-tops-games-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62577-call-of-duty-ghosts-tops-games-sales","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Ghosts tops games sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer market research firm NPD has released its February 2014 sales stats for the US gaming market, showing 42% year-on-year hardware sales growth for the month.<\/p>\n<p>This, according to NPD, was fueled by the recent launch of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within console hardware, we continue to see strong year-over-year increases due to the success of the Xbox One and PS4. PS4 led hardware sales in February 2014, but by a narrow margin with Xbox One selling over 90 percent of what the PS4 sold in terms of unit sales,&#8221; said NPD&#8217;s\u00a0Liam Callahan.<\/p>\n<p>There was also good news for Nintendo&#8217;s Wii U, which saw software sales rise on the back of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, while console sales grew 25% for February.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the top selling games for the month, across all platforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 2014 Top 10 Games (Physical Retail)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call Of Duty: Ghosts<\/li>\n<li>The LEGO Movie Videogame<\/li>\n<li>NBA 2K14<\/li>\n<li>Thief<\/li>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto V<\/li>\n<li>Battlefield 4<\/li>\n<li>Assassin&#8217;s Creed IV: Black Flag<\/li>\n<li>Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII<\/li>\n<li>Minecraft<\/li>\n<li>Bravely Default<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While it might seem far removed from our South African context, the US market is a pillar of the gaming industry and analysis speaks to the overall health of our favourite pastime.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/b\/news\/archive\/2014\/03\/13\/february-npd-charts-show-strong-hardware-sales.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">GameInformer<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/62562-south-africas-online-porn-habits-exposed.html\">South Africa\u2019s online porn habits exposed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62536-need-for-speed-movie-reviews-hit-the-road.html\">Need for Speed movie reviews hit the road<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62554-sa-call-of-duty-team-verus-the-world.html\">SA Call of Duty team versus the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NPD stats for February are in, with COD: Ghosts and the PlayStation 4 taking top spot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":62579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,9736,12118,3864,75,1239,10683],"class_list":["post-62577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-call-of-duty-ghosts","tag-february-2014","tag-gaming-news","tag-npd","tag-playstation-4","tag-top-selling-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62580,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62577\/revisions\/62580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}