Chris Kohler
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Analysts: Game Sales Up 20% in September

Could this September actually have signaled year-on-year growth for the unstable games industry? A new analyst report expects that sales for last month will be up 20% over last September. GameDaily has a summary of Wedbush Morgan Securities’ preview of NPD game industry sales data, which are generally released around the 15th of the month. […]

Happy_monopolyCould this September actually have signaled year-on-year growth for the unstable games industry? A new analyst report expects that sales for last month will be up 20% over last September.

GameDaily has a summary of Wedbush Morgan Securities' preview of NPD game industry sales data, which are generally released around the 15th of the month. They predict that console software sales will hit $415 million.

Drivers of growth for September are expected to include THQ's Saint's Row (360), LucasArts' Lego Star Wars II:The Original Trilogy (PS2, Xbox, PSP, DS, GBA, GC, 360, PC), Nintendo's Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (DS, GBA) and Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2 (DS), and Electronic Arts' NBA Live 07 (PS2, Xbox, PC, PSP, 360) along with continued strong sales of Madden NFL 07. WMS expects that 10 games sold over 100,000 units during the month, compared to 7 games that did so one year ago at this time.

Nice to hear some good news from time to time.

UPDATE: Next-Gen points out something that should have been obvious but didn't register with me at the time. Game sales will be up 20%, says one analyst, but a big part of that is that game prices have, hey, gone up 20%, from $50 to $60. Not as happy-sounding, that bit of info.