Post-PC era? Here we come: According to new data from <a href="http://www.npd.com/">NPD</a>, tablet PC shipments are expected to grow from 72.7 million units in 2011 to 383.3 million units by 2017. Fo
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Videos on the iPad and other tablets look great, and increasingly apps are being created specifically for watching
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/npdsteam.jpg" />The NPD Group, the organization that tracks sales data for the video game industry in North America, says that it plans t
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/callofdutybestselling.jpg" />Sigh. <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/call-of-duty-black-ops/">Call of Duty: Black Ops</a> is now the
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/xbox360nov.jpg" />There's two big stories coming out of November's NPD numbers. The first is that Microsoft somehow managed to sell more
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/pileofstuff.jpg" />You know how every month you see stories like “<a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/red-dead-redemption/"><i>Red D
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/whatsanetbook.jpg" alt="" />The NPD released a new report that says, essentially, <a HREF="http://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_090622
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pacman.jpg" />Yikes, not a the best month for our beloved video game industry. Sales were off some 17 percent compared to last year, but
The August NPD numbers are out, and to no one’s surprise Madden NFL ’09 was the biggest seller of the month, with EA moving some 2.3 million units. August is sorta a slow month for the vid
The July NPD numbers have come out, and the PS3 continued its fine June performance, once again topping the Xbox 360 in units sold. Sony sold 224,000 PS3s to Microsoft’s 204,000. Meanwhile, the
This month’s NPD numbers don’t officially come out until Thursday, but a single note written by Lazard Capital’s Colin Sebastian has prompted all sorts of knee-jerk reactions. Lazard
According to NPD research, the Flip is the #1 selling camcorder in the US, beating out such stalwarts as Sony and JVC. The Flip is the YouTube compatible video camera that is so simple even a retarded
Despite breaking sales records left and right, GTA IV didn’t cause any measurable uptick in console sales. That probably hurts Sony more than Microsoft, seeing as though the GTA series has, sinc
You would never be able to tell, but Ars Techina has obtained documents (read: an e-mail sent to its employees) proclaiming iTunes as the largest music retailer in the U.S., passing even Wal-Mart. As
Matt Richtel wrote a quick piece on Sony’s crowing — then cowering — this week as the NPD sales numbers placed the PS3 far below 360 and Wii. Dave Karraker, the Sony spokesman who pr
It wasn’t the $600 price point or the lack of systems at launch that kept Sony’s PlayStation 3 from becoming a smash hit. Not according to Sony Computer Entertainment America anyway. The company i