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Executive Director & Video Game Industry Advisor, The NPD Group. Formerly of Warner Bros. Games & Activision. MBA - San Diego State University. He/Him. 
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NPD Group revealed that Marvel's Spider-Man jumped from the 84th best-selling game of July 2022 to the 3rd best-selling game of August 2022 in the US, owing this massive sales spike to its PC release on August 12. bit.ly/3DG3mTs
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"...pricing is right between the Nintendo Switch ($299.99) and the Steam Deck ($399), so it could be a tough sell for what’s mostly a cloud gaming device."
Requires a wifi connection as well, no 5G support.
So. Yeah.
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Logitech’s G Cloud Gaming Handheld arrives in October for $349.99. It has Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia GeForce pre-installed, and it's all powered by Android. Full specs and details here: theverge.com/2022/9/21/2336
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I've got goosebumps. Seein’ my guys in CGI is so weird. Except Roy for some reason.
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West coast problems and all but dang when did 3AM pacific become the new time for big gaming news to drop. Can't we go back to 6AM pacific like civilized people.
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The revenue split must expand to meet the needs of the expanding revenue split.
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Replying to @Nibellion
It turns out they have no choice but to cut the revenue split because Amazon is screwing over Amazon
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Oh god! Thank you for the incredibly kind words 🙏🙏🙏 Still working on updates and it should be an even stronger game by year's end!
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“How... hardware supply holds up will go a long way towards determining what holiday sales end up looking like.”
Report: Video game spending reached $4.1 billion in August 2022 (NPD)
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In awe at the size of this lad. Absolute unit.
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Very quick hit August observations:
- Improved HW supply is real, helping a ton
- Monthly spend returning to 2020 levels a great sign
- PC? Yes, please.
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Correction - Madden NFL 23 debuted as the best-selling game of August, while also ranking 5th among the best-selling games of 2022. This is the 23rd consecutive year that a Madden NFL franchise release was the best-selling title of its launch month.
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US NPD ACCESSORIES - The PS5 DualSense Wireless Controller Midnight Black repeated as August's best-selling accessory. The Xbox Elite Series 2 Wireless Controller remains the best-selling accessory of the year.
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US NPD ACCESSORIES - Spending on video game accessories declined 18% in August when compared to a year ago, to $138 million. Drops in gamepad and headset spending drove the shortfall. Year-to-date video game accessory spending is down 14% compared to 2021, at $1.4 billion.
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US NPD PREMIUM GAMES - August 2022 Xbox Platforms Top 10 Best-Sellers
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US NPD PREMIUM GAMES - August 2022 PlayStation Platforms Top 10 Best-Sellers
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US NPD PREMIUM GAMES - August 2022 Nintendo Platforms Top 10 Best-Sellers
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US NPD PREMIUM GAMES - 12 Months Ending August 2022 Top 10 Sellers
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US NPD PREMIUM GAMES - YTD 2022 Top 20 Sellers
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US NPD PREMIUM GAMES - August 2022 Top 20 Sellers
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Sensor Tower US Mobile - Again the decline is led by Google Play's user base, where spending was down 22% year-over-year. That's compared to just 1.2% on Apple's App Store, where per-device spending is generally much higher than on Google's platform.
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Sensor Tower US Mobile - Mobile gaming spend continues to take a hit from economic woes and a softening of demand amid the return to business as usual for most Americans. Despite the double-digit decline, it avoided as precipitous a fall as July by two percentage points, at 10%.
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US NPD PREMIUM GAMES - Horizon II: Forbidden West ranked as the 12th best-selling game of August, driven partially by price promotion. The title ranked 28th overall on July's chart. Horizon II: Forbidden West currently stands as the 4th best-selling game of 2022.
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US NPD PREMIUM GAMES - Marvel's Spider-Man jumped to 3rd on the best-selling titles chart for August - up from 84th in July. Marvel's Spider-Man was the month's best seller across tracked Steam titles.
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US NPD PREMIUM GAMES - Madden NFL 22 debuted as the best-selling game of August, while also ranking 5th among the best-selling games of 2022. This is the 23rd consecutive year that a Madden NFL franchise release was the best-selling title of its launch month.
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US NPD HW - As was noted in July, both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series again experienced double-digit percentage growth during the month when compared to a year ago.
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US NPD HW - PlayStation 5 was August's best-selling hardware platform in both unit and dollar sales. Switch has sold the highest number of units in 2022 thus far, while PlayStation 5 led the market in dollar sales.
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US NPD HW - Video game hardware dollar sales grew 14% when compared to a year ago, to $375 million, helped by improved supply of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles. Year-to-date hardware spending declined by 4% to $2.9 billion.
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2022 video game monthly consumer spending has returned to 2020 levels.
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Year-to-date spending through August 2022 totaled $34.6 billion, a 9% drop when compared to the same period in 2021, but 3% higher than the $33.5 billion achieved during the 2020 comparable period.
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August 2022 US NPD THREAD - August 2022 consumer spending across video game hardware, content and accessories declined 5% when compared to a year ago, to $4.10 billion. This total is slightly higher than the $4.07 billion total reached during the August 2020 tracking period.
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The gremlins have been thwarted.
August 2022 U.S. video game market results from The NPD Group will release later today.
More coffee please.
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One of the most common frustrations amongst disabled gamers is purchasing a game only to load in & figure out within the first 10 minutes that the game is not accessible to you. Demos remove the gamble of judging accessibility by watching someone else play and hoping for the best twitter.com/Charalanahzard
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"Consumers might be planning ahead out of supply concerns and expectations of rising prices, while retailers might engage in aggressive promotional campaigns earlier in the year due to excess inventory."
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There's speculation that the 2022 holiday toy shopping season might start early. Why? There are a variety of reasons, as well as some wishful thinking.
Hear from our Global Toy Industry Analyst Frédérique Tutt for more 
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Rockstar has acknowledged the GTA 6 leak ("network intrusion") confirmed yesterday by . Said in a statement they "do not anticipate any disruption to our live game services nor any long-term effect on the development of our ongoing projects."
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so ready to coat my steam deck in vomit
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Someone made a first person mod, wow this is amazing
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Pac-Man is an Angels fan. Who knew.
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To my fellow devs out there affected by the latest leak, know that while it feels overwhelming right now, it’ll pass. One day we’ll be playing your game, appreciating your craft, and the leaks will be relegated to a footnote on a Wikipedia page. Keep pushing. Keep making art. ♥️
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Cat masked singer belting out a ballad to Power Pros and all I can do is cry.
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