Video Game Sales Drop in November
The video games industry suffered a significant drop this past month despite Thanksgiving and Black Friday kicking off the spend-thrifty holiday season.
NPD reports that video game sales fell by 7.6 percent in November when compared to the same period last year. The drop saw sales across the entire video game business fall from $2.92 billion to $2.7 billion.
NPD analyst Anita Frazier blames last year's record breaking November for the drop and says it seems unlikely sales will be able recover before the year is out. "Breaking even seems more out of reach. In order to break even to last year, December sales would have to be up 36 percent over December 2008," Frazier said, according to Reuters.
Last November saw the video game industry post its best November ever, so although last month's sales were down by more than 7 percent, November '09 is still the second best ever recorded.
Microsoft recorded the best November ever for the Xbox 360 brand, selling $838 million dollars of Xbox 360 hardware, software and related accessories last month. Sony reports that its PlayStation 3 is the only home system to register year-on-year growth in November with an 88 percent boost. The Tech Herald reports that the console also posted a 122 percent sales increase compared to October 2009. Meanwhile, Nintendo is also boasting a “record-setting month” for November with reports that the Wii pushed beyond a global sales total of some 23 million units.
Read more on the Tech Herald.

I believe its a company that does market research.
market research firm.
In the last Two weeks or so, I've bought at least ten or more games for our Nintendo Wii what with all the sale and mark down prices.
That also includes the newest Super Mario Brothers in the Red package.
Aside from that, I saw an excellent limited edition package deal at WalMart today which I was very tempted to buy. A 46" 1080p Sony Bravia TV with a Sony PlayStation 3 for something like $986 in store.
awh you beat me to it. That was exactly what i was about to say
November only had 4 real sale days. I'd be surprised if this hasn't happened in previous years.
Left for dead two on 360 sucks. Awesome on computer. Split screen gets terrible slowdown. Online has tons of lag. The 360 needs to be put out to pasture.
Well easy to say when it was the only console that was barely selling any good numbers since release till the Slim/Pricedrop. I wouldnt advise them to be proud of this but well done in the overrall boost. No more aces up their sleeves for next year than the expected 3 titles so again they are in danger of loosing steam.
but yeah I agree with the rest/ I never really found use for sales numbers to the gamer himself its plain pointless. Might be feeding the kiddos that wanna sex up their systems. But thats about it.
This makes me wounder if they counted digital sales since L4D2 was pure digital except 360 and a small amount who buy it boxed for PC, Dragon Age was on Steam as well.
But MW2 was on Steam and bought by some but a lot of PC players bypassed it for the mistake of removing dedicated servers they made.