You guys noticed that WoW: Cataclysm (and PC games in general) showed up at NPD's December figures. Up until now, PC games sales were put aside by NPD, so why the sudden change? It's probably because NPD is preparing to release Industry Reports that include digital revenue, and because of that they can't ignore PC anymore.
But NPD is deliberately using the PC sales to make the Industry Software sales look better. Just look at how NPD changed the way they reported the figures:
2008 SW Revenue - $10.96bln (not including PC's $701mln)
2010 SW Revenue - $10.1bln, with PC Revenue already included
Now, see how they didn't include the PC revenue for 2008, but did the opposite for last year? In truth here's how the real figures are:
2008 SW Revenue - $10.96bln ( $11.67bln including PC's $701mln)
2010 SW Revenue - $9.55bln ($10.1bln including PC's ~554mln)
Overall Retail revenue looks far worse when it comes to single digits (below $10bln). Console sales have lost $1.4bln (over 13%) on retail in the past 2 years
