NPD Numbers - Dec 07

[Chadius]

FishyJoe said:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17004

Accessories

Finally, NPD showed that game accessories were up 37% to $621.6 million. Said Frazier, "All those hardware sales greatly helped the accessories category to realize a 52% increase over last years' sales. The Wii remote and the Wii Nunchuk combined for over 8.5 million in units sales last year, capturing the top two spots in accessories sales."

"A lot of folks are curious about the performance of the HD-DVD add-on from Microsoft," she said. "Life-to-date, 316K units of that accessory have been sold, representing a 3.5% attach rate to hardware sales."

Not too surprised over the HD add-on. I've always felt like it was a "well, we could do it too!" gesture from Microsoft. Y'know, they don't even mention it in the X360 manual.