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Call Of Duty: Black Ops And Just Dance 2 Lead January Game Sales

by Bryan Vore on February 17, 2011 at 06:26 PM

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The NPD Group's January report details the top ten games and a decline across the board compared to last year.

According to the report (which doesn't not include all industry sales including digital downloads) the top ten games of January 2011 are as follows:

1) Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, Wii, NDS, PC)
2) Just Dance 2 (Wii)
3) Dead Space 2 (360, PS3, PC)
4) Little Big Planet 2 (PS3)
5) Zumba Fitness: Join the Party (Wii, 360, PS3)
6) NBA 2K11 (360, PS3, PSP, Wii, PS2, PC)
7) Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (360, PS3)
8) Dance Central (360)
9) Michael Jackson The Experience (Wii, DS, PSP)
10) DC Universe Online: The Next Legend Is You (PS3, PC)

Total gaming sales including hardware, software, and accessories, have dropped 5 percent from $1.22 billion to $1.16 billion compared to January of last year.

Hardware sales alone fell 4 percent from $1.18 billion to $1.14 billion and software dropped 6 percent from $644.9 million to 603.1 million compared to January 2010.

The reporting period ranged from January 2 through January 29.

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Filed under: News, npd, call of duty: black ops

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by The Situation Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 06:37 PM

First and what suprised black ops is in first
by Narwhal Squad Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 06:38 PM

huh. Never thought id see a dancing game for kids next to an extremly violent military shooter. And also not that big of a suprise that COD is at the top.
by Decabo Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 06:39 PM

Wait, NBA 2K11 is on the PC? The hell?
by Nube77 Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 06:55 PM

Nice!!
by Frosty Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 07:02 PM

Glad to see Dead Space 2 at #3.
by Romars202129 Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 07:09 PM

I kinda of wish they wouldn't group console sales together, I'd rather see how they did individually.
by darthelmet117 Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 07:10 PM

sorry to see that DCUO didn't beat the crappy Micheal Jackson dance game, there is oppsollutly no reason, and wow black opps is at the top, who would have guesed
by notme Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 07:20 PM

Black ops gave me the thousand yard stare.
by Farrell Maniac Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 07:20 PM

HELL YEAH! Dead Space 2 in 3rd!
by Opfer der Seele Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 07:22 PM

Wow. Overall this is pretty surprising. Except for number 1 of course. I guess people still haven't jumped off the CoD bandwagon yet.
by McCola Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 07:37 PM

I'm not surprised. Last January was better than this one in every way.
by Anticitizen-One Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 08:46 PM

Woah there, So Dead space 2 came out on 3rd, I read some news regarding Dead space 2 shipped over 2 million copies, so it may have sold around 1.8-1.9 million copies, Black ops came on first again so that means it sold over 2,000,000 and is already a 3 month old game?!? Gulp.. Call of duty is truly a phenomenon.

I just can't picture how big is going to be Modern Warfare 3 after this.

40 million sales? 20 billion dollars? Holy SH*T
by Raven K. Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 08:47 PM

I love that people buy Just Dance 2 and believe that what's happening on-screen has anything to do with their motions. You know all those dances that use one arm...
by dushattack Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 08:53 PM

Hey dead space only got a week of sells so its gonna start beating butt soon, Dead Space, Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, Bulletstorm, and Killzone 3 are going to be a good match up.
by Alphonsus Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 09:21 PM

Most of these games weren't even released in January. I'm not surprised though.
by Young Khalifa Girl Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 09:40 PM

I am surprised Dead Space 2 is at number 3. Not that it isn't a good game (still haven't played it) but it just doesn't seem like a popular game outside of the gaming community. I don't know much about sales though, so my judgment might be totally off.

No surprise there for Black Ops and Just Dance 2.
by awardnasc Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 09:49 PM

Atleast little big planet and assasin's creed are on the list other than that its full of crap
by The Pieloving Gamer Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 10:00 PM

Yay Little Big Planet is #4
by Muelstool Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 10:16 PM

gotta be honest, i'm VERY surprised that Reach isn't up there...it was such an amazing game.
by GTA mushroom kingdom Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 10:49 PM

A little surprised that none of nintendo's evergreen games that sell millions for years after they are released are not in the top 10 but i guess it is not much March yet and then we will see the killer app at the top again, Pokemon.