{"id":3624,"date":"2011-05-13T02:15:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T06:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2011-05-13T02:15:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T06:15:58","slug":"mortal-kombat-tops-april-npd-software-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/mortal-kombat-tops-april-npd-software-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat Tops April NPD Software Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/files.g4tv.com\/ImageDb3\/268032_S\/exclusives-put-ps3-ahead-this-week-portal-2-mortal-kombat-socom-4.jpg\" alt=\"Exclusives put PS3 ahead this week: Portal 2, Mortal Kombat, SOCOM 4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>April was a busy month for gamers with games like <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em>, <em>Portal 2<\/em> and <em>SOCOM 4<\/em>.  The numbers are in and thanks to the NPD Group we can rest assured that  game sales have gone up in both units and profit since last year. The  NPD Group gathered data on &#8220;physical retail sales.&#8221; This means digital  distribution of games doesn&#8217;t get counted when coming up with these  stats.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out which games sold the most.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"readmore\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mortal Kombat 2011 (PS3, 360)<\/li>\n<li>Portal 2 (360, PS3, PC)<\/li>\n<li>Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Wii, NDS, 360, 3DS, PS3, PC)<\/li>\n<li>Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, NDS, Wii, PC)<\/li>\n<li>Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters (360, PS3, Wii)<\/li>\n<li>Crysis 2 (360, PS3, PC)<\/li>\n<li>Just Dance 2 (Wii)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Jackson The Experience (360, Wii, PS3, NDS, PSP)<\/li>\n<li>Pokemon White Version (NDS)<\/li>\n<li>NBA 2K11 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2, PC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may notice that <em>SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs<\/em> didn&#8217;t make the  list. It&#8217;s not clear why the game failed to make an impact on the sales  charts but it is likely that sales are being affected by the PSN outage. The NPD did add that if the<em> SOCOM 4<\/em> Move bundle&#8217;s sales were combined with regular <em>SOCOM 4<\/em> sales it would have ranked.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/thefeed\/blog\/post\/712605\/mortal-kombat-tops-april-npd-software-sales-socom-4-fails-to-make-the-list\/#ixzz1MD6Mwo3d\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April was a busy month for gamers with games like Mortal Kombat, Portal 2 and SOCOM 4. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3625,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}