NPD Group: $2.9 billion spent on videogames outside of retail

Hooray for data! An upcoming report from NPD Group reveals stats for an important category that the firm hasn’t tracked until now: sales of videogames outside of new game purchases from brick-and-mortar stores. That category includes purchase sources such as downloadable, used, subscription-based, mobile, social networks and game rentals.

NPD’s soon-to-be-released report, Games Industry: Total Consumer Spend, reveals that U.S. consumers spent approximately$2.6 to $2.9 billion on this