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New physical retail sales are still projected up to 100% of the U.S. retail footprint while the full game download sales are not. This represents improved coverage of games industry monetization, but our quarterly Games Market Dynamic report remains our official estimation of all content monetization methods including used games, digital full game and add-on content, subscriptions, mobile games, rentals and social network games in addition to physical sales.
*NPD's revised monthly point-of-sale data reports on U.S. Games Industry sales occurring from new physical purchases at retail as well as full game downloads from participating publishers. PC Games Software only includes full games downloads from Steam and excludes other PC digital retailers such as Origin and Uplay.
** Effective July 2016, subscription cards to console services such as Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus and named full-game download cards are included in the Video Game Accessories media advisory data.
*** No digital sales included in ranking.
^Battle.net sales not included