The holiday shopping blitz has concluded, and the dust has finally settled over retail counters picked clean and digital stores depleted of every deal and bundle they could stock. As things begin to return to normal so will sales of gaming hardware and software across the land, and few document this change as well as our friends at The NPD Group. Our number-crunchers Cory Galliher and Nate Evans bravely (if we do say so) are back to dive right into these very estimates as they look, talk, and ponder numbers for January 2019 and what they mean.