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[Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews offers an extensive breakdown of 2011 U.S retail video game sales in his latest Behind the Numbers column.] Earlier this week, I looked at overall U.S. revenue and hardware trends for December 2011, and full-year sales estimates from the sales-tracking NPD Group for the retail video game market. Today I want to look at the software situation, breaking out not ...posted by Content Keyword RSS on Dec 21
Total retail sales of video game hardware, software, and accessories in the U.S. enjoyed a modest increase last month, thanks largely to high sales of the red-hot Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, various media outlets reported this weekend. David Murphy of PCMag, citing statistics provided by market research firm NPD Group, said that industry sales increased four-tenths of a percent versus ...posted by Content Keyword RSS on Dec 17
Video game systems are generating remarkable sales this holiday season. Microsoft's Xbox 360 is leading the pack (a million units sold just over the Black Friday weekend), while Sony and Nintendo also report higher than expected figures. Clearly driving the boom?posted by Content Keyword RSS on Dec 11
Total retail sales of video game hardware, software, and accessories in the U.S. enjoyed a modest increase last month, thanks largely to high sales of the red-hot Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, various media outlets reported this weekend. David Murphy of PCMag, citing statistics provided by market research firm NPD Group, said that industry sales increased four-tenths of a percent versus ...posted by Content Keyword RSS on Dec 5
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agencyport Software Completes Rebranding, Expands Sales Team and Opens Dallas Officeposted by Content Keyword RSS on Nov 11
After a bleak summer the video game industry saw sales climb 3 percent last month, with big sales of Xbox 360 consoles, Nintendo 3DS handhelds and blockbusters such as "Battlefield 3." U.S. sales of game hardware, accessories and game discs were $1.05 billion in October, up 3 percent from October 2010. Hardware sales grew 6 percent and game software sales were up 1 percent. Accessory sales fell ...posted by Content Keyword RSS on Sep 9
Video-game sales in the U.S. declined 23 percent to $669.9 million in August from a year earlier, the results of sharply lower software sales and hardware purchases.posted by Content Keyword RSS on Mar 23
March 23rd, 2009 Posted in DS, News, Wii, Written by Valay1 1 RESIDENT EVIL 5 CAPCOM CAPCOM CAPCOM 2 2 WII FIT NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO 4 3 PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE CURIOUS VILLAGE LEVEL 5 NINTENDO NINTENDO - 4 WWE LEGENDS OF WRESTLEMANIA YUKE’S THQ THQ 3 5 TOM CLANCY’S H.A.W.X. UBISOFT (ROMANIA) UBISOFT UBISOFT - 6 GRAND THEFT AUTO: CHINATOWN WARS ROCKSTAR LEEDS ROCKSTAR TAKE 2 13 7 STREET FIGHTER IVposted by Content Keyword RSS on Feb 17
It’s starting to come as no surprise that Wii Fit rules the top of the UK All Formats Software Chart for another week, once again (and for the fifth week in a row) slotting in at No. 1, despite a 10% drop in sales. Not even debut title, FEAR 2: Project Origin, could dislodge Wii Fit from its perch, as the horror shooter has to settle for No. 2 on the chart (although it did reach No. 1 on the Xbox 360 and PS3 chart). FEAR 2 is by far the fastest selling game of the series (including the originaposted by Content Keyword RSS on Feb 17
Games for Nintendo's consoles ruling top 100 Games for the Nintendo DS accounted for over half of all software sales in Japan last year. Famitsu's top 100 best selling software chart has been re-published by PS3 hyper , showing the DS as the dominant handheld in Japan. The percentage of DS software sales increased by almost one quarter to 51.6 percent, seemingly munching into PSP ...posted by Content Keyword RSS on Feb 5
In a revealing Q&A session posted on the company’s investor relations site, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata spoke out on the current state of the gaming industry in Japan, noting that he is far from content with software sales and that plans to reverse this are underway. Yet, I feel that something is wrong when the U.S. is selling ten times as much as Japan on a weekly basis. So, I do not believe Nintendo should be content with the current situation in the Japanese market and believe thaposted by Content Keyword RSS on Feb 5
01. [PSP] Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 (Namco Bandai) 213,000 / NEW 02. [PSP] Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami) 109,000 / NEW 03. [PS2] Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami) 108,000 / NEW 04. [NDS] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Square Enix) 102,000 / NEW 05. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (Capcom) 23,000 / 380,000 06. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Namco Bandai) 22,000 / 339,000 07. [NDS] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Square Enixposted by Content Keyword RSS on Feb 5
To borrow an EA game title, it feels as if there is an Army of Two, or perhaps three, benefiting from booming video game software sales.That best sums up the paradox of strong industry sales but disappointing revenues and losses for individual publishers.Electronic Arts gave us its bad news on Tuesday, including 1,100 job losses as it cut its costs to match its reduced ambitions.On Wednesday, it was the turn of its smaller rival THQ, announcing savage cost-cutting after its holiday quarter disaposted by Content Keyword RSS on Feb 2
1. Wii Fit (Nintendo) 2. Call of Duty: World at War (Activision Blizzard) 3. FIFA 09 (EA) 4. Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo) 5. Skate 2 (EA) 6. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 7. Wii Play (Nintendo) 8. My Fitness Coach (Ubisoft) 9. Tomb Raider: Underworld (Eidos) 10. Need for Speed: Undercover (EA)Link-JustinTags: UK Software Sales Your Ad Here table.spottt_tb, table.spottt_tb tr, table.spottt_tb td, table.spottt_tb a, table.spottt_tb tr a img { margin:0; padding:0; border:none; bposted by Content Keyword RSS on Oct 7
Were told that this weeks chart-topper, which only released at the end of the week, is the biggest launch of such a franchise ever, outselling last years iteration by 37.5%, releasing on all formats. What game is this? Fifa 09, of course! The hulking giant of the sports game genre has inevitably reached the No. 1 spot in the UK Charts, finally shifting Star Wars: The Force Unleashed down to the No. 2 spot.Whats interesting about the Fifa 09 launch is that 40% of sales were recorded on the Xbox 3