Market research company NPD, which is best known for compiling the US video game charts, is coming to Europe. And furthermore, it intends to deliver something we’ve until now been without – a complete and regularly updated picture of total consumer video games expenditure outside of the physical games market. …
Read More »NPD and EEDAR join forces for digital charts
With the barebones bricks and mortar retail charts becoming increasingly redundant, two US bodies have joined forces to bring digital sales figures into the fray. NPD and EEDAR have announced that they are to collaborate on future retail reports so that they combine both boxed retail sales and digital expenditure. …
Read More »UK Monthly Charts: June 2011
If the trade ever needed proof that Wii owners are still willing to put their hands in their pockets and buy games, 505 Gameshas it. Zumba Fitness is June’s No.1 and has now established itself as the latest Wii sales sensation, propelling 505 into the publishing elite for the month. …
Read More »Western games shine in Japanese charts
LA Noire debuts at No.1, followed by fellow Western-developed games Infamous 2 and Goldeneye
Read More »3DS back on top in Japan
Having very much taken the back seat to PSP in the weeks that have followed its debut in Japan, Nintendo 3DS is finally back at the top of Media Create’s Japanese hardware charts. The machine sold almost 41k units last week, significantly up on the 25k sold the week before. …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Zumba back at No.1
505 Games’ Zumba Fitness has seen off the competition this week to claim its fourth UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats No.1 of the year thanks to a 43 per cent week-on-week sales spike. Last week’s No.1, 2K Games’ Duke Nukem Forever, has to settle for third place as Nintendo’s 3DS …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Duke Nukem Forever is No.1
After 14 long years in development, 2K Games’ literally very long awaited Duke Nukem Forever has debuted at No.1 in the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It does so despite a critical mauling, though any ill-effects of this were lessened by a review embargo that only lifted the …
Read More »LA Noire cant prevent UK market dip
The UK games market suffered another monthly drop in sales last month, despite impressive sales of Rockstar’s LA Noire. Just under 73.2m was generated at UK retail during May, a drop of 5.4 per cent compared to the 77.4m made over the same period in 2010. In terms of units …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Three on the trot for LA Noire
It’s now three weeks and counting at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 for Rockstar’s ambitious crime caper LA Noire. Behind it Disney’s LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean climbs one place to second with Codemasters’ Dirt 3 doing the opposite. The rest of the Top …
Read More »Digital chart plan at last?
The International Software Federation of Europe has vowed to solve the digital market research crisis – by sourcing data from gamers. The pan-European trade body, frustrated by a lack of concrete information, has formed a working group to tackle the issue and could potentially be offering a chart by the …
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