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Capcom is anticipating that it will make most of its unit sales on digital products in the coming year. For the fiscal year ending March 2016, the Japanese platform holder expects the majority of its games will be sold digitally. In a financial presentation released by Capcom’s president and COO …
Read More »Digital console sales down in February as Evolve underperforms – SuperData
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare brought in the most digital sales via consoles last month, beating out the likes of Grand Theft Auto V as well as new releases including Evolve and The Order. Games Industry reports on SuperData’s latest monthly digital console sales report, which shows a total of …
Read More »Resident Evil HD re-release is the fastest selling game on PSN
The recent re-release of Capcom’s classic survival horror title Resident Evil has become the fastest-selling digital title in the PlayStation Store’s history The game, which launched on January 20th, broke the record for day one sales of a digital title on PSN in Europe and North America. Resident Evil HD …
Read More »UK video game sales rose 7.5% in 2014
Sales of video game software in the UK increased by 7.5 per cent to 2.5bn last year, says the Entertainment Retailer’s Association. As predicted, sales of physical (boxed) video games dropped year-on-year but only ever so slightly. Sales decreased 6.6 per cent to 948.5m. It’s a little disappointing, but not …
Read More »NPD totals hurt by significant PS4, Xbox One digital game sales – analyst
PS4 and Xbox One digital purchases account for up to 25 per cent of total game sales and NPD’s monthly reports have become muddied because of it, according to Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz. Venture Beat reports on a recent explanation by Creutz to investors, specifically in regards to …
Read More »70% of GTA V gamers have played GTA Online
GTA Online was the single largest contributor to Take-Two’s digital revenue over the three months to Christmas, the firm has told MCV. The company revealed that the free online game – which was bundled with GTA V but released later – has been a huge success, despite a slow start …
Read More »Xbox One, PS4 launches spike digital sales in November
The digital games market exceeded $1bn in total sales last month, according to research collected by SuperData. The [a]list daily reports on SuperData’s findings, which show a 25 per cent increase in digital sales in November compared to the same period in 2012. The research firm notes that the freshly …
Read More »Ubisoft CEO Guillemot urges industry to share digital sales figures
The head of Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft is the latest games exec to call for publishers and digital retailers to release their sales data. CEO Yves Guillemot claims that greater transparency from the downloads market will benefit the overall games industry, which retail stats show to be in decline. "It …
Read More »NPD: US digital sales spike during Q3
The NPD Group has released a Q3 report for digital sales in the US, revealing the growing portion of the market accounted for $1.4bn during the period. The total counts sales from full game and add-on content downloads, mobile and social games, and subscriptions, which added to new and used …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: September 9-15
Finally a bit of a shake-up this week on the Steam top ten product charts, as Borderlands 2 has seized the top spot ahead of its launch. On top of that, the game’s DLC season pass offering also clawed its way onto the list finishing in the tenth position. The …
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