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Though we’re accustomed to games once exclusive to PSN making the move to retail, Sony has bucked the trend and moved one of its most important retail releases to its digital portal. LittelBigPlanet, which was released in November 2008 on the High Street, will arrive on the UK arm of …
Read More »EA returns to profit as digital booms
2011 Q1 financials are in; EA claims market leadership on HD consoles; Digital revenues leap 50%
Read More »Physical still dwarfing digital sales
A new study entitled ‘The D2 Report: Discs & Digital – The Business of Home Entertainment Retailing’ from the Entertainment Merchants Association claims that traditional boxed product still accounts for the vast bulk of sales in the video games market. It claims that combined DVD and Blu-ray sales totalled $17.9bn …
Read More »Team 17 blasts PSPgo pricing structure
The head of UK developer Team 17 has said that the reason for PSPgo’s struggles has nothing to do with its reliance on digital distribution – instead, it’s down to the hardware and software pricing strategy adopted by Sony. Digital Distribution is here to stay” he Martyn Brown told IncGamers. …
Read More »Boxed PC leads digital by 2.3m
Statistics from American sales analyst NPD claims that the boxed PC games market just managed to out-value digital sales in the US in 2009. It suggests that boxed sales accounted for a total of 23.5m units throughout the year. In comparison, digital sales reached 21.3m units. However, retail sales were …
Read More »64% prefer discs to digital
New research claims that consumers consider physical product to be more important in games than in newspapers, films or music. A survey of over 1,000 people by research firm Ipsos MediaCT found that 64 per cent preferred physical discs for their games over digital copies. Newspapers followed closely with 63 …
Read More »Pachter: Industry in permanent decline
We expect investors to remain spooked by the May results, as they are beginning to reinforce the notion that the video game industry is in a state of persistent secular decline.” That’s the somewhat startling assessment of famed games analyst Michael Pachter in light of further declines in the US …
Read More »Fable III goes episodic
Speaking at the GameHorizon Conference today, head of Microsoft Game Studios Peter Molyneux has reportedly unveiled that Fable III will be distributed in an episodic format as well as through retail. The game’s predecessor, Fable II, received an episodic digital release – though that came long after it debuted at …
Read More »Sega talks Saturn re-releases
It’s already pillaged its Master System and Mega Drive libraries and turned them into viable digital businesses and it recently announced that the Dreamcast is to receive the same treatment – but what of the Sega Saturn? It had always been presumed that the Saturn has so far missed the …
Read More »MCV arrives on iPad
Today marks the launch of the new MCV Magazine iPad app, sponsored by Logic 3, which grants free access to an enhanced digital edition every week. If you’re on this site using your iPad, click here to download the free app right now. Every Friday MCV is available for free …
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