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Platform holder Nintendo will reveal its launch plans for new handheld the 3DS at a media event in Amsterdam on January 19th, MCV believes. Invites for the still mysterious gathering have been sent out to the press this morning. It’s expected that details will include a firm launch date and …
Read More »Another five years for Xbox 360?
Who knows,” Xbox’s UK and Ireland general manager Neil Thompson replied to MCV when we asked if the Xbox 360 can survive another five years on the market. He didn’t say this because he doesn’t know (let’s be clear – he will have an inkling, but he’s not letting), but …
Read More »Amazon outage ‘not a result of hack’
Amazon has stated that the outage that it suffered on Satudrady was a result of hardware failure and not online ‘hacktivism’ as has been claimed. An spokesman for the online retailer told Reuters that: The brief interruption to our European retail sites earlier today was due to hardware failure in …
Read More »JAPAN: PSP sales quadruple
PSP sales rose by more than 400 per cent in Japan this week after Capcom’s Monster Hunter Portable 3rd hit shelves. Sony sold 325,528 PSPs from November 29th to December 5th, up from 75,689 the week before, VG247 reports. The spike in sales is due in part to the Monster …
Read More »UK console installed base exceeds 32m
32.4m current generation game consoles are now in circulation in the UK, according to Gfk Chart-Track. That means retail has sold 5.2m DS, Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 and PSP consoles this year. However, that’s a 26 per cent slowdown in hardware sales compared to 2009. For the same year-to-date period …
Read More »Wii sales see Xmas surge
Despite competition from Kinect and Move, Nintendo hardware sales have increased as spending ramps up for Christmas. MCV understands that sales of Wii consoles and games have rebounded over recent weeks, thanks to aggressive price activity. Sainsbury’s has slashed 25 per cent off Wii and DS consoles, with Wii hardware …
Read More »Nintendo hardware gets Black Friday boost
The lucrative Black Friday shopping week has seemingly proved a very successful period for Nintendo.CVG reports that internal company estimates point to US sales of 900k units for DS and 600k units for Wii in the period between November 21st and November 27th. That represents total sales of 1.5m consoles …
Read More »GAME boosts hardware trade-in deals
Both GAME and Gamestation are offering customers and extra 20 per cent on their normal trade-in price for anyone who hands over their old hardware between today (November 26th) and Thursday December 9th. As an example, the retailers will now offer 180 for a 160GB PS3 – until today it …
Read More »Hardware RRP dragging down market
With year-on-year comparison continuing to paint a picture of gradual decline in the home console games sector, analyst Cowen & Company has named the high RRP of console hardware as the chief cause. We believe that the hardware manufacturers have left unit sales on the table by not reducing price …
Read More »UK says no to 3D TV this Christmas
Any hopes of 3D TV being high on consumer’s Christmas wish lists this year appear to have vanished as a new survey suggests that the appetite for the technology in the UK is almost non-existent. A study from price comparison site Twenga, reported by Reg Hardware, which polled over 3,000 …
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