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Whilst Nintendo continues to outsell all its opposition in the August hardware sales figures in North America, the biggest gains were enjoyed by the resurgent PS3, according to NPD’s August sales data. PS3 units sales were up an impressive 72 per cent over July, though Nintendo still emerged the clear …

Having launched at UK retail last Tuesday, Sony’s PS3 console has enjoyed a colossal week-on-week sales jump, with numbers of ChartTrack’s Week 36 showing a 999 per cent sales increase over the week before. ChartTrack has told MCV that it is not releasing specific sales numbers, but did say: The …

The North American video games hardware market continued its value freefall in July, but Microsoft’s Xbox 360 managed to mirror its ongoing success in the UK to post year-on-year sales increases. The overall hardware market declined by 37 per cent year-on-year according to NPD’s latest numbers, but Xbox 360 saw …

Rumours and speculation have been rife for many weeks now, but MCV can reveal that Sony is clearing PS3 hardware stock from the channel ahead of what is expected to be a new price point introduced from early September. A press conference at the Gamescom event in Cologne next Tuesday …

Amidst the gloom of yet more annual falls in the US video games market, hardware sales for June were better than expected hitting $1.7m – NPD had expected that number to be around $1.55m. As always, Nintendo’s machines were the star performers with DS shifting 766,500 units and the Wii …

The bad news continues for the troubled Japanese games industry with new stats from Famitsu-owning Enterbrain showing that the total value of the region’s games market is down 24.4 per cent year-on-year for the period between December 29th and June 28th. A slump in hardware sales of 27.6 per cent …

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday seemingly confirmed a brand new version of the Xbox 360 hardware that includes the motion-sensing Natal technology built in to the hardware. TGDaily reports that the iconic exec told attendees at The Executive’s Club of Chicago that a new hardware SKU equipped with Natal is …

Mirroring the overall decline seen in the US video games market in May, hardware sales for the period suffered a sharp fall – year-on-year sales of consoles dropped 30 per cent, hitting $302,500. Software was on the decline, too, albeit by a lesser extent. Compared to May 2008 total software …

One thing universally absent from this year’s E3 was any kind of hardware price cutting from any of the major platform holders – and that’s something that Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick is not happy about. I was disappointed not to see any sort of aggressive price cutting,” he told …

Forza 3 shipping on two discs, questions surround Metal Gear Risingâ??s capacity, while MS kills off Blu-ray possibilities