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Microsoft has claimed both another month of strong sales in the US and another month of console market leadership. Following NPD’s January report, the platform holder released a statement confirming Xbox 360 hardware sales of 381k units – that’s up 15 per cent or 48k units year-on-year. Microsoft adds that …
Read More »NPD: US January games market down 5%
US sales tracker NPD has released its numbers for the US video games market in January 2011, and they show another period of year-on-year decline. Overall sales hit $1.16bn – a five per cent drop on January 2010. Software sales were down five per cent at $576m while hardware fell …
Read More »UK games market suffers January dip
Over half a million fewer games were sold in the UK last month compared with January 2010. It marks a 13.4 per cent dip year-on-year in unit sales for UK games retail, while the market value has fallen 7.9 per cent to 84.6m. Chart-Track director Dorian Bloch pointed to a …
Read More »January High Street sales decline
New statistics from the CBI’s Distributive Trades Survey show that sales on the High Street in early January declined eight per cent year-on-year, ending hopes that retailers were on track to enjoy three straight monthly increases. The vicious cold snap in the early part of the month was mainly to …
Read More »UK CHARTS: MW2 claims ninth no.1
For a full rundown of the charts on all formats, check out MCV’s vital weekly retail digest, RetailBiz – available to view online or download now. It’s nine weeks and counting at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week as Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern …
Read More »UK games market falls to £60.1m
UK software sales fell 30 per cent last week, as post-Christmas consumer spending slows down. Value for the week dropped to 60.1m, while unit sales fell 23 per cent. This week’s performance was driven by the New Year sales and the continued success of Modern Warfare 2, which continues to …
Read More »UK CHARTS: MW2 stays top
2009 may be already be fading into the distance but the arrival of a brand new decade has not bought with it a change of fortunes for all those hoping to topple Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 from the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40. …
Read More »London retail buoyant in January
Not long after promising news about the not as bad as expected January on the UK High Street, it has now emerged that London retailers saw a sharp increase in trade last month. Retail Week reports that like-for-like sales in the capital last month were 6.5 per cent up on …
Read More »NPD: Nintendo continues to expand the market
Nintendo remained seemingly untouchable in January according to the latest NPD stats, and has claimed that the growth seen in both the Wii and DS market is helping the overall games sector by offsetting declines on other platforms ”. The overall January market in North America grew by $150m compared …
Read More »NPD: January market sees 13% growth
The latest results from stats firm NPD show that the North American video game market grew 13 per cent in January compared to the same month the year before to reach a total value of $1.33bn. The results are hugely impressive not only due to the darkening global economic situation, …
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