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H1Z1 has finished on top of Steam’s weekly best sellers chart, outpacing pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto V. The Early Access launch of Sony Online Entertainment’s zombie survival affair helped push the game to victory, but the PC version of GTA V grabbing the runner-up spot during its first few …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V claims second UK No.1 of 2015
Rockstar’s best-selling crime title has held onto the top spot in spite of a sales decline. Sales of Grand Theft Auto V dipped by 29 per cent week-on-week, according to GfK Chart-Track data. Unsurprisingly, the lion’s share of these sales came from November’s next-gen re-release. 52 per cent of units …
Read More »Over 1-in-10 developers are working on an eSports title as boxed retail power loosens
12 per cent of developers who participated in GDC 2014’s State of the Industry Survey say they are working on a game they would classify as an eSports title. 79 per cent perceive eSports to be a long-term, sustainable business. "Twitch is making broadcasting competitions very accessible, and high-profile events …
Read More »ANALYSIS: How did the UK games market perform in 2014?
The overall games market (software, hardware and accessories) declined six per cent in units and climbed 12 per cent in revenue during 2014. Revenue growth came from console hardware (up 46 per cent), which needs little explanation in the first full calendar year for PS4 and Xbox One. Those two …
Read More »UK games retail sales up 12% to £2.3bn in 2014
The UK boxed video games market generated 2.294bn in 2014, MCV can reveal. GfK Chart-Track says that the figure, which combines sales of boxed games, consoles and accessories, is a 12 per cent improvement over the year prior. The increase was almost entirely down to huge sales of PS4 and …
Read More »Xbox One wins US December race, but PS4 wins 2014 and Wii U has best month
Microsoft’s Xbox One was the best-selling console in the US throughout December 2014, the platform holder has revealed. It mirrors not only the success it had the month before but also in December 2013. It also sold more games than PS4 throughout the period and average weekly sales were better …
Read More »Sorry Minecraft, you’re not the biggest game in the UK
Writing MCV opinion pieces can, at times, feel like smashing my head against the proverbial brick wall. I know I must sound like a record trapped on repeat, but the data and information this industry is giving out just isn’t good enough. Not to dismiss Chart-Track’s figures. The retail data …
Read More »Animal Crossing: New Leaf re-enters Japanese Top Ten, two years after its release
2012 3DS release Animal Crossing: New Leaf broke back into the Japanese Top Ten last week, according to the latest data from Famitsu. The zoological life-simulation title, which came out in Japan on November 8th 2012, made the number 10 spot in the software chart, with sales likely boosted by …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V retakes UK charts top spot
Rockstar’s latest has once again become the UK’s biggest-selling game, despite sales more than halving last week. According to the latest Ukie Games Charts, compiled by GfK Chart-Track,Grand Theft Auto V saw unit sales drop 51 per cent in the second week of 2015 – but managed to climb above …
Read More »Japanese games market down 10% in 2014, hits lowest point for 24 years
UPDATE: It has emerged that the Japanese console games market in 2014 had its worst performance for 24 years. As translated by NeoGaf, 2014’s 368.55bn total was the sector’s lowest total for nearly a quarter of a century. As recently as 2007 the region’s console games market was worth 688bn. …
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