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Yakuza 6 has gone straight in at No.1 in Japan this week, according to data from Famitsu. The PS4 exclusive isn’t due in Europe until 2018, but Sega’s highly anticipated open world game sold 201,211 units in its first week. Naturally, PS4 hardware sales continued its lead from last week, …
Read More »Call of Duty’s US physical sales down sharply
Activision’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare suffered a similar High Street sales decline in the US as it did in the UK. CNBC reports that physical sales of the game were down by around 50 per cent in November compared to its predecessor Black Ops III. That’s virtually the same …
Read More »PS4 breaks Xbox One’s US winning sales streak
The PS4 was the best-selling console in the US in November. The victory halts what had been a four-month stretch of wins for Xbox One, prior to which Sony’s machine had enjoyed a prolonged stint of dominance. NPD’s official sales data won’t be released until next week, but Microsoft’s statement …
Read More »PS4 sales up 227% in Japan as Final Fantasy XV launches
To no-one’s surprise, this week’s No.1 in Japan is Final Fantasy XV, according to data from Famitsu. The long-in-development and much-anticipated JRPG sold 716,649 units in its first week on shelves. Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XV had sold 5m units in its first day on sale worldwide. The …
Read More »Titanfall 2’s digital sales haven’t picked up physical slack
EA and Respawn’s Titanfall 2 has not fared any better digitally than it has on the High Street. Superdata Research reports that worldwide digital sales of Titanfall 2 throughout October managed just a quarter of those achieved by its predecessor. That’s especially poor considering that digital sales were less established …
Read More »Call of Duty tops charts in difficult month for boxed retail
Shooter Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare took the No.1 spot in the November charts, making Activision Blizzard the No.1 publisher in both units and value for the month. Boxed unit sales were down 26 per cent compared to Black Ops III’s first month, though. And Activision’s shooter was not the …
Read More »Final Fantasy XV sold 5m units on first day
The latest entry in Square Enix’s JRPG franchise has had a huge start around the world, making it the fastest selling game in the franchise to date. The firm reports that Final Fantasy XV, which launched on Tuesday, shipped and sold digitally a massive five million copies in its first …
Read More »Pokémon Sun and Moon hit 2.3m units in Japan
The latest entries in the Pokmon franchise, Sun and Moon are once again the best-selling games in Japan, according to data from Famitsu. The duo sold 442,346 copies in their second week on shelves, a drop of 78 per cent week-on-week. Combined with its launch sales of 1.9m, that brings …
Read More »38% of all Steam games were released this year
That’s right – on the biggest digital PC games store front in the world, over a third of its total catalogue was only released on the service in 2016. Steam Spy has revealed that so far in 2016 there have been an incredible 4,207 games released on Steam. That’s 38 …
Read More »Pokemon Sun and Moon sell 7.2m in first week
Nintendo’s latest Pokemon game has broken an American sales record. Combined sales of Pokemon Sun and Moon reached 3.7m units in the Americas. That’s an 85 per cent increase over Pokemon X and Y and makes it the fastest selling Nintendo game ever in the region. It was revealed yesterday …
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