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Ahead of the release of Xbox 360 fighter Samurai Shodown Sen next Friday, Rising Star Games’ product marketing assistant Yen Hau has said that Japanese games stand a better chance in Western markets now than ever before. The Western market is more receptive to Japanese games than it was a …
Read More »UK games market down 7.8% in Q1
It was meant to be the Q1 that would save us from the slump, but a wash of quality releases have not been able to halt a games market decline. MCV research based on GfK Chart-Track data shows that the UK games market was worth 303m for the 13 weeks …
Read More »Wii captured 47% of market in 09
Nintendo’s Wii accounted for 47 per cent of the global home console market in 2009, according to a report from Ibis Capital. Gamasutra reports that of the remainder, Xbox 360 claimed 35 per cent of the market and PS3 just 18 per cent. Total global console revenues hit $30bn. Looking …
Read More »JAPAN: Market drops year-on-year
Early numbers from Famitsu publisher Enterbrain claim that the Japanese market suffered a slight annual decline for the fiscal year ending March 31st. However, the dip was lower than expected at just 0.6 per cent, with the total market value hitting YEN 549,060m. A sharp 6.6 per cent decline in …
Read More »Reeves: We want to double market share
Doubling Capcom’s market share in the next four to five years – that’s the lofty goal new Capcom Europe COO David Reeves has set himself ahead of the first day in his new job tomorrow. In addition, Reeves has stated that he will be drastically increasing Capcom’s focus on post-release …
Read More »Sega: PC sales are stronger than reported
Publishing giant Sega has defended PC gaming, calling it a strong and vital market for the games industry. Physical retail sales of PC games are continuing to slide in 2010, but Sega’s UK MD John Clark says that isn’t a fair representation of the market – with digital sales now …
Read More »Future warns of tough times
Though it insists that its half-year financials (which are due to be published on May 20th) should meet its previously published expectations, Future has issued a cautious pre-close trading update. Games, which comprises 30 per cent of group revenue, continues to experience a very tough market and difficult comparatives,” a …
Read More »Is this the end of specialist games retail?
It’s official: supermarkets are the fastest growing games retailers in the UK.According to TNS data published by ERA this week, supermarkets took up 17.7 per cent of revenue earned through video game software sales in 2009 – a whopping 328m. That figure was just 210m, 10.1 per cent of the …
Read More »UK games market holds steady in Feb
The value of the UK games software market in February fell two per cent year-on-year, according to ELSPA/GfK Chart-Track. The monthly charts show that Sega’s sci-fi FPS Aliens vs Predator was the biggest selling title of last month. Sega’s action shooter Aliens vs Predator saw off stiff competition from 2K’s …
Read More »iPhone eats up PSP and DS share
Apple’s digital distribution model makes it tough to track sales numbers for iPhone games, but a new report from Flurry says that the device’s share of the US market grew considerably last year – at the expense of the PSP and DS.Mobile Entertainment reports that in 2009 the iPhone claimed …
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