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Read More »EA to support Wii MotionPlus with bundles
It has been known for a while that the upcoming duo of EA Grand Slam Sports Tennis and Tiger Woods 10 will support Nintendo’s gesture-enhancing Wii MotionPlus, but now the publisher has confirmed that both titles will include the device in the box. Both SKUs including the MotionPlus will retail …
Read More »JAPAN: Xbox 360 tops satisfaction poll
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has topped a consumer satisfaction poll in Japan, outperforming both Nintendo and Sony’s console offerings. The survey, released by ASCII Media Works, asked both console owners and potential buyers to rate all the consoles in six categories; Value for money, variety of compelling software, graphical strength, hardware …
Read More »Chinatown Wars sales in line with AAA titles
Nintendo claims that Rockstar’s commercially underperforming DS title, GTA Chinatown Wars, is selling in line” with other third-party AAA titles for the DS. Before NPD offered its March sales figures for North America, analysts gave conflicting predictions on the outcome of the critically adored title. EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich predicted that …
Read More »Sony and Microsoft wage Metacritic war
Amidst all the talk of NPD’s March year-on-year hardware sales comparisons, chart-topping software battles and third party revenue numbers, Sony and Microsoft both chose to play the PR game on another front – Metacritic review aggregations. In its post-March response, Sony stated that: Approximately one in every three PS3 titles …
Read More »US: Chinatown Wars sales below expectations
US analyst Cowan and Company has stated that it believes Rockstar’s recently released Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars sold just 89,000 units on DS in the territory in March. The firm had originally predicted that the game could sell as many as 450,000 units upon its release in North America. …
Read More »NPD: Nintendo positive despite Wii sales drop
The lack of a March-based Easter has not only dented NPD’s previously untouchable clean run of strong monthly US sales results, but also chinked the previously unblemished armour of market leader Nintendo. Sales of its Wii console fell 17 per cent compared to march 2008, with 601,000 units shifted. It’s …
Read More »NPD: March market suffers 17% sales slide
The North American video game market has been dealt a heavy yet expected blow as the latest NPD figures show year-on-year declines for March. The US market generated a total of $1.43bn in March; a significant 17 per cent fall from the same period last year, and a slight trim …
Read More »Nintendo to release ‘key property’ at Xmas
The CEO of US retail giant Gamestop has said that Nintendo has asked him to save shelf space this Christmas – for a major new key property”. Dan DeMatteo told CNBC: "We think there will be a Nintendo key property coming out by the end of the year. They haven’t …
Read More »Trip Hawkins: iPhone is freaking out Sony and Nintendo
Trip Hawkins, games industry legend and founder of publishing powerhouse EA, has stated that he believes the success of Apple’s iPhone has major platform holders worried. Hawkins is the current chief executive of mobile games developer Digital Chocolate, and has enjoyed great success on Apple’s device. The iPhone is by …
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