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Fewer UK consumers are pre-ordering video games, MCV can reveal. 20 per cent of UK gamers say they are either pre-ordering fewer titles, or have stopped pre-ordering altogether. This comes from a survey conducted by Ipsos MORI’s GameTrack project on behalf of MCV. Nine per cent of those surveyed said …
Read More »Apple Watch approaching 1m US pre-orders after first day – report
Digital shopping research firm Slice Intelligence estimates the Apple Watch moved 957,000 pre-orders on its first day offered in the US. Games Industry reports on Slice’s results, which are based on the company’s panel of more than 2m online shoppers who anonymously provide e-receiptsof digital purchases on a daily basis. …
Read More »One retailer is already taking pre-orders for the Nintendo NX
Gamers in Australia are already able to pre-order Nintendo’s new NX console. EB Games has announced via Facebook that customers are able to lay down an unspecified amount of cash against the largely unspecified console in-stores right now. Note that the Nintendo NX is not only without a price or …
Read More »Super Smash Bros pre-orders ahead of Mario Kart 8
Nintendo America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has said that pre-orders for the Wii U version of Super Smash Bros have passed those received for Mario Kart 8. The launch of Mario Kart 8 has essentially doubled our Wii U sales year-on-year,” he told Bloomberg. Our expectation is that the sell-through for …
Read More »Call of Duty ‘has peaked’; AW expected to sell 70% less than Black Ops 2
Next week’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare could sell 70 per cent fewer units than 2012’s Black Ops 2. It could also fall 40 per cent short of last year’s COD: Ghosts, according to estimates from Cowen and Company which says that the series is now in a state of …
Read More »4m pre-orders and counting for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have already broken Apple records. The company has said that in their first 24 hours of availability on pre-order over 4m handsets had already been sold – a number that exceeds the initial pre-order supply” and breaks previous Apple records. All of which …
Read More »Amazon Fire TV pre-orders open in the UK
The latest entrant in the Android console sector, Amazon Fire TV, is now available to pre-order in the UK. The microconsole costs 79, although Amazon Prime members are able to buy it for 49 until Monday September 8th. It will actually be released on October 23rd. For the money buyers …
Read More »SONY: Destiny is the most pre-ordered new IP ever; Volume and Papers Please heading to PlayStation
Bungie’s Destiny has claimed the title of the most pre-ordered new IP ever, Sony has revealed. The announcement was made at Sony’s Gamescom 2014 press conference, where the ties between the platform holder and the game were emphasised, including exclusive and timed content not found on other platforms. Bungie also …
Read More »Video game pre-orders are in decline, and Call of Duty ‘is not immune’
Despite the seemingly growing emphasis publishers place on pre-orders, they are in fact in decline. That’s according to Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg who told investors, as transcribed by Seeking Alpha, that Call of Duty is just one of many titles to see a decline in pre-orders in 2014. You see …
Read More »Retailers cancelling Destiny Limited Edition pre-orders
It’s not just the Ghost Edition of Destiny that is in short supply. VG247 reports that two retailers in the US – Walmart and Best Buy – have been contacting some customers who had pre-ordered the Limited Edition version of the game to say that they will be unable to …
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