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The upcoming August NPD figures will be the first to factor in the effect of the global PS3 price cut, but one analyst firm has said that it won’t be enough to dethrone the Xbox 360. Sony cut the cost of the console by $50 last month. IndustryGamers reports that …

SPECIAL REPORT: Half of all UK software revenues this year will come from a top-tier of select games – releases that might just offset a six month decline in the sale boxed games. MCV – with expert input from our Retail Advisory Board – has put together a list of …

In the middle of a summer slump, MCV hasn’t made pleasant reading. The weekly games retail market value is teetering worryingly close to an all time low. You’ve seen the headlines – after all, we’ve printed them; we are all doomed. But things aren’t over yet. Not by a long …

Leading UK video games retailer GAME reports its annual financials tomorrow – and the national press is expecting a significant slump in profits. The Guardian reports that GAME will report a 60 per cent drop in profits for the year ending January, a downturn it blames on the rise of …

Although we’re yet to see any official sales figures for the Nintendo 3DS in either Europe or the US, analysts are already predicting great things. "The 3DS launch in North America and Europe produced sales that Nintendo should be proud of," EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich told Industry Gamers. "Given the awareness …

1. Publishers to stop moaning about second-handPublishers have whined and whined about the evil that is pre-owned. They’ve even risked pissing off gamers with second user charges. What has retail done? Dedicated more space to it in-store. Get over it. 2. Tax breaksLook, let’s get this straight: it’s not happening. …

A report by the International Data Corporation has pointed to a possible sales win for Xbox 360 Kinect over PS3 Move over the next six months. PC World reports that the report estimates that the total install base for Kinect over the next six months amongst 25-44 year olds will …

The Xbox 360 Kinect will outsell Apple’s highly successful iPad – that’s the claim being made by Microsoft at the Tokyo Game Show. The pre-orders have been really strong,” official Kinect spokesperson Kudo Tsunoda told Gamasutra. As far as what we’re looking at for holiday, this is going to be …

Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect will sell over 3m units this holiday period following its launch this November, platform holder Microsoft has claimed. Our estimates that we will sell in excess of 3m units this holiday,” Microsoft Xbox product director Aaron Greenberg told Gamasutra. Our key indicators are feedback from …

Despite having shot straight to the top of the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week, US analyst Michael Pachter thinks that 2K Games’s Mafia II will ultimately fail to deliver for the publisher. The continued strength from Red Dead Redemption is offsetting weakness from weak Mafia II …