Tag Archives: revenue

Namco reports sales lift, drop in losses

Namco Bandai his filed it financial report for the quarter ending June 30th 2010, brining with it net sales reached YEN 81,912m, an increase of 8.2 per cent over the YEN 75,729m seen in the same period a year before. Operating income was up from YEN 2,758m last year to …

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Futures Q3 revenue up 2%

Media group Future has reported what it describes as an encouraging” two per cent year-on-year rise in revenue for its 2010 Q3. Year-to-date revenues for the group are down three per cent however, though this compares favourably with the five per cent dip seen in the first half of the …

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XBLA on track to make $140m this year

A new report from Forecasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment has estimated that Microsoft Xbox Live Arcade service has to date in 2010 made something in the region of $46.1m, a number that if true represents a 13 per cent year-on-year increase. The study also estimates that the digital portal will …

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PS3 surge boosts Sony

An impressive year-on-year boost in PS3 sales has delivered a strong financial quarter for Sony for the three months ending June 30th 2010. Losses at the Networked Products and Devices Division, which includes PlayStation, dropped to YEN 3.8bn – in the same period last year that number stood at YEN …

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Sony expected to report profit

Sony’s financial Q1 is set to bring with it a significant boost in operating profit, according to a report in Japanese paper Nikkei, as spotted by Andriasang. It claims that the period will see an operating profit anywhere between YEN 10m and YEN 30bn for the quarter ending June 30th. …

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Things looking up for Nokia

Nokia has revealed net sales of €10 billion for the second quarter of 2010, up 1% year-on-year – although down 4% at constant currency. The company sold 111.1 million mobile devices in Q2, up 8% year-on-year, with 24 million of those being smartphones (up 42% in the same period). Nokia …

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Xbox 360 sales down year-on-year

Microsoft has revealed that it sold 10.3m Xbox 360 consoles in the year ending June 30th – down from the 11.2m it sold in the same period the year before. Console unit sales were up in the quarter ending June, however. 1.5m were sold in the period compared to 1.2 …

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Social games market to hit $1.5bn in 2014

The total value of the social network games market will reach $1.5bn by 2014, according to a new report from Screen Digest. In 2009 that total stood at around $639m with 500m active monthly users, suggesting that the sector is set to grow by over 100 per cent in the …

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MS to make $1bn from Kinect in year one

Though opinion on the likely success or otherwise of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect camera remains divided, Caris & Co analyst Sandeep Aggarwal believes the camera could make as much as $1bn for the company in its first year on the market. Kinect could generate $2bn in incremental consumer spending on …

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Red Dead makes £10m in two days

Red Dead Redemption has enjoyed a impressive opening weekend, despite suffering from stock shortages on release day. MCV estimates that the Rockstar title generated in excess of over 10 million at retail in two days. The game is set to keep selling in the coming weeks – provided stock levels …

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