Japanese publisher Capcom has posted its best ever annual net sales report for the year ending March 31st 2011. Net income for the period jumped 257.6 per cent year-on-year to YEN 7,750m. Operating income jumped 155.8 per cent to YEN 14,295m and ordinary income increased 132.6 per cent to YEN …
Read More »Price cut could double Wii sales
Despite falling sales and the announcement of its successor, Nintendo reckons that Wii may have only hit 50 per cent of its potential lifetime sales. We all know that the PS2 continued to sell in big numbers despite the arrival of newer hardware, mainly due to its significantly decreased ticket …
Read More »Nintendo: Kinect not cannibalising Wii
Saturo Iwata has claimed that there’s no evidence that the success of Xbox 360 Kinect has played a part in the slowing of international Wii hardware sales. "When we talk about whether Kinect contributed to significantly expanding the number of Xbox users, the number of Wii users has grown to …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Portal 2 still top
Despite a long weekend of shopping in the UK, there has been more or less no movement in this week’s UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top Ten. EA and Valve’s Portal 2 remains in first place with Warner Interactive’s Mortal Kombat holding tight at No.2. EA’s Crysis 2 slips out …
Read More »Easter bank holiday boom
It may have been one of the hottest Easters on record, but UK games retailers enjoyed a red hot weekend of sales last week. Some 22.4 million was made over the course of the Easter week, marking an increase of 43 per cent over the 15.8m generated a week before. …
Read More »Digital sales soar at GAME
Digital may remain one of the stiffest challenges for High Street retail, but GAME’s attempts to tap into the growing market have so far proved successful. Earlier this year GAME began selling Xbox Live Arcade titles via dedicated points cards sold over the counter. "A ‘retail accelerator’ effect also applies …
Read More »Iwata on 3DS sales, Wii strategy
The biggest challenge for Nintendo and the 3DS was always going to be advertising a feature that can’t be shown via traditional mediums. And that’s exactly what Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has blamed for what he describes as lower than expected sales of the device. "Nintendo 3DS has not been …
Read More »Minecraft hits 2 million paying players milestone
Almost one-in-three registered users have now paid for Mojang Specifications' sensationally popular MMORPG
Read More »Xbox 360 wins lion’s share of Portal 2 sales
Chart-Track has reportedly revealed that the Xbox 360 version of Valve’s Portal 2 was by far the most popular of the three SKUs released. ShopTo.net claims to have confirmation that Microsoft’s machine accounted for 54 per cent of overall sales. PS3 claimed just 35 per cent, despite the fact the …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Portal 2 wins
Critical favourite Portal 2 is this week’s No.1 according to the latest UKIE charts from GfK Chart-Track. It’s big new release contender, Warner Interactive’s Mortal Kombat, has to settle for second place in its first week of release. There’s also a Top Ten debut for Codemasters’ Operation Flashpoint: Red River, …
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