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Despite competition from Kinect and Move, Nintendo hardware sales have increased as spending ramps up for Christmas. MCV understands that sales of Wii consoles and games have rebounded over recent weeks, thanks to aggressive price activity. Sainsbury’s has slashed 25 per cent off Wii and DS consoles, with Wii hardware …
Read More »Move sales on par with Kinect
Following the confirmation that Sony’s 4.1m ‘sales’ figure for Move released yesterday actually represents the number of units shipped to retail, analyst Michael Pachter has pegged actual sales numbers at 2.5m units. That, of course, is exactly the same as the Kinect sales number released by Microsoft earlier in the …
Read More »Now Sony claims global Move 4.1m milestone
The two-month headstart has paid off for Sony as worldwide PlayStation Move sales top 4.1 million units. With Microsoft’s cry of 2.5m Kinect sales still ringing in the industry’s ears, Sony has announced its own motion controller has reached this sales milestone in just two months. This number not only …
Read More »JAPAN: Mario Bros Wii sells 4m units
New Super Mario Bros Wii has become the first Wii game to sell 4m copies in Japan. The latest sales results show that 4,001,276 units have been sold since the game first hit Japanese stores on December 3rd, 2009. Famitsu.com reported the sales milestone today which was picked up by …
Read More »Kinect sales reach 2.5m
Total global sales of Xbox 360 Kinect have now hit 2.5m units, platform holder Microsoft has announced. The device had previously sold 1m units in its first 10 days of availability. These numbers show that an additional 1.5m cameras have sold in the following two weeks. It means that the …
Read More »Mirrors Edge fell short, EA says
EA DICE’s highly-anticipated first-person title Mirror’s Edge missed commercial and critical targets within Electronic Arts, a key exec has said. Frank Gibeau, who inherited the presidency of the EA Games label in 2008, said Mirror’s Edge and horror title Dead space each had some degree of success, but they didn’t …
Read More »Nintendo hardware gets Black Friday boost
The lucrative Black Friday shopping week has seemingly proved a very successful period for Nintendo.CVG reports that internal company estimates point to US sales of 900k units for DS and 600k units for Wii in the period between November 21st and November 27th. That represents total sales of 1.5m consoles …
Read More »GT5s launch week betters GT4
Having slipstreamed the opposition and claimed first place in this week’s UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40, Gran Turismo 5 has also bettered the performance of its predecessor. Week one sales of the new racer were six per cent up compared to the week one performance of PS2 outing …
Read More »Black Ops tops Japanese charts
The growing aspirations of Western games in key Japanese markets have received another shot in the arm with confirmation that Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has claimed the top spot in this week’s Japanese software charts. The PS3 version of the game shifted 129k units this week, driving it …
Read More »Kinect sells 26k in Japan
Having hit Japanese retail last weekend, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect reportedly sold around 26k units in its first two days on sale. Like in the UK, Kinect in Japan is bundled with a copy of Kinect Adventures. Sales include both standalone and units bundled with the 4GB and 250GB variants …
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