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Slowing demand for the DS and the strength of the Japanese YEN have lead to a punishing quarter for platform holder Nintendo. For the quarter ending June 30th operating income fell by a considerable 42.2 per cent year-on-year to YEN 40.4bn. Sales dropped by 25.6 per cent to YEN 188.6bn. …
Read More »Budget boosted by supermarket growth
The budget games sector has seen its sales soar at key UK supermarkets. Leading grocers have doubled their market share in games over the last 12 months, which has had a positive impact on value PC publishers, such as Focus, Mastertronic and Avanquest. Supermarkets have become a key destination for …
Read More »THQ: Red Dead hurt UFC 2010 sales
THQ says the runaway success of Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption’s damaged sales of its brawler UFC 2010. The 2009 edition of UFC was a smash hit, debuting at the top of the All Formats Charts and even receiving a nomination for Sales Triumph in this year’s MCV Awards. So expectations were high …
Read More »Ubi: Michael Jackson will sell 1m+
Michael Jackson: The Experience will be Ubisoft’s latest million-selling sensation, the publisher has told MCV. Speaking in an exclusive interview with MCV, UK MD Rob Cooper says the firm was approached by Michael Jackson himself – long before his death – to create a game based on his iconic dance …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »E-books enjoy retail surge
Leading online book retailer Amazon has said that digital books have been consistently outselling” hardback books throughout the last three months in the US. It says that throughout the period it has been selling 143 e-books for every 100 hardback novels sold in Q2 2010. In the last month alone …
Read More »Xbox 360 S redesigns records
The Xbox 360 S has enjoyed a bumper launch in the UK, with sales monitor GfK Chart-Track stating that the machine has achieved the biggest launch in the UK for a ‘revised’ home console”. The slimmed down unit arrived in the UK on Friday carrying an RRP of 199.99. Several …
Read More »Has Tiger been damaged for good?
Though EA has stood firm by Tiger Woods as the sordid scandal surrounding his personal life has unravelled in the media, one analyst has claimed that the golf star’s dented image has damaged the viability of EA’s console series. June sales of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 in the US …
Read More »NPD: PS3s run of form continues
The sky’s the limit for PS3 at the moment with Sony enjoying an 11th consecutive month of PS3 hardware sales growth in the US market. Hardware sales reached 304.8k in June, an increase of 85 per cent year-on-year. Year-to-date sales are currently 1,591,000, a 42 per cent year-on-year increase. PS3 …
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