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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 …
Read More »AUS: PSPgo sells 25,000
The PS3 may be on a seemingly unstoppable upwards sales trend right now, but turn your attention to PSPgo and it’s a completely different story. Concrete sales numbers are hard to come by, but solid numbers for Australia have been published showing that since its launch in October the digital-only …
Read More »PS3 surging year-on-year
Though the UK High Street continues to struggle against what to date is proving an even more challenging sales year than 2009, Sony has pointed out that the PS3 is proving the star performer by posting strong year-on-year increases. To date in calendar 2010 sales of PS3 hardware are up …
Read More »Xbox 360 tops Red Dead sales
Having ridden into town, hitched its horse, strolled into the local saloon and shot all other chart contenders in the face to claim no.1 in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 today, Red Dead Redemption has also given Microsoft plenty to cheer about. Xbox 360 accounted for over …
Read More »MTV expected more from Rock Band in Europe
In an exclusive interview with MCV, MTV’s general manager and executive VP Scott Guthrie has admitted that the publisher is not satisfied with the performance of the Rock Band franchise in Europe. The honest answer is no,” Guthrie admitted when asked if he was happy with the performance of The …
Read More »GameStop reports earnings growth
In the face of one of the most hostile times in the history of games retail, global games retailer GameStop has reported net earnings of $75.2m for its fiscal Q1 ending May 1st 2010 – a jump of 6.8 per cent year-on-year. Total sales were up 5.1 per cent at …
Read More »Red Dead Redemption could sell 4m
Rockstar’s latest sandbox action title Red Dead Redemption could sell 4m copies globally within its first year on sale. Analyst Doug Creutz from New York financial services company Cowen Group raised his sales estimates for the game from 2.2m to 4m, according to a report from Gamasutra. Creutz says this …
Read More »AUS: PS3 hits 850k sales
Sony is beating its chest after hitting a brand new sales milestone in Australia. The next-gen console has now hit 850k sales in the region, and SCE Australia head Michael Ephraim told GameSpot that he believes that the console will pass the 1m sales barrier by the end of 2010. …
Read More »Capcoms Western dilemma
Publisher Capcom has revealed the poor performance of recent releases Dark Void and Bionic Commando have lead to a strategic re-think of its Western aspirations. Speaking to The Financial Times, president Haruhiro Tsujimoto revealed that Dark Void has sold just 520k copies since its release – well below Capcom’s initial …
Read More »Strong week for Xbox 360
2010 FIFA World Cup may have held on to the top spot in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week, but Microsoft’s Alan Wake took it awfully close. Sales numbers show that Remedy Entertainment’s narrative horror outing was just 1,000 sales away from claiming no.1 in its …
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