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Microsoft’s director of product management Aaron Greenberg has predicted that Xbox 360 Natal will sell millions” of units upon its launch in the latter stages of this year. The bold prediction was issued to Joystiq, with the exec stating: We think that there will be millions of Natals in consumer’s …

International video games retailer GameStop has reported sales of $2.86bn for the nine weeks ending January 2nd – more or less spot on the $2.85bn it reported in the same period in 2008. Like-for-like store sales fell by 8.6 per cent in the period. The lower than expected numbers were …

As part of its many announcements at America’s technology showcase CES, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has confirmed that Xbox 360 has now sold 39m units worldwide since its arrival in 2005. With no up-to-date global numbers for wither PS3 or the Wii it’s impossible to precisely know how this compares to …

ELSPA has dubbed PS3 the star console of 2009” following an impressive year-on-year increase in software sales for Sony’s machine. In total 11.9m PS3 games were sold in the UK last year – a 14 per cent increase on the 10.4m units old in 2008. Hardware sales were up, too, …

Rapidly growing UK retailer The Hut has revealed that its network of websites saw a 188 per cent year-on-year increase in the number of orders it received in the six weeks over Christmas. In the same period international revenue soared 240 per cent year-on-year. We are extremely happy with these …

Having confessed his concern about the health of the Wii in the latter stages of 2009, Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has now told Reuters that has machine has recovered from its downturn. The statement comes after it was revealed that the Wii sold a massive 3m units in North America …

Having been neck and neck through much of the year in the Japanese video games market, hardware sales figures from Enterbrain suggest that Nintendo’s Wii managed to lurch ahead in the closing stages of 2009 to outsell Sony’s resurgent PS3. The Wii shifted 1,975,178 units throughout the year – a …

The Wii returned to the top of the Japanese hardware sales chart in the final week of 2009, selling more than 215,000 units. The Nintendo console knocks Sony’s PS3, the previous week’s bestselling console down to third, according to Gamasutra. For the week ending December 27th, 2009, the PS3 sold …

Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has claimed that 2009 was yet again a year of decline for the video games industry in Japan with both hardware and software sales suffering year-on-year decreases. Kotaku reports that hardware sales for the year were down 13.6 per cent, with the total market slumping by 6.9 …

Sega will reduce the number of mature Wii games it publishes and develops, a company executive has claimed. The move comes in the wake of Sega releasing several high-profile ‘core’ Wii games in recent months – a move which the company has now branded a gamble” as the games return …