Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has followed the trend set by fellow Western epic Grand Theft Auto IV by breaking into the higher echelons of the Japanese software charts. The game, which is published in Japan by Square Enix, managed an impressive fourth place finish in the listings …
Read More »JAPAN: Final Fantasy XIII sells 1m+
Long-awaited RPG Final Fantasy XIII was finally released on PS3 in Japan yesterday and has, according to Kotaku, already sold over 1m copies in the territory. The exact numbers aren’t available with Square Enix simply stating that sales of the game had exceeded one million copies”. That number does not …
Read More »PSPgo sales ahead of Sonys forecasts
Despite its controversial decision to ditch UMD functionality with the recently released PSPgo, Sony has claimed that the device has sold more than it had expected at this early stage in its lifecycle. We are over-forecast on what we thought we’d be selling on PSP Go, so we’ve been very …
Read More »JAPAN: PS3 passes 4m sales
Numbers from Enterbrain, the publisher of weekly games magazine Famitsu, show that Sony’s PS3 has now sold over 4m units in Japan. The same stats show that Nintendo’s Wii has now also passed the 9m total sales mark since its release in 2006. The PS3’s performance is all the more …
Read More »NPD: Overall sales reach $2.7bn
The US games industry generated $2.7 billion in sales last month, making it the second best November in industry history. Overall sales were down by 7.6 per cent when compared to the same period last year, meaning November 2008 retains the record set last year, according to the latest NPD …
Read More »Nintendo frustrated by GTA sales
Having stoically toed the positive PR line until now, DS platform holder Nintendo has for the first time openly admitted that Rockstar’s critically successful Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has failed to perform as it would have liked. It’s frustrating, quite frankly,” NoA’s executive VP of sales and marketing Cammie …
Read More »Batman bundle boosts Warner
Warner Bros is delighted that LEGO Batman is enjoying a new lease of life, racking up sales that put it head to head with the likes of Forza 3, GTA and Mario & Sonic. Despite being released back in September 2008, the game has seen renewed success thanks to its …
Read More »Tesco sales rise year-on-year
Leading UK supermarket chain Tesco has seen its annual Q3 sales increase 2.8 per cent year-on-year with ‘heavy discounting’ named as one of the chief reasons for its success. Non-food items such as toys and electrical goods performed particularly well. Total annual growth hit 8.8 per cent. The news comes …
Read More »Analyst: GTA franchise has peaked
While we still don’t know exactly how many copies of both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony have been downloaded by Xbox 360 owners, the secrecy itself has done most of the talking – and now one analyst has gone as far as to speculate that …
Read More »JAPAN: PES bosses November
Things might not be going quite as smoothly for the Pro Evolution Soccer series in Europe as publisher Konami would have hoped, but the series is showing no signs of lagging in its homeland of Japan. Kotaku reports that PES 2010 was the best selling game throughout November in Japan, …
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