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UK PC sales in the fourth quarter continued to grow at a rapid pace, despite a rising dollar, on-going recession and stalling shipments worldwide. According to figures released by IDC, more than 3.8 million PCs were sold during the fourth quarter, an increase of 13.3 per cent on the same …
Read More »NCsoft profits fall in 2008
Korean MMO specialist NCsoft has recorded a fall in both operating profit and net profit for its 2008 fiscal year, though its results for the final quarter of the year were all positive, leading to a strong outlook for 2009. Fiscal 2008 operating profit fell 15 per cent year-on-year to …
Read More »NPD: Sony silent after January losses
Sony is the only one of the three platform holders to not yet issue a statement after NPD’s January stats for the North American market showed that PS3 was the only major console to see an annual decline in monthly sales . The numbers showed that whilst Wii sales grew …
Read More »NPD: Nintendo continues to expand the market
Nintendo remained seemingly untouchable in January according to the latest NPD stats, and has claimed that the growth seen in both the Wii and DS market is helping the overall games sector by offsetting declines on other platforms ”. The overall January market in North America grew by $150m compared …
Read More »NPD: Microsoft and Nintendo gain but PS3 sales fall
Nintendo and Microsoft were the main beneficiaries of the promising Janauary sales climbs seen in NPD’s latest numbers – but Sony’s PS3 continues to suffer a decline in sales, surely putting more pressure ion the firm to drop the price of the machine in March. Total North American hardware sales …
Read More »Ubisoft’s Imagine brand hits 1m sales
Ubisoft is celebrating after a stellar performance by its Imagine range over Christmas pushed the series to just under one million annual sales. The line-up of mass-market titles shifted over 300,000 units in the four weeks to Christmas, MCV has learnt, with Imagine Teacher and Imagine Dream Weddings leading the …
Read More »January retail figures give room for optimism
The retail figures for January are in and paint a mixed picture, with the good news of an overall like-for-like increase of 1.1 per cent in sales muddied by news that non-food sales slipped 1.6 per cent. Retail Week reports that BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor numbers showed a total sales …
Read More »UK industry off to a flyer in 2009
The UK software market has kicked off 2009 by thrashing last year’s January performance – and overtaking Japan to become the second biggest territory in the world. GfK-ChartTrack revealed this week that the UK software market grew by 26 per cent in 2008 – leaving it ahead of Japan in …
Read More »Iwata: Wii Music has fallen short of expectations
Saturo Iwata, the boss of platform holder Nintendo, has admitted in an investor call that the firm’s recent release Wii music has not yet lived up to the firm’s expectations – but insisted that it’s day in the sun could still be on the way. I agree that Wii Music, …
Read More »EA: FIFA 09 sells 7.8m units
As part of its Q3 financial statement , EA has named FIFA 09 as its top performing title of Q3 2008, with sales topping an impressive 7.8m units worldwide – four per cent up on the performance of FIFA 08 the year before. The publisher’s second best seller, surprisingly, was …
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