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The Wii U version of Super Smash Bros has got off to an excellent start in the US. Polygon reports that the game sold 490k units, spread across physical and digital, in its first three days on sale in the US. That makes it the fastest selling Wii U game …
Read More »Activision finally releases some Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare numbers
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the biggest entertainment launch of the year – that’s the headline from Activision’s long-awaited sales press release. Some nine days on from the release of the game, Activision has revealed only that the shooter has beaten the sales of any other game, movie, album …
Read More »EA exec says Xbox One is ‘catching up quickly’ with PS4
The rate at which Xbox One is narrowing its sales gap behind PS4 is accelerating. That’s according to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, who Gamasutra reports told an audience at the UBS Global Technology Conference that: "Clearly Sony has jumped out to a lead with a great console and I think …
Read More »PS4 outsells Xbox One for 10th consecutive month in US
Sony has confirmed that PS4 was the best selling console in the US in October. That marks the tenth month in succession that PS4 has bettered Xbox One, and somewhat dampens Microsoft’s celebrations earlier this week when it announced that Xbox One has outsold PS4 for the last two weeks. …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare beats Ghosts’ week one UK numbers, tops charts
As revealed by MCV earlier today, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has bettered the week one sales numbers of predecessor Ghosts, grabbing the UK No.1 in the process. In doing so it becomes the fifth biggest Call of Duty launch in the UK. Advanced Warfare’s week one unit sales beat …
Read More »Destiny hits 9.5m registered users, Destiny 2 already in development
Activision has said that Bungie’s shooter Destiny has attracted 9.5m registered users since its September 9th release. The publisher says that makes it the largest new IP launch in history and ranks among the ten largest video game launches ever in the US. However, when pressed by analyst Andrew Crum …
Read More »Activision believes Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare could still outsell Ghosts
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare could yet outsell its predecessor Ghosts, the CEO of Activision Publishing Eric Hirshberg has said. Games Industry reports that Hirshberg claims that the publisher’s internal metrics show that purchase intent [is] well above last year” and that engagement with the brand in social media channels …
Read More »Ubisoft expects Far Cry 4 to sell 6m and The Crew 2m as PS4 games sell over double Xbox One
Far Cry 4 will sell 6m units and The Crew 2m units in their first year on sale, Ubisoft has predicted. That means the publisher expects its upcoming Himalayan shooter to match the performance of its predecessor Far Cry 3. Ubisoft has also revealed that it sold more games on …
Read More »PS4 unit sales reach 13.5m worldwide as console enjoys its best quarter since launch
Sales of the PS4 have now hit 13.5m units after the console shifted 3.3m worldwide in the quarter ending September 30th, Sony has revealed. That’s up from the 2.7m shipped in the quarter before and the 3m shipped in Q4 2013, Sony’s sales datashows. In fact, it is the second …
Read More »Watch Dogs ships 9m copies
Ubisoft’s open-world action adventure game Watch Dogs has shipped 9m units, the company’s latest financial report reveals. The firm announced the title had shipped 8m copies prior to the start of its most recently concluded quarter, meaning the game has moved 1m in the past three months. "The very strong …
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