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Digital sales across Nintendo platforms currently stand at 11.1bn for the current financial year. That equates to 75.6m in real money. The figure puts Nintendo on track to beat the record digital revenues it posted in 2010, when Wii was riding high as the DSi was fresh on the market. …
Read More »Capcom almost halves DmC sales expectations
DmC: Devil May Cry is going to fall well short of Capcom’s initial expectations for the game. Capcom had originally forecast sales of 2m units by the end of its financial year. That has now been lowered to just 1.2m units, Eurogamer reports. In its first week on sale in …
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Read More »Iwata: Fires warning shot to staff, intends to "revive momentum of overseas operations"
Nintendo boss Saturo Iwata appears to have issued a thinly veiled warning to the company’s international management teams. He’s a man who clearly believes in his hardware. So why is it struggling? Simple, Iwata argues – Nintendo is not selling it right. And territories in which the console is underperforming …
Read More »Nintendo cuts Wii U sales forecasts despite profits increase
Nintendo now expects to sell 4m Wii U units by the end of the current financial year. That’s down from its previous 5.5m unit sales forecast. It has also lowered its projected 3DS sales from 17.5m to 15m units. The company also revealed that lifetime Wii U sales now stand …
Read More »Record iPhone and iPad sales challenge Apple detractors
Apple is on the ropes as customers flock from iOS to Android, right? Perhaps not. The tech company last night reported record Q1 sales of 47.8m iPhones and 22.9m iPads. That’s up on last year’s sales of 37m and 15.4m respectively. That works out as over 800,000 iOS device sales …
Read More »US Xbox 360 sales fall in December quarter
Xbox 360 still rules the roost in the US, but sales for the December quarter were sharply down year-on-year. Revenue for Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division – home of Xbox and Windows Phone – was down 11 per cent to $3.8bn with operating income up 15 per cent to $596m. …
Read More »Minecraft hits 20m sales across all platforms
The seemingly unending sales onslaught of Minecraft has brought the title to another major milestone. The indie sandbox block-builder blockbuster has surpassed 20m units sold across its four available platforms, according to Mojang’s Jens Bergensten via Twitter. The company went on to reveal some key numbers for last year, announcing …
Read More »Electronics sales boost Argos Q4 takings
Home Retail Group has announced that total sales grew 1.6 per cent to 1.744m between September 2nd and January 5th. Internet sales for the year accounted for 42 per cent of total sales. "Argos had a good peak trading period building on its first half performance,” says Terry Duddy, Home …
Read More »Epic Mickey: The Power of Two US sales dreadful
Warren Spector’s original vision of a four-game Epic Mickey saga may be relegated to a pipe dream. The LA Times reports the Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two sold just 270,000 copies in the US by the conclusion of last year. In comparison, the first Epic Mickey moved 1.3m …
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