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Unconfirmed reports suggest that the Wii U sold 307,471 units in its first week on sale in Japan. That’s 70,000 fewer units than the Wii sold in its debut week. It’s also nearly 15,000 fewer than PlayStation Vita sold in its first week. The number comes from French games site …
Read More »Call of Duty suffers 14 per cent sales decline in first month in US
Month one sales for Call of Duty: Black Ops II were down 14 per cent on the 2011 November sales of Modern Warfare 3, a report has claimed. Gamasutra reckons that the game shifted 4.5m on Xbox 360 and 2.9m on PS3. Sales of the Wii U and PlayStation Vita …
Read More »Tales series hits 15m shipped
Namco Bandai’s popular RPG series Tales has passed the 15m unit shipped milestone. The most recent release Tales of Xillia 2 on PS3 has itself shipped 480,000 units since its Japanese release at the beginning of December. The IP first debuted way back in 1995 when Tales of Phantasia was …
Read More »Wii U sells 40k units in the UK in its opening weekend
Nintendo’s Wii U console sold around 40,000 units in its first 48 hours on sale in the UK, MCV understands. Retail sources suggest that effectively amounts to a complete sellout on the UK High Street. Stock is continuing to filter through to retail at a trickle but abundant supplies are …
Read More »Premium Wii U bundle claims 60 per cent of launch sales
Nintendo’s high-end Premium Wii U SKU was by far the most attractive to UK buyers over the console’s launch weekend. That’s according to data from GfK Chart-Track, which says that the 300 bundle won around a 60 per cent share of the console’s launch weekend sales. The ZombiU bundle accounted …
Read More »Black Ops II debuts at No.2 in the Japanese charts
Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II has debuted in second place in the weekly Japanese software chart. Combined sales across PS3 and Xbox 360 reached 220k units, with the PS3 SKU claiming No.2 with sales of 197,350. The Xbox 360 release charted at No.6 with 22,177 unit sales. Ubisoft’s …
Read More »Xbox 360 almost doubles Wii U unit sales in console’s first week
The numbers don’t lie, but sometimes they do need to be considered in a wider context. Nintendo on Monday announced that the Wii U sold 400,000 units in its first week on sale in the US. Then Microsoft last night announced that in the same period it sold 750,000 Xbox …
Read More »Wii U sells 400,000 units in US launch week
Original Wii also benefits with sales boost
Read More »GTA shipments hit 125m as "special" series continues to grow
And that’s why the industry gets excited, sits up and pays attention when the words ‘Grand Theft Auto’ are uttered. Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick told the Credit Suisse 2012 Technology Conference – as reported by GameSpot – that the series has now shipped 125m units worldwide. Of that total Grand …
Read More »Dishonored sales exceed Bethesda’s own expectations
Yes, launching new IP is a gamble. But when it pays off, it pays off big. And that has proved to be Bethesda’s reward for launching new IP Dishonored in October. Not only has the game been a critical and commercial success in its own right, but it has successfully …
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