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Writing this year’s Call of Duty success headline was a complicated task. If we wanted to put a positive spin on things we could have gone with: ‘Call of Duty reclaims its crown as the biggest entertainment launch of the year’ or ‘Black Ops II is the fourth fastest selling …
Read More »Going the distance: The console cycle
The games business is a marathon, and Nick Gibson says Sony is not out of the running yet
Read More »Black Ops II beats Modern Warfare 3 with $500m sales in first 24 hours
Call of Duty: Black Ops II has sold an estimated $500m worth of units in tis first 24 hours. That beats the $400m made by last year’s Modern Warfare 3 in the same period. What hasn’t been revealed, though, is how many units the game sold. Modern Warfare 3 managed …
Read More »Animal Crossing propels 3DS skywards in Japan; Outsells Vita by 47:1
Sales of the PlayStation Vita have fallen to an all-time low in Japan, but that’s not Sony’s biggest concern this week. The release of new title Animal Crossing: New Leaf – a very popular IP in Japan – saw 3DS hardware sales rocket, with 187,077 units being shifted last week. …
Read More »GameStop reports physical decline and digital boom
International games retail giant GameStop has reported a decline in physical sales but a boost in digital for the quarter ending October 27th. Net losses for the period reached $624.3m compared to net earnings of $53.9m the year before, but this includes goodwill and other impairment charges of $678.8m stemming …
Read More »Halo 4 and Black Ops II could yet break records
The narrative for this Q4 has already been written to some extent, but the industry’s big triple-A’s are looking to prove it wrong. Both the UK and US markets are significantly down year-on-year and the belief that the market has peaked and consoles are losing popularity is becoming increasingly commonplace. …
Read More »Minecraft PC passes eight million
Indie hit has sold consistently since previous milestone in August
Read More »UK boxed video game sales plummet in October
Q4 has got off to a rough start for UK?games retail, with fewer games sold in October than September. In total 2.83m games were sold last month, a fall of 29.5 per cent over the same period a year ago. This is also 20.5 per cent down over September, which …
Read More »IHS Screen Digest questions Wii U potential as US launch nears
The Wii U arrives in the US this weekend, but one leading analyst has claimed Nintendo will need to up its game if it wants the new console to replicate the success of its predecessor. IHS Screen Digest analyst Piers Harding-Rolls does, however, believe that Wii U will have a …
Read More »Will Black Ops II outsell Modern Warfare 3? Does it matter?
All the research suggests that Call of Duty has peaked. Last year’s Modern Warfare 3 sold significantly fewer units in the UK than 2010’s Black Ops and 2009’s Modern Warfare 2. Anecdotally, MCV has been told that online traffic and magazine sales for Call of Duty editorial and covers have …
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