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A surge of punters picking up a brand new iPhone 4S in October saw Apple sell more smartphones than all Android smartphone makers combined, according to new Kantar Worldpanel research. iPhone sales had been down in previous months with the Apple faithful holding off on picking up an iPhone 4 …
Read More »Activision predicts Skylanders shortage
Bobby Kotick has warned the markets to expect shortages of its innovative kids title Skylanders this Christmas. The game uses augmented reality technology to place real-life monster figurines into the game. This of course leads to a secondary trade in the figures for Activision. It is currently available on Xbox …
Read More »Modern Warfare 3 topped Sainsbury’s sales list
In its first week of release, Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the single best selling product at supermarket giant Sainsbury’s. It’s one of the starkest illustrations yet of the changing landscape of the games retail sector in the UK. The Telegraph reports that the retailer also predicts …
Read More »Kinect’s year one Japanese sales revealed
In celebration of its first birthday in Japan, Famitsu has published firm Japanese sales data for Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect. And the truth is the numbers aren’t very good. In total the device has sold 114k at Japanese retail. That represents fewer than one in ten Xbox 360 owners …
Read More »GameStop cuts Battlefield 3 to £22.97
Having kicked off its Black Friday promotion with the now sold out Uncharted 3 for 22.97, GameStop.co.uk has now gone live with an amazing offer for EA’s Battlefield 3. The game is currently available on either PS3 or Xbox 360 for just 22.97. The promotion will run until 8pm tonight, …
Read More »FEATURE: ‘A digital chart is vital’
MCV quizzes UKIE board member and Sega UK MD John Clark on the importance of including digital sales into the weekly charts… You spoke at the London Games Conference this month about the evolution of packaged and digital content. Before LGC we surveyed 1,000 industry experts and three quarters said …
Read More »Modern Warfare 3 tops Japanese charts
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has achieved a rare feat for a Western-developed FPS by debuting at the top of the Japanese software charts. The game is published by Square Enix in the region. Andriasang reports that its week one PS3 sales reached 180,372. Although its predecessor Black …
Read More »PlayStation Move sales closing on Kinect
Kinect may be a more familiar fixture in the headlines, but a new report suggests that PlayStation Move may be steadily closing the sales gap. In fact, IndustryGamers reckons that Move is no only around a million units behind Kinect, which has sold 10m worldwide according to Microsoft’s most recent …
Read More »We Sing series hits a million
Nordic Games has confirmed that total lifetime sales to date for its We Sing series have now hit one million units worldwide. The number was revealed at last night’s London bash which was attended by X-Factor’s Kitty Brucknell. Whilst these figures may not be in the same league as Modern …
Read More »Just Dance 3 smashes sales of predecessor
Any fears that the dancing game craze had passed have been well and truly dispelled following the release of some impressive statistics from publisher Ubisoft. Worldwide sales of Just Dance 3, which was released in October for Wii and Xbox 360, are tracking 85 per cent ahead of its predecessor …
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