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Over 10m units of DICE-developed military shooter Battlefield 3 have now been shipped worldwide, EA has announced. To get a sense of scale, worldwide mega-hit FIFA 12 has shipped just 8m units since its release at the end of September. The game’s predecessor Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has shipped 11m …
Read More »Losses grow but EA sales beat expectations
Publisher EA has published higher than anticipated sales numbers for its financial Q2 ending September 30th 2012. In total sales hit $1.03bn for the period – a 17 per cent year-on-year increase. Losses for the period also increased, however, hitting $340m. That’s a $139m year-on-year increase. The big successes of …
Read More »‘Sales jumped 4000%’ from Counter-Strike discount
Revenues mushroomed from word-of-mouth buzz, Gabe Newell claims
Read More »EA: FIFA 12 has outsold PES 2012 by 25-to-1
Though MCV is not able to verify the official numbers, EA’s VP and GM of Northern Europe Keith Ramsdale has claimed a significant sales triumph in the football games war. Specifically, he told GamerZines that FIFA 12 is outselling recently released rival PES 2012 by a staggering 25-to-1. "FIFA went …
Read More »Future mag sales soar 750% thanks to Apple Newsstand
Sales of Future’s UK magazine portfolio have increased by a staggering 750 per cent since the release of Newsstand as part of Apple’s iOS5 last week. AOP reports that the combined downloads of Future’s 50+ free and premium publications via the Apple store has passed the 2m mark in just …
Read More »Three days and 4m sales for iPhone 4S
Apple has announced that it sold in excess of 4m iPhone 4S handsets in the device’s first three days of availability. That works out at around 55,555 units per hour, or 926 units per second. It’s also twice as many as iPhone 4 sold in the same period. In addition, …
Read More »US games market down again
The US video games market suffered yet another month of decline in September, according to the latest data from NPD. Its overall value fell six per cent year-on-year to $1.16bn. Console hardware suffered a nine per cent drop to $349m. Microsoft once again bossed the market selling 438k Xbox 360 …
Read More »Software Sales Monitor: Market falls to £26.3m
It’s the post-FIFA blues this week, with unit sales falling 43 per cent to 887,494 and the market value plunging further, down 51 per cent to 26.3m week-on-week. It’s an expected drop, but was perhaps a little steeper than retail would have hoped – it’s a bigger drop than the …
Read More »Software Sales Monitor: Market soars to £53.8m
The market value leaped 94 per cent week-on-week to 53.8m following FIFA 12’s release – the biggest week for games retail so far this year. Units are up 73 per cent to over 1.5m. FIFA 12 beat FIFA 11’s launch week with 18 per cent more games sold. And retail …
Read More »OPINION: The FIFA success story
The triumph of FIFA 12 tells us a number of things about how the games market has changed in 2011. This year’s game made over a third more revenue than last year’s instalment in its launch week. Chart-Track data has that down to a higher RRP and focus on 360 …
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