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The High Street could make in excess of 120m this year from the booming online game headset market. This ultra-competitive sector lets stores get in on the increasingly important multiplayer segment. It is tipped to be the ultimate margin maker for upcoming hits Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3. High-end …
Read More »EA top of the league with 1m FIFA sales
Electronic Arts has netted 1m UK sales of FIFA in record time. MCV understands that the latest game in the hit franchise passed the 1m unit barrier earlier this week.It means that FIFA 12 has enjoyed the most successful launch for the series to date. According to Gfk Chart-Track, 18 …
Read More »New, boxed games lose out in US market
NPD’s Games Industry: Total Consumer Spend report has claimed new, boxed game sales in the US accounted for the minority of the market in Q2 2011. In total $1.44bn was spent by US consumers on new, physical console and PC games in the period. In contrast, the combined spend on …
Read More »1 week, 3.2m sales – FIFA 12 is a hit
FIFA 12 was released just last week (September 30th) and already the game has achieved total worldwide sales of 3.2m units, according to internal EA estimates. That makes it the biggest ever launch in the history of EA Sports and represents a staggering 23 per cent year-on-year improvement. It was …
Read More »Capcom Europe gets new sales director
The European arm of Street Fighter and Resident Evil publisher Capcom has announced the appointment of a new sales director for EMEA territories. Michael Auer has been based in Capcom’s German office since 2003 and most recently served as sales and marketing director for central, northern and eastern Europe, as …
Read More »Dark Souls debuts at No.1 in Japan
Ahead of its release in the UK this Friday (October 7th) Namco Bandai’s famously hard RPG Dark Souls has debuted at No.1 in the weekly Japanese software charts. The game, which is a PS3 exclusive in Japan, sold 279,567 units according to MediaCreate figures. Sony’s Ico & Shadow of the …
Read More »UK CHARTS: FIFA 12 smashes FIFA 11 records
EA’s FIFA 12 has shot to the top of the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week in an impressive way. The game enjoyed the third strongest launch week ever for a multi-platform release in the UK. It also outstripped FIFA 11’s week one performance by 18 per …
Read More »eBay profits from iPhone 4 sell-off
Auction site eBay looks set to benefit from a surge of sales of second hand Apple iPhone 4s as Apple fans look to sell off their old model ahead of the expected announcement of the iPhone 5 tomorrow. In the US third party companies have been offering a blanket $250 …
Read More »UK Software Sales Monitor: Market jumps to £27.7m
The UK games retail market generated 27.7m last week, a 136 per cent rise week-on-week and the second highest number this year. Over 900,000 software units were sold last week, up 75 per cent over the seven days before. It’s amazing what two games can do.The market was driven largely …
Read More »Gears of War 3 sells 3m copies in week one
Microsoft has confirmed that Gears of War 3 sold 3m units in its first week on the market. Epic’s highly rated shooter was released worldwide on Tuesday September 20th and was ushered in by over 22,000 midnight retail launches around the world. Microsoft adds that the game has already grossed …
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