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The PlayStation Vita has crept ahead of Wii U in Japan as the momentum gained from the release of Mario Kart 8 has started to wear off. The latest Famitsu data shows that Nintendo’s machine sold 10,366 units in the week ending June 15th. That’s down from 12,576 units last …
Read More »Strong Q1 for GameStop thanks to next-gen success
Global games retailer GameStop has seen sales and earnings have shot up after an expectation-hitting Q1. Total global sales for the quarter ended May 3rd climbed seven per cent to $2bn with like-for-like store sales jumping 5.8 per cent. Net earnings grew 24.5 per cent to $68m The retailer said …
Read More »Sword Art and Theatrhythm send handheld sales soaring in Japan
Both 3DS and Vita saw decent upturns in unit sales last week thanks to two big new Top Ten releases, the latest Japanese sales data from Famitsu reveals. Bandai Namco’s new Vita title Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment debuted at No.1 in the Top Ten for the week ending April …
Read More »Vita back on top as Titanfall makes Famitsu’s Japanese Top Ten
Sony’s PlayStation Vita was the best selling console in Japan last week according to the latest sales data from Famitsu. The machine relegated last week’s chart-topper 3DS LL into second place with PS4 in third, although all hardware suffered week-on-week declines. The Wii U slipped one place to sixth, having …
Read More »Capcom invests $80m in new R&D facilities
Capcom has put $80m behind two new research and development buildings in Osaka, Japan. The new offices are to boast state of the art facilities including motion capture and sound studios. No doubt this will be to house some of the 100 software developers that the publisher’s CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto …
Read More »3DS regains lead as PS4 sales slip in Japan
Nintendo’s 3DS is back in front in Japan. The latest sales data from Famitsu shows that Nintendo’s 3DS XL (or LL as it is known in Japan) shifted 47,692 units last week – that’s 47 per cent up on the previous week. Vita, despite seeing a slight jump in sales …
Read More »Japanese hardware market up 179.1% as PS4 arrives
The games console hardware market enjoyed a sharp year-on-year increase in Japan thanks to the launch of PS4, Famitsu has revealed. Data supplied to MCV shows that for February hardware sales were up 179.1 per cent year-on-year at 189.5m (1.11m). The software market climbed 113.8 per cent to 192.5m (1.12m). …
Read More »Green Man Gaming ‘to consider software publishing’ in 2014
Digital games retailer Green Man Gaming says it could begin publishing games later this year. CEO Paul Sulyok told MCV’s sister publication PCR that becoming a publisher was certainly something we’d consider in 2014”. He added that if the firm did opt to publish its own titles, it would stray …
Read More »48% of Vita software sales are digital
Sony has revealed that digital has very nearly overtaken physical in the Vita software market. Speaking at a behind-closed-doors meeting in California, the platform holder revealed to IGN that digital games sales now account for 48 per cent of Vita’s total software sales. We wonder what the ratio would be …
Read More »Miyamoto: Nintendo has ‘overcome the challenge’ of first party game shortages
Nintendo IS releasing enough first party games to propel its platforms forward. That’s the message from senior MD Shigeru Miyamoto, who when accused of releasing insufficient titles to support Wii U told investors: I interpret the question as asking whether we are making the same mistake every time we launch …
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