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Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 7 has shipped over 2.5m units worldwide. The latest entry in its flagship survival horror series launched on Tuesday in the UK, garnering high scores across the board from a number of critics. Meanwhile, the franchise as a whole has now reached a cumulative …
Read More »Dragon Ball Xenoverse ships 1.5m units worldwide
Bandai Namco’s latest Dragon Ball title Xenoverse has shipped 1.5m units globally. The game launched on February 27th for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. It debuted at third place in the GfK Chart-Track Top 40. It also topped the global Steam charts for the week …
Read More »PS4 is outselling Xbox One by over 3:1
Sony’s PS4 is estimated to have outsold Microsoft’s Xbox One by a ratio of more than three-to-one in the quarter ending June 30th. As part of Sony’s financial report today, it also revealed that it sold a combined total of 3.5m PS4 and PS3 units in the period. And having …
Read More »Xbox One sales pass 5m units as PS4 hits 9m, report claims
UPDATE: Microsoft has clarified that Harrison was referring to the previous 5m shipped figure and was not citing new numbers. ORIGINAL STORY: A new report has seemingly confirmed some updated sales data for both PS4 and Xbox One. International Business Times reckons that in an interview with Edge, Microsoft’s corporate …
Read More »Xbox One sold 1.2m in last quarter as Xbox revenue rises
Microsoft has said that it sold 1.2m Xbox One consoles in the quarter ending March 31st. The platform holder hasn’t said how many consoles it has sold in total. In January when it said it had shipped 3.9m Xbox Ones and then last week it said that number had climbed …
Read More »Google Play downloads tracking 45% ahead of Apple App Store
A new report says that total Google Play downloads are currently tracking ahead of the Apple App Store in terms of volume. Google Play downloads lead the App Store by 45 per cent in Q1 2014, up from 35 per cent in Q4 2013. However, App Annie’s Q1 2014 Market …
Read More »Wargaming will target virtual reality once Oculus Rift hits 5m units
New platforms such as Oculus Rift, Xbox One or PS4 will need to hit unit sales of between five and ten million units before Wargaming will target them. "If it’s big, if it’s global, we’re going to be there," he said in the video interview below,” Wargaming chief executive Victor …
Read More »PS4 ‘wins’ November NPD and takes US sales lead; No Wii U numbers released
Although certain press releases issued last night may make you think the opposite, it is PS4 that has emerged as the early leader in the next-gen US sales race. Cutting through all the jargon, PS4 was the best-selling next-gen hardware in the US in November. Although this of course simply …
Read More »"Nintendo steadfastly refuses to consider that Wii U is not interesting to consumers"
Wii U will fail to sell the 9m units Nintendo has predicted for the current financial year, analysts have said. After sales of just 460k units in the six months ending September and a global install base of below 4m units, this is looking increasingly unlikely. That Xbox One beat …
Read More »Xbox One sells 150k units in 48 hours in UK
Microsoft’s Xbox One sold around 150k units in its first 48 hours in the UK, MCV understands. Chart-Track this morning confirmed that Xbox One doubled the week one UK sales of its predecessor Xbox 360, which was launched worldwide in 2005. Numbers released the week after Xbox 360’s launch showed …
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