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The latest numbers from US games tracker NPD have shown that the US video games market declined 5.7 per cent year-on-year in 2010. This means that of the world’s leading video games markets the US market declined less the least. The Japanese market shrank by nine per cent in 2010 …
Read More »US: Analyst predicts Wii December victory
Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has predicted that Wii emerged as the best selling home console of December in the US. Overall he reckons Nintendo’s machine sold 2.6m units. Just behind it, he foresees Xbox 360 sales of 2.5m units – more than double his predicted PS3 sales of 1.2m …
Read More »US: Free 360 game with Windows 7
US consumers who purchase any new Windows Phone 7 will receive a free Xbox 360 game. Microsoft launched the promotion to help drive sales for its new mobile operating system, which launched last month. So far, sales have been slow. As part of the deal, gamers can choose from one …
Read More »Sony unifies US and Euro SingStar stores
The somewhat threadbare US SingStore is to be significantly beefed up with the addition of content that until now has only been available to European gamers. In addition, Sony has secured a new agreement with universal Music that will mean that all future digital track releases for SingStar will be …
Read More »NPD: DS and 360 dominate
Nintendo DS was the best selling console of November in the US, according to NPD. Nintendo said its family of DS products sold 1.5 million units last month, driven by the new red SKU. Meanwhile, Xbox 360 was the biggest selling home console by shifting 1.37 million units – an …
Read More »NPD: Dance games spark music recovery
US sales tracker NPD has finally revealed some good news for the struggling music genre. Music game sales are 38 per cent higher in November 2010 than they were during the same period the year before. But it’s not Rock Band 3 or Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock that did …
Read More »NPD: US sales up 8% in November
US game sales are up eight per cent in November compared to the year before, NPD has revealed. The industry made $2.99 billion last month, up from $2.7bn the year before. This includes $1.08bn in hardware, $1.46bn in software and $413.3m in accessories. All up from the year before. The …
Read More »Konami ships 1m Castlevania
The recent 3D reinvention of cult games IP Castlevania has enjoyed a solid start at retail, publisher Konami has announced. The company has shipped 1m units of the game to European and North American retail since its release last month. It will hit Japanese retail in December. Castlevania has truly …
Read More »Books-a-Million launches games offering
Books-a-Million has announced it has started selling video games. The US retailer now stocks games in some of its 200-plus stores spread throughout the American South and Northeast, according to Gamasutra. The titles stock initially seem to be pre-owned titles, although it is unclear where the stock originates from. It …
Read More »New Tony Hawk sells 3,000 in US
Analyst Cowen and Company is claiming that the most recent title in the Tony Hawk series, Tony Hawk’s Shred, sold just 3,000 copies in its first week on sale in the US. The game was a virtual no show”, the analyst is quoted as saying by GamesIndustry. It adds that …
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