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Did Microsoft lie about 360 sales at CES?
By Kyle Kulyk Jan 15, 2012 At the recent Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas, Microsoft spent their last CES show congratulating themselves while revealing nothing new in the way of actual consumer electronics. Among the data thrown around during the press event, Microsoft reps referred to the Xbox 360′s 66 million users. In [...]
Report: Kaz Hirai to be Sony President as Soon as This April
Nikkei reports that Sony will be promoting the Executive Deputy President Kazuo Hirai to President as soon as this April, with Howard Stringer still keeping his position as Chairman and CEO. Hirai has been on a fasttrack to success in recent years, having joined SCEA in 1995 and becoming Vice-President of Sony Computer Entertainment in 2006. [...]
Microsoft Announces CES 2012 Will Be Its Last
After over 20 years of participation in the annual CES, Microsoft has announced that 2012 will its last year exhibiting or holding events at the popular electronics show. Revealed today in a blog post from Microsoft’s vice president of corporate communications, Frank X. Shaw, the company said that after 2012, the company will no longer [...]
Nintendo’s Miyamoto Stepping Down
The creator of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda will step down from his current position at Nintendo but remain with the company to work on smaller, more personal projects, Wired.com has learned. In an exclusive interview with Wired.com on Wednesday, the 59-year-old head of Nintendo’s game design department said that he will move away from supervising [...]
New Xbox 360 TOS Seeks To Block Class Action Lawsuits
Mimicking Sony’s move to block class action lawsuits from PlayStation Network users, Microsoft updated its Xbox 360 terms of services to prevent U.S. owners from taking the company to court. In its major dashboard update rolled out for Xbox 360 yesterday, Microsoft amended the TOS that all owners must agree to before using the console, adding new [...]
Pachter: November 2011 Console Sales Numbers
Wedbush anlyst, Michael Pachter has written to investors today with the latest results for console sales in North America in November 2011. The Xbox 360 seems to have outsold the Nintendo Wii by almost 400,000 units. The Xbox 360′s total sales in the month were 1.44 million units, according to the analyst, representing a 5% [...]
Xbox 360 Has Biggest Sales Week in History
Xbox 360 has sold 960,000 units in the U.S. during Black Friday week, Microsoft announced today. That makes it the biggest sales week in the history of Xbox. Microsoft noted that 800,000 of those units were sold within a period of 24 hours. Additionally, over 750,000 Kinect sensors were sold during the Black Friday week (combination of standalone and [...]
Kinect sales pattern ‘unhealthy’ – Ubisoft
Move sales also closing in on Microsoft’s motion control offering, report claims As PlayStation Move sales reportedly close in on Kinect’s, Ubisoft has suggested Microsoft should rethink its motion control software release strategy. Kinect sold an average of 133,333 units per day – a total of eight million units – in its first 60 days [...]
Battlefield 3 Leads $1.08 billion October NPD, 360 Ahead of PS3
Retail tracking firm NPD has revealed the total U.S. game and hardware sales for the month of October, which hit $1.08 billion – a one percent increase in sales over last year. The NPD have revealed the hardware sales for October, although the PS3 numbers have been estimated based on the year-over-year percentage change: Xbox 360 [...]
Uncharted 3 sells 3.8 million copies day one
In a press release today, SCEE confirmed the highly acclaimed series sold 3.8 million units on its first day of release. Nick Caplin head of SCE’s European communications later confirmed to IGN that this number represented sold units, not shipped as some had speculated. “Uncharted 3 is a blockbuster and these incredible sales figures reflect [...]
