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NPD: Xbox 360 Soars as Hardware Sales Jump, But Software Sales Dip 8% in July
IndustryGamers has just received the July NPD video game sales data, and as was predicted, software sales were down again, dipping eight percent to $403.3 million. Hardware, however, driven in part by the Xbox 360 slim and price reductions on older 360 models, climbed 12 percent to $313.8 million. As a result, total industry sales [...]
Nintendo’s Sales and Earnings Fall
Nintendo released its quarterly earnings statement today, showing a drop in sales and earnings for the first quarter (April through June). As reason for the drops, the company blamed the appreciation of the yen and the lowering of the DS price. The company did ¥188,646 million in sales over the three month period, down from [...]
Year over year PS3 sales more than double for quarter
Sony announced today in their first quarter FY 2010 report that sales of their Playstation 3 console doubled, jumping over 110% versus the same quarter the year prior. PS3 sales for the 3 month period ending June 30, 2010 totalled 2.4 million consoles versus 1.1 million for the same quarter 2009. This takes Sony’s PS3 [...]
CHIPS: Kinect Won’t Boost Xbox 360’s Hardware Sales
Don McCabe, manager of UK independant retailer CHIPS, feels Kinect won’t boost the Xbox 360’s hardware sales. “In some ways Microsoft has missed the boat,” he told GamesIndustry.biz. “Over the last two years the casual market has been declining rapidly.” “I don’t think it’s going to add any new hardware sales. I spotted in their [...]
How Much is Xbox Live Worth? Try Over $1 Billion.
How much is Xbox Live really worth? All it took was a little back of the envelope figuring for Bloomberg to come up with $1 billion in annual revenue for Microsoft’s fiscal year, ending June 30. While Microsoft’s been mum about revenue from its online entertainment service for the Xbox 360, Bloomberg simply multiplied the number [...]
Xbox 360 ‘Clearly on Downside of Lifecycle’, says Analyst
E3 was hugely exciting if you like seeing new hardware. The 3DS arguably stole the show, while Microsoft and Sony put emphasis on their respective motion platforms. DFC Intelligence has noted that Nintendo had the “strongest showing” and the market research firm outlined the big challenges that both Microsoft and Sony will face. Xbox 360 [...]
Game Sales Plummet 26% in April
The analysts seemed to think April would represent a fairly easy comparison year-over-year for the U.S. games industry. Apparently, it wasn’t easy enough, as game sales fell off a cliff, according to the data IndustryGamers just received from The NPD Group. Total industry sales were down 26% to $766.2 million, while software fell 22% to $398.5 [...]
PS3 software sales outstrip Xbox 360′s: PS3 attach rate up to 8.1
Playstation University reports: There’s a well worn saying that software doesn’t sell on the PlayStation 3, at least in comparison to the Xbox 360. However, things may be changing, since there’s been a significant improvement in both the PS3’s software and hardware sales. Despite a lower installed base, software sales on the PS3 have outstripped [...]
NPD: GOW3 sells 25% more than GOW2 despite PS3 installed base
Playstation University reports: God of War III sold over one-million copies worldwide just a few days after release, but with the game’s US March sales now out, we can finally see how well it has done in comparison to its predecessors. Following God of War III’s March 16th launch in the US, God of War [...]
No one will buy Natal and here’s why
By Kyle Kulyk Microsoft’s project Natal has quickly become one the most talked about new devices on the videogame horizon for some time with analysts predicting that within two years Natal will reach a 56 percent attach rate. That’s right. It’s been predicted that more than half of new and old 360 owners will [...]