| | The Vita is selling worse than the PSP | 
Geoffrey Tim - January 23rd, 2012 | When the PlayStation Vita launched in Japan late last year, it sold like proverbial hotcakes. For its first week, at least. Since then it’s been on a steady decline, and to say sales are currently poor would be a fair bit of hypobole. In fact, according to Media Create - one of Japan’s sales tracking services, akin to North America’s NPD - ... [»] | 
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| North American sales stats for December 2011 | 
Gavin Mannion - January 13th, 2012 | One of the things I’m jealous of North America for is their ability to track and publicise pretty much everything but in this instance, gaming sales.
The NPD track all gaming related sales in North America (excl digital and Wallmart) and then publicise the results monthly ... [»] |
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| Despite popular belief the 3DS is actually booming | 
Gavin Mannion - January 4th, 2012 | It’s amazing what you can be led to believe simply by subjective reading and listening to rumours.
If anyone had asked you about how the Nintendo 3DS was doing you’d likely tell them that the sales are slow and the handheld is on the verge of ... [»] |
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| The 3DS is actually outperforming the original DS’ sales | 
Geoffrey Tim - December 2nd, 2011 | Nintendo’s new 3D handheld, the 3DS hasn’t done so well at retail. Or at least that’s what we’ve all believed. Turns out, that’s not exactly true. Sure, its initial momentum wasn’t exceptionally high - but it’s picked up. Guess that huge price drop’s helped then.According to Nintendo of America’s meaty master Reggie Fils-Aime the device has seen a significant upswing, and has garnered "positive momentum since the digital content came onboard with ... [»] |
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| Xbox 360 sold just under a million consoles in 1 week | 
Gavin Mannion - November 30th, 2011 | Yesterday we posted about Nintendo incredibly selling 500 000 Wii’s in one day on Black Friday, well Microsoft has now released figures that have blown that out of the water. During Black Friday week Microsoft managed to sell 960 000 Xbox 360’s. That’s the best sales the Xbox ... [»] | 
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| Nintendo sold half a million Wiis on Black Friday | 
Geoffrey Tim - November 29th, 2011 | Black Friday is a curious thing. After Thanksgiving, many US citizens line up in stores that stock electronic goods and proceed to lose their humanity by going absolutely bananas over heavily discounted prices. It’s generally a good time to sell of game consoles, and acts as a precursory gauge for holiday sales. If the Wii’s performance this Black Friday is any ... [»] |
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| Microsoft’s sold 57 million Xbox 360s | 
Geoffrey Tim - November 7th, 2011 | If you’ve ever wondered why gaming’s such big business these days, consider this: Microsoft’s confirmed the company’s sold more than 57 million 360’s since the console launched in 2005. That, in case large number escape your grasp, is a heck of a lot of consoles.Here’s what Xbox’s Major Nelson had to say :Sony recently announced that it’s sold through 56 million PS3’s - further decreasing the gap between the two console’s ... [»] |
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| Pachter predicting a dominent month for Xbox 360 | 
Gavin Mannion - October 11th, 2011 | The king of predictions is back in the news and this time he’s predicting a pretty massive downfall for the Nintendo Wii in America. Michael Pachter has been checking the statistics and has made some sales predictions for this past month. These ... [»] | 
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| More people are buying Playstation games over Xbox ones | 
Geoffrey Tim - September 8th, 2011 | Sony’s conceded that Microsoft has a bigger slice of the hardware sales pie, with 1.6 Xbox 360’s sold in the US for every single PS3. You’d expect that sort of ratio to stick around when it comes to video games sales - but it doesn’t which Sony’s only to happy to boast about.“If you look at the index ratio ... [»] |
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| PlayStation 3 on track to clean up this holiday season | 
Geoffrey Tim - September 1st, 2011 | The recent PlayStation 3 price cut has done wonders for sales of Sony’s 3D capable, Blu-ray touting HD console. In Australia, it’s increased sales by as much as 400%. In the US though, the Xbox 360 remains the dominant sales platform - but that’s set to change, especially if Microsoft continues to keep its current retail price intact.Our favourite video games analyst, Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter believes just ... [»] |
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| NPD sales figures, Xbox 360 dominates |
Gavin Mannion - August 12th, 2011 | It’s that time of month again when the official sales tracking company in the US releases it’s figures and the games companies try spin them to make themselves sound fantastic. This month we have 1 company gloating, another pointing at peripheral ... [»] |
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| PS3 sales down 25%, software and PSP sales up! | 
Geoffrey Tim - July 28th, 2011 | Affected, probably, by the PSN downtime and Japanese Earthquakes, Sony’s first financial quarter saw a sharp decline in year-on-year PS3 sales, down 25 percent from its performance in the same time last year. Last year the PS3 sold 2.4 million units during the quarter, this year only managing 1.8 million units – just 400K more than its much older ... [»] |
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| The PS3 is catching the Xbox 360 | 
Gavin Mannion - July 26th, 2011 | When we look at worldwide consoles sales nothing comes remotely close to the Nintendo Wii and even the most ardent PS3 and Xbox 360 have now accepted sales defeat to the white box from Nintendo.
However there is a intense battle on going between the Xbox ... [»] |
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