Tag Archives: Europe

Geoffrey Tim

You won’t be playing on a PlayStation 4 this Christmas

February 4, 2013 at 3:00 pm | 43 Comments

With all the rumours about the next-generation systems, more specifically Sony’s PlayStation and its apparently imminent reveal, gamers the world over are growing rather excited at the prospect of going next-gen this year. You may have to reign in your excitement – particularly if you live anywhere that isn’t the US or Japan.


Geoffrey Tim

February’s PS+ content makes me sad

January 29, 2013 at 1:30 pm | 31 Comments

Sony’s PlayStation Blog updated yesterday, letting everybody know what games would be coming to the service – and the list has made me really sad. It’s not because the game’s that you’ll be getting free are terrible; in fact it’s quite the opposite. They’re mostly fantastic games; the problem is I have them all already.


Geoffrey Tim

The PS3 owns Europe and Japan

October 26, 2012 at 3:00 pm | 18 Comments

We all know that in the land of Apple Pie, frivolous lawsuits and Honey Boo Boo that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is king of the consoles – consistently outselling the competition, month after month. That’s certainly not the case in the rest of the world though.


Geoffrey Tim

Playstation Move Big In Europe; Less So in US

October 18, 2010 at 1:30 pm | 9 Comments

Sony’s motion control system, Playstation Move launched last month to respectable, but underwhelming figures in the States. Sony had foreseen this; Unlike Microsoft’s marketing campaign with Kinect, Sony hadn’t engaged in a media blitz expecting incredible launch sales. Instead, they believe the system to have long legs – selling by word of mouth.

According to Wedbush Morgan analysts Michael Pachter and Edward Woo (woo!), Playstation Move has sold 300,000 units in the states since launch, including bundled PS3 systems. Sony says it’s done much, much, much better in European territories.


Gavin Mannion

Why are ModNation Racers sales in the toilet?

May 27, 2010 at 1:00 pm | 20 Comments

According to the first European sales numbers coming in ModNation Racers sales are worryingly low.

Low as in only 50 000 copies across Europe in its first week and the PSP version selling a mediocre 9 800 units.

The game has received a huge marketing budget and by all accounts the reviews have been positive about the game so why the low sales?

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 – Ryder Cup

Gavin Mannion

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 – Ryder Cup

March 19, 2010 at 10:30 am | 10 Comments

I like golf, ladies & video games so it comes as no surprise that I am quite a fan of the Tiger Woods golfing series.

However that being said this latest video that Joystiq has posted up for Tiger Woods 11 just annoys the living hell out of me.

It’s about the ability to create teams and play in the Ryder Cup which is all good and well but the voiceover man then says it’s for honour and for country but the Ryder cup is between Europe and the USA and Europe isn’t a country and yet it gets worse.


Gavin Mannion

Atari shuts up shop – In Europe at least

May 14, 2009 at 3:00 pm | 2 Comments

In a "blink and you'll miss it" moment it turns out that Atari is now an American only brand and the European side of things has been cleanly wrapped up and shoved down the toilet. Why this has happened is utterly beyond me but the reaasons being given is that Namco Bandai has purchased Atari Europe and amalgamated it into the greater good.. er company.

Geoffrey Tim

Nintendo conquers Europe

January 16, 2009 at 2:00 pm | 0 Comments

Nintendo have announced, by means of a particularly German press release, that they have made obscene amounts of money in Europe last year. Nintendo’s market-dominant waggle machine has sold 8.3 million units in in 2008, bringing total euro sales figures to a staggering 14.2 million. Up 58% from the previous year, this benchmark makes it the largest annual home console seller in Europe…ever. This should hardly come as a surprise to anyone – the Wii is still flying off shelves like donuts at a cop convention.

Ninty’s other money generator did similarly brisk trade – The DS sold plenty, making 11.2 million people’s daily commutes just that little bit more pleasant.

Nintendo of Europe’s MD, Marketing and PR Laurent Fischer had this to say - probably before fist-pumping the sales director, and jubilantly screaming “Woooooo!” : “The sales trend on both Wii and Nintendo DS, hardware and software during 2008 shows that more and more people in Europe are enjoying video games as part of their daily lives.”

“This proves that Nintendo’s wish to expand the gaming population has strong potential in Europe.”

Source


Nick de Bruyne

Killzone 2 coming earlier than expected?

January 8, 2009 at 3:00 pm | 15 Comments

A Dutch member on the gametrailers forum managed to take a look at a list of game releases at a local store and to his surprise he saw that they had Killzone 2 scheduled for earlier than expected.

As you can see in the image above, the list shows Killzone 2's release date as February 6. While this may only apply to Europe, that generally means that it will apply to us as well so unless the list is wrong, local ane European PS3 owners may be getting their grubby paws on the game nearly 3 weeks earlier than the people in the states.

Killzone 2 is starting to make me very jealous of those of you who have PS3's, it's looking damn fine to say the least and I think I may have to go and spend a couple of days at one of our reviewers houses to get a taste of what the game has to offer.

source: Gametrailers Forum


Nick de Bruyne

Halo Wars Gets Official Release Date

December 9, 2008 at 1:30 pm | 5 Comments

Anyone looking forward to Halo Wars, the new Xbox 360 RTS set in the Halo universe will be happy to know that we finally have a confirmed date for the games release. Microsoft have confirmed that Halo Wars will be hitting European shelves ( so it should be ours as well) on the 27th of February 2009, meaning that the beginning of next year may not be as much of a gaming drought as we initially thought. The question is, will it actually be any good?
Mirror’s Edge suffers from terribly low sales

Nick de Bruyne

Mirror’s Edge suffers from terribly low sales

November 21, 2008 at 11:00 am | 9 Comments

Mirror's Edge is the latest title to come out of DICE studios and has been hailed and nailed for being incredibly or even overly innovative. I spent quite a lot of time with the game over this last week and while the main storyline is pretty short, I found the experience to be quite breathtaking and the time trials a whole bunch of fun on their own. The game isn't perfect but it got me quite excited at the thought of how much more can be done with the concept in future. Problem is, I don't know if I am ever going to find out. As you can see from the title, the first week of sales for Mirror's Edge have been really bad.
Silent Hill takes a break before it’s European release

Gareth Seiler

Silent Hill takes a break before it’s European release

October 14, 2008 at 3:00 pm | 3 Comments

Konami has said via Eurogamer that Silent Hill: Homecoming will be pushed back to February 2009 in Europe.

The psychological survival horror game was expected at the end of October to tie in with Halloween. No reason was given for the delay, and the publisher was reluctant to discuss the matter further.

Worldwide 360 sales go through the roof

Gavin Mannion

Worldwide 360 sales go through the roof

October 10, 2008 at 9:00 am | 3 Comments

Microsoft has announced that since it cut the price of the Xbox 360, worldwide sales have shot through the roof.

In America sales have doubled, over in Europe sales have increased by 62% and in Japan sales have skyrocketed 500%…

Obviously the release of all those JRPG’s in Japan also made a difference but either way sales are up and they even managed to outsell the PS3 so it’s not like they are talking about an increase from 10 to 50 units…

With Christmas just around the corner it is hard to see how the PS3 is ever going to overtake the 360 in this generation.

Source: Kotaku.com

European 360 Price Cut Confirmed

Gavin Mannion

European 360 Price Cut Confirmed

September 16, 2008 at 9:12 am | 1 Comment

Microsoft has come out and confirmed that Europe is seeing yet another Xbox 360 price cut this year. As off Friday the Xbox 360 Arcade will retail for €179 (R2034) while the Premium is €239 (R2717) and the Elite at €369 (R4 194) I have heard nothing about a another local price cut and I highly doubt we will be getting one*. It seems that for once SA was at the forefront of the gaming industry...   Full press release after the break.