Analysts: 8 Million 3DS Units Will Be Sold This Year
If Nintendo’s listening to the analysts, the firm must be pretty happy with the words coming from their mouthes concerning its latest handheld. Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey expects Nintendo to ship over eight million 3DS this year to western audiences. Read more here.
Sony Dislikes Console Exclusive Titles
Sony as you know has a strong line up of Playstation 3 exclusive series such as Killzone, LittleBigPlanet and Infamous, recently they have now been critizing platform exclusiveness and has “warned” that it limits the games’ marketing potential. Read more here.
Sony: Profitability More Important Than Overtaking Xbox 360
Sony is more concerned with profitability than with PS3 surpassing Xbox 360 sales. That’s according to PlayStation software brand manager Scott McCarthy, who told IndustryGamers that Sony is following the Nintendo approach to business, rather than focusing too much on what the competition is up to. Read more here.
Gran Turismo 5 Sells 6.37 Million Copies
Gran Turismo 5 shifted 6.37 million units between its launch last November and the end of 2010, according to developer Polyphony Digital. Read more here.
PC Game Piracy ‘In Decline’
PC games piracy is in decline, according to the president of the PC Gaming Alliance, Matt Ployhar. The boss of the Alliance, which is made up of members including Epic Games, Capcom, Intel and Dell, reckons the shift to free-to-play models and supplemental content via download has lessened the value of pirated games. Read more […]
NPD: Xbox 360 Tops Console Sales In January
Xbox 360 was the top selling console in the US in January, according to NPD data provided by Microsoft. Read more here.
NPD: Black Ops Leads US Sales In January, Dead Space 2 Places Third
Call of Duty: Black Ops was the best selling game in the US during January, according to data released this evening by the NPD Group. The recently released Dead Space 2 came at third place, trailing behind Just Dance 2 for Wii. The full list here.
EA Suffers High Profile Departures
EA has lost a trio of high profile executives this week, according to reports. Read more here.
Crytek Questions OnLive Business Model
Crytek boss Cevat Yerli has questioned the business model of Cloud gaming service OnLive, pointing to its lack of a “killer app” for launch. Speaking in a CVG interview this week, Yerli said he had tested the service, but was uncertain about its “sustainability” in the current market. Read more here.
Research Says Gears Of War 3 Is 2011’s ‘Most Anticipated Game’
Market research firm Ipsos has labelled Gears of War 3 2011’s most anticipated game. The firm released a chart of the most anticipated titles of the year across the UK and US ranked by purchase intent, and Epic’s game topped the bill in both markets. Read more here.
Analysts: Xbox 360 Topped US Sales In January
Games industry analysts have weighed in with US sales predictions for the month of January ahead of the NPD Group’s release of official market data this Thursday. Both Wedbush’s Michael Pachter and EEDAR expect Xbox 360 to top the monthly rankings with 380,000 units sold. Read more here.
Assassin’s Creed Ships 6.5 Million Units
Ubisoft said today that it generated €600 million (£505.5m) in sales during the third quarter ended December 31, 2010. The firm shipped 6.5 million copies of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood to retail during the quarter, while dance titles Just Dance, Just Dance 2, Just Dance Kids, Michael Jackson: The Experience, and Dance on Broadway hit a […]
Valve CEO: Steam “Tremendously Profitable”, Has Up To 70% Of Market
An analyst at IHS Screen Digest has estimated Steam’s 2010 revenue at “high hundreds of millions of dollars”, while Gabe Newell has said the company is “tremendously profitable”. Read more here.
Confirmed: Activision Cancels True Crime Hong Kong And Discontinues Both Guitar Hero And DJ Hero Franchises
Activision has announced that it has canned development on True Crime: Hong Kong as well as discontinued its Guitar Hero/DJ Hero business unit. Speaking in it’s financial report, the publisher confirmed the closure of its Guitar Hero business unit and the cancellation of this year’s in-development Guitar Hero game. “We simply cannot make these games […]
