NFS: Hot Pursuit Sells 417K Copies During Nov In US
EA’s NFS: Hot Pursuit has sold 417,000 copies during November in the US. The game released to strong positive reviews. However, EA’s overall boxed game sales dropped 25%. EA has since announced a premium DLC pack for Hot Pursuit. via GI.biz
Gran Turismo 5 Ships 5.5 Million Units, Franchise Sales Hit 60 Million
Sony has said that it’s shipped 5.5 million Gran Turismo 5 units worldwide. This bring the total franchise sales at 61.41 million units. Impressive numbers. Gran Turismo 5 sold 486,389 copies in Japan and also became the best selling game there. Other track records include being the best selling game in UK, toppling the behemoth […]
Two Worlds 2 Sells A Million Copies In Europe
And that’s just in three weeks. TopWare has said via a press release that their RPG sequel Two Worlds 2 has sold a million copies in just three weeks on sale in Europe. “And, the momentum doesn’t appear to be slowing,” their PR says. Two Worlds 2 is yet to receive a North American release […]
EA: Blu-Ray’s Advantage “Resonating” With Gamers
EA CEO John Riccitiello has said that Blu-Ray’s higher capacity advantage is finally starting to “resonate” with gamers. Speaking with Kotaku, he said: “Interestingly enough I don’t think Blu-ray resonated much with consumers when it was first part of the package,” Riccitiello told Kotaku. “I think [Blu-ray] is resonating now in a pretty big way, […]
EA: Single-Player Only Games Are Finished
Take a look at recent high profile game releases and see how many games have focus on a single-player only experience. Very few. Previous single-player only games Dead Space and BioShock have gone multiplayer. The only exception to this are RPGs, with Fallout: New Vegas still a single person affair. That’s also to change according […]
Black Ops Retakes Pole Position From Gran Turismo 5
Treyarch’s latest release Call Of Duty : Black Ops has once again toppled the latest UK All Formats chart, reclaiming its No.1 spot after it went down because of Gran Turismo 5, last week. The latest standings are as follows : FIFA 11 is now sitting on the No.2 seat Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood remains at […]
Microsoft: Kinect Shortages Are “Absolutely Not” Fake
Microsoft has defended that Kinect shortages are “absolutely not” fake and has not been designed to spur demand. This comes after gaming industry Michael Pachter stated that both Microsoft and Sony are telling ‘this’ in order to ‘spur demand’. However, Microsoft attributes the shortages to a logistical issue involved with supplying a new product to […]
EA Will Make Fewer Games In 2011 Than 2010
EA has announced that it has plans to produce fewer games in fiscal year 2011 and wants to produce fewer, more high quality games. Fine by us. EA plans to release between 20 and 30 titles in fiscal 2011, whereas they released 35 games in 2010 and a whopping 50 in 2009. EA boss John […]
EA: We Will Topple Call Of Duty Pretty Soon
EA is pretty optimistic about its future games, particularly Battlefield 3 and hopes to topple the Call of Duty series as the market leader. That’s according to EA CEO John Riccitiello who told Kotaku, “If I had to pick the story I’d like to play out next year is we ship a 90 and they […]
“Higher Priced Kinect” Outselling PlayStation Move, Says Analyst
Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter believes that Microsoft’s Kinect has overtaken the sales of Sony’s PlayStation Move, even though the former is “higher priced”. The Move starter pack is priced at $100 and Kinect at $150. “Interestingly, the higher priced Kinect controller appears to have overtaken the Move controller in the sales race, with sales about […]
Gran Turismo 5 Best Selling Game In Japan
The Japanese seem to love their, erm, Japanese game. Gran Turismo 5 has become the best selling game in Japan with 430,707 units sold. Gran Turismo 5 went on to become the best selling game in UK too. Sony believes that the success of Gran Turismo 5 will drive up PS3 sales.
Around 12.5 Million Xbox Live Gold Subscribers, “Very Large Business” For Microsoft
Microsoft revealed that 50% of the 25 million Xbox Live members are actually Gold subscribers. That puts the figure at around 12.5 million paying subscribers. Each Gold member pays around $60 annually and it doesn’t take long to figure out the kind of revenue it pulls in each year. Dennis Durkin, head of Microsoft’s Interactive […]
Kids’ Interest In Gaming Consoles Are Falling
Recently, a survey done by research group Nielsen reveals that a surprising amount of 6 to 12 year olds have lost interest in consoles by a considerable margin and instead opt for iDevices. According to the survey, about 29% wanted an iPod Touch and 31% wanted an iPad. Only 12% wanted a X360, 14% opted […]
Sony Clarifies: 4.1M PlayStaion Moves “Shipped, Not Sold”
Sony previously reported that it had sold 4.1 million PlayStation Moves. However, Sony has clarified that they had been shipped to retailers and the figure does not represent the number of units sold to consumers. Sony issued the following statement: “While we don’t disclose our exact sell-through number, the key is that our retailers continue […]
