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Retro City Rampage Dev Talks Sales, Says He Would’ve Skipped XBLA
Indie developer Brian Provinciano recently discussed the sales figures of his ’80s-influenced hit Retro City Rampage. According to a report on Destructoid, the game managed to push somewhere around 100,000 units across Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, WiiWare, and PC. ... Read More»
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Tomb Raider Launch Week Sales Were Highest in Series’ History
Developer Crystal Dynamics shed light on Tomb Raider sales during a talk at GDC. As indicated by Joystiq, the recent series reboot managed to eclipse week one sales of all other entries in the franchise. This includes the PlayStation original ... Read More»
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Square Enix Thinks Hitman, Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs Delivered Weak Sales
Well, this is kind of weird. Square Enix seems to believe that a few of its titles have been on the weak end of sales despite the fact that they’ve actually done quite well. The games in question are Tomb ... Read More»
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Video Game Industry Sales and Market Share Breakdown — As of March 2013
Industry watchdogs VGChartz has revealed the Year to Date sales for Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony consoles and handhelds across various years with accuracy as of March 9, 2013 in respect to the total and iterative sales and market share of the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, 3DS, Vita, as well as the PSP, Wii U, ... Read More»
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PlayStation Vita Price Cut Could Come to United States
Sony’s PlayStation Vita sells out in Japan as the unfolding of the next generation console to match its might (PlayStation 4) is unveiled and promises remote play on all titles... Read More»
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Metal Gear Rising Has a Good First Week in Japan
It looks like Konami and Platinum Games had a pretty good turn out with Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance during the game’s launch week in Japan. According to Destructoid, the hack-and-slash action game turned out a total of 335,791 copies. Not ... Read More»
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PlayStation 4 Won’t Recuperate Sony’s PS3 Losses
Joseph DiGrado of RealGamerNewz makes his analysis on Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 4 and the effects (or non-effects) it will have on the hardware heavyweights efforts to restore capital losses during the research, development, and rollout of the first device to use the cell processor, PlayStation ... Read More»
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PlayStation Vita Outsells Wii U
“Just over 9,600 sales last week for the Nintendo Wii U puts it behind the PlayStation Vita. The home console is causing confusion in the consumer market where potential customers expect that this product offers the Wii experience at home and on the go. When sales people are forced to deny this…&#... Read More»
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Wii U sales slump to 57,000 units across North America in January
Nintendo Insider writes: The Wii U has begun the year fairly poorly across North America, achieving hardware sales of an approximate 57,000 units... Read More»
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GameStop: Wii U needs “blockbuster” from Nintendo to succeed
Whilst the Wii U has been “selling steadily” since launch, it is the lack of “blockbuster” first-party releases from Nintendo that is contributing to its poor sales pace... Read More»
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Sony Says It Needs to ‘Do a Better Job’ with the PS Vita
I’m pretty sure we can all agree that the Vita isn’t exactly a sales success. Now, this isn’t indicative of the handheld’s tech specs, which are actually quite impressive. No, this is fact. Simply put, the Vita isn’t very popular, ... Read More»
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Xbox 360 lifetime sales set to catch Wii in UK
Xbox 360 sales in the UK look set to overtake the Wii. According to GFK Chart-Track, Microsoft’s console was just 200,000 units behind at the end of December, having outsold Nintendo’s product by over four times in 2012. Nintendo DS and PlayStation 2 remain the highest sellers in the UK. These are followed by the ... Read More»
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Kaz Hirai Says PS Vita Sales Are on the ‘Low End’ of Sony’s Expectations
Sony CEO and President Kaz Hiarai recently addressed sales of the Vita. While he didn’t give out specific numbers, he did mention that figures were on the “low end” of what Sony was expecting. Hirai also pointed out that he expects that to change with time. “I would say it’s on the low end of ... Read More»
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Telltale’s Walking Dead Has Sold Over 8.5 Million Episodes
Today we’ve already talked about a game based on The Walking Dead that doesn’t look very good. Because I love this franchise and don’t want to end my day like that, though, let’s talk about a game based on The Walking Dead that we know for a fact is good. Yes, I’m talking about Telltale ... Read More»
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Steam Holiday Sale continues – Total War, Max Payne, and more
Look, this isn’t news by now, as Steam has been slashing prices pretty much continually since October, but today’s offerings are wonderful 2D MOBA Awesomenauts; medieval multiplayer affair War of the Roses; the Max Payne, Transformers and Total War franchises; and Torchlight 2. Yesterday’s deals – the Fable and Alan Wake franchises; F1 2012; Terraria; ... Read More»