Ahead of NPD’s forthcoming announcement of September sales statistics, which Pachter expects to be released Thursday October 18, the analyst forecast software sales of $655 million, up 47 percent year-over-year.
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NPD balks again! Here is a first look at some incomplete numbers and rankings for those who have been waiting for May NPD numbers. Nintendo DS 432K, Pokemon Diamond 331.2K. More numbers to follow.
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Nintendo profits up 77 per cent
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01 (__) [360] Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom) 02 (__) [NDS] Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega) 03 (01) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) 04 (__) [PS3] Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom) 05 (__) [WII] Pdc World Championship Darts 08 (Oxygen Interactive)
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Quote: "I, Tomonobu Itagaki, hereby announce that..I filed a complaint..against Tecmo Co., Ltd. for unpaid completion bonuses, and against the President of Tecmo, Yoshimi Yasuda, for such unlawful acts as unreasonable and disingenuous statements made towards me, claiming damages in total of 148 million yen...In addition, I hereby announce that I have today submitted a letter of resignation to Tecmo Co., Ltd. stating that I will resign as of the 1st of July, 2008."
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A clearer picture of GTA IV's sales in the U.S. should be available later in the week when the April NPD data is released, but for now Newsweek has obtained sales information from leading video game retailer GameStop, which indicated that Rockstar's blockbuster was sold 64 percent of the time (during launch week) for Microsoft's console – essentially a two to one advantage for Xbox 360 over PS3.
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"On pre-orders, it's really tracking where we anticipated it to be," said Bob McKenzie, GameStop's senior vice president of merchandising. "It probably will land within the top three. There were a couple titles we shipped last year that had larger reservations." "We're not to the finish line with it yet but definitely it's very strong and we're happy with where the reservation activity is coming in," McKenzie said.
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Almost $1B in software in March. PlayStation 2 216K PlayStation 3 257K PlayStation Portable 297K Xbox 360 262K Nintendo DS 698K Wii 721K
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Hardware: 500K for Ps3 350K for Xbox 360
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Gaming Target has updated their Excluisve Arms Race feature detailing all of the exclusive games coming to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. And for the first time since the site began tracking exclusives, the Wii has come out on top.
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