"What did 2007's record-breaking sales tell us about the three-way console race? Matt Matthews breaks down last year's NPD numbers to see what it all means in this in-depth analysis..." Nice graphs of NPD data for entire year, breakdown of each console, comparison of USA to JA, sales of each console summed by quarter, PS3+360 installed bases mathematically graphed relative to Wii, Industry Growth graphed since 1997, Industry Revenue by sector comparing 06 to 07!
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"A new survey from Interpret Llc has found that as the WGA's strike lingers more and more people are watching less TV and 26% are now playing more video games."
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SCi Entertainment and subsidiary Eidos said Thursday that Kane and Lynch: Dead Men has sold over 1 million copies at retail since its mid-November launch.
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Earlier this week ther were rumors indicating that the price of the Xbox 360 is to be reduced by $50. Now it seems as if further weight is added to these claims with the following Wal-Mart ad placing a price tag of $349 on the Xbox 360 premium. It doesn't look as if this was an error as the box also has a 'rollback' logo above it, indicating an official price cut.
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"I wonder if Sony can win back user support by the price cut of just $100," Kazumi Kitaue, the head of Konami's North American and European operations, told Reuters in an interview ahead of this week's E3 video game industry trade show. "I don't expect a substantial impact ... With $500, you can buy a personal computer." "Since Metal Gear Solid was born for the PlayStation, we would like to keep it a PlayStation game. But we might have to take some steps," Kitaue said.
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Japanese Software Sales, Apr 2 - Apr 8 (Media Create)
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It's too soon to tell how the PS3's highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid 4 will impact June sales. The year may not even be at the halfway mark, but Sony's luck will have to change if 2008 will end up the year of the PS3. It will now have to rely on its cast of anticipated holiday hits, such as Resistance 2 and LittleBigPlanet, and the launch of Home, its oft-delayed virtual online community, to drive sales. There's always 2009.
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Even when looking at sales data over the last 15 years, the industry's best-selling games have all debuted after 2001. To get a grip on the titles that have dominated the U.S. market, we asked NPD Group to provide a list of top-selling games across all platforms, including PCs, game consoles and handheld gaming gizmos through the end of April. To avoid the distortions created by inflation and the vagaries of pricing, we ranked the results by units sold rather than dollars raked in.
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Reporting today on its fiscal year ended March 31, 2008, the Square Enix said both revenues and earnings had dropped off significantly from the year before. Sales dropped 9.8 percent on the year to $1.4 billion a sharp contrast to last year's 31.3 percent gains, which grew revenue to $1.6 billion . While the publisher was able to curtail a precipitous slump in net income from a year ago, Square Enix still posted net income down 20.9 percent to $89 million.
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Traveller’s Tales boss Jonathan Smith has kicked off this year’s Nordic Game by just telling attendees that the Lego Star Wars series has achieved sales of 18 million units to date. Counting all platforms there have been almost 20 versions over 3 games.
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