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Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter just predicted that 360 beat PS3 in America in January, and that Wii still managed to completely outstrip the pair of them.“We estimate sell-through of 550,000 Wii, 275,000 Xbox 360 and 225,000 PS3 consoles (a 35% year-over-year unit increase in consoles),” he said in a note. January’s NPD releases this Thursday.
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Media Create Sales: 01/26 - 02/01 (Hardware) [DSi] 55,613 [PSP] 44,135 [WII] 23,278 [PS3] 17,405 [DSL] 15,147 [360] 8,107 [PS2] 5,334 This week the Wii only took 13.77% out of all hardware sold--down 20% from last year at this time.
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Double Platinum (600k) FIFA 09 XB360 EA GEARS OF WAR 2 XB360 MICROSOFT For complete list, see comment.
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Several weeks after it entered bankruptcy administration and laid off a reported 140 staffers, UK-based studio Free Radical Design has been acquired by independent German developer Crytek. Free Radical was founded in 1999 by several former Rare employees, and is best known for its long-running TimeSplitters first-person shooter series. It is unclear if the in-development TimeSplitters 4 will be completed under the auspices of Crytek.
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Average game prices are steadily dropping over the course of the current generation, claims market research firm EEDAR. From 2007 to 2008, there was a 44 % increase in the total number of X360 and PS3 games released -- but while the number of games priced at $59.99 or higher rose by only 38 %, the number of games priced lower than that standard MSRP rose by 66 %.
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Game industry analyst DFC Intelligence will publish a comprehensive study of massively multiplayer online worlds next month, and was nice enough to give us an advance peek at their list of MMOs and MMORPGs that earned the most revenue in 2008.
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Gamezine: 'Following Sony's announcement of Q3 hardware sales, we thought we'd compare the lot. It looks like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 basically sold the same amount in 2008. Sony's PlayStation 3 sold less in the third quarter of 2008 (ie. the Oct-Dec holiday season) than in 2007, but the strength of the console's earlier sales did it proud, shipping* 10.8 million in 2008 (up from 2007's 8.85 million).
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Edge has compiled data from a variety of sources and estimated the sales figures for the 60 best selling games of the past 12 months (USA & EU totals only). Top 5: SSBB: 7 million, Wii Fit: 9 million, Guitar Hero all versions: 10 million, Mario Kart Wii: 11 million, GTA IV: 13 million.
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Nintendo’s ‘Wii Fit’ have 21% rise in sales, holding on to No1 for the first time since it was launched 9 months ago and weighing in with its sixth week at the top. If it is to become Nintendo’s longest serving All Formats No1 it will need to better Pokemon Gold’s 7 weeks and then Pokemon Yellow’s 10 weeks at the top.
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Konami has announced it has decided to continue its relationship with Atari Australia to distribute its titles in the region. The company had been looking to switch to Australian distributor Red Ant, however the company's move into administration earlier this month seems to have forced Konami to back off from the deal.
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