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While the console video game market has been soaring (as demonstrated by the just released NPD 2008 totals), PC game sales aren't so hot – from a retail perspective, that is. The NPD Group has revealed to GameDaily BIZ that PC games totaled just $701 million in 2008, which is down 14 percent from 2007. It's important to keep in mind, however, that this NPD data concerns retail data only.
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According to the latest NPD figures, Nintendo has the top four best selling titles of 2008, with Wii Play heading the charts with 5.28 million copies sold for the year. Just behind is Mario Kart Wii with 5 millions units, then Wii Fit with 4.53 million and finally SSBB with 4.17 million copies sold through 2008. The 360 has four titles in the top ten whilst only GTA IV represents PlayStation 3 in total software sales for the console, for the year.
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DS - 3.04 million Wii - 2.15 Million 360 - 1.44 million PSP - 1.02 million PS3 - 726k PS2 - 410k
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Duplium Corporation, the company North America's largest Nintendo Certified packaging and printing facility, is doing so well that they're planning on expanding into a number of new major North American markets, the company said recently. Duplium, which handles DVD and CD duplication and media packaging, said that they're outputting 368,000 discs a day for Nintendo.
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The games industry is still growing, but that growth slowed considerably towards the end of 2008, with 9% growth in August, 12% in October and 8% in November. Most embarrassing was September, which actually saw a 7% decline. And with that, we've just passed 80 words, which is the maximum amount of time we're able to focus on economics without blacking out.
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Eidos has confirmed that it is in early talks for a potential acquisition of the publisher. The confirmation comes off the back of a share price jump for the Britsoft firm, which owns the Tomb Raider and Hitman IPs and a number of studios around the world. "The Board can announce that it has received a preliminary approach which may or may not lead to an offer being made for the Company," a statement from the publisher said.
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NPD's top 10 best selling PC entertainment titles in the US for the week ending January 3rd, 2009. Also included is bonus coverage of the daily top selling PC games on Steam and Direct2Drive.
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FXLabs CEO and founder, Sashi Reddi, has told GamesIndustry.biz that he doesn't think that consoles as a platform will become a dominant force in the Indian gaming market in the same that they have in other markets. Instead he believes that the development of broadband internet, combined with a blossoming home PC installed base, is far more likely to provide a more suitable basis for the country's entertainment.
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The total console installed base for the UK has leapt to 22 million year-on-year, up from 13.5 million reported in January 2008. The results were revealed in GAME’s Christmas trading statement, citing Gfk-ChartTrack data, which shows that sales of Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 consoles have jumped from 4.7 million to ten million units as of January 3rd 2009. For easy to read list, see comment.
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‘FIFA 09’ holds on to No1 in the All Formats Chart as the top 3 are all non-movers for a second consecutive week. The gap between FIFA and ‘COD:WaW’ at No2 has now shrunk from 5,000 to 400 units. 'Need for Speed: Undercover' sticks at No3. Sales of almost all Top 40 titles more than halve, except 'Wii Fit', jumping up from No20 to No4. All Top 40 games lose sales, but ‘Wii Fit’ only drops by 1%. For list, see comment.
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