Tag: Sales
Slow start for 3D TV sales in Europe
Hailed as the best thing since sliced bread, it's been hard to avoid the buzz generated around 3D TVs over the last 18 months. However, it appears, so far at least, that the massive promotional push behind 3D TV has…
Apple's iPad outselling Macs?
The Apple iPad is proving to be quite the hit, with somewhere in the region of 1 million tablets now sold since launch. With the iPad now ready to hit UK shores, surprising new figures suggest that it may even…
Android phones now beginning to outsell iPhone
It may have been relatively slow out of the blocks, but smartphones running Google's Android OS outsold the iPhone for the first time ever during the first quarter of 2010, a new report by the NPD shows. During the first…
Nintendo profits fall as Wii sales slow
Nintendo have released their annual financial report, revealing a fall in annual profits for the first time in four years. As demand for the Wii hardware continues to decline, operating profit fell by 36% to 356.57bn yen (£2.5bn) in the…
Myspace update adds gig ticket sales
In a post that we could just have easily titled "You Should Have Been Doing That Years Ago", Myspace have today moved into the live music sphere, allowing artists using the site to sell tickets to events and shows on…
Analysts predict Sony PS3 to be largest global gaming platform by 2013
Apart from the PlayStation Network outage at the turn of the month, it's been a very stong couple of weeks for the Sony console. Both Heavy Rain and God of War III have picked up rave reviews, with Heavy Rain…
Forget the iPhone; Nokia still beating all rivals in smartphone sales
While the iPhone may appear the dominant force in the smartphone market, new research from Gartner has showed that Nokia still dominate worldwide smartphone sales. Symbian-based phones had a market share of 46.9% in 2009, selling 80,878,000 units overall. Though…
Xbox 360 Elite is Xmas most wanted games console whilst Nintendo Wii's popularity drops
New research from the online shopping community Ciao shows that the Xbox 360 Elite is top of the gaming pile this year, the most wanted console ahead of its rivals the PS3 and Wii. Ciao recorded the searches of 730,000…
Nintendo continues to dominate console market
Data released from Gfk Charttrack has revealed that Nintendo is still well ahead of its competitors in terms of sales of the current generation consoles. In fact, the DS on its own has sold almost as many units as the Xbox 360, PS3 and PSP put together.
It’s not all bad news for Nintendo’s rivals however. In 2009 the Xbox 360 is the biggest selling console – selling 700,000 units. The DS and Wii have both sold more in the last 12-month period though – 2.7million and 2.3million respectively compared to 1.7million for the Xbox 360.
The total sales are as follows:
Nintendo DS: 9.1million
Nintendo Wii: 5.4million
Microsoft Xbox 360: 3.9million
Sony PlayStation Portable: 3.3million
Sony PlayStation 3: 2.2million
The figures will be of concern for Sony. They’ll be hoping that the upcoming PSP Go and the rumoured PS3 slim consoles will help them get back on track in a market that, only a few years ago, they dominated.
(via Gamezine)
UK set to overtake Japan as the CENTRE of the gaming UNIVERSE this year
Poor old Japan is about to fall behind the UK in the global video game charts, with us lot finally spending more of our remaining cash on gaming than the Japanese – making the UK second only to the USA in how much cash we blow on various Halos and Mario Karts.
Figures released by UK sales-counter Chart-Track show that for the first five weeks of 2009 sales of games were up 37% in the UK, as kids spent their Christmas money on novelty Wii games like never before…
