Grand Theft Auto IV Breaks Guinness World Records With Biggest Entertainment Release Of All-Time
London, UK, 13th of May - The famed Grand Theft Auto series has made headlines yet again! As newly-released sales figures show, Grand Theft Auto IV has crushed the competition by selling 3.6 million units and earning $310 million in its first […]
The New York Times has reported that Grand Theft Auto IV pulled in more than $500 million in its first week, selling an astounding 6 million copies globally, 3.6 million of them on the first day alone. This morning Take-Two confirmed the report, adding some well-deserved back-patting to the numbers.
To put it in perspective Halo […]
Niko Partners, the leading market intelligence firm on China’s video game industry, today announced results from its latest report citing China’s 46 million gamers spent $1.7 billion on online games in 2007, up 71% from 2006. Advanced casual and casual online games made up 21% of the total, and new flash-based casual versions of popular […]
Ubisoft’s sales jumped nearly 37 percent during their latest fiscal year, which ended last month, skyrocketing from $1.07 billion to $1.46 billion over the year, the company announced during their annual call today.
The rise was mostly due to Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Assassin’s Creed doing better than expected, they said. Vegas 2 […]
Variety is saying that the first week of Grand Theft Auto 4 will come close to matching the biggest box office 6 day haul of $404 Million by Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. This will make Grand Theft Auto 4 the biggest debut for a videogame surpassing even the mighty Halo 3, which […]
Capcom has reporteed that the latest in its Monster Hunter franchise has shipped over one million units in Japan in merely six days of sale. Monster Hunter 2G for Sony’s PlayStation Portable was released in the region on March 27, with a special edition Slim & Lite PSP bundle also available.
Monster Hunter has definitely attained […]
Nintendo’s DS and Wii resume their positions as the number one and two consoles sold, respectively, in February in the US. But the big surprise was the strong showing of the PS2 at 3rd with 350K consoles sold
US VIDEO GAMES INDUSTRY - FEBRUARY 2008
Software: $668.7m (+47%)
Hardware: $480.0 million (+19%)
Accessories: $185.3m (+36%)
Total Games: $1.33 billion (+34%)
Famitsu has released the all time japanese software and hardware sales statistics for the current crop of consoles namely: PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360. Not surprisingly, the Wii’s top 10 contains Nintendo titles:
The latest issue of Famitsu contains a neat and handy chart that lists the top ten publishers in Japan for 2007 by sales. Note that it only include Japanese publishers, and doesn’t include games sold outside of Japan. Sorry, Bungie
And the Top Japanese Game Publishers in 2007 are:
Another week, same number one spot for Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The Wii fighter doesn’t look like it will be knocked off the top spot of Media Create’s Japanese software sales charts any time soon, at least not while folks are snapping up Brawl and Wii Fit so fast that even Tokimeki Memorial cant […]
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