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NPD, GfK Chart-Track, Enterbrain Team Up to Measure Global Software Sales

Any individual gamer may or may not have care how many units of Tales of Vesperia flew off store shelves in Japan last week — but as a whole we gamers sure do love our statistics. And whether gathering ammunition for the “console wars,’ reveling in the fact that that their favorite medium sold better [...]

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Xbox 360 Leads PS3 in Japan, Even as Sales ‘Stagnant’ in US Update

Looking at previous generations of video game hardware, there have regularly been big winners and big losers in what are dubbed the “console wars.” PS1 trounced the Dreamcast and N64. PS2 continues to thrive even as Xbox and GameCube lie all-but-forgotten. Nintendo’s Game Boys have historically driven all competitors out of business. But in this [...]

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iPhone Monkey Ball Sells 300K, Proves Nothing

Not so long ago, Jesse and I put on our thinking caps, pulled out our BFGs and assumed our best fake lawyer poses — before engaging in a heated debate over whether the technology-laden Apple iPhone would give the incumbent Nintendo DS and Sony PSP a run for their money. In that duel, I represented [...]

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Following the Money: An Economic Look at the Widening Games Audience

It would appear that we, as a society, are right to worry about the gaming behemoth seizing our children and overtaking society: We seem to be spending more money on games than ever before. In a press release issued this morning, market research firm DFC Intelligence made another optimistic proclamation about the health and future [...]

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Metacritic Strikes Again

Back in March, we decried the way percentile ranking sites like Metacritic have permeated gaming culture, explained that we might be better off reading review text rather than paying attention to a suspicious scoring system, and suggested that gamers “just leave Metacritic to the suits” who use such digits to appeal to investors. But the [...]

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April NPD Numbers: Grand Theft Chart, Mario Kart, PS2 Departs

The April NPD numbers are here, and once again the gaming industry performs as if recession meant every American had $600 burning a hole in their pocket and only games to spend it on. With multiple Guinness World Records in its honor, even with only five days worth of sales there was no question whatsoever [...]

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Activision Rocks 2007: Profits Practically Double, Shares Jump, Announcements for Top Franchises

This morning, the Associated Press reported that Activision’s stock today hit an all-time high of $30.15 and was trading at $29.71 at the time of publication, a 7.3 percent increase. But you might not want to write down that all-time high quite yet — ATVI just closed at $31.39. Why the sudden jump? Perhaps because [...]

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Grand Theft Auto IV: Take That, Records

Take-Two has released the numbers from Grand Theft Auto IV’s opening week, and everyone was right on the money — and there was a lot of money. GTA4 has broken the records for day-one sales and week-one sales, with global numbers coming to 3.6 million units on opening day, and 6 million units in its [...]

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GTA IV Continues to Crush Records in U.K.

It should come as no surprise to you that Grand Theft Auto IV is breaking a record or two when it comes to sales. You probably still have GTA IV running in the background even as you read this. It turns out that GTA has virtually wiped away all those pesky records in the U.K. [...]

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Anecdotal Evidence Suggests GTA IV is Selling Twice as Many Copies on Xbox 360 as PS3

In the aftermath of one of the largest video game launches of the year, if not of history, Microsoft and Sony are trying to use the retail numbers to jockey for position in their hardware war. Currently, Microsoft is bragging that the 360 edition of Grand Theft Auto IV is outselling to the PS3 version [...]

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