Entries in 'sales' (1057)
Argos sales decline 8.5%
Home Retail Group has revealed that its Argos chain suffered an 8.5 per cent decline in like-for-like sales for the eight weeks ending March 3rd.
900k sales for Mass Effect 3 in first 24 hours
EA has confirmed that it sold 900k copies of BioWare RPG Mass Effect 3 during its first 24 hours of availability.
Mass Effect 3 sales reinforce Riccitiello's chilling GAME warning
Today’s success of Mass Effect 3 in the UK charts may be great news for the industry, but it’s a bad sign for troubled retailer GAME.
UK CHARTS: Mass Effect 3 shatters series records
EA’s Mass Effect 3 has made a strong debut at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week.
Software Sales Monitor: Market drops to £12.1m
The steady drop in market value and unit sales continued last week, with UK games retail shifting nine per cent fewer games week-on-week.
Activision: Prototype 2 'owns' April
Superhero action game Prototype 2 will prosper thanks to a quiet April, says Activision subsidiary Radical Entertainment.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 on top in dreary February
The UK games retail market suffered yet another poor month in February, with unit sales down 29 per cent compared with the same period last year.
Vita continues to lack traction in Japan
Sales of Sony’s PlayStation Vita in Japan barely scraped above 10,000 units last week as both Nintendo’s 3DS and its predecessor the PSP outsold it once again.
3DS doubles DS' year one sales
The Nintendo 3DS has sold nearly twice as many units in the US in its first year than the DS managed in the same time period.
GAME claims nearly 50% of Vita launch sales
Industry sources have told MCV that very nearly 50 per cent of all Vita hardware sold in the UK on launch week was purchased in a GAME or Gamestation store.
Fruit Ninja Kinect reaches 1m downloads
The Kinect version of Halfbrick's popular game Fruit Ninja has been downloaded 1 million times via Xbox Live Arcade.
INFOGRAPHIC: How do Vita sales compare with handheld rivals?
With the PS Vita now competing with Nintendo’s 3DS on the world stage, how are these systems faring against each other and the rest of the portable consoles on the ...
Capcom: New Resident Evil can defy the market
Resident Evil pre-order numbers are through the roof, Capcom says.
Wi-Fi Vita claims 79% of sales
The Wi-Fi version of the PlayStation Vita accounted for 79 per cent of the machine’s launch week sales, Chart-Track has revealed.
OPINION: The day one conundrum
We've had lots of praise lately for the way MCV has supported the industry during a tough start to the year.
Analyst predicts Vita sales of 12.4m in 2012
Strategy Analytics has predicted that PlayStation Vita will sell 12.4m units around the world this year – as long as Sony cuts the price of the hardware.
Sony: Early Vita sales data is "very positive"
Speaking a few days before this morning’s official launch of the PlayStation Vita, Sony’s American boss Jack Tretton has said that early Sony sales data is “very, very positive”.
3DS hits 5m Japanese sales in record time
Forget any preconceptions you have about 3DS not selling as expected – Nintendo’s machine has just smashed an all-important sales record in Japan.
Software Sales Monitor: Market generates £12.7m
The arrival of several big new releases wasn’t enough to help grow the market week-on-week, with the UK games retail market value falling 14 per cent to £12.7m.
Sales up 70% at The Hut Group
The Hut Group, which includes the e-tail specialist Zavvi, has reported sales growth of 70 per cent for 2011.
HMV: 'We'd still be No.1 if not for games'
HMV says a report claiming Amazon is now the UK’s No.1 entertainment retailer is “misleading”, as it takes game sales into account.
UK CHARTS: Final Fantasy XIII-2 debuts at No.1
Square Enix is celebrating some early 2012 success with new RPG release Final Fantasy XIII-2 debuting at No.1.
Take-Two profits drop to $14.2m
Take-Two has reported a 65 per cent drop in profit to $14.2m for its fiscal Q3 ending December 31st 2011.
Software Sales Monitor: Market generates £12.1m
The UK games retail market remained steady with £12.1m generated from video game sales – the same as the week prior.
Capcom's net income falls 53.6%
The “strategic postponement” of major titles and a “drastic overhaul of the business” were blamed as the key reasons behind its poor financials.
