Entries in 'decline' (99)
JAPAN: Further year-on-year decline
Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has claimed that 2009 was yet again a year of decline for the video games industry in Japan with both hardware and software sales suffering year-on-year decreases.
Nintendo cuts Wii manufacturing
Though it remains the daddy of the current console market, sales of Nintendo’s Wii are showing year-on-year declines across the board – and the company’s manufacturing partners are now feeling ...
NPD: August shows 16% decline
Sales analyst NPD has revealed that the North American video games market suffered yet another monthly decline in August – its sixth in as many months – though there are ...
NPD: July games market down 29%
July proved another tough month for video games retailers in North America, with the overall value of the market declining 29 per cent year-on-year with a total value of $1.19bn.
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PlayStation revenues down 18%
Sony has joined fellow platform holder Nintendo is posting year-on-year sales declines for its financial quarter ending June 30th, with revenues in its PlayStation business down 18 per cent year-on-year.
Nintendo Q1 profits tumble 61%
Nintendo has become the latest video games company to suffer significant year-on-year declines, with net profits down 60.6 per cent in Q1 2009-2010 to YEN 42 billion, compared to YEN ...
Ubisoft reports 67% YoY drop in DS sales
Ubisoft has seen Q1 revenue generated by DS titles fall by a huge 67 per cent in the last year.
Further decline in UK economy
The British economy contracted by 0.8 per cent in the last quarter – more than double the figure predicted by analysts.
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US: Casual up, consoles down
New data from metrix specialist comScore has shown that the number of people playing online casual games in the US was up by 22 per cent annually in May – ...
NPD: Hardware suffers sharp dip
Mirroring the overall decline seen in the US video games market in May, hardware sales for the period suffered a sharp fall – year-on-year sales of consoles dropped 30 ...
Retail sales slump again in May
UK retail failed to continue the momentum shown in March and April by suffering a small like-for-like sales decrease compared to the same period in 2008.
Retail Week reports that ...
CANADA: Q1 sales fall by 8.5 per cent
Stats from sales analyst NPD have shown that the Canadian video games market suffered a like-for-like fall in sales in Q1 – the first time the territory has shown an ...
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Nokia profits plunge 90%
2009 has proved to be a testing time for Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia, with the telecoms specialist reporting a 90 per cent fall in profits for Q1 2009.
UK retail sees 0.7% Q1 decline
The UK High Street suffered a like-for-like sales decline of 0.7 per cent in Q1 and 1.2 per cent in March, the latest figures from the British retail Consortium reveal.
Tech sales suffer at John lewis
John Lewis has seen mixed results at its electricals and home technology department, after sales fell overall by 13.9 per cent year on year.
Japanese interest in gaming on the decline
New research from Japan’s Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association suggests that the number of people in Japan who consider themselves to be gamers has reduced significantly in the last year.
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London retail show more year-on-year gains
High Street sales in the nation’s capital have continued to buck the nationwide retail slump, with like-for-like sales climbing 5.9 per cent in February – a stark contrast to the ...
PC sales in record decline
Worldwide PC sales will fall at their sharpest rate in the history of the sector this year, according the latest figures from Gartner.
NPD: Sony silent after January losses
Sony is the only one of the three platform holders to not yet issue a statement after NPD’s January stats for the North American market showed that PS3 was the ...
WHSmith sees like-for-like decline
UK stationer, newsagent and entertainment retailer WHSmith has said that like-for-like sales at its High Street stores fell seven per cent for the 20 weeks ending January 17th compared to ...
More sales falls at entertainment retailers
There was more doom and gloom on the High Street this morning as two major players in the entertainment retail sector reported significant sales declines over the Christmas period, The ...
Guitar Hero III sales pass $1bn
Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith has claimed that 2007’s Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock has now surpassed a sales value of $1bn – a milestone the exec claims has ...
“Wretched month” on UK High Street
Whilst shopping numbers have to date remained buoyant amidst the current global credit crunch, October stats from the Retail Traffic Index make for sombre reading for retail, with a 3.1 ...
JAPAN: PSP leads half-year sales battle
The latest figures from Enterbrain, the parent company of legendary Japanese games magazine Famitsu, have shown that PSP was the biggest selling console in the six months ending September 28th.
