Entries in 'gfk' (29)
UK retailers sell 2.2m boxed games in last big sales week before Christmas
UK boxed games retailers sold 2.23m video games last week.
UK CHARTS: UFC 3 takes No.1
THQ is back at No.1 with UFC, however the game has failed to match the sales of the previous games in the series.
UK CHARTS: FIFA 12 still top
Electronic Arts maintains its grip on the top of the charts with FIFA 12 at No.1 and Battlefield 3 at No.2.
Software Sales Monitor: Market dips to £48.6m
The UK games retail market generated £48.6m in the post-Christmas week – a drop of 45 per cent over the week before.
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Digital omission threatening chart legitimacy
As was reported yesterday, end of year trading figures show a gaping £100m hole in the UK games retail market for 2011.
UK stores report £268m bonanza
Forget the doom and gloom on the High Street. UK games retailers generated £268m in software sales last month.
Software Sales Monitor: UK market climbs to £62.2m
The UK games market generated £62.2m last week, up 13.9 per cent over the seven days prior. Unit sales also rose 19.6 per cent from 1.9m to 2.2m in the first week of December.
Nintendo dominates 2011 European sales charts
Ten of the 20 best-selling games in Europe this year have been published on Nintendo formats.
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UK software sales monitor: Market makes £9.64m
It’s no surprise that the UK games retail market has suffered its worst week in a long time – ten years, in fact.
UK CHARTS: L.A. Noire holds No.1
Rockstar’s crime solving new IP L.A. Noire holds onto the top spot this week, despite dropping 43 per cent in sales.
UK CHARTS: Test Drive 2 goes top
Test Drive Unlimited 2 has topped the GfK All Formats Top 40 this week ahead of EA’s Dead Space 2.
2010 looking good for PS3
It’s a year that could yet see the PS3’s strongest ever market performance, and a GfK European Top 30 Chart for the first 15 weeks of 2010 paint a very ...
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UK games market bounces back after slump
The UK video games market’s weekly value has bounced back from its mid-summer slump following the launch of Wii Sports Resort.
UK games market’s weekly value holds firm
The UK video games market weekly value has held firm after falling 14 per cent over the past two weeks.
UK games market's weekly value dips again
The UK video games market weekly value has dipped once again, down five per cent when compared to the week before.
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UK CHARTS: Six in a row for Wii Fit
Looking ahead at the upcoming release schedule it’s becoming hard to guess exactly what is going to usurp Nintendo’s Wii Fit from the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats ...
DS sales hit 1.5m in Oz
Nintendo has broken more records in Australia – as the DS reaches 1.5 million sales, with the Wii following on 750,000 units.
UK CHART: Gears of War marches to the top
Microsoft mega release Gears of War 2 has brushed off stiff competition from Sony and Nintendo this week to claim the No. 1 spot in the GfK-ChartTrack Top 40.
Global games market growth goes flat in Q3
Combined video game software unit sales across the world’s three largest games markets experienced growth of just one percent during the third quarter of 2008.
Global sales ‘supergroup’ formed
The might of territory sales monitors GFK (Europe), Chart-Track (UK), NPD (US) and Enterbrain (Japan) have joined forces to form a new global sales monitoring ‘supergroup’.
EURO CHARTS: Super Smash Bros. rules supreme
EURO CHARTS: Super Smash Bros. rules supremeNintendo fighting title takes top spot in Spain, Germany, Sweden
GfK acquires ChartTrack
GfK has bought up a further 46 per cent of ChartTrack shares, meaning that a new UK charts authority, GfK ChartTrack Limited, has emerged.
Wii Fit topples GTA IV in Spain
Wii Fit has overtaken the PS3 version of Rockstar’s GTA IV in the Spanish entertainment software chart.
