Entries in 'expectations' (21)
Mass Effect 3 pre-orders smash targets
EA's space-age campaign has already had an astronomical effect, with pre-orders placing ‘well ahead’ of where the publisher was at the same point with Mass Effect 2.
THQ drops guidance after uDraw sales lag
Publisher THQ has dropped its Q3 financial estimates after the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the uDraw tablet peripheral failed to hit sales expectations.
Activision predicts Skylanders shortage
Bobby Kotick has warned the markets to expect shortages of its innovative kids title Skylanders this Christmas.
Take-Two reports increased losses
Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two has reported a drop in revenues and increased losses for the quarter ending September 30th.
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Nintendo: 3DS has not met expectations
Platform holder Nintendo has admitted that the early performance of the 3DS at retail has fallen some way short of the company's internal expectations.
3DS has made 'smaller impact' than expected
American market analyst Michael pachter has said that the 3DS has had a smaller impact on the US market than he expected.
Profits double at Apple
Apple has posted net profits of $5.99bn for the quarter ending March 31st – that a jump of nearly 100 per cent compared to the $3bn reported in the same ...
Big digital expectations for EA
Underlining the growing digital aspirations of the major third party publishers, EA has set itself a lofty goal for the years ahead.
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High hopes for Test Drive Unlimited 2
Word-of-mouth, strong predicted sales and post-launch DLC will make Test Drive Unlimited 2 an evergreen success, Namco Bandai says.
Mirror’s Edge ‘fell short’, EA says
EA DICE’s highly-anticipated first-person title Mirror’s Edge missed commercial and critical targets within Electronic Arts, a key exec has said.
Move has ‘exceeded’ Sony’s expectations
The boss of SCEA’s Latin America division has said that PlayStation Move has exceeded the company’s expectations and that it’s struggling to keep up with demand in some key regions.
GameStop thinks Kinect will trump Move
Leading global games retail GameStop has predicted that Kinect will emerge as the winner in the fight of the next-gen motion controllers.
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Sega raised expectations too high
Publisher Sega has admitted that it has in the past been over-enthusiastic with its forecasting, resulting the perception that its titles have failed to deliver as expected.
PSPgo has ‘met expectations’
We’ve never been given any firm sales numbers for the PSPgo, leaving the industry to draw its own conclusions about the device. But Sony has insisted that the portable has ...
MS predicts 3m+ Kinect sales this Q4
Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect will sell over 3m units this holiday period following its launch this November, platform holder Microsoft has claimed.
Singularity and Blur ‘fell short’
Activision’s recent efforts to introduce new IP into two key genres appears not to have paid off, with the publisher admitting that both Raven Software’s Singularity and Bizarre Creations’ Blur ...
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Viacom: Beatles sales ‘terrific’
Despite charting at number four in the UK Charts this week behind fierce rival Guitar Hero 5, EA’s The Beatles: Rock Band has so far exceeded the sales expectations ...
PS3 Slim sales ‘ahead of expectations’
The UK office of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is unsurprisingly delighted with the week one success of its newly redesigned PS3 Slim console.
Bionic Commando disappoints
Whilst the news from Capcom has been good for its first fiscal quarter of 2010, the publisher has admitted that recent release Bionic Commando has not met the company’s ...
GAME on track despite tough High Street
The UK’s largest dedicated games retailer GAME has assured investors that its performance to date in 2009 is in-line with its expectations.
US: PlayStation sales 30% up on targets
Sales of both the PS3 and PSP are almost a third higher than Sony had estimated in its year-to-date predictions, SCEA boss Jack Tretton has stated.
