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Pre-owned injects $1.8bn into US games market every year
Consumers' ability to trade-in games at GameStop contributes $1.8bn to the US games industry every year, the retailer has claimed.
Bing Gordon predicts the end of Nintendo's hardware ambitions
Nintendo could be on the way to withdrawing from the console hardware market, according to one of gaming’s most senior executives.
Android grabs smartphone majority in key markets
For the first time ever, Android has accounted for over half of the overall smartphone sales in key global markets over a 12 week period.
ANALYSIS: Famitsu reflects on H1 2012 in Japan
EXCLUSIVE: During the first half of 2012, Japan’s overall video game market was valued at ¥193.40 billion, up 0.7 percent over the same period last year, based on a 9.4 ...
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GTA V won't be enough to save 2012 retail market
We still don’t know if Grand Theft Auto V will make it to retail in time for Christmas, but even Rockstar’s mammoth IP is unlikely to prevent a year of ...
ANALYSIS: Digital pressure on retail
Laurie Krohn, consumer retail analyst at Kantar Worldpanel, outlines pressures on the boxed games industry and looks at what the future might hold..
Digital predicted to account for 66% of market by 2017
A new report from DFC Intelligence predicts that digitally distributed games will account for 66 per cent of total overall games revenue by 2017.
NPD lifts the lid on size of alternative games market
While ISFE boasts an impressive survey of European gamers, NPD is for the first time sharing its data on non-new, non-boxed video game sales in the UK via MCV.
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NPD: UK's Q4 used games market was £90m
British gamers spent nearly £100m on pre-owned software during Q4 2011.
ANALYSIS: The pre-owned market
Before March this year, GAME and Gamestation were by far the UK’s biggest pre-owned game retailers.
GameStop sales fall but chain 'outperforms market'
Same-store sales at US retailer GameStop dropped 12.5 per cent year-on-year.
NPD says total US games market was over $1bn in April
The money generated from overall game sales in the US during April has been estimated at a whopping $1bn.
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J'ACCUSE: There's life in Vita
System 3 boss and industry veteran Mark Cale explains why PS Vita has the potential to be an iPad-beater and what Sony could do to help the handheld prosper in ...
UK games retail generated £10.45m last week
The launch of Prototype 2 helped the boxed market rise slightly over the prior week, with overall unit sales up five per cent to 441,401 games sold.
Iwata admits mass-market focus cost Nintendo
Nintendo’s early success in appealing to the mass market and new gamers has eventually lead to the company’s current struggles, president Satoru Iwata has admitted.
PS3 is leading Euro market in 2012
As part of its investor presentation last night, Nintendo revealed that Sony’s PS3 has taken control of the European hardware market since the turn of the year.
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GAME crisis drives market depression
The collapse of GAME took a heavy toll on the UK games retail market last month.
277 lost GAME shops could cost market £158m
The UK games market could be as much as £158m worse off due to the closure of 277 GAME stores.
UK games retail revenues drop to £14.1m
UK games retail generated £14.1m last week – a dip of 21.2 per cent from the £17.9m made during the week prior.
Video games now bigger than movies
Growth in digital has seen video games overtake movies as the most lucrative entertainment medium in the UK.
E-tail topples supermarkets in 2011
Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Asda and Morrisons have stalled in their bids to become the next major players in video games, ERA reports.
UK games retail generated £17.9m last week
The UK games retail market rallied last week thanks to the release of EA’s Mass Effect 3 and Capcom’s Street Fighter X Tekken.
Now US reports drastic video game market falls in February
The latest numbers from sales tracker NPD show that the US video games market suffered a 20 per cent year-on-year decline to $1.06bn in February.
FEATURE: Games distribution special
You'd think distribution would be a less exciting part of the games industry, but you’d be wrong.
Software Sales Monitor: Market dips to £13.3m
The launch of PlayStation Vita wasn’t enough to prevent a drop in sales last week, though a handful of exclusive games made it into the All Formats Top 40.
