Entries in 'trends' (19)
PS Vita plays second fiddle to PSP in second week as 3DS shines
A drop in sales of 78 per cent week-on-week for the PlayStation Vita in its second week of sale in Japan has seen sales fall below that of its predecessor ...
Facebook gaming on the decline?
The biggest 20 games operators on Facebook are combating a steady drop in daily user retention, an analyst group has said.
Screen Digest: MMO subscriptions on the fall
Subscriptions for MMOs have declined for the first time, according to new research.
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MCV GameTime: Industry TV advertising monitor (wk ending August 26th)
We look at the latest TV advertising activity for games targeting men and look at the channels that draw the most TVRs.
MCV GameTime: Industry TV advertising monitor (wk ending August 19th)
We look at the latest TV advertising activity for games targeting men and how it affects web search traffic.
Majority of Brits are now gamers
A new report from games market research firm Newzoo has revealed that the majority of UK nationals are now active gamers.
UK Wii revenues decline 40%
Following dips in both sales and revenue at leading UK games retailer GAME, the chain has pegged Nintendo’s hardware duo of Wii and DS as one of the main ...
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PS3 outsold 360 in last 12 months
Global sales of the PS3 in the 12 months ending June 30th 2010 were about 4m units ahead of the sales enjoyed by Xbox 360.
PS3 surging year-on-year
Though the UK High Street continues to struggle against what to date is proving an even more challenging sales year than 2009, Sony has pointed out that the PS3 is ...
NPD: DS sales fall 600k year-on-year
At first glance it might seem as if Nintendo’s hardware was the star performer in the somewhat disappointing US April video games market, but a quick look back to this ...
UK Wii sales down 45.1% year-on-year
An analysis of the UK video games market by Nick Parker claims that UK hardware unit sales of Nintendo’s Wii are down 45.1 per cent for the year-to-date ending March ...
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Q1 Blu-ray up 69% year-on-year
Surging sales of high-definition Blu-ray discs have seen the value of the UK home video market surge by 10 per cent year-on-year for the first quarter of 2010.
US: Blu-ray sales surge
In news that can only mean good things for Sony’s PS3, sales of Blu-ray discs in North America have shown an impressive year-on-year increase for the three months ending March ...
Piracy declining in the UK
Illicit internet filesharing is on the decline in the UK, if new research is to be believed.
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 – ...
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Annual PC market worth $11bn
Whilst the fragmentation of the PC market across traditional retail and online has made the entire segment hard to track, and even created the (debatable) belief that the sector is ...
Retail sales dip in February
The unexpected upturn in retail fortunes seen in January has not been carried over to February, with the British Retail Consortium reporting a 1.8 per cent like-for-like drop on the ...
Paine: DS selling better than ever
Forget the festive season – Nintendo’s DS console is selling more right now than the platform holder would expect in the run-up to Christmas, according to marketing director Dawn Paine.
