Entries in ‘market’ (54)
News: THQ focuses on core market in 2010
Publisher signs new shooter Metro 2033 for release next year; Key Q1 games include Darksiders and ATV
News: DS and PSP have 'peaked'
DFC Intelligence claims that iPhone and iPod Touch will drive future handheld growth
News: ANALYSIS: Q3 market data
EA and Nintendo dominate but does overall market decline mean we can expect a dip in Q4?
News: JAPAN: Market 10% down in 2009H1
Nintendo DS remains the strongest selling machine; Dragon Quest IX tops the hardware charts
News: 360 and PS3 "not mass-market"
Game creators need the ‘core-market’ consoles to hit ‘PS2 sales’, says Miles Jacobson
News: UK market down ahead of Q4 rush
Video games sector worth £17.6m for week ending September 11th
News: Slight dip for UK software market
Sector worth £17.8m for the week ending September 4th
Features: Good times are ahead
All three segments of the video game category have in each of the past four months shown declines versus the same period last year. Does this mean that its ascent has come to an end and that we are now looking at continuous declines in the future? Hardly!
News: Nintendo topples Mattel in toy market
Wii and DS platform holder is now the leading force in the worldwide toy and games market
News: New PS3 to bring “substantial market increase”
GAMESCOM’09: SCEA hardware boss predicts big things from newly designed console
News: NPD: July games market down 29%
North America continues to struggle as hardware sales plummet year-on-year
News: CHIPS opens new outlet
Brand new store opened in Market Harborough, Leicestershire
News: Ubisoft reports 67% YoY drop in DS sales
French publisher's Q1 fiscal results suggest Nintendo handheld market is suffering
News: Nintendo: Market could grow by 50%
Platform holder predicts that “the right game” could produce a further 150m console gamers
News: NPD: Has digital stolen retail’s missing sales?
Sharp rise in download code sales and popularity of free-to-play online titles making its mark on traditional retail
News: NPD: Prototype keeps Nintendo from the top
Activision Blizzard’s sandbox superhero outing emerges as the June victor in software market
News: NPD: DS dominates hardware market
But Xbox 360 is the only home console to manage year-on-year unit sales gains
News: NPD: US market suffers further decline
Xbox 360 is only climber as June’s figures show 31 per cent year-on-year decrease – the worst since September 2000
Blog: Mass Market Effect
Our cover this week offers yet more fascinating evidence of the increasingly wide acceptance that games are enjoying from ‘the
world outside’. One small chain is looking to become a ‘super indie’, while a DIY retail giant wants to try both development and publishing. Good luck to both of ‘em. As ELSPA said in its announcement of the half-year charts this week, everyone’s interested in being a gamer these days.
News: Pachter: PS3 will trump 360 by 2015
Though outspoken analyst adds that all three platform holders are “winners” this generation
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