Entries in ‘software’ (23)
News: Pirates "spend more on content"
Illicit file-sharers each spend £77 on music annually, £33 more than legitimate consumers
News: Wii Sports Resort nears 7m
New motion sensing title hits new sales benchmark; Original Wii Sports passes 50m sales
News: NPD: Halo ODST flattens the competition
1.5m sales of Bungie’s latest shooter see it top the September software charts in North America
News: JAPAN: Market 10% down in 2009H1
Nintendo DS remains the strongest selling machine; Dragon Quest IX tops the hardware charts
News: NPD: PS3 surges month-on-month
Big gains for Sony’s console as EA’s Madden NFL 10 tops the monthly software charts
Blog: Keeping pirates at bay
Gamescom was a great opportunity to speak to all kinds of people in the games industry. But from Yves Guillemot to small indie developers, one theme regularly emerged when you talked about Nintendo’s DS platform – piracy.
News: NPD: Wii Sports Resort dominates
EA proves to be the only challenger to Nintendo’s dominance of the North American software market
News: Ubisoft reports 67% YoY drop in DS sales
French publisher's Q1 fiscal results suggest Nintendo handheld market is suffering
News: NPD: Prototype keeps Nintendo from the top
Activision Blizzard’s sandbox superhero outing emerges as the June victor in software market
News: JAPAN: Market declines by 24%
Steep decrease in hardware sales force H1 2009 numbers down year-on-year
News: NPD: Hardware suffers sharp dip
Nintendo continues to boss the market whilst UFC continues to outperform expectations
News: 41% of all PC software is pirated
Business Software Alliance claims market lost $53bn to illegal installations in 2008
News: 54 Wii titles sell over a million
As DS hardware officially passes 100m unit sales mark and worldwide Wii sales pass 50m
News: 83 DS titles pass a million units
And seven more top 10m sales; total DS hardware sales pass 100m worldwide
News: Ninja Blade sneaking to retail in April
FromSoftware’s Xbox 360 exclusive combat romp to get demo next month
News: NPD: Nintendo shatters records in 2008
Wii smashes US annual platform sales records whilst DS does the same in December
News: ESRB introduces age rating summaries
North American regulators follow BBFC’s lead in posting descriptions of games content online
News: JAPAN: Big market drops in October
Monthly market 21.6 per cent down on last year; hardware the biggest faller, despite strong performance from PSP; 360 beats PS3
News: JAPAN: DS wins in August as market declines
29 per cent year-on-year hardware sales dip leads to 17 per cent overall decline
News: Microsoft announces Ninja Blade
New hack ‘n’ slash outing from Tenchu and Armored Core developer From Software emerges from the shadows
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