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One million sales and beyond – that’s the expectation Tecmo Koei has for its in-development Wii U exclusive Hyrule Warriors. In gaming, this is a first-time collaboration,” Tecmo Koei president Yoichi Erikawa told Nikkei, as reported by Nintendo Everything. As a new entry in the Warriors series, we plan to …
Read More »Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider send Square Enix forecasts upwards
Square Enix has revised its full year fiscal forecasts upwards on the back of a better-than-expected performance from a number or recent releases. Strong sales of rejuvenated RPG Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD were both credited, as well as PS4 and Xbox One release …
Read More »Mobile now account for half of Japanese games market as sector nearly doubles
A new report claims that smartphone gaming now account for around 50 per cent of Japan’s total video games market. Serkantoto says that data from CyberZ says that of the total $10.8bn annual Japanese games spend in 2013, around $5.4bn of this was spent on mobile games. Furthermore, that’s up …
Read More »Tomb Raider has finally "exceeded profit expectations"
A year after it was released the Tomb Raider reboot has at last exceeded Square Enix’s sales estimates. The game famously fell short of what the publisher had hoped for last year despite selling 3.4m copies in its first three weeks. Now it has not only passed targets but looks …
Read More »Nintendo slashes Wii U sales forecast from 9m to 2.8m
The reality of the challenge confronting Wii U has finally struck Nintendo. Having throughout 2013 steadfastly stuck to its 9m unit sales forecast for the console for the current financial year, the platform holder has at last reduced that prediction. It now says it will likely sell just 2.8m Wii …
Read More »"Nintendo steadfastly refuses to consider that Wii U is not interesting to consumers"
Wii U will fail to sell the 9m units Nintendo has predicted for the current financial year, analysts have said. After sales of just 460k units in the six months ending September and a global install base of below 4m units, this is looking increasingly unlikely. That Xbox One beat …
Read More »Xbox One shipment forecasts lowered due to poor yields – report
Microsoft has allegedly lowered its Xbox One shipment forecasts, according to a Chinese news website. Digitimes reports that the platform holder has lowered its 7m unit shipment forecast for 2013 to 6.2m units due to poor yield rates of the device’s camera module, optical disc drive and related assembly”. Yield …
Read More »Sony: Don’t mistake Vita caution for lack of optimism
Is it an outrageous statement to say that vast swathes of the games industry have already written Vita off? After a terrible start Vita sales have stabilised and it has certainly grown into a great platform with an increasingly impressive range of software. But can it ever hope to be …
Read More »Sony doubles profit forecasts for past fiscal year
Sony has doubled its profits and operating income forecast for the fiscal year ended at the end of last month, thanks to the selling of assets and a deprecation of the yen over the past few months. Games Industry reports the corporation now predicts $403m for the period, up from …
Read More »Capcom almost halves DmC sales expectations
DmC: Devil May Cry is going to fall well short of Capcom’s initial expectations for the game. Capcom had originally forecast sales of 2m units by the end of its financial year. That has now been lowered to just 1.2m units, Eurogamer reports. In its first week on sale in …
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