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The PS4 and Xbox One could easily ship 10m units between them by March next year, EA COO Peter Moore believes. In an earnings call, viaSeeking Alpha, Moore said that indications he had received from Microsoft and Sony suggested the next-gen consoles could be in plentiful supply. "When I talked …
Read More »Borderlands 2 on pace to break 2K sales records
Borderlands 2 has shipped over 7.5m copies at retail, and is on track to become 2K Games’ highest-selling title ever. Take-Two revealed the latest figures for physical copies of Gearbox’s sequel as part of the publisher’s Q2 2014 financial results. "Borderlands 2 has sold-in over 7.5 million units and counting, …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V nears 29m units shipped
Grand Theft Auto V shipments are closing in on 29m copies, Take-Two has announced. The publisher revealed the staggering figure as part of its latest quarterly earnings report, adding that the game’s has surpassed the lifetime total for Grand Theft Auto IV units shipped. "[Grand Theft Auto V is an] …
Read More »Microsoft denies lowering Xbox One shipment forecasts
Poor yield rates are not dogging production of the Xbox One, Microsoft has claimed. A report yesterday stemming from China claimed that the company had lowered its 2013 Xbox One shipment forecasts due to low yields of components such as the Kinect camera and optical disc drive. Not so, according …
Read More »Windows Phone shipments outpacing BlackBerry 10 by 3-to-1
New estimates paint a very bleak picture for BlackBerry 10. PocketGamer has done some number crunching following BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins’ admission that just 40 per cent (around 2.7m) of the 6.8m smartphones his company shipped in the last quarter were BB10 devices. For comparison, Samsung shipped an estimated 70.7m …
Read More »Ouya hits retail amidst backer unrest as units fail to arrive
Much-hyped Android console Ouya hits retail today, yet many backers of the device are yet to receive their machine. I am pissed,” Ouya boss Julie Uhrman stated. Some of you have not yet received your OUYA – and, to you, I apologise. I did not promise to ship to *most* …
Read More »UK games price war hurting foreign retail
Games retailers across EMEA regions say they are facing bankruptcy – and it’s all our fault. Low UK game pricing has caused a sharp rise in importing amongst consumers around the globe, damaging local sales. Foreign indie stores are following suit, and buying stock in bulk from the UK. This …
Read More »Samsung expected to increase lead over Apple in 2013
Annual growth of 35 per cent is expected to further increase Samsung’s lead over former market leader Apple in 2013. That’s according to Strategy Analytics, which predicts smartphone shipments will grow 27 per cent to 875m units this year, although that’s down sharply from the 41 per cent jump seen …
Read More »GTA shipments hit 125m as "special" series continues to grow
And that’s why the industry gets excited, sits up and pays attention when the words ‘Grand Theft Auto’ are uttered. Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick told the Credit Suisse 2012 Technology Conference – as reported by GameSpot – that the series has now shipped 125m units worldwide. Of that total Grand …
Read More »PS Vita launch shipments upped
Retailers in Japan will receive 200,000 more units of PlayStation Vita in time for launch, bringing the total shipped to 700,000. Andriasang reports sources close to Sony that the format holder had originally planned a shipment of 500,000 units, but this has now been raised to cope with pre-order demand. …
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