News Tagged: hardware sales

NPD data sales company conducted a research, which brought some interesting results. According to the data they have come up with, 400 million devises are connected to the Internet in homes across the United States. Approximately 184 million are laptops and desktop computers, in addition to smartphones, which are in second place, numbering around 133 million...

According to the latest sales predictions from Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter and analyst firm EEDAR, Xbox 360 sales are going to lead ahead of PS3 and Wii sales for the 22nd consecutive month, with prognostications indicating, once again, that Vita sales are going to be...

Nintendo has officially stated that their Wii U console will sell at a loss when it launches. The news was revealed at an investor briefing by Nintendo President and CEO Satoru Iwata. He added that the console's price is "below cost," which, apparently, is the reason for the company's reduced annual net profit outlook...

Publisher and hardware manufacturer Microsoft is spreading the word that, as of September 30, 2012, the company sold 70 million units of their Xbox 360 console (since the console's launch). Meanwhile, PS3 lifetime sales have reached 63.9 million units (as of March 31, 2012) and Wii lifetime sales were marked at 96...

This just in, straight from the British Islands. Sony has confirmed that their PlayStation branch is celebrating the fact that over five million PS3 were sold in the United Kingdom. Sales of the latest model of the PS3 console increased for 138% September, after the launch of the new PS3 Super Slim...

In the United States, the total revenue from retail games, consoles and accessories contracted by %20 during July - that's according to data gathered by NPD. Word is that sales of game goods at retail generated $548 million; down from the $686 million made during the same period the year before...

The first reports indicate that Nintendo shifted an estimated 193,000 units of its handheld console, Nintendo 3DS XL, in Japan. During November 2009, the company sold around 100,000 DSi XL during the first two days on sale. Before that, the shifted approximately 170,000 throughout its opening weekend...

Sales data company NPD says that publisher Microsoft generated $209 million during one month, which is reportedly "more than the spend on the other two current-generation consoles combined." Around 160,000 Xbox 360 consoles were sold, while Xbox exec Aaron Greenberg commented that the 360 console had 45% market share during the previous month...

NPD released new sales data, showing BioWare's Mass Effect 3 as the most wanted game during March 2012. Here's the US sales chart for March: Mass Effect 3 (360, PS3, PC) Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (360, PS3) MLB: The Show (PS3...

February sales for gaming hardware and software (as usual, courtesy of NPD) amounted to $1.06 billion, marking a 20% year-on-year decline (from February 2010's $1.33 billion). Here's how the numbers breakdown: Hardware Xbox 360 426...

Here are the US hardware sales for the month of June: Xbox 360 - 507,000 Nintendo DS - 386,000 Wii - 273,000 Nintendo - 3DS - 143,000 At the moment, neither Sony or NPD have revealed any data about how many PS3 units were sold during that same period.

Some analyst is saying that the Kinect outsold the PlayStation Move by a margin of 5:1 in November. Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter also reports that Kinect bundles made up half of all Xbox sales, while PlayStation Move bundle sales only account for one fifth of the PlayStation 3's November sales...

It's been a pretty good month for the gaming industry in the US. People were buying shit left and right it seems, and the Nintendo DS and Xbox 360 emerged as the hottest platforms in November. So, yeah Micorosft's consoles outsold both the Wii and the PS3 during that time...

During July 2010, Microsoft's Xbox 360 was the best-selling piece of gaming hardware across the US. As we've reported a while back, that did not occur since 2007. The hardware sales for August are just in (as provided by NPD). They show that the console is once more the most wanted platform, selling over 350,000 units in that particular part of the world...

Just so you know, Red Dead Redemption sold 582,900 units on Xbox 360 and 380,300 units on PlayStation 3, bringing the game's total U.S. sales to date up to nearly 2.5 million. This made Rockstar's title US top-seller for 2010 so far. US retail game sales for June 2010 can be seen below: 1...