Archive for the Consoles Category
Video game hardware and software sales up 28% in July 2008
US sales of video game hardware and software soared 28% in July 2008, hitting $1.19 bln. According to NPD Group, Americans bought $446.9 mln worth of video game hardware during the month, a 17% jump f...
65% of US households play video games, 38% have consoles, 40% are female
40% of US gamers are women, Entertainment Software Association says. 65% of American households play computer and video games. 38% of American homes have a video game console. The average game player ...
US video hardware and software sales up 53% un June 2008
US sales of video game hardware and software rose 53% in June 2008 when compared to June 2007, NPD reported. For the first half of 2008, the US video game industry has generated $8.3 bln in sales. Thi...
87% of PS3 owners watch BluRay movies
87% of PlayStation 3 owners have watched BluRay movies on PS3's built-in BluRay player, Entertainment Merchants Association reported....
Video games to reach $68.3 bln by 2012
Video game industry is expected to shoot from $41.9 bln in global sales 2007 to $68.3 bln in 2012, a compound annual growth rate of 10.3%, PriceWaterhouseCoopers reported. Online and wireless games wi...
Video game sales reached $1.12 bln in May 2008
US sales of video game hardware and software were $1.12 bln in May 2008, up 37% from May 2007. "Grand Theft Audio 4" the best-selling title for the month, NPD said. In 2008 US video games industry has...
Casual games generate $2.25 bln annually
One-third of people ages 6 to 44 have played online casual games, according to NPD Group. Globally, casual games on PCs, game systems and handhelds, played online and off, generate about $2.25 bln ann...
Video game hardware and software sales up 47% in April 2008
Americans spent $1.23 bln on video games, hardware and accessories in April 2008, up 47% from April 2007. Total hardware sales grew 26% to $426.2 mln, with the Wii selling 714,200 units, followed by t...
25% of Americans have an HDTV set
5.5 mln households brought home an HDTV set for the first time during the 2007/2008 holiday and Super Bowl season in 2008. 25% of US households or 28 mln now have at least one HDTV set, that up from a...
Video game hardware, software sales up 57% in March 2008
US sales of video game hardware and software rose 57% in March 2008 YTY, NPD reported. Sales of gaming hardware, software and accessories hit $1.7 bln in March 2008. Super Smash Bros Brawl was the top...
$1.33 bln of gaming hardware and software sold in the US in February 2008
US video game sales jumped 34% in February to hit $1.33 bln, according to NPD Group. Game hardware sales rose 19% during February 2008 to $480 mln. Nintendo DS was the best-seller with 587,600 units, ...
Game sales reached $669 mln in North America in January 2008
Sales of game software in North America reached nearly $669 million for January 2008, up 47% from the same period last year, according to NPD Group. Nintendo Wii continued to lead in sales for next-ge...
Game software sales up 21% in Germany in 2007
German games software sales grew 21% to 1.36 bln euros ($2.1 bln) in 2007. Sales of PC games slipped 3% to 458 mln euros. Games for mobile devices were the fastest-growing segment of the market, with ...
In-game ads generated $295 mln in 2007
eMarketer projects that US in-game advertising spending will increase from $295 mln in 2007 to $650 mln in 2012. eMarketer expects that ad spending for Web-based games will jump 133% between 2007 and ...
$2.25 bln spent on casual games in 2007
Casual gaming is a $2.25 bln industry, and is growing 20% each year, according to the Casual Games Association. Each month, more than 200 mln people play casual games online. And while serious gamers ...
Game sales down 6% in January 2008
January 2008 gaming sales of $1.1 bln were down 6% below January 2007, according to the NPD Group. The Nintendo Wii sold 274,000, followed by the Sony PlayStation 3 (269,000) and the Microsoft Xbox 36...
30.2 mln Wiis by year-end 2008
The global installed base for the Nintendo Wii will rise to 30.2 mln units in 2008, up from 18 mln in 2007. This will put the Wii ahead of the Xbox 360's total of 25.7 mln units in 2008, iSuppli says....
84% of kids play games
Playing games for kids is the most prevalent activity on the four key devices: 84% are gaming on a computer, videogame system, portable digital music player (PDMP) or cell phone, according to NPD. Als...
4.3 mln XBox 360 consoles sold in Q4 2007
Microsoft sold 4.3 mln Xbox 360 video game consoles in Q4 2007. A total of 17.7 million Xbox 360s had been sold worldwide since it first went on sale in late 2005, Microsoft said....
10 mln XBox Live subscribers
Microsoft announced that it reached the 10 mln subscriber mark for Xbox Live. Annual subscription fees are about $50....
Gaming sales in Japan reached $6.3 bln in 2007
Enterbrain found hardware and software gaming sales in Japan totaled $6.3 bln in 2007, up 10% from the previous year. Nintendo DS was the top-selling portable machine, with 7.1 mln units sold in 2007...
US gaming sales to reach $17.9 bln in 2008
US gaming industry sales are seen rising to $17.9 bln in 2008, up 13% from an estimated $15.8 bln in 2007, the CEA said. That compares with a 22% increase from 2006 to 2007. Video game industry hardwa...
80% of Nintendo DS owners are 8-16 years old
80% of Nintendo DS owners are 8 to 16 years of age, while Sony PSP players tend to be 16 to 24 years old, according to Wedbush Morgan....
Video games to generate $48.9 bln by 2011
Video-game industry is expected to generate more than $17 bln in revenue in 2007 and $48.9 bln by 2011, Turner Investments says....