Archive for the Consoles Category
Video game hardware and software sales up 52% in November 2007
Total US sales of video-game hardware and software hit $2.63 bln in November 2007, up 52% from $1.74 bln in November 2006, NPD said....
In Q3 2007 Nintendo generated more gaming revenue than Sony
Worldwide revenue for Nintendo DS and Wii gaming software amounted to $1.2 bln in Q3 2007, up 31.4% from $943.6 mln in Q2 2007 and more than double the $611 mln from the Q3 2006. Sony in Q3 2007 gener...
Video games sales up 39% in October 2007
Video game sales jumped 39% in October 2007. The Wii sold about 519,000 units during the month - the most of any gaming console, according to NPD Group. That blew away the 366,000 in unit sales from t...
43% of parents never play videogames with kids
43% of those whose young children play video or computer games never play along with them, according to an Associated Press and AOL Games poll....
$1.36 bln worth of games sold in September, Halo 3 outsells next 9 games combined
Total game sales in September 2007 soared to $1.36 bln, up from $779 mln in September 2006, according to NPD. Halo 3, sold 3.3 mln copies, more than twice as many as the next nine games combined....
44% of women and 39% of men own a gaming console
44% of women said they own a gaming console such as a Wii, Xbox or PlayStation, compared with just 39% of men, according to Denizens of Digitivity....
Video games and hardware sales up 46% in August 2007
US sales of video games and hardware jumped 46% in August 2007 from August 2006, with Microsoft Corp seeing sales of its Xbox 360 console shoot up, NPD Group says. The top game was Madden NFL 08 for t...
US video game sales up 37% in July 2007
US sales of video games and hardware rose 37% in July 2007, NPD Group reports. Total sales hit $925.5 mln in July 2007, compared with $675.6 mln in July 2006....
NPD stats on XBox market share and growth
Microsoft Xbox 360 has an installed base of 5.6 mln in the US, according to NPD Group. Microsoft has shipped 18.1 mln console games since the launch of the Wii and the PS3. There has been $2.4 bln tot...
NPD stats on Nintendo market share and growth
According to NPD data, Nintendo was responsible for 69% of US game industry growth in the first five months of 2007. In Wii households 66% of those aged 25 - 49 play the console regularly. And about 5...
42% of console owners have watched an Internet video on a console
Though the majority (80%) of Americans own a console capable of playing DVDs, only 30% stated that they owned a console that actually enabled DVD playback - a fact that demonstrates how poorly many co...
Casual gaming market data
28% of casual gamers play more than nine sessions per week with 32% of those sessions lasting at least an hour, Macrovision says. 83% of survey participants are willing to view a 30-second ad in order...
15% of US families have 2+ gaming consoles
Approximately half of US broadband households have at least one game console (GC) in the home with 15% having two or more game consoles. Among broadband households that own a game console, 52% have a ...
13% of console owners have used consoles for DVD playback
According to The Diffusion Group, though 80% of game console households own a console capable of some form of DVD playback or online download, only 13% have used their game console for movie viewing p...
Video game sales up 31% in June 2006
US sales of video game hardware and software in June 2007 rose 31% from June 2006. June 2007 sales of $1.1 bln were also up about 35% from May 2007, the report from NPD showed. "Mario Party 8" was als...
US console market to generate $66 bln by 2012
US game console market will generate cumulative revenues of $66 bln through 2012. JupiterResearch anticipates the competitive field will be much closer than in the past; at the end of the current cycl...
Indian console market to reach $125.4 mln by 2010
India's video-game console market is expected to grow to $125.4 mln by 2010, rising at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 75% from $13.3 mln in 2006....
Boys who play videogames on weekdays spend 30% less time reading
Boys who play video games on school days spend 30% less time reading and girls spend 34% less time doing homework than those who do not play such games, University of Michigan research says....
35% of parents play videogames
Entertainment Software Association found that 35% of parents play video games, of which 80% play with their children....
Portable game system revenues to exceed $10 bln in 2007
According to DFC Intelligence, worldwide revenue from the portable game systems from Nintendo and Sony is expected to exceed $10 bln in 2007. The market is being led by the Nintendo DS, the hottest se...
36.5% of online Americans have a game console, 15.9% have a portable console
More than one third of US adults online, 36.5%, own a game console, and 15.9% own a portable game console, Nielsen//NetRatings said. 71% of console owners are married, and 66% have at least one child ...
Nintendo portable game revenue
New data from DFC Intelligence displays ups and downs of Nintendo's portable game system revenue....
Number of households with consoles up 18% from 2004
The number of US households supplementing their televisions with video game consoles has risen more than 18% since 2004. 67% of all men in TV-owning households aged 18-34, and 80% of those aged 12-17 ...
30% of US households to own Wii by 2011
Merrill Lynch predicts that Nintendo Wii console will occupy around 30% of US households by 2011, and even more in Japan....