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News Sony Not Concerned With Poor Sales Of PlayStation Classics On Xperia Play
Sony Ericsson has said it has "no concerns" regarding the relatively low sales of PSone classics on its Xperia Play mobile-phone device, despite most games selling fewer than 500 copies
I think theres an awareness thing for people that are getting their hands on the device and where they are choosing to purchase games, market development...
UK Charts Erm, Zumba Fitness Has Dethroned Portal 2
Zumba Fitness is top of the UK sales charts this week
The PlayStation Move-enabled fitness title has dethroned genuine game of the year contender, Portal 2. Video games, sigh. Mortal Kombat finished up in third, while Call Of Duty: Black Ops lingered in fourth. Elsewhere, Operation Flashpoint: Red River was joined by a bunch of ever-green titles,...
Japanese Charts PlayStation Portable Pretty Much Obliterates Everything Else
"But my friend told me the PSP was dead," said the crowds of readers
Boo to you, the PSP is on friggin' fire. Well, in Japan at least. Last week (ending May 1st), Sony's portable shifted a whopping 76,974 units. That's an impressive number alone, but when you take into consideration that the Nintendo 3DS only managed to shift 28,413 units over the...
News UK Sales Charts: Portal 2 Maintains Top Spot, Virtua Tennis Out Of Sight
We're blaming you for the lack of good motion controlled tennis games
Sort of. Granted Virtua Tennis 4 doesn't do a particularly wonderful job with its PlayStation Move support, but if no one is buying big brand tennis games with standard controller support, who's going to plump up the development costs for a Move exclusive? Virtua Tennis 4 managed...
News UK Sales Charts: Portal 2 Takes Top-Spot, Mortal Kombat Settles For Second
Last week was big for new releases
Portal 2, Mortal Kombat, SOCOM 4 (or Special Forces depending on your region) and Operation Flashpoint: Red River all launching ahead of the Easter weekend. As suspected, Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat had the strongest showing, both finishing up first and second respectively. That's a well deserved result for both...
Rumour PSPgo To Become A Bit Of A Collector's Item (Maybe?)
Rumours fizzing around the Internet this morning suggest that Sony has ceased production of the PSPgo
The much maligned handheld rarely set the charts on fire, so it wouldn't be a huge surprise to learn of the device's cancellation. The rumour stems from a blog post written by a Japanese Sony Shop employee. Translated by Andriasang, the post points...
News Place Your Bets: What Do You Think Was The Best Selling PS3 Game In Japan Last Year?
This one caught us by surprise
Despite launching late in the year, we assumed Gran Turismo 5 would probably be the highest selling PlayStation 3 title in 2010. Either that, or some weird mech game we've never heard of. But no, the top-selling Japanese PS3 game of 2010 was actually the fantastic Yakuza 4. The numbers, reported by Siliconera, note...
News UK Sales Charts: Nothing To See Here...
Umm...
Instead of talking about this week's UK sales charts — there's nothing to say, Zumba Fitness is still top — let's hypothesise on next week's results It's a big release week, buoyed by the addition of a Good Friday — giving games an additional day to sell. The big releases include: Portal 2, Mortal Kombat and SOCOM 4. We suspect...
News March NPD Sales: Pokemon Tops, MLB 11: The Show Charts
With the NPD ceasing to provide hardware numbers, this month's report is restricted to software we're afraid
And it's a pretty uneventful month for PlayStation to be honest, with the interest surrounding the Nintendo 3DS. Interestingly, it was a Nintendo DS game that topped the charts for March, with Pokemon White taking the top-spot and Pokemon...
News PlayStation 3 Hits 50 Million Units Milestone, Move Passes Eight Million
Sony's followed up last night's NPD sales report by confirming that the PlayStation 3 has passed the 50 million units sold milestone
In addition, the platform holder confirmed that there are now eight million PlayStation Move motion controllers in the wilderness, with support including in over 150 software titles. Sony added that there are also over...
News Sony: 8 Million Move Controllers Shipped Worldwide
PS3 reaches 50m sales too
No sooner have we finished lamenting the lack of PlayStation Move sales figures in the West than Sony obliges with a press release, informing the world it's shipped 8 million of the controllers to stores around the world. While the press release states sales of the controller have surpassed the 8m mark, bear in mind...
News Tiger Woods 12 Sells 225,000 Copies Faster Than a Cheetah
Series' fastest seller
Everyone who bought a copy of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters during its first week helped the game to become the fastest-selling entry in EA's long-running golfing series. According to EA, the game sold 225,000 copies across all formats during its first week on sale, a 17% increase over previous record-holder Tiger Woods...
News Investment Company 'Reconfirms' 2011 North American NGP Launch
Lazard Capital Markets has published a report confirming a North American release for Sony's NGP this year
The investment firm claim the date was confirmed by Sony at a recent analysts day held by SCEA. Apparently Sony were less clear on European release dates — which is perhaps to be expected from a SCEA event. Console launches are always a...
News Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 Is Tumbling Off Store Shelves Faster Than Ever Before
EA's confirmed that this year's Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters is the fastest selling game in the franchise's history
Gamasutra reports that the title has shifted 225,000 units during its first week on release — a favourable 17 percent more than Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 which was the previous best seller. It's well deserved too: Tiger Woods...
News Apparently Angry Birds Is The Most Downloaded Game On PlayStation Network
It seems not enough people paid attention to our 1/4 review of Angry Birds
Reports suggest that the over hyped, Rovio developed casual game has jumped straight to the top of the PlayStation Network's downloads chart. This is an atrocity. "PSN appears to be gaining traction tapping into the casual and social gaming market with titles such as...
News PlayStation Move Performing Stronger Than Kinect In Japan
Chalk this one up as the biggest surprise of the year so far: Japanese gamers have bought more PlayStation Move controllers than Kinects
Sony had sold approximately 170k Moves by the end of 2010, while Microsoft had shifted just 90k Kinects. That's about a 2:1 ratio, which to be honest is closer than we'd expected given the number of XBOX 360s...
News Move Outsells Kinect in Japan but Fails to Ignite Sales Charts
170,000 sold and climbing
It's not easy to get concrete sales figures for peripherals in most territories, but Japanese firm Media Create has released life-to-date figures for PlayStation Move and its motion rival Kinect for Xbox 360, showing Sony's device has taken a clear lead. Andriasang reports that Sony has sold 170,000 Move controllers since...
UK Charts Zumba Fitness Takes The Top Spot From Crysis 2, Dynasty Warriors 7 Charts
Zumba Fitness has toppled Crysis 2 to sit atop the British sales charts
We don't have a clue what Zumba Fitness is, but we do know a PS3 version is due within the next couple of weeks. We assume the game's going to be lingering around the sales charts for some time. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 saw a push up to fourth on the back of the Masters...
News PSP Maintains Its Advantage Over 3DS For A Second Week In Japan
After toppling Nintendo's new handheld recently, the PSP has maintained its lead over the 3DS in Japan, shifting about 15,000 more consoles in the region last week
The PSP managed to muster up a whopping 58,075 sales, while the 3DS settled for around 42k. The PS3 maintained its lead over the Nintendo Wii too, mustering up sales of around 27k units,...
Feature Don't Kill The 'Mid-Tier' Game -- 'Twiggy' The Push Square Opinionator Returns
Jeff Cannata coined a phrase on the Weekend Confirmed podcast that will probably stick with me for as long as I write about entertainment products
Desperately struggling to balance his positive opinion of Square Enix's Nier against the game's catalogue of flaws, Cannata concluded that the title is "more fun than it is good". It's a...
News Ubisoft Out For Blood, Wants To Beat EA And Activision
Ubisoft's gaffer Yves Guillemot reckons his company has the oomph to overturn Activision and EA as the world's largest third-party publisher
Fighting talk, yo. Chatting with MCV, the executive said that Electronic Arts' decision to sell off its 20 percent stake in the publisher "changed lots of things for us. We had a competitor owning a share...
News Sony Cuts PlayStation Portable Price In Europe, Down 40 Euros
Sony has cut the European price of the PSP by approximately 24 percent in a bid to improve final breath sales in the region
The PSP has been cut from its original price of 169.99 to 129.99 and is effective as of today. The price was reduced to $129.99 in North America earlier in the year. "The price cut is aimed at increasing adoption of...
UK Charts Crysis 2 Sticks To The Top-Spot As EA Conquers The Full Line-Up
We imagine there are plenty of chuffed faces around EA UK this morning -- no less than four of the publisher's games occupy the top ten this week
Crysis 2 is still at the number one spot, with new release Shift 2: Unleashed a few spots behind in fourth. Elsewhere for EA, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 took the sixth spot, while FIFA 11 continues to do...
This week the PSP reclaimed its crown at the top of the domestic hardware sales charts in Japan, despite Nintendo's 3DS releasing just a month ago
Numbers for Nintendo's systm were also disappointing across Europe, with exact figures in North America seemingly hush-hush. It's worth stressing that the 3DS represents Nintendo's best ever launch, but...
News Sony Conquers Japanese Video Game Market In 2010
It's been a while since Sony was the dominant force in the video game industry, but numbers coming out of Japan show that the platform holder is back on top in its home region as of 2010
The fiscal year — which ended, like, overnight — has concluded with PlayStation 3 on top of the Wii, and the PSP on top of the DS. Enterbrain notes that this is...
The closet fanboys came out of the woodwork last night
The console war literally erupted after months of quiet acceptance from all sides. According to a report filed by data firm Strategy Analytics, the PlayStation 3 has now surpassed the XBOX 360 in "active install base", pushing the Microsoft system down into last place in the console...
News PlayStation 3 Leads XBOX 360 Across Europe, Nintendo Conquers All
A rare sales report compiled by IDG and cited in a GameStop document has given us the first picture of Europe's console install base for some time
The data puts PlayStation 3 about a million units ahead of XBOX 360, despite launching some 15 months after Microsoft's console. The report, accurate as of December 2010, puts PS3 sales at 14.7 million...
UK Charts Crysis 2 Scoops Top-Spot, Nintendo 3DS Pads Things Out
Crytek's semi-sandbox shooter, Crysis 2, has jumped to the top of the UK sales charts, scooping the accolade away from last week's winner, Homefront
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars finished up second, while the afore-mentioned Homefront settled for third. Last week saw the release of the Nintendo 3Ds, and naturally there was an abundance of...
News US Retailer 'Struggling' To Meet Demand For PlayStation Move
Contrary to popular opinion, the PlayStation Move is selling very strongly
That's the message from leading US retailer, GameStop, who have claimed to be "struggling" to meet demand for Sony's motion controlled device. "We have struggled to stay in stock on the Sony Move controllers; there's a tremendous amount of demand for...
News Happy Fourth European Birthday PlayStation 3!
The PlayStation 3 is four years old today in Europe
Hurrah. The system launched on Friday, March 23rd 2007 after a pretty enormous delay. The game launched alongside Resistance: Fall Of Man and MotorStorm, as well as Ridge Racer 7 and Call Of Duty 3. SCEUK recently announced that the PlayStation 3 has sold four million units in Britain, with a grand...
News Sony Confirms 3 Million PS3 Unit Milestone In France
Sony's announced that the PlayStation 3 has shifted 3 million units in France since its release in March 2007
If we wanted to fan the fanboy flames, we'd tell you that Microsoft's XBOX 360 has moved 2.3 million units over a longer period of time. Did we say that out loud? Sony's shifted 418 million worth of software, which equates to roughly eight...
News Move Games Go Cheap in European PSN Sale
Up to 50% off
PlayStation Network has stacks of Move-enabled games to download, but if you've been holding off on some until a substantial price drop and have a European account you might want to load up the PlayStation Store and see what's on offer. As part of Sony's "Let's PlayStation Move!" event, from now until 30th March selected...
News Ubisoft-Sponsored Survey Predicts $250 Price Point For Standard Model NGP
How much do you think the NGP will cost? According to a Ubisoft-sponsored survey conducted by research firm Toluna, the French publisher reckons the standard model will retail for about $250
The survey also notes that Ubisoft expects a $350 price-point for the premium, 3G-powered device. That's quite a gulf in costs, but in-line with other 3G/non-3G...
News UK Sales Charts: Dragon Age II Snatches Number One Spot, As You Were Elsewhere
Bioware's fantasy RPG, Dragon Age II, has topped the UK sales charts this week, beating out last week's winner, Pokemon
Elsewhere, it's pretty much as you were: EA's Fight Night Champion is still lingering in the top three, while Bulletstorm, Killzone 3 and Call Of Duty: Black Ops maintain their place in the top ten. Hit the jump for the full...
News Movin' Up the Sales Charts
We like to Move it, Move it
PlayStation Move is only a few days away from being on the market for 6 full months. It’s no secret that PlayStation Move has been widely accepted from a technical standpoint, and the software supporting the peripheral has also been quite impressive in such a short span of time with great titles such as Killzone 3, MAG,...
News February NPD Sales: Killzone 3 Charts, Call Of Duty: Black Ops Rules
Total US game revenue was up year-over-year in February, from $1
3 billion to $1.6 billion. An increase in hardware and peripheral sales were credited for the gains, while software shrunk a bit between February 2010 and 2011. Despite dipping year-over-year, the software charts for February are littered with new games — Marvel Vs. Capcom 3...
News Sony Shuts Down A "Small Number Of Projects" At Its UK Studios
A report on GamesIndustry
biz</a> has revealed that Sony has opted to close a "small number of projects" at its UK studios. The shift in resources is set to take place at Evolution Studios, Studio Liverpool and Studio London. Media Molecule are reportedly unaffected, while Studio Cambridge were not mentioned. It has been decided...
News Peter Dille Leaves Sony Computer Entertainment America
Long-term SCEA marketing big-wig, Peter Dille, has took a sharp stage-right exit from the company
Dille worked with SCEA from 1991 to 1999, and returned in 2006 after a brief spell in charge at THQ. Dille's most recent role within SCEA saw him control marketing and the PlayStation Network. The reason behind Dille's exit is unknown, but the exec...
News UK Sales Charts: Pokemania Swoops Over Britain (AGAIN!) As Killzone 3 Holds Strong
Not much to say from a PlayStation perspective on this week's UK multiplatform software sales charts
It's another commanding week for Nintendo's mini-monsters RPG franchise, as Pokemon Black and White occupied the chart's top two spots. EA's Fight Night Champion debuted in third, while balls-to-the-wall FPS Bulletstorm leap-frogged Sony's Killzone 3...
News PSPgo Drops To $149.99 (Apparently!)
Sony's official PSP website has been updated to reflect the range's recent price-drop
Hang on, wait a minute, what's this? The PSPgo is now $149.99. We knew the PSP-3000 was dropping down to $129.99 but no-one mentioned anything about the PSPgo, retailers included — they're still
It's GDC week so there's always time for boring slides about console sales and things you'd see on a spread sheet
Sony's PlayStation Network Analysis panel for example was filled with comments and research that you'd expect business men to talk about. Sony's pinned console sales at over 41.6 million worldwide, which is a pretty solid number for the...
News UK Sales Charts: Killzone 3 & Bulletstorm Prop Up The British Top Ten
Both Killzone 3 and Bulletstorm had strong first week showings according to the UK sales charts, propping up the first and second positions respectively
We had a lot of love for both games in our reviews, which can be found here and here for your convenience. Call Of Duty: Black Ops rounded out a triple-header of first-person shooters, with FIFA 11...
News Sony Drops The Price Of The PSP To $129.99 In North America
Sony's revealed that its set to cut the price of the PSP to $129
99 in North America as of February 27th. The news comes a month after Sony announced the PSP's successor, the NGP, in Japan. The PSP system set the standard for complete portable entertainment and continues to be the premiere destination for gamers on-the-go, said SCEAs Tim...
News Sony: PlayStation 3 Profitability More Important Than The Console War
Sony's put a boot into ficticious depictions of the console war, claiming the company is far more concerned with turning a profit than conquering the XBOX 360 in life-time sales
PlayStation's senior software brand manager told IndustryGamers that, contrary to popular belief, the platform holder is not obsessed with catching up to the XBOX 360...
News UK Sales Charts: Call Of Duty: Black Ops Takes The Top-Spot, Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Just Behind
Marvel Vs
Capcom 3's</a> missed out on a place aloft the UK sales charts, thanks to a 192 percent increase in sales for Call Of Duty: Black Ops. The surge saw Activision's shooter jump straight to the top, with Capcom's tag-team brawler claiming a respectable second place finish. Elsewhere, last week's winner, Test Drive Unlimited 2, held...
News January NPD 2011: LittleBigPlanet 2 Charts High As Dance Games Dominate
One things for sure, whether we "get" dancing games or not -- they just aren't going away
Of the ten top selling games in North America last month, four of them were dancing games. Four. Just Dance 2, Zumba Fitness: Join The Party, Dance Central and Michael Jackson: The Experience. What the heck is going on? We understand the room for one dance game...
News Sony Smashes 4 Million PlayStation 3 Milestone In The UK
Sony's announced that the PlayStation 3 has now exceeded 4 million units sold in the UK
The system launched on March 23rd, 2007. Sony celebrated the news by throwing a party in London last night. Hot Chip were on hand to spin some record. As you can probably tell, we're trying to drag this paragraph out as far as possible because there's really...
News Funky Lab Rat Drops in Price in US Store Update
Rat goes cheap
As well as the Killzone 3 single-player demo, a few pieces of Move-related DLC received price reductions in yesterday's American PlayStation Store update. Telekinetic puzzle-platformer Funky Lab Rat dropped in price to $6.99 from $9.99, and downloadable content for R.U.S.E. and MAG also had a healthy amount snipped off their price...
News Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Sells A Colosseum Full Of Copies
Probably the most interesting tid-bit from Ubisoft's financial call today -- aside from the publisher's 'dancing game' business being a success of 'hammertime' proportions -- was the news that Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has surpassed 6
5 million units shipped. That's a helluva lot of back-stabbing. We always thought it was mankind's guilty...
News Sony's Now Shipped A Whopping 150 Million PlayStation 2 Consoles Worldwide
PStoooooo!
.. And last generation's leading console continues to see strong sales. Sony's just announced that they've now shipped 150 million PlayStation 2 consoles worldwide, with no signs of the platform slowing down. The console has now exceeded its ten-year lifespan, with Sony anticipating continued demand for the platform in Eastern Europe,...
