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News British Gamers Buy Lots Of Copies Of Just Cause 2. Why? Just 'Cause!
That "pun" has been run into the ground and stomped on so many times we really shouldn't have used it
But that's exactly why we did use it. Ha-hah. Incredible. Anyway - without further ado, here's your British sales charts news: Just Cause 2 is number one with a bullet. Or should we say grapple hook? Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Modern Warfare 2...
News Playstation 3 Tops The Japanese Hardware Charts, PSP Second
Perhaps a little something to do with the release of Yakuza 4 in Japan, the PS3 has finally ended the PSP's long run atop the Japanese hardware charts to settle with the crown of glory
Or something. Sony's home console rattled off just over 50k units, with the PSP not too far behind, managing 38k. Nintendo occupied much of the rest of the list, with...
News Yakuza 4 Shifts 384,000 Copies In Its First Week On Sale In Japan
SEGA's Yakuza 4 has topped the Japanese software charts for this week, shifting a hearty 384,000 copies
The numbers are a little lower than those of Yakuza 3, but still extremely respectable. Elsewhere, the God Of War Collection managed to place 13th in the Japanese software charts this week, with Battlefield: Bad Company 2 not far behind it in...
News Happy, Happy Birthday European Playstation 3!
Guess what Europeans - the Playstation 3 is officially three years old today in your neck of the woods
That's right, the system went on sale in Europe precisely three years ago today - March 23rd. It's been a bit of a roller-coaster ride for Sony since then, with initial PS3 sales tempered by a high price-tag. It is, however, with the launch of the...
News GameStop: PS3 Shortages To Last Until The Summer
Some people in the industry are laughing off Sony's claims of stock shortages in the US, but it actually appears to be a genuine issue for the company
According to GameStop Executive VP of Merchandising, the issue of PS3 stock shortages are likely to go on for the next few months. Despite Sony being pestered for more stock, Bartel concluded that his...
News Oh PSP, Japan Still Lurveeeeees You!
Sony's Playstation Portable is still top of the Japanese hardware charts
This week it managed another 39k sales, with the PS3 mustering 26k. The PSPgo continues to flounder at the bottom of the charts with just over 1,000 units sold in the past week. Pretty disasterous. But Sony probably won't care well the regular SKU of their handheld system is...
News Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Sells Lots & Lots Of Copies In Europe, US
Stop me if you've heard this one before: a military, multiplayer shooter has sold a ton of copies in Europe and the US
That's right: EA's Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has mustered sales of over 2.3 million over the last couple of weeks. Interestingly, aswell as the hard sales figures, EA has provided some more light-hearted facts pertaining to the...
News Report Hints At American Playstation 3 Stock Shortages Hindering God Of War III Sales
March: officially the biggest month in Playstation 3's history
Not only has the month already seen the arrival of Final Fantasy XIII, a traditionally Playstation franchise, but it's also about to witness the arrival of one of Playstation's biggest exclusive franchises: God Of War III. Sadly, there's a hitch. While Sony have two of the biggest games...
News Playstation Portable Still Top Of The Japanese Hardware Charts
We're quickly running out of things to say about the PSP's performance in Japan
It's consistently shifting lots of units and, erm, yeah - surprise it's top again! Betcha didn't expect that did you? Mwahaha. Sigh. The figures are after the jump. PSP 64,808 Wii 33,880 PS3 28,824 DSi LL 23,611 DSi 15,017 DS Lite 4,316 Xbox 360 ...
News Final Fantasy XIII Tops The UK Sales Charts, PS3 SKU Wins The War
Final Fantasy XIII has shot straight to the top of the UK sales charts, with the PS3 version of the game managing 54% of the sales
Not the hugest of discrepancies between the SKUs, but it's often rare a PS3 multiplatform game outsells its XBOX 360 rival - particularly when Microsoft have broken the metaphorical bank marketing the game exclusive to...
News February NPD: Playstation 3 Fares Well, Beaten By Wii & XBOX 360, Heavy Rain Starts Strong
Despite losing out to the Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii and XBOX 360, there are very positive signs for the industry in general in February's NPD
Namely that every major piece of hardware sold pretty well, with just 62,000 units between the XBOX 360 and the Playstation 3. Sony shifted 360,100 units for the month of February, a pretty impressive...
News Square Enix Ship 5million Copies of Final Fantasy XIII Worldwide
Square Enix has just announced that they've shipped 5million copies of their flagship RPG Final Fantasy XIII worldwide
Of that amount, 3million have been shipped to the US and Europe alone. The franchise as a whole has shipped a whopping 96million units since its inception 20 years ago. Of course, shipped copies don't necessarily mean sold copies...
News Surprise: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Tops The British Gaming Charts
Winning the war
Heavy Rain's affair with the number one spot of the British gaming charts is over (though it still sits at a respectable fourth place). Indeed, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has taken the top spot this week, with 31 per cent of the sales being accountable to the PS3 SKU. SEGA got a double hit with Aliens vs Predator and Sonic &...
News Playstation Portable Still Stands Atop The Japanese Hardware Charts
It's another week on top of the Japanese hardware charts for the Playstation Portable this week, despite stiff competition from the various Nintendo DS SKUs (there are about a billion of them)
The Playstation 3 sits just below the Wii in third-place, shifting 27,763 units, with the PSPgo and PS2 at the bottom. Hit the jump for the full round up...
News Resident Evil: Gold Edition Tops Japanese Software Charts, Heavy Rain Breaks Top Ten
The Japanese software chart is surprising on two counts this week
Firstly, apparently people are still way into Resident Evil. Despite essentially being a re-release of a year old game, Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition (Alternative Edition in Japan) has debuted top of the Japanese software charts selling a whopping 143,339 copies. The PSP's God Eater...
News Michael Pachter Is All Like, "Natal Will Outsell Playstation Motion Controller 5:1"
We like Michael Pachter
We don't think he's particularly biased, and we don't often disagree with his opinion. But the dude is unreal when it comes to Microsoft's much-hyped but not-so-much-shown camera device "Project Natal". In his latest report, the American analyst has once again declared his love for the Microsoft philosophy, claiming...
News Aliens vs Predator Shoots Straight To The Top Of The Pops... Erm, Charts
Another week and another shooter has taken the crown from Ubisoft's current Wii phenomenom, Just Dance
Amazingly for Rebellion, Aliens vs Predator has become the fastest-selling game in 2010, topping last week's record holder, Bioshock 2 (now in third). Of course, they're both gonna get crushed by Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Either way, big congrats...
News Sony's Playstation Portable Continues To Top The Japanese Hardware Charts
This week's Japanese hardware chart looks vaguely similar to the week before it
The Playstation Portable still tops the charts, with the PSPgo in dead last at the other end of the spectrum. Somewhere in the middle is the Playstation 3, with some Nintendo platforms above it and the XBOX 360 far below it. Check the numbers after the jump. PSP -...
News SCEA: Nintendo's Loss Is Of Course Playstation's Gain
Sony's Rob Dyer has told IndustryGamers that third-party publishers are "coming back" to the Playstation 3 after they've seen a string of Wii titles fail
He added that he believes publishers no longer see the Wii as the "hot" thing on the market, and are not putting the resources into the platform they once were.What publishers have said...
News MAG Wasn't On The NPD Top Ten, Does That Mean It Tanked?
Not at all, valued reader
The NPD has detailed the top-twenty games in January, continuing our coverage from last week. With five days on sales MAG managed to outsell the XBOX 360 version of Bayonetta which pulled in somewhere above 100,000 sales. It's safe to assume then that MAG easily beat out 100,000 unit-sales, but the official numbers are yet...
News Bioshock 2 Takes The UK Charts' Top Spot, Bayonetta Re-Enters
Apparently Bioshock is still a big deal, as Bioshock 2 has shot straight to the top of the UK charts, removing previous leader Mass Effect 2
Interestingly, after a slew of price-cuts (and perhaps that Playstation 3 patch), Bayonetta has re-entered the charts in number 10 (up from 36). Elsewhere, Fifa 10 and Modern Warfare 2 are still strong...
News Nippon Ichi To Focus On Playstation 3, New Disgaea Incoming
Japanese publisher Nippon Ichi may have lost $3
3million last year, but they're set to turn that around with a focus on the Playstation 3, and the prioritisation of internal projects. Disgaea is clearly the company's biggest franchise, and so they aim to build on that by releasing a new version of the game for Playstation 3. It's part of a new...
News Sony: Playstation 3 Stock To Be Tight Over The Next Few Months
Sony's warned that Playstation 3 stock will be tight over the coming months
SCEA's director of communications, Patrick Seybold explained the company are working hard to ensure stock is available for everyone. "We're working very hard with our retail partners to meet consumer interest, but the demand is tremendously high for the PS3 and we...
News PSP Continues To Top The Japanese Hardware Charts
The Playstation Portable once again topped the Japanese hardware charts this month
The handheld shifted over 43k units in Japan this week, beating out its nearest rival, the Wii, by 7k. The PS3 managed 25,450, while the PSPgo lost out to the Playstation 2 at the bottom of the charts. Full figures after the jump. PSP 43,163 Wii 36,149 DSi LL...
News SCEA Exec Jack Tretton Hails A Great Year For Playstation
SCEA's head Jack Tretton has written a buoying rally on the US Playstation Blog, declaring '09 a great year for Playstation, thanking fans especially for all their support
The post came hours after the NPD report, which saw solid figures for Playstation 3, but the XBOX 360 and Wii still some way in front. Despite that, Tretton was quick to point out...
News Sony Fare Well In January NPDs, Lose Out To Microsoft & Nintendo
Despite a decent month for January in the US, Sony's PS3 lost out to both the XBOX 360 and Nintendo Wii for the month of January, according to the NPDs
Sony shifted 276.9k units during the month, a respectable number, but they were some way off Microsoft's 332.8k tally. Regardless, both Sony and Microsoft fell to the might power of Nintendo once...
News Activision Confirm New Call Of Duty, Guitar Hero & Tony Hawk By Year End
Activision's confirmed during a consumer call tonight that there will be new iterations Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk and Spiderman by the time 2010 is done and finished
The Call Of Duty title in development is believed to be set in Vietnam, and is being developed by Activision's secondary CoD team Treyarch. Robomodo confirmed they are...
News Playstation 3 One Of Ubisoft's Biggest Earners
Ubisoft has released a breakdown of their Fiscal Year Q3 sales, showing Playstation 3 titles accounting for 30% of revenue earned for the three month period
Europe accounted for 49% of Ubisoft's sales, with the US just behind at 46%. For the nine months starting from April 1 2009, and ending December 31st 2009, the Playstation 3 accounted for 26% of...
News All Of EA's Games In 2011 Will Feature Online Integration In Some Form
EA announced at their financial call last night that all of the company's titles released in fiscal 2011 will feature either online multiplayer or downloadable content
Every one. Considering Dante's Inferno will let you pay for some extra "souls" (which you totally earn from killing enemies in the game anyway), we're not surprised EA are...
News Pach-Attack: Playstation 3 Hardware Sales Up Massively In January
Everyone's favourite video games analyst Michael Pachter has come away from the glitz of his GameTrailers TV spot to talk hardware sales, and most importantly the Playstation 3's performance this January
Pachter reckons it's looking pretty good. In his pre-NPD report, the analyst cited that he reckons the PS3 will be up 62 percent over January 2009,...
News Playstation 3 Is Clawing Back Global Market Share
Increased sales, a fairer attitude, an entirely new marketing campaign - there's no doubt that the Playstation 3 is making somewhat of a comeback
It's a thought emphasised in a report by Research & Markets, which suggests the system is gathering steam worldwide. According to the report, "The PS3 is dominant in Japan and Korea and as of...
News Guess What? Square Enix Made Money Last Year.
Japanese developers might be ruined right now, but if you're Square Enix, you're doing just fine
Particularly when you've just launched games with Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest in the title. Which Square Enix has just done. Then there was the acquisition of Eidos who published last year's sleeper hit, Batman: Arkham Asylum. Aimed at mid-and...
News MAG Stays In The UK Charts' Top Ten, Dante's Inferno Enters At Number Four
Very little change this week in the UK's all-formats chart, with Mass Effect 2 still holding the top-spot
Visceral Games' reimagining of Dante's Inferno entered fairly strongly at number four this week, knocking Sony's MAG to a respectable seventh. By the way, why did Ubisoft moan about Avatar's sales? It's been in the top ten for months now...
News Wall Street Journal: PS3 Losses Cut To $18 Per System
According to an article on the Wall Street Journal, Sony has cut the losses of each PS3 system sold to just $18
They might still be losing money, but Sony's turned the costs of their system around in record time. It's actually fascinating. Last December the company were estimated to be losing $37 per system, so it's only a matter of time before they...
News Global PS3 Sales Hit 33.5 Million, Close The Gap On XBOX 360
Sony's reported that they are just 5
5 million systems behind the XBOX 360 now, with a strong showing for the Playstation 3 this Christmas driving the system up to 33.5 million global sales. Sony also reiterated that they will hit their 13 million systems sold target during the fiscal year, with 10.8 million systems sold for the nine months ending...
News Sony "Confident" PS3 Will Beat XBOX 360 In Life-Cycle
SCEA's Peter Dille has claimed confidence that the Playstation 3 will overtake the XBOX 360 in unit-sales over the next 10 years
I dont think [360 will] be around in 10 years so Im very confident well pass them within that time frame, said the exec, speaking to IGN. I mean, weve got 31 million [units sold] worldwide right now ...
News Namco Gets Hit Hard, Sheds Profits & Staff
Namco's recorded a whopping $129million loss for the nine months ending December 31st, compared to a profit of $99
4million in the same period the year previous. That's a lot of money, yo. As a result the company has announced they are to cut the employment of roughly 10% of their workforce. That's gutting news for about 630 people.Since the...
News Playstation 3 To See Greatest Year Over Year Growth In January
Hardly a surprising revelation, but one analyst believes that Playstation 3 will see the greatest YoY growth in next week's January NPD report
Arvind Bhatia of Sterne Agee reckons that the PS3 will keep its momentum throughout January and "will have the best year-over-year growth in January among all consoles." This is on the back of the...
News Sony: iPad Great For Playstation Portable Sales
In a quote that could be misconstrued as a little arrogant, Sony's director of hardware marketing John Koller has told the Wall Street Journal that devices like the iPad are great for sales of the PSP
The iPad was announced by Apple this week, and is essentially an inflated iPod Touch, capable of supporting the numerous millions of Apps on the...
News Shock Horror: Sony Actually Make Some Money, Expected To Report Profit
According to a report from Nikkei (through the lovely folks at Reuters), Sony are expected to announce a profit of ¥100 billion ($1
1 billion) for the period of October through December 2009. It'll basically be the first profit Sony has posted in what seems like an age. The profit's believed to come from improved Playstation 3 sales (the Slim model...
News Modern Warfare 2 Held Off The UK Charts Top Spot By Just Dance For A Second Week
Can anyone think of any other songs aside from those by Lady GaGa that use the lyric "just dance" as a central theme? We're racking our brains here in the PushSquare office but nothing's coming
Answers on a postcard merci beaucoup. Yep, if the overly obvious post-title didn't give it away, we can confirm that Wii-title Just Dance has beaten Modern...
News SCEE: 3 Million Playstation 3s Sold In The UK
It's milestone time for SCEE, as they've just confirmed that 3 million Playstation 3s have been sold in the UK to date
There's really not much else to say. As Brits ourselves, Sony's efforts have very much been brushed under the carpet by the mainstream here; but still outstanding marketing, pricing and, just sheer brilliant exclusive games have...
News Playstation Revenue Down $1.3 Billion Last Year
Gamasutra's reporting that despite a Playstation 3 resurgence in recent months, the Playstation family as a whole dropped $1
3billion due to a contracting Playstation 2 market. Playstation family revenue was $6.4billion in 2008, but Gamasutra reckon that number dropped as low as $5.1billion last year. Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter reckons...
News Just Dance, Gonna Be Ok, Da Da Doo-Doo-Mmmm, Just Dance, Spin That Record Babe...
Come on guys
Dance. After nine weeks, Modern Warfare 2 has finally been knocked off the top of the British sales charts which means — we get to say something interesting in this post for once. Like quoting Lady GaGa lyrics. That's right folks, of all the games to topple Infinity Ward's shooter, the Wii's Just Dance has done the impossible. On red...
News Playstation Portable Leads The Japanese Weekly Hardware Sales Charts
We guess a Kingdom Hearts game just come out
Hence the Playstation Portable saying: hello Japanese hardware charts leadership. The handheld shifted 145k units, with the PS3 two places behind at 61k. Full figures after the jump. PSP 145,682 Wii 76,722 PS3 61,591 DSi 50,178 DSi LL 45,221 DS Lite 10,067 Xbox 360 5,461 PS2 ...
News Sony: 2009 "Was A Great Year" For Playstation 3, We Agree
Y'know, aside from all those top games Sony put out in 2009, the biggest success story of the Playstation 3 has been re-entering the race
This year we saw Sony outsell the Wii for stretched periods in Japan, and we even saw Playstation 3 overtake XBOX 360 on Microsoft's home-turf a couple of times. The potential has always been there, but the...
News December NPD Hardware Reports Put Playstation 3 Above 360, Just
Sony can claim a very minor victory over their closest rival the XBOX 360 today, after the December NPD reports revealed that the Playstation 3 came in just ahead of Microsoft's XBOX 360 for the month
With 1.36million Playstation 3 hardware units sold for through the month of December (and in the US alone), Sony's marketing department can officially...
News SCEA Claim December '09 The Best For PS3 Since Launch
Playstation 3 has really come into its own in the past 8 months, thanks to a fantastic rebranding campaign from SCE worldwide
As such, the various subsidiaries of Sony Computer Entertainment have been posting huge growth around the world. And that's no different in America, where SCEA has claimed a 90 per cent increase in hardware sales, and 60 per...
News Playstation 3 To Bounce Back Strongly In 2010 Predict Industy Professionals
Industry boffins reckon that the Playstation 3 will have more success in 2010 than rival consoles the XBOX 360 and Nintendo Wii
It sounds like a bold claim, but a poll conducted by industry professionals on GamesIndustry.biz saw 34 per cent of boffins backing Sony's powerhouse, citing major releases such as Gran Turismo 5, Heavy Rain, God Of War...
