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Nintendo outsells competition nearly 2 to 1 last month

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Video game sales graph showed a southward ride by 23% in May. This has been revealed by latest data from . The bright spot of this report is the ongoing domination by , whose hardware and associated games outsold the competition by nearly 2 to 1.

The CNET’s Lance Whitney report says, “ blamed most of the decline on the lack of blockbuster games rather than the weak economy. The report noted that last year’s sales were boosted by the launch of popular software titles such as Grand Theft Auto IV. ’s Fit also was a hot commodity in 2008.”

Check the below top 10:

1. UFC 2009 Undisputed(THQ) - 679,600
2. Fit() - 352,800
3. EA Sports Active(EA) - 345,800
4. UFC 2009 Undisputed(THQ) - 334,400
5. Infamous() - 175,900
6. Pokemon Platinum() - 168,900
7. Mario Kart() - 158,300
8. Punch Out!!() - 156,900
9. X-Men Origins: Wolverine Uncaged(Activision) - 120,700
10. Play() - 109,800

Total software: 1,292,500
Total other vendor software: 1,310,600

even remained strong in the console business. The and sales were nearly doubling the competition.

· : 633,500
· : 289,500
· : 175,000
· : 131,000
· PlayStation 2: 117,000
· : 100,400

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Nintendo DS leads the industry while other suffers

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

has led the video game system sales of in the month of May. It has sold 633,500 units. This is in fact a hike of 40% compared to the same month in 2008. The sales were split 369,000 and 244,000 of and respectively.

The sales of console of were down by 57% over May 2008 to 289,500 units. But, the sales of course pushed the console past the 20 million mark in the after only 31 months on the market.

On the other hand the suffered the least of the home . It had only a 6% drop in sales over last year. It is a fact that this console is suffering and it shows just how much the video game industry is suffering.

The total industry sales has dropped below $1 billion for the first time since August 2007.

The ’s analyst says, “The video games industry continues to struggle with difficult comparisons to last year, and this is the first month that industry sales have dipped below $1 billion since August 2007. May is typically one of the lowest revenue-generating months in any given year for the industry in general.”

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An interview clip of Nintendo President

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Let check what the President of , Saturo , has to say. In an interview to CNBC, he admitted that the company had scrapped a new handheld which they had not just been working on, but also had even completed it.

Now it appears, according to , that this handheld was going in a different direction than the DSLite and . He said, “when we are launching new hardware, the most important thing is to sustain the momentum. If introducing new hardware won’t do anything to do that, well…”

Now it seems that as if they went with the as it kept with the and thus would maintain the popularity of the system. The sale of is of course impressive. One cannot help but only wonder as to what this other handheld was though. Let take the flashback. Way back, first launched claimed that they weren’t abandoning the GBA platform. The was simply another way to game. It seems now that this handheld fell more in line with the GBA or something, may be.

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DS, the fastest console sale in Australia

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The sale of is now the fastest console in the country. It has reached the 2 million unit mark there. It beats both its handheld competitors and also all three major .

includes , and . The figure of 2 million has been announced.

The results has been issued by independent market research company GfK Retail and Technology. The huge success of is now confirmed as the fastest selling console that has reached the impressive milestone.

The statistics of GfK proofs that the reached the milestone in only 221 weeks. It also gives evidence that for the last three years the has been number one selling console in .

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Japan hardware sales down

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Sales of every platform decline in the week ended on 17th in . The data has been given by tracking firm Media Create.

sold 34,152 in this week. Though it lead all other platforms for the second consecutive week, but weekly sales for the platform were down by 20,000 units from the previous week.
’s was the second with 28,683 units sold. It is down from 43,000 the week before.
The sales of received a strong boost over past weeks from few good releases like Yakuza 3 and Resident Evil 5 in . Not to forget the Blu-ray release of the movie Final Fantasy VII.
’s , ’s PS2 and Microsoft’s rounded out the depressed hardware charts.

The Chart (Week of May 11-17)

: 34,152
: 28,683
: 15,116
: 11,605
: 4,888
PS2: 4,020
: 3,233

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Nintendo rules three spots this month

Monday, May 25th, 2009

A more one month rolls by with good news for . It tops the console sales charts again this time. It is not a surprising fact. But yes, this month rules three spots instead of the usual two.
Apart from and , which has taken the spots first and second on the list, the (recently launched) makes it the trifecta on the sales chart.

This marks the 1st month in short memory that the was not a number one, as the outsold all with a staggering 827,000 units. It outpaced the at 340,000 and the at 215,000.
It also means that the platform sold over a million units for the month. It made up 31% of all hardware sales in April. It is not at all hard to believe when the sold 435,000 in the first week.

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Nintendo sales up

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

In the selling record was not so good for because the solidly outsold the and also the overtook the . But yes, the current situation for the has been reversed. The and is now becoming the best selling products in their categories.

The has been sold about 55,000 units in from 27 April to 10 May and it was even the best selling videogame console.

There the was the 2nd with a sale unit of more than 43,000 units moved to in the same period. The lead of is even bigger because the has also moved some 7,821 units in the same period.

Sad story for the and the . They are no longer head to head. The home console is up 24,397 units and the is only at 18,483. has suffered the shame.

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Over 20% Japanese people owns DS

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

We all know better that Japanese love . But… did we ever imagined that the total number of units sold in there is equivalent to 20.5% of ’s population? This has been reported by a website.

The chart of this report was released by recently and it shows that the percentage of a market’s population that owns a . The chart also explains succinctly just how bonkers the population of has been for the handheld. Over 20 per cent of the population owning a ? That’s really Crazy. It means that 1 out of 5 Japanese people. Make sure, it is not 1in 5 Japanese . It is 1 in 5 Japanese people.

The fact is that 20 per cent of the population probably do not own a . There, Japanese have probably purchased multiple systems like the original Phat, , , and of course, the and of the .

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Use protector to protect your Nintendo DS Lite

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

If you are a be a bit of butterfingers and clumsily bumping or bruising your poor against each and every entity or else surface then you can possibly make contact with, you are probably going to require a good defence or protecting system against the forces of evil and the inanimate objects.

Put inside your Hori into a . A that is a solid, clear plastic and clam-shell case. This hard shell will henceforth cover your precious console and protects it from nicks, scratches, bumps and bruises. This protective and hard case cover is extremely easy to slip onto the , as of course the fits into the plastic housing perfectly and ‘clips’ in to ensure it can’t slip out by itself and too easily.

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