Sentences with phrase «console games increased»

Net revenue from console games increased to 85.8 % of our total net revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2015, as compared to 83.4 % for the same period in the prior year, as this year's results benefited from a higher percentage of net revenues generated from the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online.

Net revenue from console games increased to 84.8 % of our total net revenue for the nine months ended December 31, 2015 as compared to 79.3 % for the same period in the prior year, as this year's results benefited from the recognition of previously - deferred revenue from the console versions of Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online.

Not exact matches

Such services will largely allow people to get rid of their home consoles and eliminate the need to go to the store to buy games on discs, all of which is good given the increasing complexity of such hardware.

Although, in many cases, game companies will initially sell the consoles at a loss to increase hardware adoption.

That means Sony can enjoy the higher profits that come with game and accessory sales while continuing to sell new consoles, thus increasing its userbase (which increases its number of potential game buyers, etc.).

Says Piers Harding - Rolls, head of games at U.K. - based IHS Screen Digest, in an e-mail, «I expect to see increasing downloads over this generation and on to the next generation of devices as it is in the interest of console manufacturers to act as a retailer.»

There are potential areas of growth, including increasing the tie ratio between games and consoles, which will improve as platform libraries (games) grow, and accessory sales, which will depend on a myriad of factors, including the continued push towards new market opportunities (e.g., toy - based games).

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IHS is also optimistic about the PS4's overall profitability saying that «lower research and development costs for PlayStation 4 hardware, additional revenue streams from online service subscriptions and a more aggressive transition to higher margin digital content sales are combining to strengthen Sony's games business outlook even in the face of increased competition from cheap Android consoles and alternative devices eating into consumers» gaming time, including smartphones and tablets.»

Not too surprising, as buying both the game and the console is pretty expensive, but we did expect a small increase in sales.

There are myriad reasons people like to throw around for that dark time: Microsoft focusing on the Xbox and paying less attention to the PC, Windows XP breaking compatibility with a bunch of older games from the «90s, fewer companies in the CPU / GPU markets, the increasing popularity of PC - centric genres (like shooters) on consoles, the fact that consoles actually provided the PC with some reasonable competition in terms of graphics, the rise of DRM, Steam looking like garbage in its infancy.

While hardware sales are down, games sold for the console increased from nearly 218 million to about 247 million this fiscal year.

With the next generation consoles released games have understandably increased in their pricing.

Square Enix said the launch of Final Fantasy 15 and the PlayStation 4 version of Rise of the Tomb Raider as well as strong download sales of catalogue titles had sparked the increase in net sales and operating income in the area of console games.

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There are many reasons for Nintendo to start playing in the mobile game marketplace, not the least of which is to increase interest in the game franchises that may bring consumers to their console products.

It's where game developers and console makers reveal new products, show real time game play and basically hawk their wares in an attempt to increase sales for the upcoming year.

Widespread ownership of easy - to - grab items like laptops, cell phones and video game consoles has contributed to the 24 % increase for dollar amount of items stolen per house since 2002, says Aviva Canada Inc., an insurance firm.

If console sales continue to surpass forecasts, and the installed base increases, it is positive for video game manufacturers and the stocks.

Higher than expected console sales, increases the user base, and should drive strong sales at the game manufactures.

The high number of parent involvement in playing games with their children is believed to be the increased popularity of Family Game Nights (i.e XBL) and fam - friendly consoles such as the Wii.

To make PSNow viable they will have to make it into Gamers Pass type service (local downloads for console supported games) or possibly pray there is a worldwide increase in internet capability so they can actually have games streamed as they were developed (not 720p, 30 fps, downgraded fidelty) or bring back the support for weaker non-dedicated console hardware where the lesser experience is not as a big of a deal.

Choosing to stay behind the technology curve increases costs for developers porting games to the systems and often isn't worth the lower than average sales of their games on a Nintendo console.

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The sales of the SNES is lower because of the increased competition from other video game manufacturers trying to latch onto Nintendo's coattails which dovetailed into the N64 sales which are lower because of the prohibitive cost of the console, games and the 3rd parties abandoning ship.

Finally, we talk about Xbox's increased console sales and we list our top five PlayStation 4 games that we've played so far.

Nintendo stands to lose more than they gain by doing that, because they'd lose sales of hardware, (which by default is a substantial chunk of change, due to each console sold being worth at least 6 $ 50 games) for a miniscule increase in software, from people who's interest in games like Breath of the Wild would immediately die once the next Witcher hits their console.

In addition, however, the game console may couple to a supplemental computing device that includes resources that the game console may also utilize to increase the speed or quality of a user's gaming experience.

In an interview with Reuters today, Jeff Bell, head of global marketing for Microsoft's games division, reveals that due to increasing European dominance and unrelenting global Wii shortages, the Xbox 360 may see even more console sales in 2008 than in 2007.

- Nintendo is selling three physical Switch games for every console sold in the UK and Spain - this matches the performance of Wii - Nintendo says the Switch's global tie - ratio is 3.6 - 78 % of Nintendo Switch games are sold in boxes, by comparison only 47 % of PS4 games are sold physically - the only blips in Switch sales have occurred during moments of stock shortages - there was a significant spike in hardware sales around the launch of Super Mario Odyssey - across Spain and the UK, 469,000 Switch consoles have been sold for the first 36 weeks of its life - this is about 49 % of what the Wii managed to do over the same period (which launched over Christmas)- this is 300 % of what the Wii U managed to achieve - Switch may grow significantly again if Nintendo continues its trend of updating the hardware with new iterations - there is currently enough stock to satisfy demand at the moment - if demand increases for the holiday season, GAME says «we don't have a warehouse full of stock ready to go.»

Our industry leading position enabled us to provide customers with the best selection of consoles and games for the best price, in turn increasing our market share for the quarter.

«The development challenges for home console games selling for around $ 50 - $ 60 have increased significantly.

Remastered games re-use assets from the older games, but are ported to the new console so benefit from the increased power.

«Mobile gaming is on a steep incline, and we'll continue to see aggressive global expansion of games, increased penetration and usage, faster phones and tablets, and better graphics in games that will entice even PC and console gamers.»

REDMOND, Wash. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- On Aug. 5, a free software update in the Splatoon game for the Wii U console brings a large amount of new content to the game, including two new matchmaking modes, new weapon types, an increase to the game's level cap and more than 40 pieces of new gear.

The increasing complexity of games and the rising development costs were offset by the advantage of not having to run a game past a platform holder like Sony, Sega or Nintendo and pay them a license fee for putting a game out on their consoles.

This would mean that gamers hoping for an increased supply for the hybrid console to grab one as a gift for themselves or others will definitely need a Plan B.

With Nintendo making games and applications for their consoles, their audience would probably increase tenfold.

Beyond add - ons, we'll continue to offer free updates to the game, including new features like the recent weapon debris for PC, and increased draw distances for consoles, as well as more optimizations to gameplay and quests.

They better really increase the PS4 games to make up for the loss of two consoles at the same time!

Unless they have a good reason to have their games stay exclusive to just one console, they can port as they please to increase sales.

Since then, however, players have been critical of the game's direction, particularly given an increasing lack of parity between the original PC release and more recent console versions of the game.

Setup is simple and fast, so you're ready to game in no time, with increased frame rates and better resolution than todays» next gen consoles.

With every day we passing we see the list of games coming out for the hybrid console increasing.

Altought it is risky, if you are able to sell more Vita units then the number of games bought by the costomers will also increase, you should really consider making people buy PS - Vita because you can see nintendo is really doing stuff with the 3DS (Pokemon, 2DS, etc.) So you should try to make the console a better deal itself, simultaneously increaseing the library, drastically increasing the number of games while retaining the quality for games like pixel junk games, etc. and each retailing for $ 5 - $ 10 would be excellent.

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The fans are what make the games and consoles successful, and by appealing more to them and what they'd like to see, not just what is proven to sell, the respect and credibility of Xbox and Microsoft is sure to only increase.

It could be that the developers are aiming for a staggered console release to increase the sales tail of a game.

Jap developers will prefer Nintendo handheld, look at Dragon Quest sales on the 3ds, and the original DS... look at monster hunter sales on the 3ds... every game you seen for the 3ds will now have newer versions with newer hd graphics so now when jap developers make a ps4 game they do not have to think about how they will downgrade it to fit on the NX... with the NX being more powerful than the Vita, and Wii U.... if it use the Tegra 2 chip it will be right next to ps4 1.8 teraflops or higher, but most likely if they use that, Nintendo might underclock it to increase battery power, but lets say they lock it to ps4 1.8 teraflops... every game for ps4 will be on the NX... and this is where the fear comes from... the 3ds have many exclusives, only thing that hold it back was graphics, now that wont be the issue in the NX... look how they announce Dragon quest 11 for NX already... Square Enix is thinking about money... and which console sold most of their games... the 3ds... so do not be surprised every big game from Square Enix and other Japanese developers come to the NX... and if they are anything like CAPCOM they will rather save money and make their game for one console aka the NX like they do with Monster Hunter... me personally I can not wait to see all my favorite games on the 3ds in better graphics... i am a RPG lover and the 3ds have some classics that I love... only thing Nintendo have to worry about is how Western and European side of the world will feel about the new handheld... Japan will love it, handheld sell the most, so it wont take long for NX to pass ps4 sales... but if they can get the attention of western and european... then Sony have reasons to worry and their fans

I'll say this, If Sega would've tried doing that on the Genesis by implementing hardware or game cart upgrades that increased the console's capabilities to match those of Nintendo's SNES» (almost like how it was with NES, but, I doubt they did, since they didn't think about that through the console's lifespan), it would have greatly wowed Classic Sonic fans.