Sentences with phrase «games sell consoles»

And to some degree you're right (the «do indie games sell consoles» is a debate for another day, mind) but a short walk to the Nintendo area you could find all the AAA bluster you could handle.

Yeah games sell consoles just not exclusives.

That would be a perfect console seller, and as statistics have shown, Mario games sell consoles even more so than Zelda games.

@guy Price and games sell consoles.

usually different games sell a console.

But Nintendo would have to sell a lot of iOS games at iOS game prices9 to make up for the console games it sells a console game prices.10

Not exact matches

And what sells game consoles?

The Nintendo Switch video game console bested its rivals, Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4, to be the top selling console in August, according to new sales estimates from the NPD Group.

The Nintendo Wii is the best selling video game console of all time.

The Wii U is the worst - selling home console Nintendo has ever made, and it's not because Nintendo didn't make great games for it.

The Switch is the fastest - selling game console of all time, thanks in no small part to its flexibility.

The iconic game company sold 906,000 Switch consoles in the U.S. in March, making it the fastest - selling Nintendo game system in history and one of the fastest - selling game consoles of all time.

To get a sense of how this is changing the industry's dynamics, consider that a recent Deutsche Bank study estimates that just 5 % of traditional console games released since 2001 have sold more than a million copies (they typically retail for about $ 60 each).

Activision, in a release Friday, noted that the game has already become the top - selling console game of 2014.

The console, which sells for $ 300, lets users play games from their television and while on the go, and is nearly impossible to find in stores.

The phenomenal numbers put Super Mario Odyssey on the path to becoming the best selling game for the Switch, Nintendo's latest gaming console; fans are buying it even faster than they bought The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a launch title that was heralded as one of the best games in the Zelda franchise's history.

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

Nintendo Co., which makes the Pokemon and Super Mario games, started selling the Wii U console last November.

Aside from the Switch's main gimmick — turning into a portable console — and Nintendo's first - party game lineup, there's no standout sell point for the Switch.

Layden bragged that Sony has sold over 40 million PlayStation 4 gaming consoles, which he said have enough power to run virtual reality video games.

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.).

What's different, however, is that the headset costs as much as a video game console as opposed to the older devices that could sell for $ 100,000.

As Jerry Brown, associate partner in PricewaterhouseCooper's consulting practice, recalls, «I saw a presentation given by one of the major studios where they pointed out that when they sold a [game] for a console they expected to collect $ 50 per consumer and that was it.

And as the recent, technically troubled launch of publisher / developer Blizzard's record - selling Diablo III for PC suggests, it isn't clear that the industry has the database and server muscle to handle multiple AAA games (such as Call of Duty) being sold digitally for the much larger console market.

That's surprising because new consoles tend to sell better a year after release, when there are more games for them.

The bright spot for the game maker continues to be its portable 3DS system, which was the top - selling console in the U.S in 2013 with more than 11.5 million units sold.

Publishers and console makers can also try to cut out pesky used - game retailers such as GameStop by going completely digital, but then those pesky retailers are likely to turn around and stop selling consoles.

But a neat gimmick isn't enough to sell a game console, and Nintendo knows it.

In its first 10 months on the market, it became the fastest - selling game console in U.S. history, and the company expects to sell 14 million units by its first anniversary.

For a console to sell, it needs games.

Microsoft noted that it sold roughly three times what the Xbox 360 did at launch and owners picked up an average of 2.1 games per console.

Despite this drop in average number of games being sold for each system, the sales results for the latest consoles remain very strong eight months after launch.

HONG KONG: A banner that reads «Mining Specialist» stands out from among all the stores selling X-Box games, comic books, action hero figurines and video game consoles.

Microsoft XBox 360 last year performance has been astounding and has become the best - selling game console of 2011.

«Natal will turn you the user into the controller,» Ballmer said while pointing out that his company has sold 39 million Xbox 360 game consoles worldwide since its launch in 2005.

One of the biggest selling points of the console resistance titles is the experience that you are part of a giant war encompassing much of the earth, but in this game you feel like your the only soldier in a tiny battle in NY.

We've compiled a variety of critically - acclaimed games released in recent months for Sony's hot - selling console.

The answer is simple, how are you going to sell a console to Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 owners if the majority of your games have already been released on the their system a year or more ago?

While many stores are reportedly sold out — forcing fans to shell out higher prices on the secondary market if they can not wait to get the new console — the original retail price of the basic unit (white, 8 GB memory) is $ 300, while a deluxe set (black, 32 GB, includes GamePad charging cradle and NintendoLand game) retails for $ 350.

Three years into the reboot of the R.B.I. Baseball series and it's still a completely uninspired mobile - quality game being sold for four times as much on consoles.

All three of those games were released for Nintendo's new Switch console — a massive hit that managed to out - sell its predecessor, the Wii U, in less than a year.

The best selling game overall was Tekken 7 since it debuted on more than one console.

The console may not be selling but the games are better than the ones on PS4 and Xbox One.

Indie developers have capitalized on Nintendo's hybrid console with games like Shovel Knight selling better on Switch than any other platform.

CFO Alain Martinez acknowledged that Rockstar's blockbuster to follow up to 2010's Red Dead Redemption, which was originally slated to hit consoles this fall, was going to make it much more difficult for the company to sell games like Assassin's Creed Origins this fall.

«Grand Theft Auto V is now sold in 95 million units worldwide, reflecting its status as the highest rating title of the current console generation and the must have game for purchasers of Play Station 4 and XBOX 1», CEO Strauss Zelnick told investors.

When companies are selling shallow browser games on consoles then a line has to drawn somewhere.

Porting Wii U games to the Switch has proven tremendously profitable for Nintendo so far, although the two titles ported are, admittedly, exceptional — Mario Kart 8 sold 8.13 million copies on the Wii U, selling to around two thirds of all console owners, but still did incredibly well on Switch.

I think LEGO games have sold consistently well on Nintendo consoles.

The Nintendo Switch sells 10 million units worldwide in 2017, but how does that compare to other big video game console releases?