Sentences with phrase «higher sales of the hardware»

It has pinned a return to profit this year on new game titles spurring higher sales of the hardware.

The Xbox 360 is the only console system showing a unit sales increase year - to - date, while the DS has the highest sales of all hardware platforms both for the month, and year - to - date.»

Not exact matches

«The higher percentage of sales in the hardware category resulted in better than expected comps, but lower gross margin dollars during the holiday selling period,» said GameStop's chief financial officer, Rob Lloyd.

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.»

The Japanese Wii U version of the game entered the Media Create sales charts as the highest - selling game in the country during its debut week, with 69,675 copies sold, and was credited for a sharp increase in Wii U hardware sales in the same period.

Generally considered to be among the higher - end mobile device hardware options (don't be fooled by the number of sales, which will appear small by comparison to the likes of Samsung or Huawei), the Nexus lineup is overdue for a refresh (and there may not be much time, if Google gets out of hardware it may be more difficult for the company to keep the reigns tight on the direction taken by Android as a platform).

Apple sells e-books to make its high - priced devices more attractive, making money on the sale of the hardware.

The spin that the lower margins was due to higher than expected sales from the hardware business does not account for all of the EPS cuts.

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. — Video Game Industry analyst firm DFC Intelligence has issued its latest forecast for the global video game market indicating that growth in the game industry is being driven by digital sales of games and high - end hardware.

- 670,955 copies sold within its first three days - biggest debut for a Switch title - highest selling Switch title to date - number includes physical game copies, download cards, and Splatoon 2 Switch hardware bundles - does not include digital sales - Splatoon for Wii U sold 156,610 units within its first four days of release, and achieved lifetime sales of 1,512,789 units - total Switch hardware sales in Japan at 1,205,087

With interest in the Switch and the Super NES Classic still sky - high, Nintendo hardware managed to account for two - thirds of the hardware sales generated.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild had 2.76 million Packaged Shipments + Digital Sales during the month, 20,000 units higher than the number of Nintendo Switch hardware units shipped.

«Fifa 16» (+10 %) also drops down a place despite a boost fuelled in part by high sales of the Xbox One Fifa 16 hardware bundle.

Sales of videogames hit an all - time high in the UK last year, with the combined revenue for video game software and hardware adding up to # 4.034 billion for 2008.

The forecast for the division is slightly down as Sony expects hardware sales to slow, however, the group expects income growth on the back of PlayStation Plus and digital game sales, which are both high margin products.

Going forward into Q2, the company expect software sales to continue to rise and the addition of the Xbox One X to the Xbox One family to create a higher mix of available hardware, leading to more returns.

«The launch of Splatoon 2 on the Nintendo Switch, and month 2 sales of Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy drove software gains, while new supply of Nintendo Switch and continued strength of PlayStation 4 pushed hardware higher,» said Piscatella.

January hardware dollar sales of $ 278 million is the highest level achieved since the $ 323 million sold in January 2011.

The higher sales gives Amazon even more of a lead in the smart speaker marketplace, ahead of Apple's hardware introduction.

The group disagreed on why the phone costs that much: Goode believes it has to do with Apple's flagging hardware sales, while Frommer says that's just reflective of the higher - end phone's costly features, like an OLED screen.

Some might criticise the company for not keeping enough stocks in hand (as we pointed out, the quick sales of the Mi 3 were a bit of a double - edged sword, leaving many disappointed at not getting a unit), others might accuse them of dumping an old device on Indian consumers and then arbitrarily stopping its sales, still others might criticise their «flash sale» method of selling devices, but the one thing that can not be denied is the fact that Xiaomi did pretty much throw a spanner in the works of established high - end Android players by offering excellent hardware at a staggeringly low price in the Mi 3.

With Android operating system and Lumia series as hardware, Nokia smartphones would gain higher sales even than current statistics of Samsung or Apple.

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High energy, profit - oriented enterprise hardware and software sales executive with over twenty years of top management experiences with systems software, computers, utilities software, ambulatory and hospital information systems.

Successful senior sales professional with 30 years of high tech software and hardware sales experience with proven communication and account management skills.

With accomplishment in sales of high end educational courses, training, strategic alliances, educational software and hardware sales.

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