Sentences with phrase «says console sales»

Not exact matches

Williams says he believes the shortfall in sales numbers is largely due to the ongoing transition from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 to newer consoles.

While Nintendo hasn't shared exact sales figures, the company did say this week that Switch sales in its first two days were better than those for any other Nintendo console's first two days of availability.

Switch console sales will likely hit 15 million units in the year to March and climb to 20 million next year, Nintendo said, fueling hopes of a repeat of the success of the first Wii that debuted in late 2006 and sold more than 100 million units.

«The poor performance of the Wii U has dented its standing, but Nintendo has come back from similar poor sales in the TV console business before,» he says.

Sony Corp. said on Wednesday sales of its PlayStation 4 video game console had exceeded 50 million units as of Dec. 6 helped by strong demand during the year - end holiday season.

TOKYO (Reuters)- Sony Corp said on Wednesday sales of its PlayStation 4 video game console had exceeded 50 million units as of Dec 6 helped by strong demand during the year - end holiday season.

«Games business was revised up because PS4 sales are still strong and Xbox One X, with its high price, is seen less of a threat,» Dai said, referring to Microsoft Corp.'s recently unveiled new console.

New gaming console introductions will generate sales at low profitability, it said.

It's still too early to say or comment on the lifetime sales figure of Nintendo Switch, but the fact that we can't ignore is that since it's release in March 2017, Nintendo Switch has been the best selling consoles for multiple times in the US (according to the NPD), the most recent month being October 2017.

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 game is almost out, with the console version going on sale around the world on Friday, January 26,» said Monster Hunter: World producer Ryozo Tsujimoto.

people have said N are waiting until 720 & PS4 to go all out with advertising, now this is well and good but it would better if they got as many people into Wii U now as later on many people will go for the Xbox / PS whereas if WIi U gets sales now, then they won't have need of another console for a while — Come on Nintendo, this is suicide, hurry up with an ad and make it a good one.

«Nintendo Switch is the fastest - selling home console in history, and Nintendo is not taking our foot off the gas in 2018,» said Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Ironically enough as haters and trolls say «Nintendo consoles are not for 3rd bleh party games bleh bleh bleh» «Third party games don't sell on Nintendo systems» «no wonder devs don't make games on Nintendo systems because they don't sell» «Nintendodrones only buy Nintendo games», «R.I.P. PEEU», «NINTENDO IS DOOMED» and more of that nonsense, yet a third party game becomes available and it more then doubles the system sales.

As for console sales, SuperData says Sony is «dominating with an install base of almost 55 million» (PlayStation 4 sales were at 53.4 million as of January 1, 2017), and Xbox One is at 26 million.

Last month, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata said that Nintendo was to blame for sluggish sales, highlighting the company's «relaxed» marketing efforts and the lack of «one single software» to sell the console's differences.

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.

If the game is still selling copies over 20k per week and keeping console sales above 10k until it releases in the west and Europe, then I'd say «a small win» for the platform — and the title.

Well this is a surprise... MS statement - «As the best - selling console in the U.S. in April, fans set record April sales and engagement for Xbox One last month,» Xbox marketing boss Mike Nichols said.

First, Williams talked about Nintendo's dominating hardware sales in relation to their console's software sales saying, «For all the success of the Wii, you're starting to see the trend emerging in Wii markets of software prices going lower and lower.»

That new blood borne shit is trash I say this because I watched all the demos can find and not one single video of gameplay I watched had the enemy getting body parts cut off that's not a game to sale a console just my opinion go see for yourselves

like I said the world is big and many people won't share your stupid fantard opinions, I own both of these console I've been a handheld gamer since 7 years old and one thing I know is that I LOVE ALL handhelds and I won't bash another because of its poor sales or support, rather I will support it more.

People within first party companies have even said they detest the whole «console wars» mentality since it turns gaming into a «game of judging who's better based solely on sales numbers.»

- Hideki Yasuda, an analyst at Ace Research Institute - Mr. Kimishima said he would remain at Nintendo as an adviser and assist the new CEO along with Shigeru Miyamoto - Mr. Kimishima said it was getting difficult for him to fly around due to his age - better - than - expected sales momentum of the Switch console made him decide it was time to pass the baton - Mr. Furukawa said he hoped to bring the Switch to a wider audience and pointed to Nintendo Labo - also said he wants to turn smartphone games into a revenue pillar for the company - Kimishima said stay tuned for many unannounced titles for the Switch

General uptick in sales from a new console release I'd expect, and likely, MS could win a month, or maybe two with it, but I wouldn't say it's because they suddenly have a huge influx of new users, rather a set of users who are buying in for a second time.

«We understand that Switch fans enjoy using their consoles in a variety of environments, so we've designed our products to ensure the best protection with minimal impact on its portability,» said Chris Arbogast, Nyko's Director of Sales and Marketing.

I already said that the Wii was an anomaly (for a long standing console maker), a once in a lifetime huge increase in sales from a previous console version.

And saying capcom isn't running themselves into the ground is like saying you don't need oxygen... a straight lie Capcom continues to release monster hunter on nintendo consoles despite lackluster sales in comparison to the psp versions, or making a ps4 / xbone version instead releasing it on wii u, where it just isn't the same.

Sales of a console usually determines how much support the said console will get further down the line.

- 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.»

The Playstation Vita has not had a very good run since launch, I myself would put this down to a lack of quality games and even the console just not being that worth it right now, or at least that is what I would have said since apparently there has been a major upsurge in Playstation Vita sales.

Tony Key, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Ubisoft, said that many Xbox 360 and PS3 owners told Ubisoft they wanted to play the new Rayman game on their current consoles.

«Contrary to past months, [year - on - year] hardware sales declines were seen across 8th generation consoles, 7th generation consoles, and portables,» NPD said.

«It's Ubisoft's objective to continue to meet the needs of consumers who have not yet made the move to the new console generation,» said Tony Key, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Ubisoft.

Edge Magazine thought that this was the standout title in 1989 and also said that it managed to outshine the original game in terms of sales milestone (the first game sold 40 million copies, but it was also packaged with each NES console).

NPD Group Account Mananger ANZ, Luis Gil, confirmed that 65,917 consoles were sold in the first three days, saying, «Xbox One now also hold the record for the highest console sales in launch week, more than doubling Nintendo Wii's previous record of 32,900 units.»

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 video game console and its portable cousin, the PSP, are selling faster than expected and are poised to meet full - year sales targets even if the current economic crisis hurts holiday demand, Sony said on Wednesday.

The U.S. rival last month said it would begin selling its Xbox One console through a Chinese partner from September in Shanghai's free trade zone, after the government lifted a ban on the sale of foreign consoles there.

He also went on to say that by driving the console's install base, software sales will increase as well

That said, console sales for Q2 were actually down 13 per cent year - on - year for Activision Blizzard, making up $ 568m of its total net revenue.

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

Also worth considering is that Microsoft say that almost every retailer has run out of stock, so the lack of further sales could simply be due to nobody being able to get their grubby mitts on the console.

@Zichu The DW and DBZ sales pass 1 million regularly on all platforms, that means the fan base is dedicated, and like I said they are just an example, one group of DW fans, another group of DBZ fans, another group of Souls fans, another group of indy fans another group of MMO fans... This is diversity, CoD is the biggest franchise in gaming but just about 15 % of console gamers buy it, what do you think the other 85 % buy?

Although a lot of people will say other whys because of console sales it my opinion it feels that way

But like I've been saying for the longest, it makes no sense for MS to go head to head with Sony in the console race, because they almost always on the losing side (the 360 lost in overall sales, but it was a win for MS and marketing share.

It doesn't at all say it's impossible just based on new console first year sales in history, unlikely.

In conversation with Samuel at Rezzed, chief creative director Tameem Antoniades said that while he and his team expected Hellblade's sales to excel on console — the overall split was closer than anticipated.

For those of you who want to compare Motorsport 7's sales to that of the upcoming GT Sport for PS4, I must say that GT Sport does have the chance to be the better - selling game, but only from a console perspective.

Shanghai Oriental Pearl have said that the price of consoles, lack of big software titles, censorship from the Government and long approval times have been the primary reasons for the lack of console sales in China.

That being said, I do expect Nintendo to achieve its target for software sales on Switch due to the high install base of the console and big titles like Dragon Quest XI coming out in Japan.