Sentences with phrase «while console sales»

However, while console sales are down, the report shows that software purchases are up.

Not exact matches

While Nintendo hasn't released its sales figures, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils - Aime told The New York Times earlier this month that in its first two days of availability, the console registered higher sales than any previous Nintendo console.

Shares of GameStop are falling on weak holiday sales, while Nintendo shares are also down on its new «Switch» console pricing.

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.

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.).

While software sales were down, the release of several blockbuster consoles over the holidays — including the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 — resulted in a 99.8 percent increase in hardware sales during the period.

The lack of sales on the individual consoles could be attributed to the fact that Diablo 3 was released for console a while after the PC release.

While Fable Anniversary had a mixed reception on the Xbox 360, it was still a game that many people would love to play and so far most games that have been ported over to the PC from their console counter part with Alan Wake being the strongest advocate to prove this true, we can only hope that Steam sales of Fable Anniversary are enough to open MIcrosoft's eyes towards the presence of the PC gaming community and hopefully be encouraged to release first party studio titles such as Halo 5 to the PC along side the Xbox One.

And while the jump to Nintendo admittedly included two home console entries, the 3DS version's sales kicked them into a very real cocked helmet.

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

The Nintendo Wii U launched back in November 2012, and while it was able to sell a few million units during its launch, the console has long had trouble securing any noteworthy sales.

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.

With the home console market being revitalized, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and digital sales are expected to grow, while an expansion for mobile games is also predicted, especially in China.

Chances are because both Nintendo Land and ZombiU can be purchased bundled with the console: 60 per cent of all Wii U sales were of the Premium pack while 30 per cent went for the ZombiU bundle.

While there was a bit of a dip, PS4 console sales remained high, moving another 45,000 units.

While the PS4 is currently the front - runner regarding home console sales, that doesn't mean Sony hasn't had a couple of bad games released on their eighth generation system.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain ($ 26.79) and Ground Zeroes are on sale for both Xbox consoles, while 360 players can pick up Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker ($ 7.49), Metal Gear Solid HD Collection ($ 9.99), and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance ($ 9.99) at a 50 percent discount.

Despite the Switch's annual success, PlayStation 4 was the top - selling console for the month of February, while the 55 percent increase in hardware spending year - over-year can be attributed to the Switch and Xbox One, meaning PlayStation 4's February 2018 sales remained consistent with its February 2017 sales.

Microsoft and Sony lost money on every console sale for a while to cement market.

Because while most people focus on the purchase price, buying a Kindle is a lot like buying a game console: it's not very useful until you spend more money feeding it with content, and Amazon takes a cut of all content sales.

While many people won't have enough disposable income to afford such items, sales for these new consoles will still flood in initially.

While 2015 was a very successful year, the sales numbers of the eighth generation consoles (Xbox One and PS4) dropped in January 2016 by 8 % compared to January 2015.

That shows rather well in what demand the console is while MS makes price cuts in an attempt to increase sales and retailers making even further cuts to reduce the amount of stock they have sitting around.

At this point its console hype wave still hasn't totally disappeared, so it won't have any sales issues for a while yet.

(pure speculation base on current sales trends) The more gaming consoles you have out in the wild the more worth while it will be to create AAA titles.

Looking at how each of the consoles fared this year versus their sales last year, Nintendo (981,000) and Microsoft (777,000) both saw an increase while Sony (466,000) went down by 88,000 units.

Or maybe Square wanting to keep up a strong relationship with Sony by having that version exclusive to them for a while since having both the handheld and console versions on Nintendo systems release at the same time may put a dent in the PS4 version's sales (and system itself).

While I don't agree that Nintendo should go third party at all (that's actually borderline - insane and would be counter-productive), it is evident that there will be adjustments in response to the declining sales of their consoles.

While Wii enjoyed a hugely successful launch Nintendo DS also had a record - breaking week, with 515,000 units sold across Europe last week, which is not only the highest weeks sales since the console's launch but also the most any console across all formats has ever sold in a week!

While talking with Eurogamer Spencer was asked if first party games are needed to sell hardware, and of course pointed the Wii U suggesting that in the case first party driving sales the console should be selling more.

Anita Frazier from NPD Group: «While hardware sales realized the greatest percentage growth over 2006 due to the closely scrutinized console hardware transition, each category under the video games industry umbrella reached their own «personal bests» in terms of annual sales.»

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.

While official sales numbers have not been released, Nintendo did state via a press release that sales of the Wii U console increased 340 % from October.

This is on top of the fact that Americans continue to buy Nintendo home consoles more than their Japanese counterparts, while Japan has been buying more handhelds than any other region (a first for Nintendo since the Game Boy through the DS all had Japan trailing - the handheld market is shrinking worldwide, but in Japan it's not as bad as Western markets since the 3DS has already outsold the GBA there while in America it's still less than 50 % of GBA sales after almost 6 years).

While any of us might've predicted that the Xbox One wasn't going to be the Dreamcast of Microsoft's venture into consoles, it's nice to know that the company hasn't let sales numbers deter it from its commitment to the next generation of game hardware.

While Call of Duty has been the perennial champion (in terms of sales anyways) among console first - person shooter fans for the past decade, Battlefield has slowly carved out a bigger slice of the FPS sales pie since expanding from the relative comfort of its kingdom on PC.

As for the whole UHD Blu ray player issue, M$ is doing everything they can to compete with PS in sales, including having an expensive blu ray player in their console which results in a loss of $ per console sold, while PS has been in the black with Ps4 for 2 years now.

The fear, I guess, that smartphone gaming would take a substantial chunk out of the console market hasn't been wholly realized — although while PS4 and Switch sales are strong, you could look to the limited success of the Vita as showing how portable play time has been substantially altered by the rise of the App Store and its equivalents.

While Nintendo hasn't provided its own sales figures just yet, video game data and market research firm SuperData estimates that 1.5 million Switch consoles have been sold through to consumers so far, with a plan to hit 2 million by the end of the month.

Further, while the new console cycle has started strongly and demand for next - generation games was higher than expected, the retail demand for prior - generation games declined at a faster pace than the growth of retail sales for next - generation titles, resulting in the overall decline in sales in the retail distribution channels, down 7 % in North America & Europe YOY.

While the PS4 managed to dominate console sales, the Nintendo 3DS continues its amazing strides with both games and content.

As Wii U prepares to bow out to make way for Nintendo NX, we can take time to reflect on a console that, while it had never attracted any particular sales momentum, was able to build a software librar...

While analysts predicted that game console sales in general will fall in 2009, Hall argued «Nintendo's big advantages are disappearing» amid price reductions of the Xbox 360 and rumors of Sony unveiling a motion - sensing wireless controller.

360.000 Switch consoles are said to have been sold in Japan, while Europe shouldn't be too far behind in sales.

Sony are hoping to buck the trend of flagging VR sales with its new console, while Deus Ex proves there's life yet in the dystopian gaming genre

NPD: Behind the Numbers, February 2010 «In Gamasutra's latest analysis of U.S. console game retail trends, Matt Matthews examines why industry growth may finally kick in during March, while also examining music game sales and intriguing hardware trends for February 2010.»

While it is far to early to declare a winner in the «console war» between the PS4 and Xbox One, the most recent figures regarding Microsoft's competitor (gathered in July this year) put its global sales at around half that amount.

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Two million consoles were sold in this region alone in half a year, while in North America the system managed 800,000 sales in four months.

As an expansion of the partnership announced at E3, this collaboration will help Bluehole accelerate console development while maintaining quality across platforms and provide resources ranging from technical to sales and marketing.