EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: sales
Nintendo scored big with the 3DS this holiday season, selling approximately 2.35 million systems in the US during the last two months of 2011.
Of course, this was largely due to the might of Mario, with both Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 providing a great incentive for consumers to purchase a 3DS and experience these two critical darlings during the holidays.
The 3DS has now sold 4 million units in North America, and another 4.1 million in Japan where recent weekly sales figures have approached 500 000 on more than one occasion.
Earlier in the week developer Frozenbyte announced the official release dates for the fantasy-based action platform game, Trine 2.
Want to guess how many times Angry Birds has been downloaded?
500 million times
Let that number sink in for a while.
Runic Games, the folks who worked on Diablo and Hellgate: London, have announced that Torchlight, their popular dungeon-crawling RPG, has sold over one million units across all platforms.
Flashback to September last year…that was when developer RedLynx announced that Trials HD had passed the one million sales mark in just over a year.
Today we learn that the popular Xbox LIVE Arcade title has reached the two million sales mark. This includes sales across the base game and both DLCs.
Amazon has announced that the Nintendo 3DS has become the most pre-ordered console of all time on Amazon.co.uk.
The 3DS overtakes the PS3 which previously held the record when it launched in March 2007. There’s still another week to go before launch day on the 25th of March but the 3DS already has 20% more pre-orders than the PS3 had achieved by launch date.
THQ’s military-themed shooter Homefront arrived on shelves across North America two days ago, on the 15th of March. Since then the publisher has announced “robust” first day sales for the title and undertaken to add dedicated server capacity to meet the strong multiplayer demand.
Konami has announced that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow has shipped one million units in the United States and Europe since its release in early October.
“Castlevania has truly reinvented itself with its move to next gen platforms and we’re extremely pleased at the positive response we’ve seen toward Castlevania: Lords of Shadow globally, mainly due to the dedicated fans who have supported the series for so long,” said Shinji Hirano, President of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
EA has announced that Medal of Honor has set a new franchise record by scoring the highest number of pre-orders in the franchise’s 11 year history.
According to the publisher “this milestone positions Medal of Honor alongside EA’s top pre-selling action games,” and they’re confident these numbers will grow even higher in the final week remaining before the game hits shelves. No pre-order sales figures were actually released so we’ll have to wait until the first retail reports from Chart Track and the NPD Group surface.
Capcom has announced that its cutesy Monster Hunter spin-off title, Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Ailu Village, has shipped over 500 000 copies in Japan.
According to the publisher, Monster Hunter Diary, known as MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Airu Mura in Japan, has been a “huge success for Capcom in Japan” and “research has shown that roughly 50% of the player base for the game is female” which is an “unprecedented high percentage for a Capcom game.”
Developer RedLynx has revealed that its popular Xbox Live Arcade title, Trials HD, has just passed the one million sales mark. Pretty impressive given that it’s only been a little over a year since the game was released.
This sales mark doesn’t include sales of the first expansion pack, Trials HD - Big Pack, but only sales of the game through Xbox Live Arcade. The second expansion pack for the game, Trials HD – Big Thrills, will deliver 40 new tracks including 10 tracks created by fans who recently competed in the Track Creator Challenge. It is scheduled to be released in the fourth quarter of this year.
Sony of Europe held its press conference at the E-werk in Cologne, Germany earlier this evening. The evening was marked by exciting demos, all important exclusive hands-on time and even a few reveals thrown in for good measure.
For those who enjoy reading about the industry numbers Sony disclosed a few interesting figures, which you can ponder over below.
Sony has announced that over one million PlayStation minis have now been downloaded worldwide. Quite a significant milestone considering that these are the publisher’s smallest downloadable games and that the minis line only launched nine months ago in October 2009.
The PlayStation minis were meant to offer gamers a “quick-to-download, bite-sized experience perfect for on-the-go PlayStation Portable gaming.” And now there are more than 85 titles on the PlayStation Store, most of which are now playable on both the PS3 and the PSP.
During a somewhat quiet month for videogame releases, the NPD Group has announced videogame software and hardware sales figures in the US for the month of April, revealing an incredible 26 percent drop in overall revenues for the region compared to the same period last year.
Good news for Ubisoft was hidden in the bleak April report, as the publisher’s Splinter Cell: Conviction topped the software sales chart for the month, ahead of evergreen Nintendo titles and the blockbuster God of War III.
As usual Nintendo was quick to respond to the NPD data revealed a little while ago. The publisher noted that the Nintendo DS and Wii were back in the top two spots in March, while the DS (including the new DSi XL) set a new record for portable system sales in the month of March.
The Nintendo DS sold over 700 000 units while the Wii chalked up sales of nearly 560 000 in March. Nintendo pointed out that post-holiday inventory has begun to improve and that Nintendo systems accounted for 59% of all videogame hardware sold in March.
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