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UK Charts: Crackdown Will Not Let Go of the First Position

The ELSPA has released the latest all-formats video game sales chart data for the United Kingdom. No big changes to the chart this week, as Crackdown 2 retains its lead, landing yet again at number one, despite the cold critical reception. Ubisoft's Dance on Broadway climbed two places to number two, right ...

19 July 2010
11:01 GMT

Nintendo Brings Dragon Quest IX to the West

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies has been out in The Land of the Rising Sun since July 11, 2009 and it has been a great success, selling more than 4 million copies until the beginning of 2010. And now, Nintendo has announced that it will be taking over publishing duties for the North American release of...

25 February 2010
14:31 GMT

Square Enix Reports Impressive Profits

Square Enix's plans of world domination seem to be going just fine, and the somewhat recently purchased British publisher, Eidos, is pulling its weight. The big Japanese publisher has just announced its financial report for the year, and has revealed that the company has a 68-percent increase in operating income...

9 February 2010
05:26 GMT

Japanese Market Shrinks, Dragon Quest IX Is the Best Seller

Figures offered by the Dengeki magazine in Japan and by its publishing company, ASCII Media Works, are showing that the videogame market for the Land of the Rising Sun shrank pretty dramatically last year while also showing Dragon Quest IX, the Japanese role playing game published by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS, ...

4 January 2010
04:09 GMT

Japanese Videogame Market Continues to Shrink

It seems that the Japanese domestic videogame market is continuing to shrink, according to the data offered by a report from Enterbrain, the company that publishes the quintessential games magazine Famitsu. Overall, the shrinkage is of about 10.5%, with hardware dropping more precipitously than software. The data cov...

5 October 2009
03:16 GMT

Nintendo DSi Beats the PlayStation 3

Last week, the PlayStation 3 Slim, with its newly reduced price point, managed to top the charts and move more units than the initial launch of the Sony home console. This week is more normal, with the Nintendo DSi handheld getting back to the first spot in the hardware chart. Still, Sony must be pleased to see that ...

21 September 2009
04:48 GMT

PS3 Sales Slum in Japan, Slim Eagerly Awaited

The Japanese hardware chart is showing a steep fall in sales of the PlayStation 3 in the territory, as players who are interested in one of Sony's gaming consoles are holding off so that they can pick up the new PlayStation 3 Slim when it comes out at the beginning of September.The main reasons behind the waitin...

31 August 2009
04:56 GMT

Dragon Quest IX and the DSi Dominate Japan

It seems that the fate of the Square Enix role playing title Dragon Quest IX and that of the Nintendo-made DSi handheld is linked, at least for the time being. Sales of the device have surged by about 17,000, as the RPG again topped the hardware chart in Japan.The Nintendo DSi sold 87,936 units in the week that ...

24 August 2009
05:14 GMT

Square Enix Announces Losses on the Back of Eidos Acquisition

Square Enix has announced that, for the financial quarter that went from April to June, it has seen revenue go down by about 1.2% over last year, reaching the equivalent of 303 million dollars, while the company has registered a loss of 17.22 million dollars, which is pretty bad compared with the 29.68 million profit...

12 August 2009
04:48 GMT

Monster Hunter 3 Breaks Half a Million in Japan

Another week brings on another set of charts for videogames and hardware sales from the Japanese market. And after three weeks at the top, Dragon Quest IX, the newest role playing game from Square Enix, has been dethroned by a new release, Monster Hunter 3 from Capcom. As a side effect, the success of the fresh title...

10 August 2009
04:42 GMT

Dragon Quest IX and the DSi Still Dominating Japan

Dragon Quest IX and the Nintendo DSi handheld are becoming fast friends on the Japanese market, the link between the two pretty much driving the whole videogame market in the country. Since the Square Enix-made JRPG came out on July 11, the Nintendo-made handheld console has leaped to sales levels more in line with t...

3 August 2009
13:01 GMT

Sports More Important than Wizardry

Wii Sports Resort is ready to take the world by storm. After dominating the Japanese charts for a few weeks before being unseated by the extremely successful launch of Dragon Quest IX from Square Enix, the Nintendo-made sport-oriented game is now taking the first place in the United Kingdom sales chart.Let's see...

30 July 2009
04:30 GMT

Dragon Quest IX Rules Japan

It's truly amazing to see the impact that one successful videogame release can have on the industry as a whole. The Japanese videogaming market has been pretty much stagnated this year, with sales below 2008 levels in both the hardware and the software categories. The summer release of the Square Enix developed ...

27 July 2009
13:01 GMT

Dragon Quest IX Looks Like a Big Hit

Dragon Quest IX was released in Japan this Saturday and the game looks set to be one of the biggest hits ever put out by publisher Square Enix. Initial reports show long queues where the game went on sales while more than 2 million gamers will be coming up to pick up their pre-ordered copies.Dragon Quest IX with the ...

14 July 2009
02:27 GMT

Final Fantasy XIII Definitely Coming in Winter 2009

As previously reported, Final Fantasy XIII, the next great role playing game from developer Square Enix, is set to get a demo version out when the Advent Children Blu-ray is released in Japan - tomorrow, April 16. And it seems that the demo itself is confirming that the videogame will be released in “winter 200...

15 April 2009
06:23 GMT

Square Enix Sees PS3 and Xbox 360 as 'Too Complex'

Last December, Square Enix made a rather odd statement regarding its Dragon Quest role-playing game series, saying that Dragon Quest IX: Guard of the Starry Night (that title is still being worked on), would be coming exclusively to the DS. Its predecessors (quite the bomb in Japan) were original PlayStation one and ...

13 June 2007
07:06 GMT


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