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Analysts: Black Ops II Will Not Break Previous Call of Duty Records

With Call of Duty: Black Ops II now officially announced by publisher Activision Blizzard, analysts have estimated whether the game has the sales potential to match, in 2012, the records set by Modern Warfare 3 and the first Black Ops during previous years. Jesse Divnich, an analyst watching the video game industry ...

7 May 2012
07:08 GMT

Analysts: NPD Group Will Show Decline in Video Game Sales

The NPD Group is getting ready to deliver the sales figures for the United States market for the month of December 2011 and at least one market research firm believes that they will show overall sales remaining flat or even slowing down by as much as 5 percent.Analysts at Sterne Agee say that the biggest selling vide...

12 January 2012
08:31 GMT

Modern Warfare 3 vs. Battlefield 3 Rivalry Good for Both Games

A number of analysts have estimated that despite their claims of tough competition both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 have benefited from their close launch dates and the fact that players sought to compare the two games.Piers Harding-Rolls, who works for Screen Digest, told Eurogamer that the trad...

15 November 2011
12:51 GMT

Analyst: Halo Reach Will Not Outsell Call of Duty Black Ops

Analysts that are watching the evolution of the video game industry have questioned Microsoft's assertions that the upcoming Xbox 360 exclusive Halo: Reach from Bungie and Microsoft will manage to sell better than Call of Duty: Black Ops from Treyarch and Activision.Jesse Divnich, who is an analyst working with ...

20 September 2010
05:51 GMT

Analyst: Video Games Are in Persistent Secular Decline

The NPD Group figures for May were pretty grim, showing that the video game industry dropped about 5% when compared to the same period of 2009, with sales of consoles being the worst hit and Super Mario Galaxy 2 not managing to sell more than 1 million units in its launch month.Speaking to MCV Michael Pachter, who is...

9 July 2010
02:01 GMT

AT&T-iPhone Marriage Might End in June 2010

Wireless carrier AT&T is predicted to lose the exclusivity deal on the Apple iPhone in mid-2010, according to analyst Brian Marshall. This is not the first time the carrier has been forecast to lose the right to exclusively distribute the Apple iPhone device in the United States during the next year, and even AT&T i...

26 November 2009
17:21 GMT

Analysts Expect a Strong January for Videogames

That period of the month when the NPD Group releases the sales numbers for the United States market is getting close so it's time for the analysts who are watching the videogames industry to pitch in with their predictions related to the way January shaped up for the various hardware producers.The idea that seem...

11 February 2009
03:31 GMT

Analyst Lowers Estimates for PlayStation 3

The NPD Group data that arrived about a week ago pointed to a dissatisfactory December for Sony, especially because the PlayStation 3, in the most important month of the year for videogame sales, sold less than half the amount of consoles that the Microsoft made Xbox 360 managed to move.Sony has tried to put a positi...

26 January 2009
12:01 GMT

Analyze That: Price Drops Incoming for Gaming Consoles

Microsoft surprised quite a lot of people when it cut, last year in September, the price of the Xbox 360 so that the Arcade, the version of the gaming console that does not have a hard drive, went under the price gamers paid for a Nintendo Wii. More people were surprised by the stubbornness of Sony, which refused to ...

14 January 2009
17:01 GMT

Dell to Consider Entering Smartphone Market

It seems that the worldwide leading PC maker Dell is on its way to release a smartphone as well. According to some analysts, Dell is expected to announce such a device at the 3GSM or the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona next month. “The exact timing of Dell's launch is not clear but our sources i...

14 January 2009
05:44 GMT

Intel to Announce Its Highest-Ever Q4 Revenue

Despite the fact that Intel announced, on Tuesday, its second consecutive record-breaking quarter, the earnings are way below the company's sales expectations. Number one x86 CPU manufacturer reported highest-ever fourth-quarter revenue situated at an impressive figure of $10.7 billion with 38 cent earnings per ...

16 January 2008
05:10 GMT


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