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| Age of Conan Continues to Dominate the Charts |  | The success recorded by the most recent MMORPG released by Funcom and Eidos, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures might not be exactly what was expected from the game, but still both the developers and publishers are quite satisfied: more than 700.000 gamers have signed up fo ... [read more >>] | | 01 July 2008, 03:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MGS4 Street Date Broken, Konami Responds |  | Metal Gear Solid 4 is a game everybody wants to get his/her hands on as soon as possible and it seems natural todo so since it is the latest Kojima masterpiece (or, at least, that's what it looks to be if we are to believe the early review ... [read more >>] | | 10 June 2008, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Age of Conan Sales Lower than Expected |  | Sometimes, having high hopes for your product is not necessarily a good thing because you risk being disappointed if things don't come true. However, we would be making a mistake if we were to call Funcom disappointed with its sales of the recently released Age of Conan MMORPG. But it is clear that they are lower than what it had hoped for.
In a press statement released earlier today, Funcom announced that AoC would soo ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Age of Conan Defeats GTA IV |  | Grand Theft Auto IV was the most anticipated game of the year and a true hit for Rockstar and Take Two. It managed to jump to the number 1 position in chart sales all over the world and, no matter if we're talking about the PS3 or the Xbox 360 version, this game sells. It seems that, however, its number one days are gone, since a new and brave title got the public's attention.
In what could be considered a surprise f ... [read more >>] | | 02 June 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xbox 360 Outselling PS3 Since the Release of GTA IV |  | Microsoft has been delivering stats regarding the sales of GTA IV copies for the Xbox and other "we're better than Sony" things, but they have not officially been confirmed. Until now, when Chart-Track has released the numbers for the past ... [read more >>] | | 30 May 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xbox 360 Dies Slowly in India |  | We all know that Asian countries don't really dig the Xbox 360 because of various reasons and it seems that is going to continue, no matter what Microsoft does. However, the fact that the company is also having problems in India comes as a surprise for us - a surpr ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV Breaks Records, Drives Xbox 360 Forward |  | Finally, official data have arrived, proving that Grand Theft Auto IV was indeed a success (from a financial point of view this time, since we all know that everybody loves the game). Take Two has released the sales figures, stating that ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 02:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV Breaks Sales Records, Still Way Behind Movies |  | Grand Theft Auto IV is dubbed as the biggest game of the year and I really doubt that is a secret for anyone on this planet. Also, Rockstar's game is estimated to generate some $450 million only in the first week, even though the developers say that these figures are actually low. So, one thing is clear: ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Assassin's Creed Sells 6 Million, Drives Ubisoft Forward |  | Ubisoft has every reason to be happy with how the company is doing, since it has recorded a 36% boost in income for the year 2008. The huge profits recorded by the company should mostly be attributed to their hit title Assassin's Creed which sold, according t ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 03:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xbox 360 Sales Double in Europe |  | Microsoft reports that sales of their Xbox 360 console have "more than doubled" in Europe since the price cut that happened about one month ago, solidifying its leadership position as the number one console. Since the data comes straight from Microsoft and we kno ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Simlish Should Become an Official Language! |  | If there was still one person left in this world who didn't believe that The Sims franchise is nothing but a true record breaker, Electronic Arts have decided to send some stats about the game and the general reactions it has generated over the years. However, one ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 02:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nintendo Dominates Japanese Games Market |  | Enterbrain, a company that specializes in the analysis of the Japanese hardware and software market, has released its findings related to the evolution of the videogames market over the fiscal year that has just ended on March 30. While not mind-blowing the figures suggest clear, sustained growth.
The combined sales of gaming hardware, including consoles and videogames, have reached more than 667 billion yen, which is about 6. ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2008, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Million |  | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 just got released and it is already one of the bestsellers on the market. It actually jumped on the top spot as the bestselling game after its first week on sale and this week it felt to second, behind Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, with 50% lower sales. Still, according to Ubisoft, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 has already passed the 2 million sales point, exceeding all the expectations and putting the prof ... [read more >>] | | 01 April 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xbox Sales Up |  | Who said customers first look at quality and only then look at price? Because I really have to send them an e-mail detailing that they are wrong. And backing my e-mail would be Dorian Bloch, director of Chart-Track, a company that studies hardware and software sales in the United Kingdom.
Speaking on Tuesday he remarked that "Xbox 360 is up 35-40 percent - that's from Friday, when the price cut came into effect, up t ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 09:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Sells More Than a Million |  | There are times when being a gamer and a games journalist seems a bit alien. Times when you think of the way to introduce a story and it seems that telling it straight as it is will not suffice because of the apparent madness contained in the news itself. The headline above is proof enough.
... [read more >>] | | 18 March 2008, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV Will Sell 9 Mil, Hamper Film Ticket Sales |  | Michael Pachter estimates that the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto sequel will sell over 9 million copies during the fiscal year and, even more, that no less that 6 million copies will be sold during the first week – if these predictions turn to be true, we'll ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Amazon Winery |  | The wine business has always been very profitable, as has any alcohol business, for that matter. There are always scores of people wanting to celebrate something or drown their sorrow, and alcohol in any form has been known to be one of the best ways to do that.
Amazon.com, the world’s biggest online shopping web site, is looking to recruit a senior wine buyer that will be responsible for "the acquisition of a massive new [ADMARK=1 ... [read more >>] | | 07 March 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, 1 Unit Sold Per Second! |  | 2007 was, without doubt, one of the best years in the history regarding the game world. With so many exemplary titles released, with so many nearly-perfect games it feels kind of strange when you think that only one was the best. Fortunately, we're just talking about sales, otherwise ... [read more >>] | | 25 January 2008, 10:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Over 17 Million Xbox 360s and 8 Million Halo 3 Copies Sold! |  | Nothing can compare right now with the joy of Microsoft when the company announces the sales figures of 2007. They will also remember this holiday season, too and will probably wish to beat the records as soon as possible, because that's how the gaming indu ... [read more >>] | | 04 January 2008, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Online Sales on the Rise. Again. |  | Every holiday should bring happiness and peace in the hearts of those celebrating it; and a lot of money in the olden bags and modern bank accounts of the store owners, who commercialize merchandise that might become a gift for loved ones. As nowadays everything may be considered a gift, their pockets are pretty much filled with dough and their hearts are truly filled with the joy of the Holidays.
This year was not unlike others, in a c ... [read more >>] | | 28 December 2007, 08:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nintendo DS – One Unit Sold per Five Seconds in 2007 |  | In a recent press release, Nintendo calculated and got the winner: Nintendo DS. The game console is the best selling one in the US, with more than 6 million Nintendo DS portable video game systems sold until November 2007. This means, according to them, that 1 unit was ... [read more >>] | | 12 December 2007, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 1 Million HTC Touch Phones Sold in 5 Months |  | HTC has just gone over the 1 million borderline in its HTC Touch phone sales at the end of October. The producer has high expectations for this handset from now on as well, especially now that it comes in several versions to increase diversity.
HTC Touch has been seen at its release as the device most worthy of the "iPhone killer" status. Since then, other evolved ... [read more >>] | | 16 November 2007, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Major 40 % Sales Drop for PDAs |  | The Handheld segment, made of PDA devices seems to have been shrinking for years, but now registered a huge drop of 40 percent. The reason for this fall seems to be the growth in smartphone sales, the direct competitor for such devices.
Only little over 700,00 PDAs ... [read more >>] | | 13 November 2007, 09:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Uncertainty over iPhone UK Sales This Weekend |  | While T-Mobile made a first statement on the number of iPhones it managed to release on the handset's first day out on German market, UK officials are less willing to give out any precise figures. Their statement rested at saying that tens of thousands of iPhones ... [read more >>] | | 12 November 2007, 12:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Halo 3 "Killed" Ben Stiller's Wannabe Blockbuster |  | Halo 3 is a huge media phenomenon, not just your average gaming hysteria... Its huge sales, that brought Microsoft and Bungie $170 million on the first day had a negative impact on all launches in that period, including those of movies and music albums. One of th ... [read more >>] | | 16 October 2007, 10:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PSP Slim Sells Better than the Original Console |  | The PSP Slim has sold about 580.000 units in Japan only and it's only been a month since the release of the new console. Such a large amount of sold copies even surpasses all the sales of the original portable gaming device released by Sony in 2004.
PSP Slim ( ... [read more >>] | | 05 October 2007, 05:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Aims for Unlimited iPhone Sales |  | Apple has just increased its iPhone production in order to make sure that they will be able to respond to the high demands that the holidays are expected to bring. It's only natural that the sales number will considerably boost after the recent price drop, especially now, that the shopping season is approaching.
The USD 200 ... [read more >>] | | 21 September 2007, 03:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| iPhone Sales Go Up 200% after Price Cut |  | It was expected for the iPhone sales to go up after Apple announced the USD 200 price cut for this device. A survey has reached the conclusion that the company almost tripled its sales, registering an increase of 200 percent over past results.
Piper Jaf ... [read more >>] | | 12 September 2007, 05:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Is Hiring a Sales Chief |  | After the announced departure of its sales and marketing department Henri Richard, Advanced Micro Devices, better known as AMD, must now look to hire somebody else for the job and that as soon as possible because the day when the Barcelona core processors are hitting the server market is coming closer and without a competent marketing leader, the CPU manufacturing company will face many difficulties.
Hinri Richard said in a pu ... [read more >>] | | 24 August 2007, 09:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Chief of Sales Executive Leaves the Company |  | Advanced Micro Devices, better known as AMD, announced that Henri Richard, the company's chief sales officer, is going to leave the company soon, at the beginning of September, just before the launch of the much awaited Barcelona quad core processors.
According to a press release the company posted on its ... [read more >>] | | 23 August 2007, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 500,000 iPhones Sold in the First Weekend |  | Everyone was expecting to see people running in Apple stores desperate to get their own iPhone and they were right. The first weekend since the release of Apple's phone has proved to be a profitable one, as 500,000 such devices have been sold.
It's ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2007, 05:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 45 Million iPhones to Be Sold by 2009 |  | Apple seems to have caught the big fish this time. The number of people who declare their intention on buying an iPhone is not out of the ordinary. Still, the company figures that their first handset will prove to be an unexpected success.
There could be no other reason than confidence in the future of the iPhone coming from Apple. Even more, the device has been discussed in media as being a marvel device which will revolutio ... [read more >>] | | 09 June 2007, 02:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A Copy of Windows Vista Is Sold Every 4.5 Seconds |  | Windows Vista is by far the fastest selling operating system worldwide. From February to May, Microsoft has shipped in excess of 40 million Windows Vista licenses. According to the Redmond Company, Vista adoptions is outperforming that of Windows XP by two to one. Just in the fist month on the market in excess of 20 million Vista licenses made their way onto consumer's desktops across the world.
By contrast, Apple revealed that b ... [read more >>] | | 24 May 2007, 11:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Vista Is No Good for Computers |  | 40 million Windows Vista licenses sold in just the first 100 days of general availability. Vista has cruised past rival software solutions and, in the first five weeks on the shelves, managed to gather a superior installed base compared to its direct competitors. Accounting for in excess of 3% of the operating system market at the end of April 2007, Windows Vista is the third most popular operating system worldwide following Windows XP and ... [read more >>] | | 24 May 2007, 03:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Webcam Sales Boosted By YouTube |  | YouTube is more than a simple online video sharing service because it tends to become a real phenomenon as it continues to influence the Internet world. Today, Web User reported that PC World, one of the most known UK retailers, recorded an important boost in their webcam sales in the last year. It seems that the main reason for the 50 percent raise in the PC World sales was caused especially by the video service recently acquire ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2007, 08:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Vista Brings the First Dollars to Daddy |  | The money is real all right, and indeed corresponds to in excess of 20 million sold Windows Vista licenses worldwide. But is there a side to this story that Microsoft isn't telling? Some analysts claim that there is. Let's simply read between the lines of the 20 million Vista licenses sold worldwide in the first month of availability.
There is a paragraph in Microsoft's press release announcing Vista's str ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2007, 09:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista, the Fastest-Adopted Version of Windows Ever |  | That's right, the numbers are in and Windows Vista is nothing short than a splashing success. According to Microsoft, Windows Vista has debuted with strong global sales. “Initial sales figures from Microsoft show its new operating system Windows Vista made a splash in its debut,” Microsoft claims, revealing that in excess of 20 million Windows Vista licenses have been sold just in the first month of commercial availability f ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2007, 03:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Sells Big in UK |  | Though the British didn't seem to fancy Apple's way of advertising, they do fancy Apple products, according to recent reports. Sources at Macworld UK say the demand for Apple products is exceeding expectations.
Though there have been voices saying the market is becoming saturated, iPods still sell like crazy. Apple stores are short on supply for all iPod models. Reports say the Cupertino-based company has sold 120,00 ... [read more >>] | | 06 March 2007, 10:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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