U.S. video game sales seen up 53 percent in June (Reuters)
July 18, 2008
Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware
and software rose 53 percent in June from a year ago, with
Konami Corp's "Metal Gear Solid 4" helping to fuel a dramatic
increase in the number of Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 units sold,
market researcher NPD reported on Thursday.
Japan: PS3 Catches Up to Wii, Xbox 360 on Life Support
In Japan, the Wii's lead over the PS3 shrank from six-to-one in May to just one-point-seven-to-one in June, according to Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain. According to the publisher, Nintendo sold 235,990 Wii in a five week period ending June...
Analyst: PS3 Squeaks by Xbox 360, Wii Supplies Flat in August
NPD's official August 2008 sales numbers hit later this week, but for today, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has some intriguing prognostications about the PS3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii. For starters, Pachter's August 2008 predictions claim Sony's PlayStation... 
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Wednesday its Xbox 360 game machine beat Nintendo Co Ltd's
(7974.OS) Wii and Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 to reach
10 million units in...
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Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on
Wednesday its Xbox 360 game machine beat Nintendo Co Ltd's
(7974.OS) Wii and Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 to reach
10 million units in...
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Reuters - In the video game industry, the
spoils of the console wars come in the form of support from
third-party software publishers selling games to run on your
machine.
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Sony PS3 catching up to Wii in Japanese sales (Reuters)
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Nintendo Wii outsells PS3 3-to-1 in...
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii game
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July video game sales leapt an appreciable 28 percent over last year, the 360 and PS3 finished in a dead heat, and Nintendo creamed everyone, as usual. Overall video game sales...
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Nintendo rolls out Wii games, Sony takes to video (Reuters)
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Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) said it would
rent and sell movies and TV shows over the Internet for its
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