With the current cycle in its third or fourth year, Greenwald suggests that fears of a decline in hardware and software sales are unwarranted and that E3 itself will "provide some signs that the industry is alive and well".
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GTA:Chinatown Wars: 74,000 Killzone 2 : 58,000 Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena : 57,000 Halo 3 and Halo Wars each sold somewhere between 57,000 and 74,000 units.
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"This war between Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD is extremely nasty, as members from each camp throw barbs at each other. Unlike the console wars, which has Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo actually expanding the overall videogame market, this next gen DVD battle is not helping consumers, retailers or anyone not affiliated with one of the two sides."
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"Beginning with the October sales data, which is due later this month, NPD is going to cut way back on what they share on a monthly basis with their non-paying customers, i.e. media. What does this mean?
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Data obtained by MCV from official UK industry monitor ChartTrack shows that Rockstar’s GTA IV has become the fastest selling game ever in a 24 hour period. Total online and High Street sales for the game hit 609,000 in one day. 335,000 copies were sold on Microsoft’s machine – 55 per cent of sales and a new record for the console. GTA IV sold 274,000 copies on PS3 yesterday – 45 per cent of all sales and another format record breaking performance.
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