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Rumour: Bungie game to be announced next week
VideoGaming247 - September 15, 2008
Submitted by noobie (104) at 1:30PM PST on September 15, 2008
This is from Gamer.tm again. The site’s claiming to have been told by an “industry insider” that a Bungie game’s going to be revealed at the same event during the week of September 22. A new Rare game’s going to be seen as well, apparently. We would suggest taking this one with a rather large pinch of salt. Draw your own conclusions. Full thing through the link.
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Peter Moore: I pulled Sega out of the hardware market
VideoGaming247 - September 15, 2008
Submitted by noobie (104) at 12:31PM PST on September 15, 2008
A Guardian interview with Peter Moore has yielded probably the frankest ever description of Dreamcast’s demise, the exec saying he personally made the call to pull Sega out of the hardware market and head in the direction of multi-format publishing. “It was a big stakes game. Sega had the option of pouring in more money and going bankrupt and they decided they wanted to live to fight another day. So we licked our wounds, ate some humble pie and went to Sony and Nintendo to ask for dev kits.”
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UK Charts: week ending 13 September
Chart Track - September 15, 2008
Submitted by soupsoup (7) at 9:31AM PST on September 15, 2008
Spore heads the individual formats top 40 for the second week running, followed by Mercenaries 2 (360), Wii Fit and Mario Kart. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii) climbs nine places to take the fifth spot. See link for the full chart.
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August 08 NPD In Depth
Edge Online - September 14, 2008
Submitted by mrahaju (32) at 5:32PM PST on September 14, 2008
Some additional # / facts : - Xbox 360 LTD ASP is $376.49 (official figure). - Tales of Vesperia, #58, 33,000 units. - Wii will pass 22 months at its launch price, breaking the record set by the Xbox 360's 21 months, and I don't expect Wii to drop until mid-2009, putting it out near 30 months at its launch price.
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Majority of today’s software will be forgotton
Go Nintendo - September 14, 2008
Submitted by noobie (104) at 5:18PM PST on September 14, 2008
“I think more than half of the games you see today with huge budgets and such a ‘realistic’ focus will be either stale or forgotten in 20 years. On the other hand, the masterpieces of the 80’s will definitely be enjoyed far into the future. The reason for this is simple — many of these classic titles have unique and fascinating mechanics that can’t be diminished by the advancement of technology.” - Tadashi Iguchi, Bandai Namco
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Capcom Aims For 80% Western Sales
GamaS - September 1, 2008
Submitted by Refreshment (44) at 6:51PM PST on September 13, 2008
"Capcom's ruling out out any future mergers with Japanese companies, preferring instead to continue to focus on Western markets. The company wants 80 percent of sales to come from the West in the future, and now plans for all its major titles to be multiplatform. "
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Full global sales reports planned
msvuk - September 12, 2008
Submitted by noobie (104) at 11:33AM PST on September 12, 2008
GFK-ChartTrack keen to expand partnership with NPD and Enterbrain. Frustrated global sales analysts, rejoice; the leading charts authorities in the world are close to agreeing a new monthly report that will offer definitive sales data for ‘the whole planet’. The news comes after GFK-ChartTrack, NPD and Enterbrain launched the Top Global Markets Report last month – bringing together monthly sales data for the UK, Japan and US.
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Xbox 360 Arcade sales up 600pc
MCV - September 12, 2008
Submitted by deftangel (35) at 3:17AM PST on September 12, 2008
Microsoft is understandably delighted by its August sales victory over Sony’s PS3, and has highlighted the massive surge in Xbox 360 hardware sales in early September in its response to NPD’s August US sales figures. Having been crowned the victor in its battle of Sony in August, Microsoft immediately sought to hammer home the fact that since it cut the price of its Xbox 360 range on September 3rd sales have climbed over 100 per cent, with sales of the low-end Arcade SKU increasing six fold.
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NPD August 2008 - 360 > PS3
Videogaming247 - September 11, 2008
Submitted by deftangel (35) at 3:38PM PST on September 11, 2008
Hardware Unit Sales PlayStation 3 - 185.4K PSP - 253.0K PS2 - 144.1K 360 - 195.2K Wii - 453.0K Nintendo DS - 518.3K
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Media Create Sales: 09/01 - 09/07
Media Create - September 10, 2008
Submitted by mrahaju (32) at 2:57PM PST on September 11, 2008
1. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) - 55,000 / 668,000 2. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 32,000 / 2,609,000 3. [NDS] Blue Dragon Plus (AQ Interactive) - 21,000 / NEW 4. [PS3] Afrika (SCEI) - 19,000 / 57,000 5. [PS2] J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship (Konami) - 18,000 / 136,000 For the rest of the list, see comment
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