Category Archive: Sales

March 16, 2009 – 9:40 am, Capcom: Resi 5 ships 4 million to retail worldwide

Source: VG247

March 6, 2009 – 1:10 pm, Pachter: The Lost and Damned has sold 1 million and will sell another million by year’s end; next DLC episode this fall and new Grand Theft Auto in 2010

Source: VG247

March 6, 2009 – 12:45 pm, The Witcher shifts 1.2 million copies to-date, making it one of the top 100 best-selling PC games ever

Source: The Witcher Official Forums

February 23, 2009 – 1:15 pm, Capcom: Street Fighter IV has sold over 2 million units worldwide in less than a week
February 21, 2009 – 4:30 pm, Starbreeze reports strong quarterly sales of $2.8 million

Source: VG247

February 20, 2009 – 6:45 pm, Sony: Worldwide PlayStation 3 sales top 21 million; new plans to invade Latin America

Source: VG247

February 18, 2009 – 6:55 pm, Left 4 Dead sales jumped 3000% (yes, you read that right) during Steam half-off sale

Source: Shacknews

February 13, 2009 – 10:00 am, Everyone chill, Reggie’s got this

Source: VG247

February 12, 2009 – 10:30 pm, January NPD released; Nintendo dominates hardware and software sales (for a change)

Source: VG247

February 11, 2009 – 1:45 pm, The Force Unleashed pushes over 5.5 million copies across the galaxy

Source: Gamasutra

January 29, 2009 – 10:25 am, Sony sees sales drop 32% last quarter; sluggish gaming hardware sales partly to blame

Source: Gamasutra

November 20, 2008 – 11:00 am, Wrath of the Lich King sold more than 2.8 million copies in its first day; Blizzard names it the fastest selling PC game ever

Source: Shacknews

November 18, 2008 – 9:30 am, Noah Heller’s revenge: Call of Duty: World at War outsells Call of Duty 4 2:1 in its first week

Source: GI.biz

November 15, 2008 – 12:55 pm, Activision, EA enjoy strong sales with Guitar Hero World Tour (534,000 copies) and Rock Band 2 (238k); Konami’s Rock Revolution barely moves 3,000 and is a failure of epic proportions

Source: Gamespot

November 13, 2008 – 11:25 pm, October NPD: Nintendo sells 803k Wii and 491k DS, Microsoft sells 371k Xbox 360, Sony sells 193k PSP and 190k PlayStation 3

Source: VG247

November 13, 2008 – 11:15 pm, October NPD: Fable 2 top-selling title (790,000 units), followed by Wii Fit (487k) and Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360 (375k)

Source: VG247

November 13, 2008 – 11:10 pm, October NPD: U.S. gaming market grows 18% year-over-year to $1.3 billion in sales for the month of October; on track to hit $22b total sales for 2008
November 11, 2008 – 10:30 pm, Microsoft: Gears of War 2 sold over 2 million copies in its first weekend
November 11, 2008 – 1:37 pm, Far Cry 2 has sold just over a million units worldwide across all three platforms since its release on October 19
November 10, 2008 – 6:14 pm, Pachter calls October: Sell-throughs of 775,000 Wii, 325,000 Xbox 360, 225,000 PlayStation 3

Source: VG247

November 6, 2008 – 6:18 pm, Fallout 3 ships an impressive 4.7 million units across all three platforms, with sales totaling $300m
November 6, 2008 – 9:56 am, Grand Theft Auto IV goes to the top of the charts in Japan, outselling LittleBigPlanet and Valkyrie Profile by huge margins

Source: VG 247

November 5, 2008 – 3:49 pm, Saints Row 2 has sold over 2 million copies worldwide, THQ confirms today
November 5, 2008 – 11:27 am, Capcom shows increasingly strong sales, profits

Sources: Shacknews

October 31, 2008 – 6:16 pm, Microsoft: Don’t expect an Xbox 360 price drop anytime soon

Source: Videogamer

October 29, 2008 – 12:27 pm, Almost 17 million PlayStation 3 units sold worldwide to-date; Sony anticipates another 6m over the next two quarters

Source: Shacknews

October 28, 2008 – 3:18 pm, SCEE Managing Director Ray Maguire on lack of a PlayStation 3 price cut: “With the kind of quality of games we’re seeing coming out this Christmas, I don’t think the price of the console is going to be an issue at all”

Source: Videogamer

October 17, 2008 – 12:37 pm, All your September NPD facts and figures in one place

Source: VG247

October 9, 2008 – 11:02 pm, PC gamers hunger for brains: Left 4 Dead preorders exceeding expectations

Source: Edge Online

August 22, 2008 – 7:59 pm, North Americans will be able to purchase the PC version of Silent Hill: Homecoming solely from STEAM

Source: Joystiq