GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 8, 2024

ERA, which is the UK trade body representing video, music and games retailers, says that revenue made by video games in the UK reached £4.74 That includes sales of digital and physical video games, covering PC, mobile and consoles. The the first time in over ten years, video games is not the UK's biggest entertainment medium.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 8, 2024

million PC and console games were sold across the UK during March, an impressive rise of 26% over the same period in 2023. They are, of course, very different games, with Spider-Man 2 retailing at £70 and only releasing on PS5. Helldivers 2 has a lower price and is also available on PC. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 11, 2023

Famitsu's monthly retail sales data from February 27 to March 26 shows that the console sold 231,000 units across its standard, Lite, and OLED models. By comparison, Sony's PlayStation 5 hardware hit 223,000 systems sold during the four weeks.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nintendo fully revealed the console almost exactly seven years ago. It held an event at Hammersmith in London to showcase the product to media, retail and assorted industry people and celebrities. A group of us convened in a pub afterwards and the view was unanimous: this might be Nintendo's last console.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 12, 2024

Famitsu's monthly retail sales data from January 29 to February 25 shows that by comparison, Sony's PlayStation 5 console reached 147,000 systems sold during the month. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox In February, the Nintendo Switch moved 191,000 units across its three models in Japan.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A console dev kit is a lot like a networked computer fused with a game console. It has beefier hardware than the retail console (because it needs to be able to hold and run debug builds of the game). Game consoles today typically have plugins for Microsoft Visual studio to handle the remote debugging process.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2023

I’ve only ever had the chance to buy a console early once and that was a special dispensation from Nintendo to buy a Wii (at a discount) from them directly as thanks for being a developer on a launch title. The rest of the time, I’ve had to buy new game consoles the same way everybody else does.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 1, 2023

It follows the first temporary price drop for Sony's console, with retailers selling the machine for as low as £399. Some retailers, such as Amazon and GAME, also included a game in addition to the price drop, with titles such as LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Forspoken and Saints Row available.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Famitsu's monthly retail sales data from October 30 to November 26 shows that by comparison, Sony's PlayStation 5 console hit 231,000 systems sold during the month. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox During November in Japan, the Nintendo Switch moved 296,000 units across its three models.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 10, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console in its home market of Japan last month – the first time Sony's current console has outsold the previously dominating Nintendo Switch in that market.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Microsoft has raised the retail price of its Xbox Series S|X systems in Sweden. As reported by GamingDeputy , the tech firm's changes for the consoles were spotted on its website. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Nintendo Switch has become the best selling console of all time in France. Le Figaro clarified that handheld consoles were excluded from the breakdown. According to French publication Le Figaro , the Switch has sold 7.09 The latter had been the record holder for the past decade, having sold 6.3 million units. million units.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox During July in Japan, the Nintendo Switch reached a lifetime sales total of 30 million consoles. Famitsu's monthly retail sales data from June 26 to July 30 shows that the console sold 407,000 units across its standard, Lite, and OLED systems.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 28, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Sony plans to sell 25 million units of PlayStation 5 into retail in the current fiscal year. Read more

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Game Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Of course, this still happens, but the rise of digital sales has significantly diminished their financial significance, and thereby the power of GameStop, America’s biggest physical games retailer. Over the years, various attempts to diversify into digital retailing, mobile phones and, most recently, NFTs, have come to nothing.

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Game Development News

JUNE 28, 2023

Bandai Namco has announced it is opening a new ‘interactive retail experience’ store in July 2023 - MCV/DEVELOP

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Game Development News

JANUARY 17, 2024

UK retailer GAME is going to stop selling pre-owned video game software soon

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iXie gaming

APRIL 4, 2024

From humble beginnings in the arcades to their evolution into home consoles, and then to handheld gaming devices, to the introduction of online gaming, and now subscription models, the industry has never been the same in any given decade from its origin. Just look at our blog on quirky gaming devices to get an idea of it.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox. Just shut of $3 billion was spent on physical games products in Japan last year. That's according to Famitsu's annual report , which revealed that total sales on boxed games and hardware amounted to ¥374.8 billion ($2.9

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Game Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Games retailer GameStop has released its financial report for Q3 of the current fiscal year, and the numbers highlight continued losses for the embattled company. One of the largest sales categories, console hardware, dropped 6% during the quarter, to $627 million in sales, and software sales fell 19%, to $352 million.

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Gamesbrief

MARCH 19, 2021

Looking at the infographic, several points stand out: Digital console software at £1.7 Digital console grew more in 2020 (24%) than mobile (21%). Obviously, it was a good year for new consoles, so maybe this is an unfair comparison, but I would hope for faster growth. VR hardware grew by less than any other category of hardware.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Subscriptions were the most popular gift idea at 39%, followed closely by consoles (38%), games accessories (32%), and in-game currency (29%). Of the 500-plus children surveyed (ages 10 to 17), most are planning to ask for video game-related gifts for the holidays. Read more

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Today, games are available on various platforms like home consoles, mobile devices, handheld gaming devices, cloud gaming services, and the various launchers available on PCs. These tools help perform tests more efficiently and help find issues that would otherwise be impossible in a retail environment.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 19, 2023

5, with a large increase in sales due to a price promotion on consoles. EA Sports' final FIFA saw a 6% increase in sales last week, having received a 21% boost in last week's charts, GfK reported. Meanwhile, Battlefield 2042 has re-entered the charts at No.5, Game sales overall rose 22% last week. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 5, 2023

In an announcement on Nintendo Japan's website , the platform holder said the extended warranty service for the console (known as Wide Care) will end on August 31. Nintendo is no longer offering its Switch repair service in Japan. Those already subscribed to the service will not be able to amend their subscription past July 14.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 8, 2023

billion Consoles expected to produce $56.1 At a glance: Market estimated to generate $187.7 billion in 2023, up 2.6% Mobile revenue due to increase 0.8% billion in revenue and drive growth this year The global games market is estimated to generate $187.7 billion in 2023, a 2.6% increase year-on-year, according to Newzoo's latest report.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The FTC’s public affairs director Douglas Farrar wrote on Twitter: “The FTC was not responsible for uploading Microsoft’s plans for its games and consoles to the court website,” adding a judge’s order explaining the snafu, and ordering the removal of the documents. ” Huh.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Epic Games Store is taking another approach to combating Steam, as Epic today announced a new opt-in First Run Program that will trade the company's share of revenues for the first six months of release in exchange for exclusivity.

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Game Development News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Party Animals has officially launched on PC and Xbox consoles as of today - MCV/DEVELOP

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With PlayStation 5 more readily available than it was in November 2021, overall spending on consoles and other devices was up 45% year-on-year. That's according to the latest figures from The NPD Group, which reported that this uptick was primarily driven by hardware sales. Here's what you need to know: Read more.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In a new study , the organisation tested five pairs of Joy-Cons sourced from consumers, alongside the base Switch console model. has urged Nintendo to provide a compensation option to buyers that have experienced Joy-Con drift. All five sets had drift issues, with the left stick affected the most.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Retro console Evercade and its creator Blaze Entertainment were the subjects of a robbery on December 6, which saw an amount of stock stolen from the company. In a blog post , the firm said that a lorry carrying limited edition units of the Evercade EXP was the subject of a suspected "targeted, possible organised attack."

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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

Now owned by Australian company iCandy, Flying Sheep has turned towards a Web3 model for its next project, Star Life. “While our games were web2 focused, we had been following the development of the NFT market,” says Rössig, who also serves as iCandy’s head of Europe. ” Flying Sheep was acquired by iCandy June 2022.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Retail gaming in the United States is estimated to be worth $4.19 Accessible Gaming There are so many platforms on which we can play games from mobile phones, video game consoles, and computers. If you’re an avid gamer who loves computers, you may be thinking about pursuing a career as a game developer. billion in 2023.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

Released in 2001, it was the sixth generation of the GameBoy consoles. This surprising original for the GameBoy system breathed new life into the console, at least for a while. By May 15, 2010, all sales of GameBoy Advance games had also ceased in retailers around the world. Drill Dozer. Mega Man Zero 3.

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Game Development News

AUGUST 18, 2023

What’s it like to make games in Europe’s biggest non-capital city in Europe’s largest games market? Richie Shoemaker quizzed three local studios in the hope of finding out

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Game Development News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Tandem Events is now open to speaker submissions for Develop:Brighton 2024

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