Nintendo saw some hope return to its mobile gaming on Thursday after it crossed a historic milestone. Based on NPD September data, the DS line passed 50 million lifetime sales since its launch in 2004. This helped cement its position as the bestselling game console in history, Nintendo claimed. Significantly, it said, the 3DS had […]
Apple quickly put an end to doubt as to iPhone 4S demand with word that it had taken over one million pre-orders in just one day. The rush was two thirds higher than the 600,000 iPhone 4 preorders. The company claimed it as an all-time record for any Apple product, not just the iPhone. “We […]
Unofficial estimated by eMailDataSource to have already taken over 100,000 pre-orders for its Kindle Fire. The seven-inch, heavily customized, Android-based tablet went up for pre-order on Monday and reached that figure by the end of its first day on sale. Compared to other tablet launches the figure is significant although it still trails the original […]
Samsung on Sunday cracked another milestone and said the Galaxy S II had passed 10 million sales. The figure comes five months in and beats the time for the original Galaxy S, which took two months more to hit the same amount. The largest piece of Galaxy S II sales, 3.6 million, was in Samsung’s […]
Amazon today announced that best-selling author George R.R. Martin is the latest author to sell more than 1 million Kindle books in the Kindle Store . Martin’s most recent novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, “A Dance with Dragons,” debuted in the #2 spot on the Kindle Best Seller list and […]
Nintendo this week said the Wii hardware sold 190,000 units at U.S. retail in Aug. The hardware ranked two exclusive titles in the top 10 games sales, including Ubisoft Inc.’s Just Dance Summer Party and Just Dance 2 at No. 7. Nintendo in July said the company held a Q1 net loss of $324 million. […]
Retailers are beginning to offer substantial discounts on iPods, including the flagship iPod touch, site checks show. Of special interest is OfficeMax, which is running a clearance event for Nanos and Touches with discounts up to 34 percent. Stock is limited; the only Touch listed on the OfficeMax website, a 32GB model, is available in-store […]
LG has cut its 2011 sales target for TVs by 20 percent, per Reuters, from 40 million to 32 million units. The South Korean electronics giant follows rival Sony, Samsung, and Panasonic in lowering its expectations for the year. The weaker sales are primarily the result of the struggling economies in the US and Europe. […]
Early results from Nintendo’s 3DS price drop suggest that the cuts have had their planned effect in at least the short term. In the past week, sales in Nintendo’s home of Japan shot up from under 50,000 a week to 215,000 after customers lined up to get the glasses-free 3D console at its much cheaper […]
For the first time since the original Xbox was introduced, the software giant’s entertainment business broke the $1 billion barrier for operating income in Microsoft’s fiscal 2011. And it continues to be the best-selling video-gaming system, leading both the Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation 3 for 13 out of the past 14 months, a research […]
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