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Also includes news on nintendo's shares being the lowest they have been in 4 years. And Nintendo not meeting sales figures.
digitalmass.boston.com/news/2003/01/23/nintendo.html
digitalmass.boston.com/news/2003/01/23/nintendo.html
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Playing cards :)
Interesting that they said that if they give up on making consoles, they'll leave the industry altogether.
What will they do then? What else does nintendo make apart from the cube and the GBA?
What will they do then? What else does nintendo make apart from the cube and the GBA?
From the BBC:
"Almost 1.5m copies of the smash hit Grand Theft Auto: Vice City were sold
in the US in December, bringing its total to 4.4 million since its launch in October. Overall sales of video games in the States rose by 7% in December, say analysts, with software sales for the year rising by 21%. The figures mean Americans spent a record $10.3 billion on video games in 2002.
Of the top 20 best-selling games, 13 were for the PlayStation 2, with five for GameBoy Advance and one each for the GameCube and the Xbox.
Microsoft celebrates coming second:
A combination of price cuts and aggressive marketing has pushed Microsoft's box game console into a commanding second place. Sales statistics gathered by market analysts Chart-Track and GfK show that the console was the number two, out of three, for European gamers in 2002. The sales figures reveal that Microsoft sold more than a million of the consoles in France, Germany and the UK. Part of the success was due to a pre-Christmas offer that bundled top selling games in with the console and boosted sales during the key festive season.
By comparison during the four months up to Christmas Microsoft's arch-rival Sony sold more than 10 million Playstation 2s across the world."
From FM's Head:
(Ownage, heh)
"Almost 1.5m copies of the smash hit Grand Theft Auto: Vice City were sold
in the US in December, bringing its total to 4.4 million since its launch in October. Overall sales of video games in the States rose by 7% in December, say analysts, with software sales for the year rising by 21%. The figures mean Americans spent a record $10.3 billion on video games in 2002.
Of the top 20 best-selling games, 13 were for the PlayStation 2, with five for GameBoy Advance and one each for the GameCube and the Xbox.
Microsoft celebrates coming second:
A combination of price cuts and aggressive marketing has pushed Microsoft's box game console into a commanding second place. Sales statistics gathered by market analysts Chart-Track and GfK show that the console was the number two, out of three, for European gamers in 2002. The sales figures reveal that Microsoft sold more than a million of the consoles in France, Germany and the UK. Part of the success was due to a pre-Christmas offer that bundled top selling games in with the console and boosted sales during the key festive season.
By comparison during the four months up to Christmas Microsoft's arch-rival Sony sold more than 10 million Playstation 2s across the world."
From FM's Head:
(Ownage, heh)
hmmm.. will wait and see how that turns out!
Also includes news on nintendo's shares being the lowest they have been in 4 years. And Nintendo not meeting sales figures.
digitalmass.boston.com/news/2003/01/23/nintendo.html
digitalmass.boston.com/news/2003/01/23/nintendo.html
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