In Japan, Mario Kart had enjoyed top spot on the charts until Monster Hunter for the PSP took the top spot after MK spent 5 weeks at the top. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G managed to sell 53,000 units in Japan while Mario Kart sold 42,000, still a very impressive feat. Monster Hunter had been nipping...

Figures for sales for the major players in the games industry have been released for the month of April and believe me...there was really no surprise to speak of at all. First of all, let's look at Nintendo with the Wii selling 714,200 units and the DS 414,800 units. Keep in mind this is just for...

Preliminary reports are starting flood in regarding the sales fisgures for GTA IV in its first week. In the UK alone, the release of the games caused sales of the Xbox 360 to jump by 125% - mind blowing. Take Two Interactive have revealed that the game has gone on to garner approimately 6 million units...

The PSP absolutely reigned for the month of April in Japan with sales nearly doubling the DS. Figures for the PSP equate to 380,000 units while the DS came in with 170,000, that's a ratio of 2 to 1 in the PSP's favour according to Japanese magazine publisher, Enterbrain. Having said all that...

Sales of the PS3 console have sky rocketed since the release of GTA IV the other week. Sony are remaining tight lipped on releasing the figures on exactly how much is a lot but they have attributed the loyal PS2 (fanboys) base as a reason. GameStop’s senior VP of merchandising Bob McKenzie had this to...

Am amazing statistic today from play.com reporting that it's been taking over 80 orders a minute for highly anticpated roam and destroy God title, GTA IV. Stuart Rowe, the Chief Operating Officer for play.com said, "We're experiencing trading levels similar to what we would see in the run...

We all knew it would happen and mostly does with HUGE releases in the gaming world/industry but there have already been reports trickling in that some retailers have been shafted by their distributors with the release of GTA IV today in Australia. The distributors have just not been able to keep with...

Reports today from Nintendo that they have forecasted selling another 25 million Wiis over the next 12 months bringing the total up to 50 million. Absolutely staggering. Their profits have already gone up 50% to $2.5 billion for the Japanese fiscal year and overall Nintendo racked up sales totalling...

And for some news that we didn't know...Nintendo has made a lot of money for the past fiscal year. Duh! How much money exactly, you ask?? Well between the Wii and the DS, Nintendo scored an absolutely massive and mind blowing $US 1 billion dollars!! This taking into account the 18.6 million Wiis...

Some clever goose believes that the Nintendo Wii is on its last legs and may need life support very soon. Here's the reasons why: * Poor game marketing. * They rely too heavily on sequels. * Low quantities of consoles on the shelves. * Poor relationships with 3rd party developers. * Limited access...