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Slim PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii sales performance

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:23:56 +0000

The launch of the revised Slim PS3 has given Sony a huge sales boost, with them selling 38,000 consoles more than they did the previous week, This represents a whopping 104% week-on-week increase. Next week should see even bigger gains as the figures were taken pre September 1 when the new console wasn’t fully available.

Thanks to the recent price cut Microsoft’s Xbox 360 saw a 32% sales increase, selling 74,689 units compared with 56,448 during the pre-price cut week. Total Xbox 360 sales were just 1,242 units shy of the PS3’s total.

Without a revised console or a price cut to boost sales, Nintendo saw a 4% drop in the same week. Despite this it still sold an impressive 74,245 units, only a few hundred shy of the Xbox and less than 2,000 off the PS3.

PSP looking forward to a good 2009

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:15:35 +0000

Sony is preparing to release an impressive 2009 PSP line-up which includes headline titles such as MotorStorm and LittleBigPlanet. Hopefully this will help boost the handheld’s 3 million strong user base in the UK. The recent arrival of the PSP 3000 model along with rumours of a PSP 2 should also help to boost numbers and make up some ground on the much more popular Nintendo DS Lite.

Nintendo DSi to launch in Europe April 9

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:26:47 +0000

Nintendo has confirmed that the DS Lite’s successor, the DSi, will launch throughout Europe on 3 April‭ 2009. It will be available in either black or white, with other colours to follow. Pricing has not yet been confirmed but we would expect it to retail at around ‬£150 (approximately 180 Euro).