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Analyst: Market shrinking for gaming handhelds, but there's hope
Nintendo and Sony are fighting an uphill battle against the staggering popularity of smartphone devices these days. But he and another analyst say there’s reason for handheld gamers to hold out hope.
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Analysts predict November win for Xbox 360
Ahead of the NPD’s release of US sales figures for November, analysts have picked the Xbox 360 as a clear favourite.
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Analyst: Pepper spray incident shows games are "a must have holiday item"
With a quote that will surely haunt us, EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich has predicted a strong holiday season sales performance for the games industry.
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Analysts dismiss Kotick's SWTOR unprofitability claims
In response to Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick’s claim that Star Wars: The Old Republic won’t turn a profit for EA, analysts have been scornful.
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Analysts: GTA V to launch before summer 2012, will sell 20 million+
Analysts have Grand Theft Auto V pegged for a short by PR cycle, but a long string of numbers before the word “sales”.
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EEDAR: 51% of NA PS3 and 360 owners purchased DLC over the last 12 months
Analysis firm EEDAR has estimated that 51 percent of PS3 and Xbox 360 owners have purchased downloadable content through their consoles over the last 12 months.
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Analysts dismiss concerns of PS3 price cut impact on Vita sales
Although the PlayStation 3’s price cut now puts it in the same league as the upcoming PS Vita, analysts doubt consumers will be put off the portable.
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Analyst: PS3 price cut to spur industry
Games industry analysts expect Sony’s PlayStation 3 price drop to boost flagging sales and restore confidence.
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NPD and EEDAR to collaborate on complete US sales data
NPD and analyst firm EEDAR said today that they’re to collaborate on providing “expanding video game tracking” to the US market, after complaints earlier this year that a lack of digital data in NPD reporting was giving a skewed view of the industry.
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Analysts: Nintendo "really feel the heat" from Vita
Analysts are convinced Nintendo has aggressively lowered the price of its 3DS handheld in order to best Sony’s Vita when it hits the market.
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Analysts predict PS3 pulling ahead in console war
Analysts have credited Sony with at least a minor victory over Microsoft when this generation is done and dusted.
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Analysts keen on PopCap purchase
Analysts have responded positively to EA’s acquisition of casual king Popcap.
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EEDAR: Sony's Welcome Back Program assisted PS3 sales
EEDAR has published a new Retail Buyer Report for July which, using IGN GamerMetric figures, discusses how Sony’s Welcome Back Program helped boost sales through the firm’s PlayStation Network.
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Mass Effect 3 takes EEDAR's best-of-show E3 crown
Industry analyst EEDAR has named Mass Effect 3 as the most promising retail product of E3 2011, based on consumer interest.
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Quick Quotes: Analyst Jesse Divnich voices his opinion on Wii U
“The feedback from the development and retail community has been universally positive. The only downside I foresee is the likelihood of AAA core ‘ports’ to the Wii U console. It would be great to see Battlefield and Assassin’s Creed on the Wii U, but let’s be honest, no core gamer is going to break habit […]
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Divnich: CoD: Elite to have 1.5 million subs by end of 2011
EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich has said he expects newly-announced premium service Call of Duty: Elite will have 1.5 million subscribers by the end of the year.
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Analysts: 3DS shifted 500,000 units on five days, but sales have dropped
Analysts have predicted that 500,000 3DS consoles were sold in the handhelds first five days on sale in the US, but also that sales have dropped off markedly.
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Analysts disagree on outcome of US console wars
A group of analysts have offered differing assessments of the PlayStation 3 versus Xbox 360 debate, with Wedbush Morgan’s notorious Michael Pachter predicting the Xbox 360 will win everything forever.
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Divnich: 3DS opening beat DS
While Nintendo has yet to release sales figures for 3DS following the console’s release in the US and Europe last week, analysts are already pointing to a win over its predecessor, Nintendo DS.
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55% of 360 owners have bought a digital title, says EEDAR
Research firm EEDAR has said that over half of Xbox 360 owners have bought a downloadable title.
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Quick Quotes: Analyst Jesse Divnich voices his opinion on Wii U
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Analysts: 3DS shifted 500,000 units on five days, but sales have dropped
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Analysts: Xbox 360 to top US hardware charts, sales to decline through 2011
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Analysts: 8 million-selling Kinect “a surprise to us all,” “premature to say Move is beaten”
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New data shows PS3 trailing Xbox 360 by only 3 million units worldwide
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Mass Effect 2 becomes best-selling January release ever in only one week
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Analyst: DS2 will be announced “within the next eight months”
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Pachter-EEDAR December hardware estimates show monster Wii sales
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EEDAR agrees PS3 will be tops in hardware sales for September