Nintendo’s Wii showed its lowest month of new U.S. sales ever in April, while the Nintendo 3DS sold less than half as many units in the entire month as it did during its March launch week. Nintendo reported sales of 172,000 Wiis for the month, according to a MarketWatch report down 38 percent from last April and the lowest monthly mark for the system since its late 2006 launch. April sales for the Wii are …
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The precise impact of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on big daddy Time Warner’s bottom line is pretty obscured. WBIE is a division within a division of the media behemoth, which didn’t bother to include a line for “video games” in its first-quarter earnings report. Though the company did manage to share a few positive words about its game-making sub-division.
Nestled somewhere underneath Time Warner’s “Filmed Entertainment” umbrella (a.k.a. Warner Bros.), WBIE apparently performed admirably for a division that ultimately suffered declining revenues. Filmed Entertainment, which encompasses feature film, television, home video and “interactive game production and distribution” (that’s video games!), saw its revenues slide 3 percent to $ 2.6 billion in the first three months of 2011, as compared to the prior-year first quarter. More noticeable is the division’s 50 percent plunge to $ 155 million in “adjusted” operating income for the period.
However, Time Warner noted in its report that “declines were partly offset” by “higher video games revenues,” in addition to other factors relating to television. While it’s impossible to parse out video game sales from what’s dubbed “other content” in the earnings breakdown, this category did show the biggest year-over-year percentage growth of all content in the Filmed Entertainment division, even if its dollar-amount revenues were a fraction of theatrical and television products’ hauls.
Notably, Time Warner indicated that first-quarter game sales were “driven by Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars,” which was developed by Traveller’s Tales, part of WBIE subsidiary TT Games. The game is published by LucasArts.
As for Time Warner’s outlook on Filmed Entertainment for the rest of the year, CEO Jeff Bewkes said during the earnings call, “With our strong film slate, the momentum in our TV business and several promising games, we continue to expect Warner will post record profits this year.” Would it have killed him to namedrop Mortal Kombat and the next Batman? Jeez.
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Microsoft reports results were up across the board in its fiscal-year third quarter (ending March 31, 2011), with the Redmond giant’s Entertainment & Devices Division (EDD) — that’s Xbox and other stuff — one of the standouts, enjoying 60 percent growth year-over-year. The group generated $ 1.94 billion in revenue and saw $ 225 million in profit in Q3, up 50 percent from the same period last fiscal year.
2.7 million Xbox 360 units were sold during the quarter, a new record for the console in Q3 sales (and up 70 percent over last year). Kinect sales followed suit with 2.4 million units sold in the quarter — and passed the 10-million mark to boot. Microsoft expects revenue growth of at least 25 percent for the EDD during Q4, with “more to be shared at E3 in June.”
Overall, thanks to strong sales of Windows 7, Microsoft recorded Q3 revenues of $ 16.43 billion and a net income of $ 5.23 billion.
Xbox 360 sees record fiscal Q3 sales, Kinect sold 2.4M units in quarter originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It's Easter weekend, and that means App Store sales (among other things). Have a look at a list of stand out titles for the iPhone and iPad that are probably worth a look while the gettin's good.
Electronic Arts
Chillingo
SEGA
Gamevil
Digital Chocolate
99Games
Various:
Much of this list was pulled from The Big Easter Sales Thread in our forums, where these titles on discount are being discussed.
Enjoy your new games!
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Saturday playtime is almost over, so to get you ready for a relaxing Sunday, here are some headlines and news highlights.
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Lovely, small, bite-sized news for the win. Click onward adventurers.
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Recent release Full House Poker leads the week’s best-selling Xbox Live Arcade titles, according to an information-filled post from Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb. The March 16 release, which sells for 800 Microsoft points ($ 10) features a live, 30-minute poker game show called Texas Heat, as well as compatibility with a companion Windows Phone 7 app. Full House Poker beat out second-place seller Torchlight and third-place seller Battle: Los Angeles, both of which launched the previous …
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There’s bigger overlap than some think between the audience for social and casual games and so-called “core games,” says Ipsos OTX Media, whose GamePlan Insights analytics look deeply at buzz and purchasing behavior among gamers of all types. Rather than segregate the market into ideas of “core” and “casual,” the firm developed a two-axis spectrum: On one axis, a range of people who self-identified as “influencers” versus “non-influencers,” and on the other, a range of …
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