Software Sales Archive

  • Weaker Wii sales: Nintendo’s profit drops for first time in 6 years

    Weaker Wii sales: Nintendo’s profit drops for first time in 6 years

    Nintendo in Japan released its annual fiscal report [ENG, PDF] today, and even though pretty much every financial key figure took a nose dive, things still look pretty good on the whole. The company racked up $15.2 billion in revenue last financial year (which ended March 31, 2010), down 22% from last year. Operating profit dropped 36% to $3.8 billion, while net profit - for the first time in six years - dropped to $2.4 billion, compared with $2.9 billion a year earlier.

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  • First sales reports: PSP Go performing ‘within expectations,’ says Sony

    First sales reports: PSP Go performing ‘within expectations,’ says Sony

    So the PS3 Slim was an absolute monster at retail (look at us, using superlative adjectives on a Monday!), selling one million systems since its release. (Keep in mind that's an old number by now.) How's the PSP Go doing? It's doing well, yes, but I don't think we can call it a monster yet. Sales in the UK were up 120 percent in the week following its launch. We don't have U.S. numbers yet. Sorry.

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  • Sony loses $390.5 million

    Sony loses $390.5 million

    Poof! Sony lost $390.5 million in the first quarter compared to a profit of almost $800 million in Q1 last year. TV sales are way down along with still and video cameras. Samsung, it seems, is kicking their butt.

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  • Pachter declares PS3 price cut by October 1

    Pachter declares PS3 price cut by October 1

    I hate to do it, but I have to. Sorry, kids. Ahead of the June NPD numbers that will be released on Thursday, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter stated today that US sales of the Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3 have declined 43 percent from June of last year to June 2009. He predicts that Nintendo moved 350,000 Wiis while Sony sold 165,000 PS3s and Microsoft came up shy of a quarter million with 225,000.

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