Nintendo released a presser this morning that indicated the Nintendo 3DS has sold more than 4.5 million units during its first year at retail in the United States. The news comes as the handheld nears its retail birthday. Nintendo went as far to include a table of figures in the release. The table stacks the first year performance of the Nintendo 3DS against the Nintendo DS in the...
It seems that the sales of Blu-ray discs just aren’t getting to the levels that Hollywood hoped for. Combined with the news from last week that DVD sales are in steep decline, and you can see that the age of physical media is definitely looking as if it’s on life support. According to a report from NPD Group, sales of DVD and Blu-ray discs fell 9.4 percent for the six months ending in...
According to NPD Group’s assessment of the video game industry for August of 2010, the Xbox 360 has remained the best-selling console in the United States for the third month in a row. This is understandable, considering the expansion of the console to casual users alongside the revamped console, but what is really shocking about the data released is the poor sales of Nintendo’s motion-...