In the fast-paced world of video games, where competition is fierce, few consoles have managed to capture the imagination of gamers and remain firmly at the top. However, the versatile hybrid gaming platform from the iconic Japanese company has proven to be an exceptional phenomenon as Nintendo Switch hardware sales continue to prove strong. Recently,…
Finally, we have information verified by Xbox on the total sales of its consoles to date The BIG Festival is taking place in Brazil, and as usual, Microsoft has been part of the event. Despite commenting a little more about the different Xbox projects, they have given a very interesting data that could not be…
Sony’s next-gen PS5 console is on-pace with PS3 but lagging PS4. The PlayStation 5 just topped 2 million consoles sold in the United Kingdom. It reached this milestone in 98 weeks, which is the same amount of time that it took PS3 to reach 2 million units sold. “Given the stock problems surrounding PS5 it…
Court documents reveal that the PlayStation 4 outsold the Xbox One more than two-to-one during the last generation. Microsoft continues to attract regulatory scrutiny over its proposed purchase of Activision Blizzard. This time the government in question is Brazil. Court documents show a somewhat surprising statistic: Sony’s PlayStation 4 outsold Xbox One in a lopsided…
The Nintendo Switch continues to dominate the Japanese hardware sales charts. The Nintendo Switch sold 61,522 units across all three models of the video game system. In comparison, the PS5’s two models barely cleared 11k while the Xbox Series X|S lagged way behind at 4K units sold for the week. Microsoft has traditionally struggled in…
PS5 is outselling the Xbox Series X|S up to 10 times in Japan. Despite its popularity with Americans and Europeans, the Japanese market has always been a challenge for Microsoft’s Xbox consoles. Why? Both Sony and Nintendo call the country home, after all. This was mirrored in 2021 with the sales of the PlayStation 5,…
Sony reported its earnings this week. Along with it came some interesting nuggets on how well the PS4 and PS5 are doing. Sony saw its profits for the quarter ending March 31, 2021 double from the previous year, although it expects profits to fall as increased demand for at-home entertainment during the pandemic begins to…
The Nintendo Switch continues to exceed expectations. The system, along with the recently-released Switch Lite, sold 830,000 units in the United States alone. According to Nintendo, those numbers represent sales from November 24 until November 30. In other words, it doesn’t capture any sales figures from the Sunday after Thanksgiving or Cyber Monday. The sales…
Since it first released the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan in 1983, Nintendo has been one of the leading video game hardware manufacturers. Thanks to the success of the Nintendo Switch, the company just topped all-time hardware sales of 750 million units. The official tally of Nintendo hardware sales since the NES – both console…
