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By Douglas A. McIntyre Sales of Nintendo’s flagship Wii video console skidded this past fall. There were concerns among the company’s shareholders that the product was losing its novelty and that...
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The holiday shopping season and price cuts are not helping video game sales. November figures from industry research firm NPD show sales of software and consoles in the US dropped almost 8% to $2.7...
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This was a wild week, and perhaps a disappointment that the news did not propel stocks even higher. There were many key movers though, and we have a very active panel of very active and widely held...
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The video game sector is not improving with the economy. It seems to not even be getting ‘less-bad’ with the other sectors that are looking ‘less-bad’ compared to earlier months. Last...
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Nintendo (NTDOY) had a major winner on its hands with the Wii gaming system. Yet no fad lasts forever. It has been known for some time that the Wii gaming system was falling victim to the same...
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Sony (NYSE:SNE) expects its holiday sales to be poor. That is terrible news for the consumer electronics and PC industries. Sony is a nearly perfect proxy for those sectors. It sells PCs, video...
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September sales for video game consoles were relatively good given the economy. Price cuts on the Nintendo Wii, Sony (NYSE:SNE) PS3, and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox stimulated activity. It appears...
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Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) may actually hit that $500 million first week target after all. The company has announced this morning that since the 12:00 launch on Tuesday that its...
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The Holy Grail of consumer electronics is still a smashing success in the video game industry. Tens and tens of millions of Sony (NYSE:SNE) PS2s and PS3s were sold over the last decade. Microsoft...
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Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) is about to release its “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II: video game. Sales are expected to be half a billion dollars in the first week. That would make it the...
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It looks like Nintendo may finally be pulled of its perch as the No.1 video game console company in the world. It announced April to September 2009 earnings and part of the data the firm gave out...
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Price cuts work. In September, Sony’s (NYSE:SNE) PS3 outsold the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii for the first time in recent memory. Industry research firm NPD said that the...
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Nintendo has shipped more than 52 million Wii units worldwide since it was first launched in late 2006. That dwarfs the sales of its rival consoles the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony (SNE) PS3....
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PS3 sales are up 300% since Sony (SNE) cut prices on the devices by $100. PS3 sales have run behind those of the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii since Sony introduced the product....
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The spin-off IPO for Shanda Games Limited (NASDAQ: GAME) is coming next week and the company has set the expected price band for its 63+ million American Depositary Shares in range of $10.50 and...
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