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April Was a Loser for Videogame Industry
April was a cruel month indeed for the videogame industry. Sales of gaming hardware, software and accessories in the U.S. for the month peaked at $495.2 million, according to sales data from research firm NPD, down 25 percent from the same period in 2012. Retail software sales declined 17 percent year over year to $254.3 million. Hardware sales plummeted 42 percent from the year prior to $109.5 million. The top console for the month? Microsoft’s Xbox 360, though it sold just 130,000 units in April, down 45 percent from a year earlier.
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Nintendo Says 3DS-Exclusive Games Are Selling Better Than They Were Last Year
One P.S. to that IDC/App Annie report from this morning: Mobile games may be pulling in more money than those on “gaming-optimized handhelds,” but Nintendo doesn’t want you to count it out yet. The company said in a press release that games made exclusively for its most recent handheld device, 2011’s Nintendo 3DS, sold twice as well in the first four months of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012. It took 18 weeks to sell two million units of “first-party software” for the 3DS, vs. 30 weeks last year, according to the press release.
Windows Phone Overtakes BlackBerry in Smartphone Shipments, Not That It Matters
Fighting over table scraps.
Mobile Game Biz to Nintendo and Sony: Seasons? What Are Those?
A double whammy for the devices that used to define “mobile gaming.”
Dell Claims Server Share Gains, Calls HP Losses “Staggering”
Punch, counterpunch.
Surface Makes Microsoft a Top 5 Tablet Vendor … With 1.8 Percent Market Share
Research firm IDC says Microsoft shipped about 900,000 Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets in the first quarter of the year.
Amid PC Sales Slide, All Eyes on Intel’s Quarterly Results
Bad, worse or ….?
Shares of PC Companies and Their Suppliers Whacked on Sales Decline
A long day ahead.
PC Sales Show Biggest Q1 Decline Ever
Blame the iPad.
Slowing China Shipments Push PC Market From Bad to Worse
Frying pan, meet fire.