The latest title from the Halo franchise, Halo 3:ODST, has continued to the popularity seen with previous Halo games. Even despite the current economic climate, Microsoft have announced sales figures in excess of 2.5 million in just the first two weeks after release. The Halo: Reach beta that comes part of the package may just have been the icing on the cake with gamers seemingly happy with their new purchase.
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Nvidia Plays Down DirectX 11 Graphics Card Sales
September 21, 2009 – 5:50 pm
A recent financial analyst conference has seen Nvidia tell the world that DX11 will not push up graphics card sales. Instead the company holds its GPGPU (general purpose computing on graphics processing units) in a much higher regard believing that is it far more important than a new game
30% of all Consumer Portable Sales in EMEA for Netbooks
February 20, 2009 – 10:21 am
From taking a reasonably long time to get into Netbooks, Europeans have suddenly found a liking for them as the small machines exceed even the most optimistic forecasts.
Intel Atom Grows to Cover 7% of All Sales
February 10, 2009 – 3:39 pm
Consumers seems to have taken a shine to Intel’s Atom and the low price is certainly drawing in people as sales hit 7%.
PS3 Game Metal Gear Solid 4 Reaches 4.5 Million Sales
February 6, 2009 – 3:52 pm
According to Konami, their latest title exlcusive to the PS3 has sold four and a half million copies netting $2.56B (USD).
Sales of Smartphones Predicted to Double by 2013
February 4, 2009 – 6:35 pm
According to new research, carried out by Juniper Research, the smartphone market is expected to double by 2013 to 300 million units a year.