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Call of Duty Franchise Reaches $3 Billion in Sales

Activision have announced that the highly successful COD series has now passed the $3 Billion mark across the six major titles. The statement released by the developer today states that they have achieved 55 million sales, worldwide. Their most recent title, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, broke records in entertainment launch sales, earning a staggering $550 million in the first 5 days of release.

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Sales Dissapointing for XNA Games

After Microsoft launched the Community Games with NXE, it was making up for a promise made years ago at E3 during the infamous “Velocity Girl” speech. Users could finally make some money from their pet project games. Unfortunately, it seems sales aren’t that brisk. GamerBytes tracked the sales of 24 titles, and came up with a [...]

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Wii Sells 2.15 Million, Some Disappointed

Nintendo pushed a staggering 2.15 million units over the holiday season. That’s a ton of money being brought in for Nintendo, not to mention the industry as a whole. But hey, that’s still not enough for some people. Take Jesse Divnich from the Electronic Entertainment Design and Research firm for example. He believes that had [...]

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DS Breaks 100 Million Sold Mark

Remember March 6th? That was the day the execs at Nintendo were likely running around, drinking a lot, and doing a general celebration. Why? The DS sold its official 100 millionth console worldwide. That’s a milestone, although just shy of the all time record. In terms of history, that’s only two million short of the [...]

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Gears of War 2 Sales Up Over Original

In the first two months of its existence, the first Gears of War sold two million copies. In that same time frame, Marcus Fenix and company have found themselves in four million homes. That means the sequel should have no problem beating out the originals total numbers, coming in at five million since its release. [...]

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Xbox 360 Expected to Surpass Xbox Sales Last Month

Thanks to a price drop, the Xbox 360 will be in more homes than its predecessor at the end of November. The 360 should break 25 million units sold at that time. It has only taken three years to do what the first Xbox did in four. Obviously, there’s a lot of time left in [...]

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Wii Software Dominating US Sales in ‘08

While gamers may claim to be shying away from the Wii in many cases, it seems the sales charts tell a different story. In fact, four of the top five games of the games of year so far are all exclusive to Nintendo’s console. Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Fit, and Wii Play [...]

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