Tag Archives: Sales

Although 500,00 new Android devices are being activated per day, research company Nielsen reports that Android phone sales in the U.S. have flattened over the past three months. The research firm said that from March to May 2011, 55 percent of new phones purchased were smartphones, pushing past feature cellphones for the first time. From March to May 2010, 34 percent of...

Earlier Nintendo announced that the Wii 2 will have a 2012 release date and will be revealed at the E3 expo later this year which undoubtedly is good news. However, the financial report they released later in the day contained both good and bad news. To sandwich the blow lets start with the bad news. Nintendo’s overall sales in 2010/11 (up to 31st March) where 29% lower...

Some numbers just out from Sony state that the classic PlayStation 3 games console has now sold more than 50 million units all across the world. The PS Move controller which came out last year has also reached a decent level of sales, with 8 million being the figure reported. This news comes a few months after rival Microsoft reached the same level with their Xbox games...

Although the iPad 2 has been available to buy for three weeks now there is still no official word from Apple regarding sales. Last week eBay threatened to release sales info since the official US release date on 11th March and today it has officially been rolled out for all to see. Although the figures are based on the US facing site they showed significant demand and...

Amazon has revealed their top ten selling items for the festive period. Unsurprisingly the Amazon Kindle took their top spot with some impressive sales figures. Finally we can have some idea of how popular the megabrands Kindle E-reader actually is after their pre-Christmas sales announcement only revealed they had sold ‘millions of Kindles’’. Amazon was clearly...

Call of Duty: Black Ops has been publicly smashing all sorts of records since its release at the start of November. It has topped sales charts across all formats; there is talk of new downloadable content coming as early as February 2011 and this week the game passed the $1 billion in sales milestone, that’s roughly £648 million. The figures actually come direct from...

Microsoft has broken silence on initial sales of their Windows phone 7 Smartphones, the devices have been on sale for six weeks and this is the first official release that has been given. Microsoft say they have sold 1.5 million devices to mobile phone operators and retailers since launch, not bad until you compare the stats with competitors. When Apple launched the iPhone...

The Samsung Galaxy tab has been on the open market for nearly a month selling an impressive 600,000 units globally according to The Korea Herald. The data should be pretty accurate too when you consider it was sourced directly from Samsung themselves. The data has been collected from all of the 30 countries where the tab is on sale. Samsung originally set a target of 1...

It seems that the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops and the Xbox 360 Kinect has made little impact on Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii console sales this week, despite a huge increase in the number of people buying Microsoft’s movement based controller. In fact the week before Kinect’s release the Nintendo Wii outsold the Xbox 360, this trend reversed when the Kinect...