The week following Christmas is set to be the biggest ever in terms of iPhone gaming activity according to iPhone fan network PlayHaven and mobile ad exchange Mobclix. It makes sense: You've got a boatload of people with new iPhones and no sense of how to distinguish the bad games from the good. It's like a bunch of infants crawling around with loaded revolvers.
In a
recent release, PlayHaven CEO Raymond Lau said "The week between Christmas and New Years has become the great 'Game Rush' for iPhone games - essentially what Black Friday is to brick and mortar retailers." The only real difference? A significant decrease in your odds of getting trampled by sleepy fat people.
Post-Christmas like Black Friday for iPhone devs originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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According to Microsoft's
Aaron Greenberg, Xbox 360 sales saw a serious increase thanks to the post-Thanksgiving shopping madness known as
Black Friday. While Greenberg doesn't disclose specific numbers, he notes in a
recent tweet that Black Friday granted the Xbox 360 its "biggest sales week of the year," with Microsoft selling over twice as many units than the previous week. That certainly
sounds like a lot, though the average weekly sales in October --
based on NPD figures -- were slightly above 60,000 units.
Assuming November's weekly average was similar, Microsoft certainly didn't come close to topping
Sony's impressive Black Friday total of 440,000 PS3 consoles. And let's not forget
Nintendo's Black Friday success: 550,000 Wii consoles and DS / DSi sales in excess of
one million units. Rest assured we will break down the exact November numbers once the NPDs shake out later this month.
[Via
Gamasutra]
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NPD, known in the video game world for its US sales charts, has released its first study of the
Black Friday phenomenon. "The Anatomy of Black Friday 2009" is based on a survey of 1,700 shoppers about their Black Friday shopping activities.
Why, exactly, did shoppers wake up at ridiculous times and stand out in the cold just for the privilege of being crammed into Best Buy or wherever like sardines? For 35% of Black Friday shoppers, it was a specific item. "I saw an item I wanted advertised on sale" was the top response, followed by "I was just curious to see what was out there."
The top reason for
not subjecting themselves to the crowds and queues to buy anything on Black Friday? No, it wasn't "I'm not crazy," it was "no money."
NPD discovers why people braved the Black Friday crowds originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Just a few hours after Nintendo, Sony has prepared a Black Friday sales statement of its own. SCEA's Patrick Seybold wrote in a press release: "PlayStation 3 demand was at an all time high with the system selling more than 440,000 units for the week ending 11/29/09." While shy of
Wii's numbers, the figure is quite impressive, considering that's more than the number of systems sold in the
entire month of October -- the same month that the PS3-exclusive
Uncharted 2 came out.
Retailers offered a number of
PS3 bundles during the holiday weekend, adding a number of free games and movies to the system's standard $299 price tag. That, coupled with an ad campaign that totally
doesn't creep us out, certainly helped Sony's fortunes this year.
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Get ready to for some corporate gloating, Microsoft-style, in the coming days. According to the company's Director of Product Management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, the Xbox 360 just had its "biggest sales week of the year."
Greenberg didn't put a specific figure to the console's sales from the Thanksgiving/Black Friday week as Nintendo did earlier today. But the increasingly svelte Xbox 360 spokesman did write that last week's numbers were "more than [two times the] previous week sales."
We'll see if Microsoft can top 2008, when the Xbox 360 maker claimed it outsold its PlayStation 3 competition three-to-one.
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Get ready to for some corporate gloating, Microsoft-style, in the coming days. According to the company's Director of Product Management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, the Xbox 360 just had its "biggest sales week of the year."
Greenberg didn't put a specific figure to the console's sales from the Thanksgiving/Black Friday week as Nintendo did earlier today. But the increasingly svelte Xbox 360 spokesman did write that last week's numbers were "more than [two times the] previous week sales."
We'll see if Microsoft can top 2008, when the Xbox 360 maker claimed it outsold its PlayStation 3 competition three-to-one.
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Get ready to for some corporate gloating, Microsoft-style, in the coming days. According to the company's Director of Product Management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, the Xbox 360 just had its "biggest sales week of the year."
Greenberg didn't put a specific figure to the console's sales from the Thanksgiving/Black Friday week as Nintendo did earlier today. But the increasingly svelte Xbox 360 spokesman did write that last week's numbers were "more than [two times the] previous week sales."
We'll see if Microsoft can top 2008, when the Xbox 360 maker claimed it outsold its PlayStation 3 competition three-to-one.
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Of all the shopping-heavy days in the year, two robbers in Maplewood, Missouri picked Cyber Monday as the likeliest day to do their "shopping" at GameStop in person. With a weapon.
St. Louis news service KMOX News reports that two mean armed with a handgun held up the Maplewood GameStop in Maplewood Commons at about 10:30 this morning. Nobody was hurt and the robbers took only money from the store.
I'm trying to decide if the robbers were using a strategy or not. On the one hand, it's Cyber Monday — so there won't be as many people in the store to potentially foil the robbery. But on the other hand, all the money from Black Friday is probably gone from the store and safely in GameStop's bank account... so how much could they really make off with?
Either way, that's two people getting coal in their stockings this Christmas...
Masked men rob Maplewood video store [KMOX News - thanks, Jason!]
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Denver man picks up two consoles for himself on Black Friday at Ultimate Electronics, adding to the gaming sights of a big shopping day. [AP Photo]
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To quote the immortal words of the
musical revolutionaries known as Widelife, "all things just keep getting better!" For the purpose of this post, "all things" include
Steam's post-Thanksgiving deals, which seem to have hit critical value mass today.
Resident Evil 5 for $24.99?
Borderlands for $33.49?
Ghostbusters for $9.99?
Left 4 Dead: Game of the Year Edition for $7.49?
Daddy like.
Once again, if you don't like the games which have had their prices temporarily torn in twain, tune in tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. PST for the next batch of deals.
Steam Deals Day Three: Resident Evil 5, Left 4 Dead, Borderlands on sale originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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