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Sales Records EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag MW2 sells twice as well on the 360 105 Hold on. Let me get out my lighter fluid and my large fan because I'm about to douse some fanboy flames in the stuff then fan them until they're miles high. I know some of you had to be wondering... Insane cat game becomes worst selling Wii title ever 63 Sukeban Shachou Rena Wii has broken a sales record, but not in any way that should be celebrated. The weird minigame compilation launched this recently in Japan and has swiftly claimed the title ... NFS series reaches 100 million sold and other crazy facts 10 The Need for Speed franchise has hit an impressive 100 million copies sold, a feat EA says only four other videogame brands have managed to accomplish. The game to push the series over the mark w... PSPgo launch boosts PSP sales 300 percent 30 No, this story isn't about that werewolf, but rather, about the success of the PSPgo's launch sales. However, since I work for a videogame blog that allows me to use whatever type of header pictu... Guitar Hero 5 comfortably ahead of The Beatles: Rock Band 83 Get ready to be aggravated with consumers around the world because Activision is claiming that Guitar Hero 5 is comfortably outselling The Beatles: Rock Band. If you take a look at our reviews of... US PS3 sales shoot up 300 percent 36 We already knew that the new PS3 Slim was doing rather well in the land of the rising sun, but how are US audiences feeling about that shiny new package and price point? Well, pretty good, actual... PS3 Slim sells over 150,000 units in Japan (like woah) 46 It's fairly safe to say that the PS3 Slim is a hit. After humiliating the Xbox 360 in the UK, Sony's slimmer Black Box o' Blu-ray has taken Japan by storm, managing to shift over 150,000 units in... Shadow Complex breaks Xbox Live Arcade sales records 37 By all accounts, the verdict is that Shadow Complex is a pretty damn good game. It brought the experience and production values of a fully-fledged retail game into a downloadable title and earned... DSi sales hit 3 million in Japan, 6.68 million worldwide 17 I remember writing a story about the DSi when it was new. At that time, many of Destructoid's readers did not seem eager to purchase a souped up DS Lite. Even today we see some resistance. Is it ... Resident Evil 4 Wii sales edge out GameCube version 30 Remember when there was only one version of Resident Evil 4? I played the sh*t out of my GameCube copy of Resident Evil 4, thinking it was the best thing ever at the time. When the PS2 version la... Viacom spanked by poor Rock Band sales 23 Viacom's quarterly revenues were down 14 percent. When sales are down, you've gotta blame someone or something, right?Rock Band gets the blame this time around. Profit dropped 26 percent, and the... Castle Crashers hits one million players 15 Yesterday saw a milestone for Castle Crashers as the XBLA side-scrolling beat-em-up hit one million players. After only ten months on the service at that.It should not come as any surprise. The g... Bionic Commando swings on by, sold only 27,000 copies 45 Perhaps you saw what we thought of Capcom's Bionic Commando. We didn't give it a terrible score. It's just that it wasn't anything special to us. It didn't commando our attention, you might say.I... Valkyria Chronicles sales jump 400% due to price cut 42 There are quite a few fans of Valkyria Chronicles on the Destructoid staff, myself included -- solid gameplay, breathtaking art and a beautiful story is the kind of combination in a game that's h... E3 09: EA Sports Active is a huge success, expansion coming 10 During EA's E3 press brefing, EA Sports president Peter Moore was happy to let the world know that they hit one out of the park with EA Sports Active. The game has been a massive hit; it came out... Resident Evil 5 may have sold 5 million copies by now 17 Capcom seems to be doing pretty well for themselves during the economic downturn. According to their CFO, Kazuhiko Abe, the publisher has posted an eleven percent operating profit for the 2008 fi... April NPD: Games down 17 percent, DSi rocked 7 We'll make quick work of this month's NPD data, as it closely mirrors the previous month's data. This is the second month that the games market has dropped, down 17 percent again. Hardware sales ... Is Wii Sports the best selling game ever? 38 24 years is a long time to be number one at anything. World records fall on an almost annual basis and it seems that no one is the king of the pile for very long. The fact that Super Mario Bros. ... Resident Evil is Capcom's biggest selling series 31 Here’s a shocker: people like Resident Evil. According to Capcom global sales data -- recently compiled beautifully by Kotaku -- the Resident Evil series has outsold the Mega Man series by ... Final Fantasy XIII demo gives PS3 a 288 percent sales jump 23 We got a preview of what power a Final Fantasy game has in Japan when we saw the first week sales of the PS3 jump in the same week that the Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete Blu-ray coll... Valkyria Chronicles strikes back with a vengeance 50 We all want to see solid games that are brave enough to stand apart from the pack do well, but in the case of the stellar Valkyria Chronicles, good looks were not enough, selling only 33,000 unit... Those GTA: Chinatown Wars sales are good in a different way 23 The sales of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars have caused a bit of a stir about whether or not the DS is a system that can support M-rated games. If you've been keeping up with the game, you'll k... Killzone 2 sells 500K, has big DLC news tonight 26 The hype continues to pay off for Guerrilla's PlayStation 3 exclusive, Killzone 2. The gritty FPS has set a new sales record, clearing 500,000 sales quicker than any first-party PS3 game to date.... The 50 best-selling games this decade 43 Damn, I can't believe this decade is almost over! We've come so far since Y2K. I've played so many games since then, and I'm sure you have, too.They may say that we gamers care too much about sal... Nintendo reaffirms their overwhelming supremacy, in case you hadn't noticed 22 In a recent statement, Nintendo spoke about their sales for the beginning of 2009, saying "Nintendo kicked off 2009 the same way it finished 2008: with a bang ... While the video game indust... CES 2009: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock reaches $1 billion in sales 18 Showing how big of a role name recognition plays in the videogame market, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock has become the first game to earn $1 billion in sales. Activision Publishing CEO Mike Gr... Pachter plays the guessing game with holiday sales while Microsoft brags 6 I didn't get any new consoles this holiday season, so I have to admit I didn't do too much guessing about which ones sold best. Of course, why waste my time on such things when I could merely tur... Wii Sports officially the best-selling game ever 57 If you'd like a quick snapshot of what the world has come to, we bring you news that Wii Sports is now officially the best-selling videogame ever made. It has overtaken Super Mario Bros., Pok&eac... Media Create: Fallout 3 has a strong Japanese debut 8 Japanese gamers are not the biggest fans of Western shooters, but Fallout 3 still managed to rank in the top ten in last week's Media Create sales numbers for the island country.Debuting at a res... Nintendo shrugs off recession talk with crazy Wii sales 10 For Black Friday week, Nintendo sold about 800,000 Wii consoles and about the same number of DS systems. That's more than double the 350,000 sold this time last year. “I see no negative sig... Japan: PSP has 5 of top ten titles, number 2 in hardware 16 The DS (and the DSi) are always big in Japan, right? Well, the PSP is putting up a good fight lately. The Media Create sales figures for last week show that Sony's portable has plenty of good sof... Namco Bandai's games division profits fall 92 percent 22 Wow, what are you guys doing over there, Namco Bandai? Your second quarter financial results for gaming showed a nasty 92.4 percent drop, down from last year's $45.5 million to $3.4 million this ... Mobile game sales have 'flatlined' 12 Aw. Every time I visit Japan, it refuels my hope that the U.S. will someday have a mobile games market that supports the release of the solid, quality titles that Japan sees. It finally seems lik... Circuit City short circuits, prepares to close 155 stores 22 Circuit City is doing sh*tty these days. You know it's bad when Sony holds back shipment of PS3s for fears that the retailer couldn't properly pay for them. While not confirmed to be true, that ... Wii surpasses N64 in sales, becomes fifth best-selling console of all time 54 It’s official: the Wii has become the fifth best-selling console of all time (excluding handhelds), recently surpassing the Nintendo 64 in total lifetime sales. No real big surprise here, b... GameStop sees record sales, thanks to titles like GTA IV, MGS4 12 I haven't been to a GameStop in months. Between internet ordering and what is sent to me as a Destructoid reviewer, I just haven't felt the need to visit lately. It does not seem that they're mis... Wii Fit takes top spot on Amazon.com, I still haven't opened mine 19 I wouldn't say I'm necessarily "out of shape" as much as I'm not "in shape." There was a time when I'd hit the gym, lifting things up and putting them back down in an effort t... Wii bends PS3 over, gives it firm and humiliating Japanese sales shafting 30 It seems that the MGS4 boost wasn't enough to give Sony any perpetual sales momentum in Japan, as Nintendo has left the competition eating its dust. Nintendo's little white waggle box is currentl... Pachter: Nintendo has not forgotten core gamers, but still is rich 21 Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter predicts that Nintendo's Q1 sales were $3.91 billion, just ahead of the second quarter financial results expected July 30th. His predictions are even higher that ... Shock: Smash Bros. dominates UK sales charts 27 Proving that games companies can do whatever they want to Europe and get away with it, the British people have bent over and received a big fat rogering from Nintendo now that it's finally decide... May NPD: PS3 outsells Xbox 360, GTA IV sells like crazy 35 It's that time of month again where I plow through the NPD numbers and subsequent "big three" responses and try to make sense of it all. This month we see the same spin recipe we've see... April NPD: Mario Kart Wii takes a back seat to GTA IV 11 Duh. Going through the releases on April's NPD data from the "big three," two of them are touting Grand Theft Auto IV sales records, while the other is saying that they sold the most sy... Mario Kart Wii and Monster Hunter 2nd: Japan's top sellers for three weeks 10 In Japan, for three weeks in a row now, both Mario Kart Wii and Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP) have topped the software sales charts. The Golden Week series of Japanese holidays is just wrap... March NPD: PS3 barely loses lead over Xbox 360, Nintendo continues to dominiate 38 It's that time of the month again, when I plow through the NPD numbers and try to make sense of each of the big three's press releases. Sony's PlayStation 3 continues to have a good run, though t... Japanese sales in March: PSP outsells all other consoles 19 It's sort of funny how a Reuters article points out the Captain Obvious headline rather than the real news here.Sony's PlayStation Portable dominated Japanese sales in March. Reuters aims for the... Developers and publishers warm up to the PSP, shipments up 85% 19 After the PSP's launch in 2005, gamers became increasingly down in the mouth about Sony's first portable attempt. There was a serious lack of quality titles, and some worried that it would become... Feburary NPD: PS3 outsells Xbox 360 again, Wii & DS make up 50% of hardware 24 If you had to boil down this month's NPD numbers to one statement, it wouldn't be about any particular system (despite how my headline reads). "Videogames are blowing up" would probably... Microsoft expects PS3 to lead for a second month 48 When we said that the PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 in January, Destructoid's readership was not surprised. Now Microsoft gives us a heads-up on the February NPD numbers, and they think that... PSP outsells Wii and DS in Japan 49 Sony has their day, or should I say week, in Japan. The sales numbers for the PlayStation Portable and the DS have been running pretty close to even lately, and last week Sony's portable finally ... PSP and DS sales running close to even in Japan 41 Back in your school days, did you ever use the phrase "get out of my bathtub" on the swingsets? This weird phrase refers to two people swinging in sync. What the hell does that mean any... Japan moves half a million copies of Smash Bros. Brawl in one day 42 There's no denying that this week was a kickass week for console game releases in Japan. It should come as no surprise that Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Brawl led the pack, managing to move 500,0... Sony cuts PS3 sales targets, raises PSP targets 18 Sony rounded out 2007 rough year with pretty solid PS3 sales. They moved 4.9 million units in the time between October and December. it's not the Wii's 7 million for the same time frame, but it i... Check your balance: games to exceed $10 billion in 2008 27 The US economy may be a bit weak, but it doesn't look like the game industry will suffer for it. In fact, 2008 may lead us into "the largest, most robust cycle in history," according to... December NPD: Everyone says that they won 10 In a sense, I guess everyone does win in December. But the releases sent to us by Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft on December's NPD data all seem to point to their victories over something, and mos... England hates BioShock, loves FIFA 08: 2007's UK sales chart is blasphemy 163 The UK overall sales chart of 2007 has been released, and it shows a few interesting notes, a few obvious points and at least one absolute instance of complete and utter fail. Topping the chart w... Japan's 50 top selling Xbox 360 games listed 36 The good folks at NeoGAF bring us a scan from Famitsu Xbox360 detailing the top 50 best selling Xbox 360 titles in Japan. These numbers come from Enterbrain tracking. Without further ado:01. Blue... Activision pwned 2007: Top US publisher from January to November 13 There's no question that publisher Activision has been kicking some serious ass this year. A few months back we told you about how they became the top third-party publisher in the US, and now the... Spin-free: November NPD software numbers 21 November was a great month for hardware sales, but it was even better for software, with sales up 62 percent to an incredible $1.3 billion. These days, it's in high fashion to "claim" t... Spin-free: November NPD hardware numbers 18 Even though the monthly NPD data is used by all game companies to gauge sales and successes, we have to be mindful of how those numbers are presented. This highly competitive industry has quickly... Sony is on track to make 5 percent profit this fiscal year 22 Things are looking up for Sony -- 5 percent up, according to CNN Money. Sony CEO Howard Stringer told Japanese reporters that the company is still on track for a 5% operating profit margin this f... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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