Anecdotally, there was an overwhelming amount of support for Pokemon Sword over Shield during the new generational reveal, and it seems like the sales data supports that. Breaking down the Japanese sales numbers even further, Dengeki O...

Recently we learned that Mega Man 11, which arrived back in October of 2018, just hit the million-shipped mark in roughly a year and change, but now we have some additional data on how the franchise is doing thanks to series producer K...

When Sakurai explained his pitch for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, his entire development team was stunned. No one but him thought they could pull it off, but lo and behold, the madman did it. It paid off, too, literally, as Nintendo has rece...

Just recently Nintendo revealed that they have pushed 41.67 million Switches across the world by the end of the third quarter of this year. Thanks to new information, we have an idea of how a few major regions contributed to that number. Fo...

Due to its recent financial results posting, Nintendo has updated its software sales totals, and the results are nothing but good news for the company. As usual Mario Kart reigns supreme, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe pushing over 19.01 mil...

As the PS4 surpasses the Wii and the original PlayStation with over 100 million units sold (with a 2013 head start), the Nintendo Switch, which launched in 2017, has hit 41.67 million units sold worldwide. The new figure comes courtesy of N...

Does it feel like the PlayStation 4 is the second-most successful console of all time? Well it is! According to a new financial report released by Sony that goes through the fiscal quarter that ends on September 30, 2019, they've eclipsed t...

The numbers are in, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses is rocking it. As per US NPD data (gleaned from industry analyst Mat Piscatella), Fire Emblem: Three Houses was the second best selling game in all of July, only behind Madden NFL ...

Among Nintendo's general hardware earnings for this past quarter, the publisher also took the time to specifically call out at least one software success: Super Mario Maker 2. In its quarterly report, Nintendo boasts that in the short perio...

The latest set of Nintendo financials have hit and there's a lot to unpack here, but we'll start with the 3DS. Amid bi-monthly discussions about whether or not the 3DS is going the way of the dodo, Nintendo is reporting that the now-eight-y...

In their financial report for January through March 2019, THQ Nordic is reporting a 158% increase in net sales this past quarter. The publishing giant gives most of the credit to Deep Silver (Metro Exodus, Outward in particular) which ...

Nintendo has a lot to celebrate as they have just surpassed the behemoth-like PS4 in terms of lifetime Switch sales in Japan. According to Famitsu, the little hybrid console sold 8.13 million units in that region, higher than Sony's 8.07 mi...

Square Enix's financials look a little Goofy. The Japanese publisher had a weak fiscal year despite a release slate that was headlined by the long-awaited Kingdom Hearts III. Sales aren't the issue, though. The costs associated with getting...

Starbreeze is in financial peril, recently made worse by a $17.5 million loss during the first quarter of the current fiscal year. The Swedish publisher expects a liquidity shortfall by mid-2019, meaning that its liabilities significantly o...

Publisher Koei Tecmo has released their latest financial report revealing that, among many other numbers, that their flagship fighter Dead or Alive 6 sold approximately 350,000 copies in its first month of release.Now, of course, that's a s...

Forward, always forward. That Luke Cage motto is serving Sony well this generation, as they propelled themselves to 96.8 million PS4s sold worldwide as of the end of their last fiscal year (March 31, 2019). That's a monumental feat to ...

Remember Miitomo? Hell, remember Miis, and Miiverse/Swapnote? While Nintendo continues to reference the little-avatars-on-life-support every so often (like ancillary Smash characters or Mario Kart 8 racers) they're nearly dead and...

Content holders have every opportunity to be squirrely about hard data. Netflix is infamous for only telling us when something is a rip-roaring success, and Microsoft eventually started withholding (Lucille Bluth would be proud) Xbox One ha...

Smash Ultimate is a triumph by any measure. It's currently tied as the highest-rated game in the series with Brawl on Metacritic, it's loved by fans, and of course, has sold a ton. How much is a ton? A lot. Let's break it down. In just over...

Nintendo is a wild, wild company to speculate about: even mostly guesswork can end up accurate. It has a baked-in audience at any given time so rumors will always be read; even during the Wii U years, and they're such an out-there publisher...

The last time we left the Nintendo Switch, it was floating in the orbit of the Nintendo 64's 32.93 million lifetime sales: now, it has officially surpassed them thanks to a new financial report from Nintendo last night. According to the pub...

Here's a statistic that isn't necessarily indicative of performance or success or profit: BioWare's Anthem has probably topped $100 million in digital revenue since its February 22 launch. That's the figure that analyst firm SuperData ...

Assassin's Creed has long been thought of as Ubisoft's flagship franchise. It may be time to overhaul that line of thinking. Ubisoft has released its third quarter 2018-2019 financials and there's a surprising statistic about the 2018 ...

Electronic Arts is disappointed in the third quarter of its 2019 fiscal year. In a release to investors, EA says it didn't perform to expectations and that it didn't execute on strategies like it expected to, especially compared to what has...

With the reveal of each month's new PlayStation Plus free games, there's a common-and-disappointed refrain that there isn't much to get excited about. However, plenty of people must find value in Sony's premium online PlayStation service be...