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Games $1.48 billion (-15%)
Hardware $534.2 million (-20%)
Software $736.7 million (-15%)
Accessories $206.1 million (-1%)
DS 613,200
Xbox 360 422,000
Wii 397,900
PlayStation 3 360,100
PSP 133,400
PlayStation 2 101,900
Title / Platform / Publisher / Release Date / Units sold
1. BioShock 2 / 360 / Take-Two / Feb-10 / 562,900
2. New Super Mario Bros. Wii / Wii / Nintendo / Nov-09 / 555,600
3. [...]
US VIDEO GAMES INDUSTRY - JANUARY 2010
Hardware: $353.7 million (-21%)
Software: $597.9 million (-12%)
Accessories: $217 million (2%)
Total Games: $1.17 billion (-13%)
TOP-SELLING HARDWARE - JANUARY 2010
Wii: 465,800
Nintendo DS: 422,200
Xbox 360: 332,800
PlayStation 3: 276,900
PSP: 100,100
PlayStation 2: 41,600
TOP-SELLING SOFTWARE SKUs - JANUARY 2010
Title / Platform / Publisher / Units**
1 New Super Mario Bros. Wii / Wii / Nintendo / [...]
Category / Total / Change
Video Games: $5.53 billion +4%
Video Games Hardware: $2.19 billion +16%
Video Games Software: $2.58 billion -7%
Video Game Accessories: $760.2 million +15%
Hardware Sales (in units sold)
Wii: 3.81 million
Nintendo DS: 3.31 million
PlayStation 3: 1.36 million
Xbox 360: 1.31 million
PlayStation Portable: 654,700
PlayStation 2: 333,200
Game Software (in units sold)
1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii, Nintendo) - [...]
-Q4-2009 world-wide units +22.1% y/y, more than 90 million units
-strongest quarter in the last 7 years
-Europe/Middle East/Africa was the weakest region
-driven by low cost laptops and mini-notebooks
-Windows 7 did not create additional demand
-U.S. PC shipments +26.5% y/y with 19.8 million units
-EMEA +3.6% y/y with 29.7 million units
-Asia Pacific +44.4% y/y with 27.1 million units
-Latin America [...]
A new approach to China
1/12/2010 03:00:00 PM
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that [...]
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Bit-tech has a very good interview with Richard Huddy (Link). Excerpts below.
bit-tech: IF - given we don’t know yet - when Nvidia’s Fermi cards finally arrive they are faster than your HD 5970…
RH: Well if it’s not faster and it’s 50 per cent bigger, then they’ve done something wrong.
bit-tech: Well if it is then, do [...]
From his January 2010 investment outlook (Link)
Here’s the problem that the U.S. Fed’s “exit” poses in simple English: Our fiscal 2009 deficit totaled nearly 12% of GDP and required over $1.5 trillion of new debt to finance it. The Chinese bought a little ($100 billion) of that, other sovereign wealth funds bought some more, but [...]
Bill Gross was interviewed in Time. Excerpts below:
Where do you see the economy going over the next 6 to 12 months?
The economy should be relatively strong in the first half of 2010 then weaken in the second half. That’s not to say we’ll return to recession but we’ll see weakness as opposed to a continuation [...]