Wholesale Games Industry and Market News

The Black Friday data has finally been released after a short delay, and a staggering 1.8 million games were sold during the week.

Nintendo’s upcoming console is expected to sell between 10 and 12 million units in its first year of release.

Despite somewhat lacklustre sales numbers, Square Enix and Microsoft are happy with Rise of the Tomb Raider.

GfK Chart-Track’s UK physical charts have reportedly caused chaos when they failed to emerge after the Black Friday sales bonanza.

Various developers have been accused of artificially raising their prices before putting their games on sale on the Steam Store, reports say.

Playstation 4 development is about to reach new levels of computing power, as Sony unlocks the console’s seventh processing core.

Below is a list of top 25 best sellers on Steam platform.
1. Grand Theft Auto V – Rockstar – 13 Apr, 2015
2. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – Valve Corporation -…

1. Fallout 4 – Bethesda Softworks
2. Fifa 16 – EA Games
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – Activision

The slow decline of the Playstation’s handheld consoles takes another step, as Sony discloses the removal of the Playstation Store on the Japanese PSP.

Not only has Black Friday put pressure on retailers, but the Playstation Network has also buckled under the strain of masses of new gamers.