Wholesale Games Industry and Market News

This year’s E3 was a powerful event full of great games from both the major console manufacturers and the largest publishers and developers in the industry.

This month Sony are expanding the lineup of Playstation 4 consoles even more with two new limited editions, in silver and gold.

Sony are defending their decision not to allow cross-play between PS4 and Xbox One or Switch consoles in spite of fire from gamers.

Analysts predict that PS4 will sell 69 million units by the end of 2017, almost double of what is predicted for Xbox One sales of 36 million units.

Sony showed at their E3 press conference that they’ve been working hard to bring a range of great titles to Playstation VR over the coming year.

Microsoft finally unveiled the console that has been Project Scorpio, for the last year or so, over the weekend at their E3 conference, the Xbox One X.

E3 2017 begins on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, but many major companies began their press conferences last Saturday, as EA opened with the first conference.

UK Charts. Week ending on June 10, 2017:
1. WipEout: Omega Collection – Sony
2. Tekken 7 – Bandai Namco
3. Dirt 4 – Codemasters

EA confirmed that they will be showing off a total of eight games at E3 2017, two of which could be brand new titles we’ve not seen before.

Io-Interactive seems to be planning to drop the episodic format for their latest Hitman title in favour of a full release.