June game sales up 12 percent

**gaming ultima** · 07-21-2004

June 2004 NPD Funworld figures arrived to the industry a day late this month, but there were no complaints from either the retailer or publisher camps. Dollar and unit sales were up for the month of June, prompting one analyst to call the $41 million spike in June sales “significantly higher than expected.”

Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter was the first to issue a note to the financial community reflecting on the increased revenues for the month of June, which rose from $339 million in June 2003 to $380 million in June 2004.

Drilling down to highlight the industry’s top performers, Pachter said, “We were especially encouraged by the performance of new SKUs, such as Activision's Spider-Man 2, Atari's Driver 3, Electronic Arts' Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and THQ's Full Spectrum Warrior, each of which sold well over 100,000 units.” Those were just four of the 12 titles that sold more than 100,000 units each during the month.

Other notable sellers, according to Pachter, were Activision’s A-list titles Shrek 2 and Spider-Man 2, which sold 326,000 units and 442,000 units, respectively, He also singled out Atari’s respectable performance with Driver 3, which sold 238,000 units despite receiving mixed reviews.

Electronic Arts was also in the spotlight during June, during which it held onto its 16 percent share of the game market. The company drove an estimated $61.4 million at retail, buoyed by Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban's 316,000 units sold.

Other 100,000-plus-unit sellers for the month included Midway’s NBA Ballers (120,000) and Take-Two’s Red Dead Revolver (140,000 units).

Pachter held up THQ for some well-deserved glory, noting the company had 29 titles that sold in excess of 10,000 units during the month of June, compared to only 10 titles that topped the threshold the previous month. Full Spectrum Warrior for the Xbox sold about 190,000 units for the month.

Breaking sales out by console, Xbox showed a dramatic spike in year-on-year game sales. Xbox software sales in June 2004 were up 69 percent over June 2003 figures. GameCube software sales were up 48 percent. Sales of PS2 games were up 3 percent and sales of GBA games were up 6 percent.

With the first half of 2004 over, Pachter was confident in his assessment that the game market is on track for a year-on-year growth of at least 10 percent. His closing comments to the investment community were emblematic of this enthusiasm--“The rebound in sales growth has begun.”

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its a good day for the industry, and its going to be a very good year
with software sales going up every year once the new generation of consoles come in at initial price hardware revenue will go up and the industry will grow at very fast rates, it wont be long in fact before it overtakes the music industry

**PlayStation 3** · 07-21-2004

I'm not really keen of music so I really hope it does over take the music industry as we would see more benefits for us

Ohhh and btw did u know that the PS2 has twice as many games as the xbox and the gamecube combined. How amazing is that

It also is the world's most famous console and world's largest selling console aswell

Just thought you might like to know

**gamingchik** · 07-30-2004

PS2 ROCKS!!!!!
Has anybody heard of d skin? It's supposed to protect you cds dvds, games from being scratched... Has anybody tried them out while playing the games...???

~mandie

**Blake** · 07-30-2004

Ohhh and btw did u know that the PS2 has twice as many games as the xbox and the gamecube combined. How amazing is that

It also is the world's most famous console and world's largest selling console aswell

Just thought you might like to know

Thankyou Captain obvious! You really are a know it all arent you? I dont know where I'd be now with out your blantantly obvious yet useless information...you really have made me a dumber person because of it. Thankyou...

p.s. gamingchic, please stick to the topic at hand.

**Evolution** · 07-30-2004

Look, playstation 3, you once accused me of trying to raise my my skill level. Who the hell are you to say. You have got loads of posts that just say something like LOL, >_<, o_o and you also state things that everyone already knows and that have no relevance at all.

**heerokenshin** · 05-12-2006

Madden 2007

During last years E3, EA was showcasing it's first nex-gen Madden on the XBox 360. Although it was one player, and one stadium. Not to mention is was not controllable.
This year is a little more exciting, the PS3 version is already playable, running at E3 with 11 on 11 multiplayer. This is amazing, consider the game is still in its early stages of development.
The biggest flaw of Madden 2006 on the 360 was the lack of features compared to the Xbox and PS2 versions of the game. EA has responded with more features. The game releases in August for the 360. While the PS3 version will arrive later, in November, it is possible that it will launch with more features than the MS version of the game.
New features include the Run to Daylights feature, allowing gamers to open up routes for running backs by playing as lead blocker. Also, the mini-camps will be critical, where you build up your custom built players. The mini-camps consist of mini-games; the better you do, the better you become on the field. Mini-camps are also used to rehabilitate injured players and get them back on the field faster. Be careful though, if you overwork your players in mini-camps, you could injure them worse.
The stadiums have gotten a makeover as well, expect to see fully interactive grass, with field degradation. If you constanly are running up the middle, the grass will begin to rip up there more. Tear up the field enough, and you'll see puddles in the rain.
The game will no doubt include all other modes and options from earlier versions, with updated rosters and plays.
More information will be available closer to launch, but judging by the progress on this game so far, its looking to be far better than last years game.

**luxurys** · 05-12-2006

there are tons of pics and vids out for this...you should add some

also this is fairly close to the IGN article, because as I read it I know whats next due to breezing through IGN's article like 4 hours ago. Also...add something about how the game is still in early development and is only like 30% done.