PSPgo, the newest addition to the PlayStation family, will carry a premium price of $US249 USD when it launches this October. That’s $US80 more than the PSP-3000, a figure considered too high by gamers and at least one analyst.
Publishers should recognise that the televised appearance of celebrities in their underwear hyping Guitar Hero is helping that series beat its better-reviewed competition, according to a gaming analyst.
Everyone’s favourite industry analyst, Michael Pachter, says that, rumoured Wii HD upgrade not withstanding, this current console generation is gonna be with us at least four more years.
Depending on which analyst you ask, first month sales of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars are either a worrisome indicator that Mature-rated content simply can’t sell on the Nintendo DS—or a great success.
A list of the 25 most popular iPhone applications to date is nearly half-filled with games, with Tapulous’ Tap Tap Revenge coming out on top.
Electronic Entertainment Design And Research compares used game trade-in values between GameStop and Amazon.com and finds that brick and mortar is still the way to go.
In February, analyst Mike Hickey predicted a PlayStation 3 price drop would hit near the end of the month. Didn’t happen. He also passed on speculation that Sony would drop the PS3′s Blu-ray drive.
Games make up nearly a quarter of all applications available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, according to mobile analytics site Mobclix.
Rockstar Games and Microsoft haven’t disclosed exact sales of the Grand Theft Auto IV expansion The Lost and Damned, only boasting that it has broken Xbox Live Arcade records. But one analyst has a guess.
God of War III could truly be a killer app for the PlayStation 3, as one analyst’s data indicates that one in three potential buyers of the game don’t own the console yet.