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Analyst: Sony’s $249 PSP Go Is “Too Much”

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.


May 12, 2009
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Famous People Sell Games Better Than Game Reviewers

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.


May 3, 2009
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Analyst: Next Gen Begins After 2013

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.


April 14, 2009
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Dueling Analysts: Chinatown Wars Sales Show Mature Game Risk (or Huge Opportunity)

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.


April 8, 2009
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Tap Tap Revenge Top Tops iPhone Charts

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.


March 18, 2009
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Analyst: GameStop Has Nothing To Fear From Amazon

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.


March 13, 2009
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Sony: We Won’t Drop Blu-Ray For The PS3

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.


March 8, 2009
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iPhone’s App Store Packed With Nearly 6,200 Games

Games make up nearly a quarter of all applications available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, according to mobile analytics site Mobclix.


March 7, 2009
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Analyst: Lost And Damned Sales At 1 Million, All-New GTA In 2010

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.


March 4, 2009
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Analyst: One In Three God Of War III Buyers Don’t Own A PS3

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.