Video Game Sales Seen Pausing After Record 2003
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Video game sales soared to a record &#36;18.2 billion last year, but the days of strong growth are on pause as players await a new generation of consoles in 2005 and 2006, a new study showed on Wednesday.
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Signaling a possible wider slowdown in the semiconductor industry, Royal Philips Electronics on Friday became the latest company to say that sales had begun to stall.
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Retail sales slowed last month, official data showed Thursday, as the country&#39;s wettest June on record kept consumers away from the highstreet.
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U.S. chain store retail sales saw a slight decline of 0.3 percent on a week-over-week basis.  However, on a year-over-year basis, the sales momentum remained strong at 3.5 percent, a report said on Tuesday.
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Gamers in Europe will have to wait a bit longer than expected to get their hands on the PlayStation 3, with Sony announcing that production glitches have pushed back the launch of its next-generation console until March 2007.
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Total video game sales (hardware and software) through  October was $10.5 billion, compared with $7 billion for the  same period last year, according to data from NPD Group.
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Sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 game machine sales totaled 1.2 million in North America during the key holiday season, the electronics and entertainment company said Monday. The performance gave a lift to its Blu-ray video format because the console also works as a Blu-ray player.
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A widely expected PS3 price cut won't jump-start Sony's sales. What they need is a hit title for gamers.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Life!) - Video gamers, finally  emerging from the pixilated haze brought on by last year's  bumper crop of best-selling titles, are now turning their  attention to upcoming releases.
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Game consoles doing so well, company needed to revise 2007 financial forecasts.
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When the game console will be available here remains uncertain.
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Shortages of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 console may cause customers to hold off buying new video games, extending a period of slow growth for publishers including Electronic Arts Inc., the biggest.
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TechWeb - LAS VEGAS - U.S. video game industry sales growth is expected to slow in 2008 as accelerated demand for software is tempered by a decline in hardware revenue, the Consumer Electronics Association said Saturday.
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Sony's game unit said Monday that it had sold 1.2 million PlayStation 3 video game consoles in North America during the key year-end holiday shopping season.
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Despite an expected cyclical downturn in sales, the video game industry is poised to enjoy a record-breaking holiday season.
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Holiday hits "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and "Halo 2" lead way as game makers sell close to $10 billion in software and hardware.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Consumers are easing off on PC purchases as corporations ramp up their purchases, according to the latest data from market researcher IDC. Slackening consumer demand will help lower expectations for the market in the second half of 2004 and into 2005, IDC said Monday.