U.S. Video Game Sales Rose 8 Pct in 2004-Analysts
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U.S. video game sales rose 8 percent in 2004, despite a drop in sales in December due to widespread hardware shortages, analysts said on Friday.
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U.S. consumer electronics sales will  grow by 8.1 percent this year, sharply ahead of previous  forecasts and more than three times 2003 levels, an industry  trade group said on Monday.
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Nintendo says it has sold more than 600,000 of its new Wii consoles, since its launch eight days ago in the US.
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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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Video-game chain GameStop Corp.'s second-quarter earnings rose on strong sales.
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U.S. retail sales over the Internet  rose 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2004 and gained 23.1  percent compared with the same period last year as consumers  continued to turn to e-commerce to make purchases, a government  report showed on Friday.
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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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Video game Halo 3 earns more than Â£84m ($170m) in sales in its first 24 hours on release, says Microsoft.
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Nintendo has said that it had sold more than 600,000 new Wii video game consoles in just eight days in North America in a boost to its efforts to wrest back market dominance from industry leader Sony.
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Video game sales rose 35 percent in  the United States in October, analysts said on Friday, as the  blockbuster criminal adventure "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas"  sold more than 2 million units in just five days of release.
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Sales from online advertising hit $4.6 billion in the first half of 2004, up more than 40 percent from the same period the previous year, according to a new US study.
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TOKYO -- A recovery in electronics sales offset losses in video games and helped boost Sony's profit for the July-to-September quarter more than 40-fold over the same period a year ago.
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Number of households that hook up gaming consoles to TVs increased 18 percent since late 2004, says Nielsen.
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Video game sales soared to a record $18.2 billion last year, but the days of strong growth are on pause as players await a new generation of consoles.
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GameStop Corp , the largest  U.S. video game retailer, raised its quarterly earnings  estimate on Thursday after holiday season sales rose sharply on  blockbuster games like "Guitar Hero."
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LOS ANGELES  - Sales of video games rose about 11 percent in the United States in November, analysts said on Friday, with two key titles responsible for almost 30 percent of all games sold in the month.
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The booming popularity of Nintendo's Wii console and DS handheld sent the combined sales of game machines and gaming software in Japan to a record high last year, according to research by a Japanese publisher.