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Analyst: Halo: Reach pushed up September games sales figuresDela @ Oct 12, 2010 06:24 | 4 comments
Pachter predicts that U.S. games software sales for September will hit $665 million, representing a 2.4 percent increase over September 2009. The increase would be larger if it wasn't for a decline in the music games genre. Last year, Guitar Hero 5 and Rock Band: The Beatles helped to boost the genre, while Pachter predicts this time around, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock only sold 100,000 units.
Overall, Pachter expected rhythm genre sales to be down more than $100 million for the month, from $116 million to just $15 million.
He expects FIFA 11 and Dead Rising 2 to be among the best selling titles for the month, while he expects sales of Sony's PlayStation Move to be "modest" at best.
On the hardware side however, Pachter is not feeling very positive. He predicts an 18 percent decrease in sales due to the fact that games hardware saw price slashes in time for September 2009, helping to push up the figures. For the same reason, he expects the drop in hardware sales compared to 2009 to continue for a few months.
NPD's September figures for the U.S. are due this week. |
Wedbush's Michael Pachter revealed in a note he sent to investors that Bungie's
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Comment by: Zealousi (Oct 12, 2010 11:29) well dddeeerrrrrr of course they saw a profit, 5 years of halo development and they expect not to see a profit. Ha it is one of the biggest franchises in the gaming industry and one of the biggest.
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Comment by: ps3lvanub (Oct 12, 2010 12:21) And one of the best.
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Comment by: Zealousi (Oct 12, 2010 12:48) Originally posted by ps3lvanub: HAHAHA agreed, I am all most a captian.
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Comment by: Jemborg (Oct 12, 2010 15:15) Originally posted by Zealousi: Bungie will not be doing the next one. It will be taken over by somebody else. This was their last Halo, they are moving onto other projects.
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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