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Putting Elden Ring’s 12 million sales in context

Enlarge / The lord of all he surveys… in terms of sales, that is. (credit: FromSoftware) If you’ve even talked to someone who plays a lot of video games lately, you shouldn’t be surprised that Elden Ring—with its combination of open-world exploration and punishing Souls-like difficulty—is a huge hit. Still, we were taken aback when […]

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Putting the PS5’s 10 million sales in context

Fig. 1: The PS5 is among the quickest consoles ever to reach 10 million worldwide sales. When Sony announced Monday that it had sold 10 million PS5 consoles to consumers, it trumpeted the system as “the Fastest Selling Console in Sony Interactive Entertainment History.” The certainly sounds impressive, but it lacks the specificity we’d like […]

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20 percent of Switch sales now going to households that already had a Switch

Congratulations! It’s a bouncing, baby gaming console! [credit: Nintendo ] In the last year, Nintendo sold roughly 5.8 million Switch units to households that already had at least one Switch. That’s according to a recently translated investor Q&A in which Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said that “household demand for multiple systems accounted for roughly 20% […]

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Black Friday Horror! Relive The Craziest Viral Seconds In The Most Famous Day Of Earnings!

It’s ’s time to get a Thanksgiving tradition like no other: Black Friday, at which shoppers commended chilly temperatures all night {} they could save eight dollars to a gaming console which ’ll be outdated from June. GotId adore that American consumer citizenship, infant!!! Connected: Dark Friday Brawl Breaks From Pennsylvania Mall! WHOA! To be […]