With its unique gameplay and critical acclaim, Heavy Rain has sold over 500,000 units in its first week on shelves. Although the game received great reviews, many feared that the game would not do well in terms of sales. Preliminary sales data from VGChartz show that Heavy Rain is doing well so far. In key markets – around 200,000 were sold in the Americas, nearly 100,000 in the UK, over 50,000 in France and 25,000 in Japan.
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Just like Uncharted 2, Borderlands has also broken another sales milestone. The title has reached 3 million copies sold on both the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined, CEO and president Randy Pitchford has said. Take-Two’s financial results showed that the role-playing shooter had reached the 2 million mark by the end of October, meaning the extra million units was generated in about three and a half months.
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In January, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves broke the 2.5 million sales mark since it was released in November 2009. In just over a month since, the game has sold another million units becoming the fastest selling first-party title in PlayStation history. In addition, Uncharted 2 has also garnered more than 150 other industry awards, and has over 1.5 million online users worldwide.
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Sony has had a great 2009, with gamers buying 15% more PS3 games than 2008. The PS3 was also the only console in the U.S. to see double-digit growth in sales this past quarter. December also marked the best sales month in the platform’s history, breaking one million hardware units and 7.3 million software units. January has seen a 36% sales increase on compared to last January.
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BioWare’s dark fantasy epic Dragon Age: Origins has sold 3.2 million copies worldwide across all the platforms, according to publisher Electronic Arts. The game was released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC back in November 2009. “This is a tremendous start for the Dragon Age franchise and we are extremely pleased with the great reception the game has already received from critics and fans worldwide,” says BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka.
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In Sega’s financial report recently released, the sales figure for their latest action game, Bayonetta, was revealed. Platinum Games’ climax action game rung up 1,100,000 million units worldwide on both platforms the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined. It’s been exactly a month since the game was first released, making the title a success in such little time.
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Despite Modern Warfare 2 being released in November 2009, it continued to dominate the global games chart through to the end of 2009. According to MVC, GfK-ChartTrack has confirmed that Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold nearly 12m units worldwide last year. More precisely, the game sold 11.86m units before 2009 came to an end.
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Borderlands, the half first-person shooter and half loot-based role-playing game, has broken the 2 million sales mark according to Take-Two and the NDP Group. The title, which shipped for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 last October, surpassed a publishing milestone in December, toppling one million units sold cumulatively in North America according to the NPD Group, which tracks videogame software sales.
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During Ubisoft’s fiscal report from earlier this week, it was disclosed that sales of Assassin’s Creed II has broken the six million mark. The game sold over 1.6 million units worldwide in the opening week and has continued to sell well. The publisher expects Assassin’s Creed II to sell some 9 million units by the end of its current fiscal year in March.
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Sony Europe has confirmed that the Gran Turismo 5’s Time Trial demo has been downloaded over 1 million times since it was released last month. The demo was release on December 17th 2009 in order to find contestants for this years GT Academy and as a preview of the highly anticipated game. According to the press release, reaching the one million download milestone hails “early success of virtual-to-real-racer experiment.”
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