Telltale Games have had huge success with The Walking Dead series. The five-episode series based on the comic books of the same name has sold over 8.5 million episodes across multiple platforms, including the PS3, Xbox and iOS, since launch, generating over $40 million in revenue for the games company.
Earlier this week Sony issues a press release marking another milestone for the PS3. The press release says the PS3 has sold over 30 million units in PAL Territories, which includes Australia, New Zealand and South Africa – since March 2007.
Netflix is available on a multitude of devices, from PS Vita to tablets and PCs, but, the PS3 is the number 1 device used to stream content in the living room for the provider. The service was first launched on the console back in November 2009 and has since become a primary development platform for the Netflix streaming experience, giving PS3 owners early access to many new features that come to other platforms later.
The first week’s numbers for Call of Duty: Black Ops II are in and the news is as expected. The game has sold over 11 million units across the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC in it’s first week on sale. In comparison, the game outsold the previous version by around 550,000 units, which sold over 10.5 million units in its first week.
In a press release this morning, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that sales for the PS3 have reached over 70 million units worldwide as of November 4th 2012. The milestone has been achieved in less than six years after the console was first launched in 2006. Sony’s PlayStation Move controller has also surpassed 15 million units as of November 11th 2012.
Sony has revealed that sales of the PS3 in the UK has passed the 5 million unit mark, since the console was first launched in March 2007. The console has sold over 5 million across all three designs, starting with the very first 60GB model, down to the 500GB “Super Slim” models recently launched.
Capcom has shipped a “record breaking” 4.5 million copies of horror title Resident Evil 6 worldwide. The figure is a new company record according to Capcom, which shipped 4.4 million copies of Resident Evil 5 back in 2009. The company is expecting the game to sell 7 million copies by the end March 31st, 3012.
Sony has sold over 200,000 copies of Tokyo Jungle, a survival action game exclusively available on the PS3. The number includes both digital and Blu-ray disc versions of the game, since the title was launched in Japan on June 7, 2012.
SCEE has revealed that over 830,000 gamers entered the Nissan and PlayStation GT Academy Online Competition across Europe. The entry for the competition closed last week, which involved gamers download and competing in a Gran Turismo 5 standalone demo.
Capcom has announced that its latest IP, action RPG Dragon’s Dogma, has shipped over one million copies to retailers, since the title was released toward the end of May. Of course, it doesn’t indicate the actual number of units sold, but it does mean there is a huge demand for the game.
