Assassin's Creed Is Finally Delivering On Its Long-Lost Promise 'Assassin's Creed Shadows' is officially one of the year's top-sellers, proving there's still plenty of life in Ubisoft's aging franchise. Inverse · Apr 16, 2025
Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Preorders Over Trump Tariffs The company previously dropped out of the Brazilian market for five years until the country relaxed its tariffs on video games. Reason · Apr 4, 2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sold 5 times more than the original in its first month That number is US sales, but it suggests Warhorse's purse is overflowing with groschen. PC Gamer · Mar 19, 2025
Despite Monster Hunter Wilds suffering monstrous performance problems on PC, it still outsold the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions in the US "Launch week dollar sales were the largest for a title since the debut of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6" GamesRadar · Mar 10, 2025
Fortnite is the "biggest competitor" to any newly launched video game, says analyst Speaking with Kinda Funny Games, Circana executive director and analyst Mat Piscatella noted that Fortnite is the biggest threat to any newly-launched game. Windows Central · Feb 21, 2025
Gamers Could Pay Billions After Tariffs Ahead of President Trump's imposed tariffs, the Entertainment Software Association has released a note about the effects it could have on video games. Inverse · Feb 3, 2025
Analysts predict Switch 2 might struggle with attracting mainstream buyers for the same reason Wii U failed: "I can imagine 'normies' being a bit confused" Oh, awesome, another portable handheld device! GamesRadar · Jan 22, 2025
Potential US tariffs could hike game prices and hurt physical releases Potential US import tariffs could raise game prices and hit physical releases. TechRadar · Jan 22, 2025
Leading analysts predict the Nintendo Switch 2 could shift anywhere between 14 million and 20 million units in its first year - if Nintendo can keep up with demand That'd likely mean shifting more consoles than the Nintendo Switch did in a similar timeframe GamesRadar · Jan 20, 2025
Nintendo Switch 2 launch price won't "really matter," analyst says, because early Nintendo buyers "aren't very price-sensitive" anyway – if it's not "egregious," it will sell I'm certainly hoping to buy one GamesRadar · Jan 19, 2025
Veteran analyst expects Switch 2 to be "a massive success," but doesn't see it matching the "outlier" that was the Switch 1: "It could happen, but it's not likely" Lightning doesn't strike twice GamesRadar · Jan 18, 2025
The Video Games Bedeviling Elon Musk Skepticism rages about whether Elon Musk actually put in the hours to become a top player of video games "Diablo IV" and "Path of Exile 2." International Business Times · Jan 17, 2025
Nintendo Switch 2 will hit 4.3 million units sold in the US in its first year, according to analyst Analyst expects PS5 to still outsell Nintendo Switch 2 in the US in 2025. TechRadar · Jan 9, 2025
Analyst predicts Switch 2 supply will struggle with "significant early demand surge," PS5 will still end up the best-selling hardware for US in 2025 Circana forecasts 4.3 million units Switch 2 units sold in the US by the end of the year GamesRadar · Jan 8, 2025
GamesRadar · Dec 27, 2024 Despite "a rocky couple of years," analyst reckons Xbox's console war is "actually looking pretty bright" - "If you look at the PlayStation sales chart, you see a lot of Microsoft on there" "You look at their results in their earnings reports, and you go, okay, that looks pretty darn good"
Windows Central · Dec 23, 2024 Indiana Jones was the second best-selling game in the US its debut week, behind another Xbox property Indiana Jones and the Great Circle sees solid sales debut in its first full week, reaching second place behind Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, another Microsoft-owned IP.
GamesRadar · Dec 22, 2024 As the Switch 2 approaches, analyst agrees Nintendo plays a different game than PlayStation and Xbox - but "maybe not as much as Nintendo themselves might believe" "The way that consumers will buy Nintendo devices in conjunction with a PlayStation or an Xbox or a PC."
Inverse · Dec 19, 2024 Leak Suggests Switch 2 Will Finally Fix The Original’s Most Notorious Problem The latest Nintendo Switch 2 leak includes the handheld's name, Joy-Con innovations, and a mysteriously powerful new dock.
GamesRadar · Dec 15, 2024 Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is one of the best-selling games in Bandai Namco history: "A nice surprise in a year that's been kind of rough overall," says analyst Sparking Zero is also the best-selling Dragon Ball game to date
GamesRadar · Dec 15, 2024 Veteran analyst is optimistic about Switch 2, hopes it will "more clearly communicate how this is different than the Switch" than the Wii U did with Wii Nintendos and don'ts
GamesRadar · Dec 14, 2024 As the live service wars continue, analyst says games like Black Myth: Wukong, Palworld, and Helldivers 2 prove it's hard to predict the next hit: "All bets are off" "Right now, these kinds of games are the ones that are winning"
GamesRadar · Dec 10, 2024 As ex-PlayStation boss suggests consoles are becoming "irrelevant," veteran analyst predicts they'll become "more open," but "Nintendo will be the absolute last people to do that" For Nintendo, "you're probably looking 2040 something, if not later," Mat Piscatella predicts
GamesRadar · Dec 9, 2024 Analyst says 2025's GTA 6 and Nintendo Switch 2 combo is almost unprecedented: "I don't remember a year like this where so much of what's going to happen is focused on just two products" "My expectation for the year is going to be determined by if and when new Nintendo hardware and Grand Theft Auto 6 show up and how successful they are"
GamesRadar · Nov 27, 2024 Sparking Zero is the best-selling Dragon Ball game ever released in the US and Bandai Namco’s biggest published title outside of Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 This is big news for Dragon Ball
Windows Central · Nov 22, 2024 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 smashes October 2024 sales and gives Xbox Game Pass a lift, too Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is the best-selling game of October 2024, and it's given Xbox Game Pass subscriptions a boost as well.