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Analyzing the Nintendo Switch After One Year: Nintendo Labo

April 23, 2018December 15, 2022

As we have mentioned in past posts, Nintendo is a Japanese toy company that also happens to make video games. No product better describes this reality than the new Nintendo Labo. The Labo was a surprise announcement in January of this year, for launch in April. Labo officially launched in the United States and Japan on April 20, 2018. This will be followed by a Europe launch on April 27th. Labo clearly looks to be a hit in Japan, but the fairly-muted reaction to the product outsi.....

Analyzing the Nintendo Switch After One Year

April 13, 2018December 15, 2022

The successful launch of the Nintendo Switch in March 2017 took many in the game industry by surprise. Of course, the same reaction happened over a decade before with the launch of the Nintendo Wii. The latest DFC Intelligence brief on the Nintendo Switch forecasts continued success for the system. However, these forecast come with warnings tha.....

How Fortnite Drives the Battle Royale Genre to New Heights

April 7, 2018January 8, 2021

One of the biggest stories in video games over the past year has been the rise of the battle royale genre. In 2017, we saw the unprecedented rise of two major games in this genre, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) and Fortnite. In the wild world of early access PC games, both products had millions of users before they officially released. With PUBG, the game had already peaked by the time it was formally launched in December 2017. Fortnite Battle Royale, which had a surprise.....

PlayStation 4 Comes out Strong in Video Game Consumer Survey

March 14, 2018January 8, 2021

2017 was an incredible year for the video game industry. As discussed in the latest DFC Intelligence Worldwide Video Game Forecasts reports, game software sales soared past the $100 billion mark, a year before originally predicted. Much of this was because of greater than expected growth in mobile games and Asian markets. However, the core PC and console markets also showed healthy sales. The.....

China Mobile Game Tops PC Games

January 24, 2017January 8, 2021

According to China market research firm iResearch, mobile gaming became the largest market segment in the game industry in 2016. iResearch pegs the number of China mobile game players at 521 million, while the number of PC game players was only 484 million. .....

PlayStation 4 Sales Up to 50 Million

December 7, 2016January 15, 2021

As of December 6, 50 million PlayStation 4s have been sold through worldwide. Global PlayStation 4 sales topped 40 million units back on May 22, so 10 million of the systems have been purchased by consumers during the last five and a half months. .....

Nintendo Departs Brazil Game Market

January 13, 2015December 15, 2022

JAN. 13, 2015 • Citing high import duties, Nintendo of America announced it was withdrawing entirely from the Brazil game market for now. The gamemaker said it made the decision because its current distribution model was “unsustainable.” Nintendo’s partner in the country is Gaming do Brasil, which has been instructed to no longer distribute Nintendo consoles or games in the country. There are no changes to Nintendo distribution in other Latin A.....

Sony’s Long Road to A Surprising Price

May 17, 2006December 15, 2022

So now we have a price and boy is it a doozy: $600 for a PlayStation 3 (Ok, the cheapstakes out there can buy a watered down version for $500). Frankly we are shocked, not so much at the price which Sony had telegraphed was going to be high, but more at what the timing of the announcement says about where Sony is going. .....

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