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Matt Matthews's Blog   Expert Blogs

Gamasutra's regular NPD analyst and chart decipherer, Matt Matthews writes about the business of videogames -- this blog contains his personal opinions on the state of the market.

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UK Retail Video Game Marketshare for 1Q 2013  Featured Blogs
Posted by Matt Matthews on Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:50:00 EDT in Business/Marketing, Console/PC
Looking at the latest UK sales figures, the Xbox 360 dominates while the Vita and Wii U struggle for relevancy.
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Wii Remote: Nintendo's Generational Lock-in  Featured Blogs
Posted by Matt Matthews on Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:30:00 EDT in Business/Marketing
Will the Wii remote drive consumers to future Nintendo consoles as competitors strive to establish their own natural motion controllers?
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The Danger of Linear Models (Or: GameCube Nears 40 Million Systems)  Featured Blogs
Posted by Matt Matthews on Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:57:00 EDT in
Linear modeling is fun and easy -- but also of limited value for extensive extrapolation.
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Atari 7800 Sales Figures (1986 - 1990)  Featured Blogs
Posted by Matt Matthews on Tue, 26 May 2009 10:30:00 EDT in
The owner of the Atari History Museum has released versions of Atari documents from the late 1980s showing sales of Atari's ill-fated Atari 7800 console.
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How Konami's MGS4 May Sneak Around PSN Charges
Posted by Matt Matthews on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EDT in
Why Konami's MGS4 patches use BitTorrent to get around Sony's PSN bandwidth fees.
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PlayStation Store's Top 10 Most Popular PS1 Games 
Posted by Matt Matthews on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EDT in
With fans clamoring for more classic PS1 games and Capcom promising more, Sony reveals the best-selling classics.
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Comment In: Where they stand: Xbox One and PS4 launch prices [News - 06/10/2013 - 05:30]

I have two sources which ...

I have two sources which appear to contradict each other. Now what r n r nRetail has not worked like that for a while, at least from what I have observed. Every system launch I 've seen since the PS1 had retailers selling the system for the price listed by ...

Comment In: How Kinect's brute force strategy could make Xbox One a success [News - 06/07/2013 - 04:31]

I believe the figures are ...

I believe the figures are 90 are Kinect-required and 30 are Kinect-optional. I tried to stay fairly clear in the article about which was which.

Comment In: Party's almost over for GameStop's used games business [News - 05/28/2013 - 01:18]

Joe, thanks for the kind ...

Joe, thanks for the kind comments. You are, of course, right that GameStop is not the only retailer taking in trades and giving out credit, but they are the one for which we have the clearest data. r n r nThe 1 billion figure has been cited by GS execs ...

Comment In: Google Play game services takes on Apple's Game Center [News - 05/15/2013 - 12:23]

Amazon has its own service ...

Amazon has its own service similar to this, called Game Circle, for its own Android App Store. It 's been out for about 10 months. r n r nhttps://developer.amazon.com/sdk/gamecircle.html

Comment In: Nintendo's annual digital sales: $165 million [News - 04/24/2013 - 06:41]

Thanks, Christian. I had the ...

Thanks, Christian. I had the update ready about 2 hours before you posted, but I don 't post things like that myself. It looks like the editors added it when the next shift came on. r n r nThe rate in October through March as 8 . If the more ...

Comment In: Amid challenges, U.S. video game retail trudges ahead [News - 04/22/2013 - 01:01]

Pachter has access to the ...

Pachter has access to the full retail numbers, and Nintendo isn 't talking about retail enough to make a comparison. It 's one source, and you can take it for what you want, I suppose. r n r nAs for the digital figures that Fils-Aime gave, those are interesting, but ...

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