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NPD: NCAA Football 14 tops slumping July US sales
college football game of the month's best-selling
EA Sports in the United States, followed by Minecraft and The Last of Us, the global industry sales slide 19 percent to $ 443 000 000.
NCAA Football 14 is the title of best-seller in July in the United States during a month that saw total sales fell 19 percent, according to the NPD Group report released today 'hui.
completed the top five best-sellers in July were Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition The Last of Us, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
Total sales for the period fell 19 percent to $ 443 million, compared to $ 549.1 million in July 2012. According to NPD Group analyst Liam Callahan, however, these sales represent only half of the truth of consumers spend the period.
"Given the preliminary estimate of other sales formats in July as used and rental $ 134 million, and our estimate for the sale of digital formats, including the complete set Add downloads new content, including micro-transactions, subscriptions, mobile applications and consumer spending on the social networking games to $ 593 million, total consumer spending in July is a little less than 1.2 billion dollars, "Callahan said in a statement.
Hardware
suffered the worst in July, falling from 34 percent to 99.4 million. The 3DS was the top performer for the month, surpassing the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita, for the third consecutive month. It was also the only hardware platform to show growth in July 2012.
The Xbox 360 has sold 107,000 units in July, against 203,000 in July 2012 systems. Sony did not disclose sales of the PS3 or PS Vita.
Callahan also noted that if the list of the best software was in a SKU basis, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition has landed in the top ten. He explained that this result is "clearly" an indication that the players who were lost in the GTA IV trying to catch up before the release of Grand Theft Auto V next month.
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"This is due in part to fewer games in stores throughout 2013, with players looking for digital content," he said. "This is especially true during summer, where are lighter release slate. "
July
game sales in the United States (August 7, July 3, 2013)
- total retail sales: $ 443 million (-19%) no PC hardware: $ 99.4 million (-34%) without PC software: EUR 210.1 million of dollars (19%)
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Xbox One: Microsoft upgrades GPU speed and graphics drivers
Marc Whitten revealed some of the Xbox One of the key improvements to the system before the Gamescom event key, and alluding to the function of asynchronous console 'matchmaking'
A senior Microsoft executive revealed that the clock speed of the graphics processor unit Xbox has increased. Speaking on the podcast Xbox spokesman Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb, corporate vice president Marc Whitten said the speed is increased from 800 to 853mhz, apparently providing a 6% increase in GPU performance.
addition, Whitten said the graphics drivers that developers have been updated - which means that studies should be better able to adjust their code to the end of the machine architecture.
"at E3, we fall into what we call our inner monkey driver," he said. "It is our graphics driver is really 100% optimized for an Xbox hardware. Start with the DirectX driver base and then taking all the parts that do not look like an Xbox and you add all that really enhances the experience. Almost all of our content partners have really picked up now, and I think did a very good improvement. "
However, it is common for console manufacturers to update regularly with new driver development kits, APIs and libraries before the publication of a new machine.
Meanwhile, Whitten also spoke briefly on the Xbox One asynchronous buddy system ", which is designed to make it easier for players to establish multiplayer sessions are not full of teenagers mouth jar.
"We are deeply integrating real-time services," said Whitten. "See an example such as" smart game "- that is our ability to rethink how we do matching, to ensure that you get in the games you want, and game developers have the opportunity to really fit around your skill, and also other factors such as the type of people who like to play and the types of games you like to play in. "
Essentially, players are able to keep a window open matchmaking as a favorite, although the dashboard or play something else. The application remembers the friends and opponents players preferred settings match, etc., and pushes a notification to them when there are enough participants available.
- Microsoft and Sony to hold press conferences at the Gamescom event in Cologne this month. Company is likely to finalize the exact date of the release of their material, and announcements of new games are also possible.
game developer Byron Atkinson-Jones is the founder of Xiotex indie developer, and has worked at Lionhead Studios for Microsoft. He heard Whitten comments on the graphic drivers Xbox One is what he had to say.
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PS Plus August freebies: Hitman Absolution, Runner 2, Star Wars Pinball

August for PlayStation Plus members have shown, starting tomorrow with a free copy of
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Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 corners the Americas in September

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