Samsung Galaxy S II Performs Great in its First Five Months

Samsung cracked another milestone on Sunday, and said that the Galaxy S II passed 10 million sales on its first five months on market. This surpasses the original Galaxy S that took seven months to hit the same amount. The largest piece of Galaxy S II sales 3.6 million, was in Samsung’s native South Korea.

Europe is almost as equal in importance and has seen 3.4 million S II units trade hands to date. Southeast Asia outside of Korea was considerably less of a factor at 2.3 million. The goals include very few of North America, as the Galaxy S II only went on sale in Canada through Bell in July and was otherwise limited to unlock full price versions until this month.

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Nintendo 3DS Gets Second Highest Sales Record

The 3DS price drop last month has indeed worked out favorably for the Nintendo company. As revealed by Enterbrain, there are over 384,000 handheld units that were sold in Japan last August — which is 2.6 times the amount of devices being sold in July.

This is considered to be the second best-performing month for the Nintendo 3DS. Last March, when the handheld was first launched, the company was able to market more than 430,000 units.

In August 11, the 3DS faced a price cut-off of ¥10,000 to ¥15,000. The price drop was reported several weeks earlier, which results to an expected sales decrease. After the drop, the units were then reported to have the second highest sales record since its launching (February 26 launch not included).

Stay tuned to AllWeLike for news regarding 3DS sales in North America.

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Apple and Samsung Dominates Smartphone Market

Apple and Samsung Electronics out pointed Nokia in the global smartphone market for the Q2 of 2011, Strategy Analytics reported last Sunday. Apple claimed an 18.5% share in the market, with sales of up to 20.3 million iPhones. Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics takes the number two spot with 17.5% of market share. The company sold 19.2 million units.

On the other hand, Nokia’s sales plummet to 16.7 million handsets in second quarter of the year. Last year, the Finnish mobile phone company shipped 23.8 million units, claiming 38.1% of the global smartphone market share.

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Super Meat Boy Sells 600,000 Copies, Meat Cube Deaths Could be More

Who would have thought that a skinless piece of cube could’ve gone this far? In an interview over at Pocketful of Megabytes, Super Meat Boy creators, Edmund Mcmillen and Tommy Refenes, unveiled that the game has sold around 600,000 copies across Steam and Xbox Live Arcade.

The numbers came from the total of Steam’s sales of 400,000 and Xbov Live Arcade’s 200,000 sales. The creators credit the Steam sales to a holiday promotion sale, which catapulted the game to where it stands today.

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iPad Dominates 2010, Will 2011 Tell the Same Tale?

The numbers are in (well, most of it), as iPad completely wiped the floor with the competitions’ faces by generating almost 100% of sales revenue in 2010. According to Gartner, out of the total world spendings on tablets of $9.6 billion, Apple’s first born tablet – the iPad – took the lion’s share with $9.566 billion, leaving the scraps of millions to other tablets that went on sale.

Market share for 2010 however, tells another tale as IDC downplays the iPad to 83% compared to the rest of its competitors. Still an impressive feat, but in the end, it’s the money generated that matters instead of market shares.

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Despite Its Death, Guitar Hero Still Reigned No.1 in the U.S. Game Chart

Guitar Hero is not just an ordinary rockstar, but a game star as well.

Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock bring home the most revenue in the United States video game history. According to NPD group, the game bagged $830.9 million sales and the digits does not even include profits from DLC. Despite Activision’s decision to cancel all future Guitar Hero titles for 2011, they still made their way on stage.

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