Following Nokia’s earnings report today, there was an interesting note about the Ovi Store, Nokia’s application store for its mobile phones.
The Ovi Store is now seeing 1 million downloads per day, a strong milestone for the service that opened to criticism last year for its sloppy launch.
Nokia VP of Product, Media George Linardos said earlier this month that the company was looking to re-do the store, and that a V2 should be available by the Spring. Apparently, the Ovi Store has also surpassed the iPhone App Store in most territories in Asia and Latin America, although it is important to note that Apple has a much smaller base in those nations.
In comparison, the Apple App Store is seeing 300 million-plus downloads per month.
Result for: earnings
Microsoft has announced their quarterly earnings today, claiming their highest-ever quarterly revenue, thanks directly to strong sales of the Windows 7 operating system.
The company sold 60 million copies of the new OS, and overall net income jumped 60 percent year-on-year to $6.66 billion USD.
In comparison, Vista took four months to sell 40 million copies, and sales slowed from there on out.
Additionally, Zune HD sales were not revealed, but total Xbox and Zune revenue dropped 11 percent year-on-year.
Result for: earnings
Confirming the news that has been bugging Nintendo investors for months, president Satoru Iwata says Wii sales are completely stagnant at this point, partially due to the lack of “must-have” games and accessories.
Nintendo’s president has admitted that sales of the Wii console have stalled, in part due to a lack of must-have software.
Recently quarterly earnings showed sales had fallen 40 percent year-on-year, from 10 million in the first six months of 2008 to 5.75 million in 2009.
“Wii has stalled,” Iwata adds. “We were unable to continually release strong software, and let the nice mood cool. We were unable to show a new game to become ‘the next thing.’ In the game market, once you’ve lost the momentum, it takes time to recover.”
“With the price drop, sales returned to a certain level, but they just did not reach the level of last year around this time. We decided that it would be difficult to sell enough to recover from the poor performance of the first half of the year.”
