Suppose a player were to break his arm during the contest, a user can trade their units in that player, but the value of the units will drop if everyone tries to sell them at once, emulating a stock exchange.
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The Xbox 360 once again topped the NPD Group's hardware charts in July, claiming a near-majority 49 percent market share of consoles -- but the 203, 000 units sold were a steep drop from the 257, 000 units that traded hands in June, and a far cry from the glory days that would have given a victory more meaning.
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We see a steep drop off in revenues and units near term, punctuated by a drop in subscriber adds, and an OS refresh that is largely ignored by carriers and consumers alike, driving RIM into a forced sale in 2013.
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Separately, official figures show that the sale of Mitsubishi brand vehicles plunged by 56.8% in August to 2, 946 units following a 60% drop a month earlier.
He thinks the run rage could drop below 7 million units in the August quarter.
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There aren't any numbers listed for next-gen, but it's expecting sales of PS3 hardware to drop to 10 million units from 16.5 million (including the PS2) the year before.
Although in 2013 smartphone sales are forecast to double to 400 million units, prices are expected to drop sharply, wiping away margins and earnings growth for the handset and chipset makers.
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Its Toyota division, which generates the lion's share of sales, experienced a 6.2% drop to 124, 383 units, while its Luxury Lexus division reported increased sales to the order of 12.2%, totaling 21.091 units.
However, while there are certainly strong pockets of growth among digital cameras and MP3 players, their overall growth is slowing in the U.S. (and camcorder units are declining) as average prices drop, making it more difficult to cram in new features such as WiFi and WiMAX.
Autodesk, Hermes and Corel would drop directly into their respective business units.
Apple in the second quarter suffered a 26 percent drop in shipments to 26 million units, down from 35 million in the first quarter.
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Interest in the Wii is waning, and in Japan only 6, 336 units were sold last week, a 45% drop off from the week before.
The worst drop in volumes came from Russia, where units sold fell 22.0%, as industry sellers reduced their stock.
If emissions of CO2 continue to rise as forecast, there could be another drop in pH up to perhaps 0.4 units by 2100.
So Johnson Associates, a Wall Street compensation expert, is out today with its projection that bonuses on the Street this year will drop by as much as 45% in some units.
The data, which measures the construction of new homes and apartments, is a slightly lower drop than the annual rate of 985, 000 units that economists polled by Thomson Financial had expected.
Toll Brothers, a builder of luxury homes in the U.S., reported a 27% drop in new home contracts, which fell to 558 units.
The reasons for the profit drop include a jump in the cost of restricted stock units in the first quarter, as well as higher data center construction and marketing costs.
Toll Brothers ( TOL - news - people ), a builder of luxury homes in the U.S., reported a 27% drop in new home contracts, which fell to 558 units.
Domestic auto sales will likely drop by half this year, to around 800, 000 units, and exports won't pick up much slack they were up just 1.9% in the first quarter.
Vacancies drop when the number of households grows faster than the number of housing units.
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Gartner says worldwide PC shipments in Q1 were 84.3 million units, down 1.1% from a year ago, the first year-over-year drop in six quarters.
Meanwhile, the National Association of Realtors is reporting a 1.5 percent drop in existing home sales in May, to an annual rate of 4.55 million units.
And in what's becoming a tired refrain, Gap announced a 2% drop in same-store sales, as both its flagship Gap chain and its Old Navy units failed to generate big traffic.
And in what's becoming a tired refrain, Gap (nyse: GPS - news - people ) announced a 2% drop in same-store sales, as both its flagship Gap chain and its Old Navy units failed to generate big traffic.
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