Game Industry Hopes Cyber Monday Jump-Starts Sales

by Doug Desjardins Up until 2008, the video-game industry seemed immune to economic downturns, riding out every slump and recession on the strength of a fan base that always found money to spend on new games and consoles. But The Great Recession that began in December 2007 changed that, and now the industry is hoping for a 2009 holiday rebound. And it’s a rebound that’s likely to begin on Cyber Monday when manufacturers and retailers post sales and promotions. Most game-console manufactur

Wii software sales dropping, still beating 360/PS3

Gamasutra has released and interpreted some (retail only) console game sales data provided to them by NPD Group. There’s a lot to look at, including some pretty charts, but there are two important things to take away from the article. First, over the total life of all three consoles, the Xbox 360 barely oversteps the Wii in software unit sales, and both consoles thoroughly smash the PS3’s numbers. Notably, the Xbox 360 launched a year before the Wii and PS3 did, yet the Wii still only lags beh

Miyamoto: Next Wii peripherals “cheaper, smaller”

As time goes on and our favorite “current gen” consoles become “last gen” consoles, the inevitable questions begin. What will the next version of the console include? What’s its future in regards to motion control? Popular Mechanics recently sat down with Shigeru Miyamoto to talk Nintendo, and among the topics, the future of the Wii motion controls and their inclusion in the next system: “With both the Wii remote itself and Wii Motion Plus, what we’ve been able to do is introduce an inter

Xbox 360 Or PlayStation 3 - Hmm, I’ll Buy Neither One… But Perhaps a PlayBoxStation?

I discussed with friend of mine about “getting either Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3″. I started making a point that I really have no time to play pretty much anything, so in a way I don’t really want either one. But then again, there’s some cool games that would be fun to test on consoles… (So far I’ve relied on playing at my bro’s place) Anyway, we discussed that it’s quite a wonder how games are made either for Xbox 360 or for PlayStation 3. And how it’s pretty expensive thing to handle. Sure,

No Layton for the Wii

Posted October 12, 2009 by KPabst in DS News, News, Wii News.Some games are just more at home on the consoles than others, and some you didn’t realize it would be perfect until it happened. Nobody thought that a Grand Theft Auto game could be good on the DS, and now Chinatown Wars holds the single highest average rating for any DS game.The Professor Layton series, well known for brain teasers, weird characters, and coming out to regions outside of Japan around a year or two later, probably won

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