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Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:52:23 +0000

[...] figures for US sales in May 2009 are below, ranked in order of number of sales (May 2008 figures also shown, including percentage [...]

By: skippy2591

skippy2591 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:34:46 +0000

I currentley own an xbox 360, a nintendo ds (old, and light) and a psp. I would get a ps3, but currentley at 299$ with good games ranging from 60$-30$, thats mearley an ownership existing in the distant future. some may argue that the 360 is the same price, but in all fairness, the 360 has been out over a year longer (with a price of 299), meaning that it has a few more good games, ok games and (dare i say it) crap games. The reason why i say this is because since the 360 has more games, it has had more attempts to get it right and darn near prefect it, but since the ps3 came out close to a year later, they were some epics turned disastarous (lair), a few excelents plagued by stinging problems (Heavenly Sword- way 2 short), and many rushed games that turned into shovel ware (gundam). now don’t get me wrong, the ps3 has finally begun to hit itz stride, but i (as well as many other games on the outside looking in) wonder if it may be a little to late.

I can remember back when the ps2 was the king, the purple lunch box was a failure, and the bigole fat box only had halo 2 keepin it alive. everyone was siked about the announcement of the ps3, and frowned uppon the unvailing of the 360, and laughed the mystery of the revolution now known as the wii. Speculators were confidentley spreading the idea that nintendo was on itz last thread, and that microsoft would crumble under the power of the ps3… Itz funny how things turned out aint it? X}

In all seriousness, the wii should not even be able to outgun systems that are (tecinicley speaking) far superior to it. The fact that sony is making games for the ps2 (which is only selling at this point because its price is almost under a hundred dollars), and the price for the ps3 is still sturbornley high is signifying that sony is loosing money over the system, and they are initilizing plan c. on another note, the fact that microsoft’s 360 is not dominating the gaming market yet signifies that the 360 itself has become ignorant to change (this is not including the not-yet-released new xbox exprience which looks nice).

Everyone says that nintend got lucky, or that they were ‘geniuses’ for doing something diffrent, but it’s not luck, or genius,, it’z plain ol’ common sence. If I have 10 hardcore gamers (no disrespect) and 30 pplz who have never played videogames, then would it be logical to stay hardcore and pray that more pplz play videogames, or would it make since to lean more towardz the pplz who have never played games with games that are extreemley eazy to play and addictive? I’ll tell ya what makes since to me: at the end of the year, staying hardcore gets me a total of 15 gamers (lost 0 hardcore, gained 5 non gamers), while leaning more towardz the pplz who have never played videogames gets me 20 gamers (lost 5 hardcore, gained 15 non gamers)… how it wouldn’t make since, I don’t know, but that logic speaks for itself O_o…

By: Game Consoles - June 2008 NPD Sales Figure Analysis « Blog Archive « DVDGuy’s Blog @ Digital Digest

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:27:01 +0000

[...] software line-up Sony had in June (MGS4). Read on to find out. You can read last month’s analysis here. The figures are from NPD, a marketing research firm that releases games console sale data every [...]

By: DVDGuy

DVDGuy — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:26:51 +0000

What I meant by traditional demographics is the type of video gamers that we normally think of – ie. men, usually younger generation and people who generally like technology. What the Wii has done is to get the rest of the demographic, the elderly, the moms and dads that have never played video games before. The NDS to a lesser extent has now targetted girls – my niece has one and so does her female friends … and she’s only 7. Just look at the games line-up on the DS, and you will see a lot of the games targetted at girls.

The Sony approach, as you mentioned, is the “traditional” approach. PS3s, PSPs … all aimed at a specific target audience. Microsoft’s 360 is also aimed at the same people.

Nintendo decided to do something different, and they succeeded. Of course, it could have gone either way … what if the elderly didn’t want to play Wii, or Wii Sports wasn’t included in the bundle (or not produced at all)? Remember that there were horrible reviews of the “Revolution” console before it was renamed the Wii, and even then, people made fun of the name. But until people actually played it and used the Wii-mote, nobody thought the Wii was going to be a success. The GameCube wasn’t a success either, and many thought at that time the “Revolution” was going to be the last console Nintendo ever makes (to go the way of the dodos, just like Sega), especially after leaked news about how “last-gen” the hardware was going to be.

Nobody is saying Nintendo doesn’t deserve it, just like nobody is saying Apple doesn’t deserve its success with the Mac, iPod and iPhone. But both companies decided to do things different, took a great risk in doing so and it paid off, but it could have easily gone the other way too. Kudos to them for pulling it off, and good news for the rest of us that they did!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:28:27 +0000

“I won’t say too much about Nintendo and the Wii , except to say that they’ve been extremely clever in marketing games to non gamers. What was once considered a suicide mission by many in the industry now look like a stroke of genius (as often the case). Even the DS is marketed differently than say the PSP, which is still aimed at the traditional male demographic. When girls barely in primary school are playing DS, you know you’re onto something.”

What the hell is the “traditional” demographic? You mean _Sony’s_ traditional target demographic? Are you too young to remember who exactly was playing video games 15+ years ago? Nintendo’s target for game boys hasn’t budged an INCH since the original. For their normal console platform, it really only changed just slightly, but it’s far more popular this time around. Nintendo’s moves were not “suicidal”, it was INCREDIBLY predictable, if you’ve owned the console line up between NES, SNES, N64, GC, you’d understand how naturally the WII fits in. Nothing special, however, Nintendo’s success this time around was very unexpected. They deserved it.

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