VGChartz Reports for the Week ending Dec 15, 2007, American Sales were as follows:
DS: 704,805
360: 330,501
PS2: 253,824
PSP: 251,689
PS3: 192,730
Wii: 173,798
Is that all Wii were available or is VGChartz undertracking Wii's on the market? 170K (30% decline) seems strange....
Unreal Tournament III openned up PS3 with 69,768, which basically has outsold PC counter-part.
Half-Life 2: The Orange Box sold 36,490
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
Where all these gay VG charts get released and everyone goes
B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
I know people wanna say yeah the Wii fad is passing (me included) but its simply a supply issue. Because the demand is sure there.
Hopefully I don't get slack for this news story as for the worldwide number, honest mistake, I didn't know it didn't include the japanese numbers.
Strange about the Wii numbers though, is that all they had supply for this week?
Playstation 3. We hardly knew you. :'(
360: 330,501
PS3: 192,730
Ladies and gentleman,
LETS GET READY TO R-U-M-B-L-E!!
Wii shortages.