USA Hardware by Platform
Platform Weekly (change) Total
XOne 60,506 (+2%) 2,774,222
PS4 49,261 (-11%) 3,086,138
3DS 31,866 (+3%) 12,274,126
X360 18,870 (+7%) 42,764,600
WiiU 13,040 (+7%) 2,402,934
PS3 10,359 (+4%) 26,094,183
Wii 4,422 (+3%) 41,511,837
PSV 2,340 (-4%) 1,748,234
PSP 658 (-10%) 19,801,580
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" -
While many are fans of the Honkai Star Rail story so far, The Nerd Stash believes that the deaths of Robin and Firefly no longer carry much weight.
Wardens Rising is looking like a promising new take on the ARPG genre, especially when played with friends.
Wow those Vita sales.
Xbox One catching up. Great to see, seems like all the positive news is definitely catching attention. Keep it up MS, it has been all great since launch of X1!
Nice to see things getting more competitive.
Close race in the US, as expected.