The latest Japanese weekly hardware sales put the DS as the No.1 selling console. Video game hardware sales in Japan for the week ended October 7 have revealed the PSP's reign at the top to be short-lived.
Data from Media Create puts sales of the Nintendo DS up by over 14,000 units to 87,535, while the PSP sees a drop of some 16,000 units to 86,895. However, the PSP competing so closely with the Nintendo DS is a positive sign for Sony; the handheld's sales prior to the launch of the Slim & Lite were comfortably overshadowed by the Nintendo portable.
Wii sales also continue to flag, down 3,000 units to 20,704. There's not too much to concern Nintendo though, with the PS3 down to 10,446 units and the Xbox 360 barely worth mentioning with only 1,547 units sold over the week.
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.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
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" -
Space opera fans deserve a chance to experience the vastness of Infinite Space, and Sega needs to make up for its mistake.
I still go back to Infinite Space from time to time. Probably the most underrated game I ever played.
Pac-Pix launched in 2005 as a Nintendo DS exclusive, and deserves to make a comeback on modern touchscreen devices.
1000 less than DS, that's awesome for PSP.