More friday news and notes
Seeing as I have Badger hockey tonight and tomorrow and I’m heading out of town on Sunday, I figured I’d cram as much stuff in today as is possible.
- There is a Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 demo out on Xbox Live, and I’ve updated our This Week in Downloads thread to reflect it. I figure this is as good of a place as any to talk about all of the digital content that comes out each week, plus you can mock Dan when he makes mistakes in his weekly article.
- The monthly NPD numbers are out and Microsoft’s press releases are just plain annoying to me. They talk about how they outsold Wii software 4:1 and PS3 software 8:1 in the month of September. Really? How about that. Did anyone think that Halo wasn’t going to sell as many copies as it did? To me the most telling statistics are these….
- The 360 console got a 250k unit bump from August… when they sold 3.3 million copies of a single software title. To me, that indicates that almost everyone that wanted Halo 3, already had a 360. The Wii got a 100k bump, and Metroid Prime 3 (a good game, but criminally under marketed) was the only “major” released for the platform during the month. It’ll be fascinating to see how much growth the 360 sees throughout the holiday season
- Carnival Games sold over 100k copies last month. People rail on the fact that the Wii only has mini-games, and they keep buying more and more of them. Crazy.
- In one of those rumors that will never die stories, Microsoft is rumored to be working on a 360 with a built in HD DVD drive. This makes no sense to me considering how much of a pounding Sony has taken due to the cost of having a Blu-Ray drive built in to their system.
- Yahtzee actually likes a game. I was stunned. Of course I completely agree with him. Portal is one of the best action games this year, period. Plus, it has the probably the best game ending that I can ever recall.
Hmm… less news than I thought. Oh, well. Maybe more later.
October 19th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
LOL
October 19th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I don’t think that the same people annoyed with all of the mini games on the Wii are the ones buying mini game compilations. Anyone who spends an appreciable amount of time at gaming sites would know that Carnival Games wasn’t reviewed very well and would probably avoid it as a result.
October 19th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
A HUGE number of Wii shoppers do not READ game sites.
Seriously.
They don’t
October 19th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
That’s one thing that I’m seeing a lot of lately here at work. People know that I’m a gamer, so they come to me asking about information about new games that are coming out rather than opening a web browser and looking for themselves.
I don’t mind though, as it allows me to steer them towards games they should be playing, like MLB Power Pros.
October 21st, 2007 at 2:47 pm
I like Carnival games. So blow me.