Record Video Games Sales in 2001

night_flyer noted an article running @ ZD talking about how 2001 was a record year for video games with doing 9.4B and PCs getting almost to 6B. Mentions Grand Theft Auto 3's huge sales, as well as The Sims. Also the X-Box, and Game Boy Advanced contributing to the big numbers.

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FFX Not mentioned?

[Deltan]

I believe Final Fantasy X has shipped more than all of those titles. Maybe?

http://ps2.ign.com/news/41328.html

GTA3 is a horrifying game.

[Fantastic Lad]

How many copies of that heinous crap have been sold?

To all you imbeciles who think fucking and then murdering prostitutes even in a virtual reality environment is acceptable behavior. . .

Thanks guys.

You just helped to radically increase the chances of a camera appearing on every lamp post.

Sigh. As opposed to censorship as I am, there is a balance to the whole affair. This stuff goes in, kids. The brain is a soup pot. Yes, it may be deep and rich, and a little salt may not make that big a difference. But there has been a whole lot of nasty spice being added over the last few years, and if you don't think it is affecting culture. . .

You may be able to control your immediate impulses and actions, but the color and shape of culture is changed by its media. The world is a darker, meaner place as a result.

So, thanks again, for being stupid and morally bankrupt.

It'll be hard to care when they come to cart your sorry asses off the death camps.

-Fantastic Lad

Re:The Reason The Sims is so popular

[SimHacker]

The way the number of males and females registering The Sims changed over time was interesting.

First mostly males were registering The Sims, as with most computer games. Then after a little while, there was a sudden jump in the number of females registering, which steadily grew more steeply than the number of males, for a long time.

One theory is that males are the early adoptors, who go out and buy games based on commercial advertising. The females see the males playing it, and try it themselves. Then they spread the word about it by recommendation person to person, instead of instantly responding to mass media advertising like the males.

The legal issues worked out nicely about the character skins like Justin Timberlake and Spiderman. It turns out that Maxis is not legally responsible for any of the fans making and distributing their own images of celebrities and copyrighted characters. Maxis keeps their hands clean by creating their own original characters (which is much healthier for the franchise anyway, than shilling out product placements), and they always get permission for everything they distribute with the game.

The "celebrity visitor" skin in House Party was made with Drew Carey's permission and cooperation, but you have to go to the fan sites to find Justin Timberlake or Spider Man.

If you really want to know the underlying hidden agenda of The Sims, read Philip K Dick's short story "The Life and Times of Perky Pat", and novel "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch".

-Don

Re:Fun Video Game Trivia

[Zico]

Any Dairy Queen should serve up Orange Juliuses (not Julius'!!! that's a posessive).

Careful, being that we're at Slashdot, some bastard is probably going to start referring to the plural as "Orange Juliii." ;)