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2005 Game Sales Set Record
Despite a Holiday slump, 2005 game sales hit all-time highs. Gamasutra reports: "The growth was largely driven through an expanding market for handheld systems. Previously dominated by Nintendo's Game Boy series, 2005 saw the market expand to comfortably support three handhelds: the existing Game Boy Advance, Nintendo's 'third pillar' in the Nintendo DS, and Sony's PlayStation Portable. Portable software sales rose to $1.4 billion, a rise of 42 percent over 2004. The Game Boy Advance, due to its longer lifespan and greater install base, still took the majority of the handheld game market, claiming 52 percent of portable game sales."
The console biz is booming. We are in the process of ramping up for the PS3 and Revolution.
Our PS2 stuff is flying off the shelves along with the amazing rate PS2 hardware is still selling. And it hasn't even dropped to 99 bucks yet.
Yet I have people trying to express their sympathy to me about how bad things are because of the fucking 360 and how rough it must be to be in the console biz.
Fuck you Microsoft. What should be a time of excitement for the whole console world on the soon to be arriving PS3 and Rev hardware is ruined because Microsoft has decided to waste everyone's time once again with another futile and retarded entry in the console market.
Begone idiots from Redmond!