January Game Sales Explode, Wii Dominates

njkid1, as he does from time to time, passed us a link to a story on the GameDaily site. Today they're discussing the January NPD numbers for the games industry. In short, they're terrific. Software sales totaled $549 million for the month, up a staggering 53 percent over last year. Hardware sales were brisk as well, with the Wii selling around 436,000 units. Trailing behind were Microsoft and Sony, with 360 hitting 294,000 units sold and the PS3 selling 244,000 units. January had an extra week, which resulted in 'inflated' sales, but even after normalizing the data things were tremendous for the games industry in a month where there's normally a post-holiday slump.

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Re:What's that?

[drinkypoo]

Yeah, that's why a Mercedes S class will soon be the same price as an Elantra. Get a clue. By your logic eMachines should be the desktop of choice and HPs should be overflowing in the landfills.

The price of both Mercedes and BMW cars have come down, because people can see that the quality is not there (hasn't been since the early eighties at the latest - at least Mercedes was still making winners then) and the Japanese cars are kicking the living shit out of them in every way from comfort to styling to technology. This is the only way either is selling anything any more. Unfortunately for the schmucks who buy them, the only car from either automaker still holding value at all is the BMW 7 series, and it doesn't do very well.

I got in a BMW 3 series way back in the mid-nineties and was absolutely disgusted at the total lack of build quality. A Honda Civic has a higher-quality interior, and I am not making this up. From what I understand things have only gotten worse.

Car analogies are usually very bad ideas.

Re:Troubling for Sony

[mjhacker]

Yeah... that doesn't jive with me either. Oblivion is a western RPG, and those are almost always (and purposefully) different from J-RPGs. Not to say that Oblivion isn't a good game, but... it probably needs to stay in a seperate genre from Chrono Trigger/Final Fantasy/Secret of Mana....

Re:Troubling for Sony

[Overly Critical Guy]

I enjoyed it too for the first week. "Black & White" syndrome set in where I realized the game had no longevity, and I haven't touched it since last year. Still play Morrowind often, though.