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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.
Oh give the fanboy bullshit a rest!
Everyone is tired of Nintendo fanboys and their 'I can't find a Wii OMG!!! I'm so desperate cuz the system is so damn POPULAR!!! But I see other consoles sitting on the shelves AND THEY WERE DUSTY!!!"
With the embarrassingly bad 2007 release list Nintendo has going it's idiotic fanboy ramblings that are going to be so funny, in a sad way, to come back to come middle of the year.
Pointing and waggling is no substitute for real third party support which Nintendo obviously has failed to secure just like they failed to do with the GameCube. Outside of Nintendo fanboys, the world isn't waiting around to buy the same old GameCube franchises and PS2 ports with some pointing bolted on.
Once again absolutely nothing is posted to contradict any single thing asserted by these almost daily rituals. Just the usual flaming and moderation bombing.
Someone is playing the Nintendo and Microsoft fans day after day and they keep coming back for more. When are you guys going to get a clue.
What a fucking piece of shit fanboy.
There are about 20-30 games out of the gigantic Playstation library of games, some 8000-9000, that don't function properly on the PS3. Sony has meticulously gone through every single one of those games and created a database of issues. 99 percent of all Playstions games work absolutely flawless. Games that have issues are the few that used the harddrive and certain third party music type controllers.
And, moron, console games take on average one to two years to get to market. Every single one of those games is well known and for which system they are on. And Sony has an even larger number of first party and third party games in development for the PS3 than they did for the 100+ million selling PS2.
Now get the fuck out of this thread you pathetic little shit.
Obviousley Sony was doomed to fail from the start. they had their short lived fame with PS1 and PS2. Blu-ray will fail just as betamax in the 80's, the adult film industry chose to go against beta, and have done the same with BD, which all elads to the death of PS3, on top of that not everyone has hdtv's just lying around, so less of a reason for the PS3. MS is doing remarkably well considering their unit has been out for a year, only so many people can purchase a 360, i would have expected sony to do better then a year old unit, but surprise they have not. woe is sony
Sony first party developer line up is even larger and better than the PS2s.
Sony's third party developer support is even larger than the PS2s - even the fucking piece of shit x86 game developers are jumping on the system(although the best they can do appears to be dump their game code on the PPU - the SPEs are apparently way too complicated for the x86 game development brain trust)
The number of titles in development for the PS3 vastly outpaces the incredible number of titles Sony had for the PS2.
Sorry you fucking worthless DirectX cut-n-paste monkey - no one gives a shit about your shitty little dev house. The console world isn't waiting for your frankensteined together fps or rts made from stolen Valve code. Nor that you are too fucking stupid to get it to run on a modern piece of graphics hardware like the PS3.