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Analysts Foresee Another Banner Year For Videogame Industry

Posted by Zonk on from the banner-that-says-money-money-money dept.

Analysts observing the videogame industry forsee 2008 being another blockbuster year in sales. Sales during the month of February were considerably up, according to the NPD group. Early in the year is historically a very slow time in the game sales calendar, making the 34% jump for the month highly significant. Grand Theft Auto IV is likely to be an engine for sales throughout the year: "The game, which will be available on the Xbox 360 and Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3, is expected to boost sales of both consoles. Pre-orders have been better than expected, according to its publisher, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Morgan, expects the game to sell about 9 million units during the company's fiscal year, which ends in October. Roughly 6 million of this, he added, will be to Xbox 360 owners."

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  1. Buried lead: PS2 outselling PS3, still. by LostCluster · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the article:
    Going strong since its launch in 2000, Sony's PlayStation 2 continued to outpace its successor. The PS2 sold 351,800 units compared with 280,800 for the PS3.

    Somehow, this indicates that the HDTV conversion isn't going according to plan.

    1. Re:Buried lead: PS2 outselling PS3, still. by Admiral+Ag · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oddly enough, I bought my 360 for the DVD drive as much as for the games. You see, I needed a DVD player, and a game console on its own has extremely low WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor), but if it plays DVDs the WAF manages to increase into merely "disapproving glare" territory.

      Waited until she was out of the country before I bought a PS3, though. :)

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  2. Re:no spore? by Evangelion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why? Do you plan on mangling your fingers and eyes out of boredom?

  3. Re:Could be by loganrapp · · Score: 3, Funny

    SDTV Loses Out On: 1) Sucking.

  4. Re:Blizzard will also be dropping big games by rkanodia · · Score: 2, Funny

    You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is Goliath, carrier, zerg rush...