A Great 2008 Holiday Season for Games

It's been a LONG time since I posted here. I've been busy working on my business, Subo Design and Red Pill Designs, but needed to write something.

I, like many humans, have noticed the World economy going to shit. It's a tough time for many in the world. I have also noticed that this has so far not affected the gaming world like it has almost everything else. Games are still flying off shelves, the Wii was again the number one gaming console this season and the DS Lite was the number one portable again. Great news for Nintendo. Other games doing well are Halo 3, Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero World Tour, Call of Duty, Wii Fit, Animal Crossing, Wii Music and Gears of War 2. What's more amazing are the games that have been around what seems like forever that continue to sell in bug numbers! For the week ending December 19th, 2008, Mario Kart Wii sold over 900,000 copies worldwide on its 37th week in release. And New Super Mario Bros. for the DS sold over 500,000 copies in its 136th week! What? I know. It shows that new gamers continually buy the DS Lite.

Also of note, is the fact, that Wii Sports will soon take over the Number One spot of best selling game of all time. Of course this number does include bundled software. But so did the current number one, Super Mario Bros. Right now Super Mario is at 40.24 million and Wii Sports is at 39.68 million. It will be just a couple weeks when we have a new number one. If you would like to check out some numbers for yourself, go to VG Chartz.

We'll see if the gaming community can continue to push through this tough time for the world economy. Only time will tell.

Amazon US Chart Watch

I was just reading an article about how the UK Amazon chart was shaping up today and it got me interested in our very own US version. So I went and looked, just like everyone else can and saw some interesting things. It's still a Nintendo dominated list.

At number one, not suprisingly, is Super Paper Mario for the Wii. It was released today and that is why I am not suprised. Number 2 is the XBOX 360 version of Guitar Hero II. Guitar Hero is just fun to play. No way around it. I can't wait for Guitar Hero III coming to the Wii in Late 2007. Then from number 3 through number 8 it's all Nintendo, including the Wii console at 5. For Number 9, it's the new release of Lord Of The Rings Online and rounding out the top 10 is Wii Play.

For the fanboys on all sides, especially the Nintendo side, the PS3 is clocked in at #12 and the XBOX 360 is sitting at #29.

PSP just dropped price to $170... what next?

Well, SONY just announced that they are dropping the price of their PSP by 15% to $170. This is good news for gamers in general. I still do not own one but would start to consider as the price moves down.

However I do own an original DS! Which from the start has been very entertaining. I still play MarioKart online against others and still train my brain. So for now the DS is the only portable I need. Excellent games and good prices and still much cheaper than the PSP. And now I can see the DS going down to the UBER price of $99 just before the Holidays in 07. That will be something SONY is not looking forward to.