Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Console Wars 2008

Now that the holiday season is wrapping up (no pun intended), the big three in the gaming industry, (Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii) find out which has sold the most consoles in 2008.

And this year's top selling console and hand-held both go to Nintendo.

Nintendo sold over 2 million Wii consoles in the month of November. Their closest competitor was Miscrosoft which sold 836,000 Xbox 360s.

"And at over 1.5 million DS systems sold, Nintendo tripled the output of Sony's PSP 421,000," according to an article on yahoo's website (click the link to read the full article).

While those numbers represent the final year end totals, the order of most sales through out the year still is:
  1. Nintendo - Wii
  2. Microsoft - Xbox 360
  3. Sony - Playstation 3
Most had predicted that this year would be Sony's comeback year but unfortunately that was not the case. But what they lacked in console sales they made up with winning games.

Both Xbox and Playstation both released many highly anticipated games, which sold millions of copies, such as; Grand Theft Auto 4, Fall Out 3, Fable 2, Little Big Planet and many more. While Nintendo's big selling games were limited to: Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit, which all sold millions of copies but don't come as close to matching sales of their competitors. And Nintendo's predicted big hit, Wii Music has recieved poor ratings and lack luster sales.

So as this year is ending, here is looking forward to 2009, and all the new games that are promised to make it an even better year than the last. (Oh and lets cross our fingers for the release of Starcraft 2 in 2009!)
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Super low holiday prices

Black Friday has come and gone, but that doesn't mean that you missed out on the the great sales. Most stores, like Circuit City are continually offering great deals on their consoles and games.

Circuit City Sunday Ad

They are offering select PC games for 50% off and a $10 gift card when you purchase one of the advertised games.


Best Buy is advertising the Xbox 360 Pro, with two games, for $299.99 and they are offering $10 gift card with the purchase of Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Nintendo Wii.

[Click on the link to see Best Buy's online ad]




Target is advertising several new games priced at $44. Games like Mirrors Edge, Saints Row 2 and Rock Band 2.

[click on the link to see Target's online Sunday ad]




So if you still want to get the low prices that you saw on Black Friday but were unwilling to get up before the sun came up to wait in line for them, then just watch the Sunday ads and keep checking their websites for special one day online deals.
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