Agnates said:

Numbers that mean nothing... They should tell us what exactly was sold online, if it was 11 million downloads with an average price of $5 thanks to all the "mini" type stuff sold for a few cents to a dollar it hardly means anything against retail titles with an average price of $40 per title... Other than reinforce that digital releases are suitable for smaller lower budget and/or indie games for now... Or reinforce that it's more suitable on PC than on consoles...

The only reason I repeated that was because it was NPD -- and for all their faults they are what the industry relies on.

The do mean nothing for the reasons you state, but it is news in itself that NPD would continue to prop up this push to digital.

Agnates said:

aspro said:

C'mon -- where's the outrage?

Nowhere, tis only faked on places that barely knew the service existed at all, like Dtoid. And they didn't do it just for attention, the temporary closure was required to bring the new backend up, and they never said they were shutting down. That they kept emphasising "can not continue in this form" or whatever they said was a big enough hint, as was the trailer released a few hours later. Besides, they had already assured people they'd be able to redownload their games in a couple days time from the first moment. Were you affected? Did you happen to JUST have bought a game right before it shut down, so didn't have time to download? Or did you buy a game a month ago but didn't think to download it until the day they did this where you craved to play and were met with what amounted to a couple days delay for it?

ok.

Pachter says Wii will hold its own in the holidays...

Now I have my doubts... Maybe it's finally dead

The TrackMania Wii website is pretty sweet. It also mentions over 200 tracks when the CVG review said 150...

Capcom is on crack confirmed:

Eurogamer: What do you mean by 'reboot'?

Motohide Eshiro: Well, taking Devil May Cry 4 as an example, including the PC versions we sold 2.7 million of that particular game, but we looked at the market and saw that there were other action games selling four million, five million, all these copies.


One of our goals for this game is to create something new and fresh that keeps the old fans but also catches new people, so that we can increase our overall appeal, our sales and our audience.


When we say rebirth, part of our goal is to go back to the roots, dig deeper, and try to expand upon those ideas to make the series accessible to a wider audience. We want to give the series a fresh, new standard – a literal rebirth.

What games?!?!? What DMC like games are selling 4-5 million copies, GoW would be the biggest and that is like 3 million. WTF are they talking about. Are they comparing it to games like Assassin's Creed or Gears of War, wtf.

On Dante's redisgn which took a year to perfect:

"It's based on punk-rock cultural disenfranchisement that happened in the late seventies, but new-skool, dahling."

What Devil May Cry did when it launched was it brought everything that was great about action cinema like the fashion, music -- it was like a cultural melting pot -- and I feel like now, for Devil May Cry to have that same impact, it needs to draw on new things. New music, new ways of cinematography, new fashion."

What is this, what does DMC have to do with fashion. A cultural melting pot? It was a game where you killed things and it was awesome, thats why people played it. Holy hell.

aspro said:

From bitmob.com

"A new analysis report by research company NPD Group reveals that full-game digital downloads surpassed boxed retail sales during the first six months of 2010. 11.2 million games were purchased and downloaded online versus brick-and-mortar game store sales of 8.2 million. Frontline digital retailers such as Steam and Bigfish were the main contributors to the improved number. However, overall PC game sales declined 21 percent compared to the same time period last year. The reason? An "expansion of social network gaming as well as the continued expansion of free game options,” according to industry analyst Anita Frazier. I guess I should unplug my roommate's computer whenever he goes on a Farmville binge so he won't contribute to the death of my beloved platform."

Is that PC only, cause the wording makes it seem that way.

EDIT: and seeing how there was like 3 million copies of Galaxy 2 sold and 2 million copies of Madden, over 2 million of Red Dead and probably a million or more of CoD. Yeah that has to be PC only.

DKC Returns looks cool, a rental for me for sure. I trust Retro way more than Rare, I am sure the level design in this game will be better than DKC2.

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Oh and in honor of tonight's Harvest Moon, I will pop on the Wii and play my VC copy of the SNES classic.

Japan last week. life sales in parens

• 1. Pokemon Black & White (Pokemon, DS): 2,557,779
• 2. Front Mission Evolved (Square Enix, PS3): 51,084
• 3. Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds Tag Force 5 (Konami, PSP): 45,879
• 4. Halo: Reach (Microsoft, X360): 44,413
• 5. Wii Party (Nintendo, Wii): 36,547 (997,025)
• 6. Monhan Diary Poka Poka Felyne Village (Capcom, PSP): 28,627 (428,677)
• 7. One Piece Gigant Battle! (Namco Bandai, NDS): 28,123 (159,977)
• 8. Blue Roses (Nippon Ichi, PSP): 9,846
• 9. Taiko Drum Master DS (Namco Bandai, DS): 8,729 (215,513)
• 10. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo, Wii): 8,178 (825,541)