WIRED Magazine is trying something different for this month's analysis of the NPD Group's videogame industry sales reports for the month of November. Rather than Chris Kohler just talk at you, contributors Susan Arendt and Earnest Cavalli are going to jump in for some back-and-forth.
November was a fascinating month overall. Not only does NPD call it the biggest November on record with $1.74 billion dollars spent on video games, it seems to be setting the stage for the biggest December on record next month.
Nintendo DS exploded with 1.5 million units sold, and with no supply constraints on Nintendo's little stylus handheld that could, the sky's the limit. Call of Duty 4 and Assassin's Creed did surprisingly well. There's no end of things to talk about.
Watch the results unfold after the jump:
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Hmmm. I thought the demographic was mostly hardcore gamers and Casual young to middle aged adults with a healthy mix of everything else(kids, teens, wemen). Broke teenagers spend thousands of dollars on HDTV's!, Sound systems! and hundreds of dollars on games! every few months?.
Sure the bulk of the casual base has yet to be won over from last generation's hold. Calling the most money generating platform I can think of based on whats out and the size of the base currently" a bunch of broke teens is foolish maybe I missread the Para.
they forgot to say that next year , my opinion is that wii will actually sell more then it did this year...which is really going to send fanboys to the shrink...since next year is when wii actually get a bunch of games and quality exclusives and most likely a price drop......2008 is going to be the true nintendo year.