The first NPD hardware numbers of the new year and new decade are out! Let’s take a look at the console hardware sales figures for January 2010:
- Wii: 465,800
- Nintendo DS: 422,200
- Xbox 360: 332,800
- PlayStation 3: 276,900
- PlayStation Portable: 100,100
- PlayStation 2: 41,600
Naturally, sales had to be down from December and the ultra-busy holiday period. The Wii and DS continued to lead the business, while the Xbox 360 beat out the PlayStation 3. It will be interesting to see if the PS3 picks up in February and March. There are a few PS3 exclusives that will surely sell well, what will they move hardware?
Now channel your inner Jesse Divnich and analyze the numbers yourselves!
@ Smartguy
41,000 grandmas bought their grandkids the wrong Playstation.
@ R Pad
Which console is $400?
I too think they lean on the cheap one.
I just watched an Alan Wake trailer and it said it was T for Teen. That doesn't bode well for that game.
@ Smartguy;
Agreed. I want scary, tense, disturbing, sexual, blood & gore Alan Wake.
-M
So the PSP didn’t even eclipse the PS2? Interesting.
@N8R
Nah, grandmas buy their kids Wiis.
@ Smartguy
Not the grandmas that bought their grandkids Wii’s last year and now their grandkids are like “but I really wanted a Playstation 3, grandma”.
And then you have the religious grandmas that wash the kid’s mouth out with soap when he says “I really want to play with my Wii”.
Do grandmas really buy $400 consoles for gifts?
@ Iceman
All I saw on the front page in the side bar (since it will probably be gone by the time you see this) was:
Iceman on NPD Hardware Sales Figures for January 2010 :
@ Smartguy; Agreed. I want scary, tense, disturbing, sex…
I copied and pasted it as is.
@ Alan Wake being T for teen
If there's no swearing, sexual content, or too much bloody gore… it would be hard for it to get an M rating. I personally can respect the tact in language, see little need for sexual content, and it's more of a psych thriller so blood and gore may not be so necessary.
I combed through my games real quick and these are the T ones I have:
Batman AA.
Battlefield Bad Company
SVR 2010
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Mercenaries 2
and Spiderman 3
Good games can be rated T.
@N8R
Uncharted 2 was also Teen. However Batman AA was based off of the animated cartoon and therefore the Teen rating was fine. Bad Company 2 will not be Teen. Mercs 2 and Spiderman3 are not as story driven or should I say in the same league as far as narrative is concerned as Alan Wake.
Sorry, but I was expecting a visceral experience based upon the atmosphere the trailers create. It is no longer a day 1 buy for me though. Maybe after I see some reviews from my peers on rpad.tv will I give it a shot.
I agree good games can be rated T…but some games need an M rating…like some movies need the R rating. Imagine GTA with a Teen rating or Braveheart being rated PG-13.
@ Smartguy
… or Mortal Kombat with a T rating (cough).
I get what your saying… I just see that particular game still having merit with a T. Maybe it's not what you expected, I on the other hand always tend to keep my expectations low with any game until i get a hands on.
You guys help with what gets a hands on and what doesn't.
@N8R
I agree, a T rating doesn't kill a game…but I was really expecting it to be more mature. Kind of like one of my favorite Stephen King novels, which happens to be a movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106664/
@Smartguy
I think putting an M rating on an Xbox game would kill the sales because you take out the majority of the customers. Just listen to XBL and you'll hear the age range of the install base.
movies based on stephen king books usually suck
i thought thinner was ok, more funny than anything
needful things could have been so much better….
I used to love the movie IT when i was a child, but i watch it now, and jesus christ…its the corniest movie ever made, they changed SO much about that book, its hardly even the same story
@RROD
ZING! lol
@thundercracker
The one I mentioned was a great translation. Not much was left out. Room 1408 was another good King story put on film. Though 1408 was a short story. The Mist was done really well. The ending was changed a bit, but I heard it was approved by King. The Stand, Rose Red (i think that is the name), and TommyKnockers were all good because they were miniseries.
I think a lot of the earlier movies done in the 80s and into the 90s were all about shock value. Trying to be visceral like the Elm Street and Friday the 13th movies. Not to mention the countless other slasher flicks of the era.
Now going off on a big tangent:
I think when we are old(er) men or maybe after we are dead, King will be seen as a great writer. Much how we study figures like Poe, Thoreau, and Emerson…King will be studied in school. I think he is the best American author in the last 50 years at least. My opinion.
@Smartguy
That's another reason why I consider Sony to be the best in gaming. The Sony execs seem like gamers to me while the M$ execs just seem like a bunch of suits with receding hairlines. Sony gives mature titles like Heavy Rain knowing full well that the game won't sell huge numbers because they want the broadest range of games on their system. M$ will only back a game if it is a safe shooter. They don't want a broad range of games they only want the highest grossing games which are shooters.
@RROD
I agree with you as far as the risk taking goes. I wonder if some old Sega guys work for Sony? Interesting.
@Ray
Does Sony have any old Sega guys as decision makers?
@smartguy
i agree with your opinion that king is one of the best, most proflific writers in the last 50 years, but i cant see his stuff being talked about in a classroom, because of the genre. In order to be look at as a classic, books have to transcend everyday life experience and be cathartic and that shit
i say fuck that dude, give me a good story, thats all i care about. I dont need to be taken on some spiritual journey, catcher in the rye is overrated..sorry about my wording, i cant think when im tired
@Smartguy
How is it in Nola after the Superbowl win? You know about our NFC South worst to first and first to worst tradition right? That means the Saints will finish last and the Bucs will finish first in our division. The Saints were last in the division last year but this year they were first and won the big one. The NFC South worst to first and first to worst tradition is just as real as the Madden curse. By the way, EA is having fans vote on the Madden 11 cover athlete and the nominees are Brett Favre, Jared Allen, and Drew Brees. I vote Drew Brees, hehe.
@Thundercracker
Awesome, glad to know there is someone else who thinks King's writing is good.
I think he will be discussed at the collegiate level at the least. He has written in many genres and his Dark Tower series is the culmination of all his works. He creates a very interesting mythology within everything he has ever done in his career. Anne Rice did something similar in her writing, but never to the level that King took it.
You realize that King wrote Hearts in Atlantis and that it was later made into a movie by Disney I think. In Hearts of Atlantis it chronicles the Whites and the Breakers. Both of whom come into play in the Dark Tower series. He has such interesting tie-ins in his extensive works that I simply find that fascinating and worthy of at least one lecture in school. Maybe two lol.
I was never a big King fan based on the movies, but once I started reading his work, I was hooked.
@RROD
It's great. There was an awesome victory parade on Tuesday. It was carnival style too. Everyone is wearing saints jerseys nonstop. In fact I'm at home right now wearing my Saints skull cap. I'm off work today because the roads are iced over. Sounds pansy…but we only know how to drive in torrential downpours and high winds…not ice lol.
Saints will repeat as champs of the NFC South. Bucs and Kittens won't be competitive this year. Atlanta and NOLA will split games and go for the division crown. I see NOLA taking it by 2 games though.
Saints break curses dude. Look at this past season as evidence.
@Smartguy
I see how you can draw that conclusion but every year this tradition seems to hold true. The Saints finished dead last last year and look like they had no chance of winning the division and yet they did. What you said was very logical but that tradition always rears it's ugly head and the last year's division winner finishes last place. Until I see the tradition broken, I'm believing in it.
@Smartguy
By the way, Atlanta go a half an inch of snow last week and the whole city shut down. We can't drive in any amount of snow. We only get it one or two days a year so we don't get much practice.
in the last 3 weeks, weve gotten a foot 3 times
the world is coming to an end
even i hit somebody leaving work on wednesday morning….
@RROD
It will be broken now. 43 years of losing has now vanished. It has snowed in NOLA 3 times in the last 2 to 3 months! The only thing negative about this offseason is that the Saints can't go after free agents because of the rules. We will retain who we have and that's it. Draft some guys. I think Atlanta finishes second in the division and goes in as a wildcard.
@thundercracker
that's a lot of snow. wow.
Maybe you guys could send some snow to Denver. I'd love to ride on something other than ice this weekend in the mountains
back to steven king for a second though, some of his best work were inspired by his bachman years…i totally forget that he wrote the running man as well
even the dark half was inspired by his bachman years
@smartguy
ive never seen the movie “the dark half”, is the movie good, or does it suck ass?
@RROD
Yeah, I know the motivations for publishers to make that T rating. I’m pragmatic and can appreciate their wish for ROC, but really wanted something more than that lol.
@thundercracker
Yes, I thought it was a pretty good movie. It will remind you of FF8 in the way that Squall and Sipher are different. Every conceivable way. Good story. Timothy Hutton is great for the part.
M$ will be reduced to a games publisher only like Sega before it’s all said and done.