The August game sales NPDs are out and things are looking very good in the Sony Camp. The Playstation Brand tops the charts yet again with 484,000 units sold and 4 hit titles in the top 10 games sold. The sales breakdown is as follows:
Hardware Unit Sales
PlayStation Family 484 K
Wii 403.6 K
Nintendo DS 383.3K
Xbox 360 276.7K
Top 10 Games
360 MADDEN NFL 08 896.6K PS2 MADDEN NFL 08 643.6K
360 BIOSHOCK 490.9K PS3 MADDEN NFL 08 336.2K
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE 256.8K
WII METROID PRIME 3: CORRUPTION 218.1K
WII MARIO STRIKERS: CHARGED 147.4K PS2 GUITAR HERO 2 W/GUITAR 145.4K
WII MARIO PARTY 8 138.3K PS2 GUITAR HERO ENCORE: ROCKS THE 80S 127.1K
Weekly Xbox 360 sales show the system is continuing to decompose in Japan. Forget dead or dying the system is on the verge of disappearing all together. The Playstation platforms outsell it by a ratio of 24 to 1
Every week we’ll be featuring a reader question from the SDF Mailbags so send in any videogame-related questions you may have using the contact link to the right. This week reader Quintus writes in:
‘I’ve recently just setup a local wireless connection at my apartment. I’m thinking of purchasing a gaming system but I want to hook it up to the internet for online play and downloads but I don’t want a mess of wires from my living room running to my modem. Can you tell me which current consoles and handhelds support wireless?’
Good question Quintus, and no doubt one that is on the lips of many people wanting to enjoy their consoles online from the comfort of their living room. Luckily for you we have a list of consoles that have WiFi (wireless) built in out of the box:
- PS3
- PSP
- Wii
- DS
Yes that’s right even handhelds like DS and PSP have WiFi built in.
XBox 360 doesn’t have WiFi built in but all you have to do is give the world’s most profitable corporation another $100 and this elegant item could be hanging out of your 360 in no time:
Oh and look at that – you get a nice $5 discount from Amazon.
The Sony Ericsson gaming boss, Peter Ahnegard, said that a PlayStation-branded gaming phone would be coming by Christmas. He also added that it might not be this Christmas, which probably pissed whoever he was talking to off to no end. Sony Ericsson, who’ve already branded their W-line of phones the Walkman line, the K-line of phones the Cyber-shot line, and some random Japanese line the Bravia line, can easily brand another line (G, maybe, since P is taken) the PlayStation line. It doesn’t even need games other than the mobile ones that already exist for their cellphones, which run just fine on SE’s higher-end hardware.
The Sony Family showed very strong July sales with a total of 595,000 pieces of hardware sold. In comparison only 170,000 Xbox 360s were sold and the Sony platform even managed to outsell the much hyped Nintendo Wii which only reached a total of 425,000 sold. Here is the complete breakdown of U.S. game sales in July:
PlayStation Platforms 595k
Wii 425 k
Nintendo DS 405 k
Xbox 360 170k
Game Boy Advance 87k
Looks like the gaming world still belongs to Sony.
The next time someone tells you the PSP has no good games, be sure to point them to this list (courtesy of Neogaf). PSP has, by far, the best games on any portable to date. Want proof? Then check this out…
Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror – Third Person Shooter – $20 Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror packs an uncommon amount of detail, variety and overall
quality. It blends intense action sequences with stealth in a way no portable game has
before, and it does so with style to spare. It controls well, plays well and generally does
everything right.
WipEout Pure – Futuristic Racer – $20 (also has 12 more downloadable tracks.) Wipeout Pure is easily one of the finest launch titles available for PSP. The package
comes complete with beautiful visuals, outstandingly polished gameplay, a thumping score,
Wi-Fi multiplayer, and downloadable content. It can be rather difficult at times, so be
wary. But players who give themselves to Wipeout Pure will get plenty back in return. The
race is on, and it couldn’t be much more lovely.
GTA: Vice City Stories – Sandbox – $30 Without even touching on the outstanding soundtrack, pop references like the ’99 Red
Balloons’ you can hunt down, the cameos from characters out of PS2′s Vice City, there is
enough meat to keep fans hooked for months.
