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The U.S. economy may be slowing down, but the fallout from the residential mortgage crisis does not seem to have hurt the video game makers.
A recently-published report indicates an increase in sales of video game hardware and software. Revenues in February, 2008 were $1.33 billion, up 34 per cent from February, 2007.
Market research firm NPD Group said Call of Duty 4 (which appeals to people who like to play soldier but don’t like getting up at 5 every morning or going to places like Afghanistan) was the top game for a single console. The creator, Activision Inc., shipped 296,000 units of the game for Sony’s Xbox 360, in February.
Microsoft beat Sony in sales, while the third-place vendor was Nintendo, maker of the Wii.
Video games have come a long way since Space Invaders was introduced in 1978.
In completely unrelated news, Statistics Canada says 23.1 per cent of Canadian adults were obese as of 2004 – up from 13.8 per cent in 1979.
March 14th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Ummm….yeah. Don’t know where to start.
Sales for cosoles for the Month of February (from the article you linked even):
Nintendo DS: 587,600
Nintendo Wii: 432,000
PlayStation 2: 351,800
PlayStation 3: 280,800
Xbox 360: 254,600
PlayStation Portable: since your article doesn’t mention it, I won’t either.
So how is Nintendo the “third-place” vendor? And how did Microsoft (who actually makes the Xbox 360, not Sony) beat Sony (who makes the Playstation line?
And while I agree with your hints that games may have contributed to obesity with people sitting inside more than being active, Space Invaders was hardly the first video game (or even the first popular one) and gaming didn’t Really catch on with the mainstream until much later (mid to late 80’s).