Red Playstation 3 Dual Shock Controller
Snapped some photo’s of the new Playstation 3 Dual shock controller and took some photos of it beside my red Xbox 360 controller. Enjoy!
It’s NPD time of the month
So the NPD sale figures our out for the month of August 2009. August featured the highly anticipated announcement of the PS3 Slim at a price point of $299 and Microsoft followed suit by lowering the price of the Xbox Elite console to $299, the same price as the Playstation 3 Slim. We won’t truly know how these announcements affected sales until sometime in October when the September sales figures are released. Sony closed the gap on Microsoft in the month of August and I’m predicting that Sony will sell more consoles in the month of September than Microsoft. I’m not sure if Sony can outsell the Wii.
August Sales figure numbers:
- Nintendo DS – 552,900
- Wii – 277,400
- Xbox 360 – 215,400
- PlayStation 3 – 210,000
- PSP – 140,300
- PlayStation 2 – 105,900
I’m not sure there was any doubt Madden and Wii resort would be juggernauts this month. I was surprised to see Batman: Arkham Asylum sell almost 600K copies last month, Congrats to Eidos for making a kick ass game.
Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360) – 928,000
Wii Sports Resort (Wii) – 754,000
Madden NFL 10 (PS3) – 665,000
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Xbox 360) – 303,000
Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3) – 290,000
Madden NFL 10 (PS2) – 160,000
Dissidia: Final Fantasy (PSP) – 130,000
Wii Fit (Wii) – 128,000
Mario Kart Wii (Wii) – 120,000
Fossil Fighters (DS) – 92,000
Gears of War Double XP weekend
On your way to reach level 100? I know I am and the team over at Epic has planned a double XP weekend.
Details:
Got plans for this Labor Day weekend? Cancel them, because you’re going to be busy gearing up for battle in a Gears 2 multiplayer double XP event! From September 4 through 8, earn double experience for all games, plus an experience bonus of 500 for the winning team in a Public competitive multiplayer match. Plus, in Horde, matches default to Hardcore difficulty, with every tenth wave populated entirely by Sires. Get ready for action!
Source: Gearsofwar.xbox.com
read moreBuying games on your console verus retail
While we move into a time of digital downloads the big 2 console manufacturers Microsoft and Sony are expanding there online services by allowing us to download full retail versions of games and save them to our hard drives. Nintendo simply can’t offer this feature to it’s customers as there is no real storage on the Nintendo Wii. Microsoft is branding there service Games on Demand while Sony has just placed them into there online store. Microsoft certainly has the edge in terms of the amount of games for purchase, there are currently 27 titles available in the Canadian Marketplace to compared to Sony’s 5 titles. I have to give credit to Sony thoughwhen Warhawk, Grand Turismo 5 Prologue and Socom where available to download around the same time there retail counterparts were released. To me this is the key, I want them available the same time there released at retail. This would surely cut down the amount of copies traded in at EB Games/ Gamestop. Should the digital only versions games cost less? I think so. You aren’t getting a box,manual,physical copy of the disk and add in factors like transportation costs, distribution etc. Those all dollars and cents do add up and should result in a lower cost to the consumer. But it’s not, what were seeing is prices equal to what their retail counterparts are selling for. For the same price I would rather have a physical copy of the game and store it on my shelf beside the other 70 plus games I own.
Sony’s current offerings
| Game Title | PSN Price | Retail Price |
| SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation | $29.99 | $44.99 |
| Burnout Paradise | $19.99 | $19.99 |
| Warhawk | $29.99 | $29.99 |
| Grant Turismo 5 Prologue 5 | $29.99 | $29.99 |
| NFL Head Coach 09 | $49.99 | $29.99 |
Microsoft’s current offerings
| Game Title | Xbox Live Price | Retail Price |
| Battlefield Bad Company | $19.99 | $19.99 |
| Burnout Paradise | $19.99 | $19.99 |
| Oblivion | $29.99 | GOTY 29.99 |
| Bioshock | $29.99 | $29.99 |
| Need For Speed Carbon | $19.99 | $17.99 |
| Call of Duty 2 | $29.99 | $34.99 |
| Rainbow Six Vegas | $29.99 | $19.99 |
| Mass Effect | $19.99 | $19.99 |
| MX vs. ATV: Untamed | $29.99 | $22.99 |
| Saints Row | $29.99 | $19.99 |
| Need for Speed Most Wanted | $19.99 | $29.99 |
| Prey | $19.99 | $39.99 |
| Ridge Racer 6 | $19.99 | $9.99 |
| Perfect Dark Zero | $19.99 | $9.99 |
| Viva Piñata | $19.99 | $19.99 |
| Kameo | $19.99 | $19.99 |
| Assassin’s Creed | $29.99 | $29.99 |
| Viva Piñata: TIP | $29.99 | $29.99 |
| Karaoke Revolution American Idol Encore | $29.99 | $24.99 |
| Sonic the Hedgehog | $19.99 | $19.99 |
| LEGO Star Wars: TCS | $29.99 | $29.99 |
| Fight Night Round 3 | $19.99 | $19.99 |
| Rockstar Table Tennis | $29.99 | $14.99 |
| DDR/DS Universe | $29.99 | $29.99 |
| Meet the Robinsons | $29.99 | $24.99 |
| Burnout Revenge | $19.99 | $14.99 |
| Need for Speed Pro Street | $19.99 | $19.99 |
All prices were determined on the XBL Canadian Marketplace, Canadian Playstation Network store, Bestbuy.ca,futreshop.ca and amazon.ca
read moreHoliday Sales Prediction
it’s coming to that time of year again, the ever so crazy holiday season where we see hundred’s of video game titles. I’ve put together my list of what I think will be the best selling video games.
Game Title
Wii Resort
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Guitar Hero 5 ( Game Only)
Guitar Hero 5 (Bundle)
Dirt 2
Beatles Rock Band (Game Only)
Beatles Rock Band (Bundle)
Scribblenauts
NHL 10
Halo ODST
Dead Space Extraction
PSP GO! (new PSP Hardware)
Brutal Legend
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Forza Motorsport 3
DJ Hero
Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Assassins Creed 2
Tony Hawk Ride
New Super Mario Bros
Grant Turismo 5 PS3 Q4 2009
My Set-Up and Collection
I figured I would post my set up and my collection of games.
32inch Sharp Aquos LCD
Rogers HD-PVR
Xbox 360 with 120 gig HDD
Playstation 3 with 320 gig HDD
Nintendo Wii
Pioneer HTS-GS1 Xbox 360 HD Surround System
Collection of Games:
