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Halo's Halo Affecting Movies?
Could be, according to this Next Gen article : Halo 3, released on September 25, grossed a whopping $170 million in first day sales, a figure that had swelled to over $300 million by early October. In contrast, North American movie box office takings...
Monday Morning Quarterbacking of April NPD Sales
A good friend of mine, N'Gai Croal , just posted an interesting discussion he had with Geoff Keighley about April's NPD report. I've known N'Gai for a long, long time now... perhaps ten years or so? We tend to disagree a great deal about certain topics...
U.S. Video Game Console Online Shopping Demand
Saw an update from Compete (a company that tracks and analyzes online store searches to understand consumer demand). This time they're focusing on the Elite SKU, and asking the question of whether there's market demand for it. The whole article is interesting...
Nintendo Rules February NPD Numbers
No other way to put it. And I'm not even talking handhelds, where the stomping was even greater. To quote: February's NPD hardware figures continue to show Nintendo's Wii selling well ahead of the other Gen Now consoles, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. In...
Analysis of Online Holiday Demand for Different Consoles
Just saw this interesting post from Matt Pace of Compete, a company that specializes in collecting and analyzing online traffic metrics. The company collected data this holiday tracking US video game console demand, and the results are pretty interesting...
Gamesindustry.biz on "The Phoney War"
Saw an article on Gamesindustry.biz talking about the console war - and seeing as it gave me a chance to use the word "phoney" in a Title, just had to call your attention to it! Actually, in all seriousness, I thought this was one of the first...
New York Time's Circuits Buying Guide for Consoles
Just hit the web . Wanted to highlight it as it's a great, non-technical summary of the current console war that really boils the current state down quite succintly (and accurately, in my opinion). Couple of quick quotes: If you or your loved ones...
Xbox 360 Holiday Sales Spike
I was in a conversation at Evil Avatar where some folks were doubting the veracity of Peter Moore's statement that Xbox 360 would ship 10 million units by the end of 2006. To quote the statement: Peter Moore, vice president of Microsoft's entertainment...
Clarifying Thoughts on High Definition Game Rendering
I was talking to Bruce Dawson, one of our senior software design engineers here, about some questions I had around 1080i and 1080p. Frankly, I was particularly curious about why Sony has continued harping on 1080p as being "TrueHD", especially since the...