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What are you playing this weekend?

Me? I’m anxious to finish My Life as a King, play a couple of rounds of Mario Kart, and belt out some Singstar songs. What about you — what are you playing this weekend?

PS3 sales to double, overtake Xbox 360 by 2009 and Wii by 2012

First, check out the above graph from this article at CNET. Then check out the following graph found in the NeoGAF forums. Which one makes the most sense to you? [Thanks, ejamer!]

Guitar Hero IV drums revealed

Well, these are the drums for the Xbox 360 version of the recently revealed Guitar Hero IV. I imagine that the Wii version will be very similar, but probably white. Either way, I’m totally psyched that there will be cymbals! My Rock Band pre-order = cancelled! What do you all think? [Thanks, stafo! Source: Joystiq]

Wii console sales boosted by casual, hardcore titles in Japan

Thanks to the one-two punch of titles like Super Smash Bros. Brawl and the quirky Wii Fit balance board, Nintendo has widened its lead in Japan over Sony’s PlayStation 3. According to an article from Reuters today, Nintendo’s Wii game console outsold the PlayStation 3 nearly 4-to-1 in Japan in February despite Sony’s console beginning to narrow the gap last autumn. In addition to...

Sony exec Phil Harrison *hearts* Wiimote, iPhone

I never in a million years thought I’d be caught dead saying this, but thank you Phil Harrison, thank you. Why the love? Because last week at the Game Developer’s Conference the outgoing Sony video game chief said that controllers for the PS3 and the Xbox 360 were too confusing for a majority of people in the world today. “You hand somebody a game controller and it’s like y...

DS set to overtake PS2 in early 2008

The idea has been bandied about, dissected, contested and now it appears as though it will finally come to fruition: the DS, that plucky little multicolored portable, is set to overtake the PS2 in Japan sometime in early 2008. For some, this milestone was a given, especially in light of the portable’s insane sales numbers thoughout late 2006 and all of 2007. According to an article at GameIn...

Opinion: Square Enix backed the wrong horse

When you’ve built your entire business around grandiose, movie-like fantasy titles with huge, in-depth cutscenes, what do you do when a graphically inferior console is currently eating up the entire video game industry? Did you say lash out? Complain? How about whine and moan? If so, you’re correct, and Yoichi Wada, CEO of Square Enix, deserves a prize. On Wednesday, Yoichi told CNET t...

Video games to see best October in a while

Analyst Michael Pachter, Mr. Video Game guru himself, has cast down the tea leaves into his voodoo pot of stray animal bones and sees incredible October sales numbers not only for Nintendo, but for video games in general. GameIndustry.biz: Most of the sales growth was driven by Activision’s Guitar Hero III, which accounted for USD 100 million in sales. Pachter’s estimate reflects USD 4...

Nintendo dethrones Sony as game sales leader

El Segundo, Calif., Oct. 30, 2007’Nintendo displaced Sony Corp. as the leader in the video-game console software market in the third quarter of 2007 as it introduced a flood of new titles for both its Wii video-game console and its portable DS system, according to iSuppli Corp. Worldwide revenue for Nintendo DS and Wii gaming software amounted to $1.2 billion in the third quarter, up 31.4 percent ...

Will Wright: Wii is the only true next generation console

I think I just added Spore creator Wii Wright to my Christmas shopping list. In an interview with Guardian Unlimited Wright, who also created the Sims, called the Wii the only true next-generation console out of the three new console platforms on the market. Of course some of us already subscribe to this belief, but to hear someone of Wright’s caliber put it so succinctly might win over a fe...

How I know the Wii will dominate this holiday season

OK, so no one *knows* anything until it actually happens, but something came across the Infendo news wire today not directly related to the Big N and confirmed in my mind the Wii will dominate the holiday–again. Weird thing is, it was an Xbox 360 box and the press release that accompanied it. Jeff Bell, MS PR drone, take it away: “As families gather together this holiday, it’s th...

Xbox 360 + Halo 3 > Wii in Sept. unit sales

The motion-sensing Wii couldn’t muster the strength to fend off Halo mania last month in total hardware sales. Here’s how the bloody bout went down… Xbox 360 sold 527k units last month, followed by 501k Wii units, 496k DS units, 285k PSPs, 215k PS2s, and 119k PlayStation 3s above 75k Game Boy Advance units according to the NPD. Should be interesting to see what happens this holid...