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Chart Track: DS and PSP dominate 2007's overall console sales |
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The UK's Chart Track has just sent in some interesting figures regarding last year's overall video game sales. The year 2007 saw a total of 75.9 million consoles sold, which equates to a considerable 16 percent boost since 2006.With regards to games, Chart Track announces that software sales for the time period totalled £ 1.72 billion (US$ 3.37 billion), indicating a 26 percent per cent over 2006's records.
With regards to specifics systems, 2007's figures show that the Nintendo DS took the lead, followed along by the Sony PSP. Handhelds dominated last year's, claiming a third of the entire software units market. With regards for the top ten games of last year:
- FIFA 08 (EA Sport)
- Dr. KawashimaÂ’s Brain Training (Nintendo)
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami)
- More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
- Halo 3 (Mircosoft)
- The Simpsons Game (EA Games)
- Wii Play (Nintendo)
- AssassinÂ’s Creed (Ubisoft)
- WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2008 (THQ)
We are thrilled to see the industry growing and software sales continuing to rise. This is a real testament to the industry, the creativity and the talent we have in the UK. There is, however, a chance to forget many of the problems the UK development sector faces with the pressure from the threat of international competition. We need to ensure that the UK creativity is able to continue to flourish and feed this demand, these figures should act as a reminder to us of the scale of our amazing industry and how we need to continue to work towards a healthier situation for one of the UK most lucrative creative industries.
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That, and I'm waiting for Crisis Core :)
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Wipeout Pulse
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Dissidia: Final Fantasy
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
Phantasy Star Portable
Secret Agent Clank
Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice
Patapon
Echochrome
Wild Arms XF
Coded Soul
Star Ocean: First Departure
Star Ocean: Second Evolution
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I personally hate the DS. Okay, maybe hate is too strong of a word, but the I prefer the big widescreen of the PSP to the 2 tiny screens of the DS. The DS feels too small in my hand (which actually hinders gameplay) and their online support is a joke where as the PSP I'm able to jump in and play, the hell with friend codes. The PSP has some mega kewl games such as Daxter, Killzone Liberation, Socom FTB, pursuit force, MGS portable Ops, Burnout legends, 2 GTAs, Silent Hill Origins, and more great titles such as Kingdom hearts, FFV Crisis core, a new clank game, God of war and others. So you can't say the system doesn't have a big list of great games.
While I do agree that the DS isn't just for children, i believe the system is more for the 'non-gamers' who want their bejewled, brain age and cooking mama. The same kind of demographic who powers the "online flash based games" numbers.
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i have one and its boring
not to many good games
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that prints money
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