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New York - Because of the economic situation these days before Christmas, many people are trying to cut their holiday budgets as low as possible. But according to the latest reports, people are still buying video games at the same level, not cutting the spending for this kind of entertainment. The research of NPD Group says that U.S. retail sales of video games earned a total of $2.91 billion in November,which is a 10 percent increase from a year ago. With a more ... Read More

New York - According to reports video games are still selling strong this year, despite the many other ways that consumers are reigning in the spending to save some money. Video game sales has jumped 10 percent from where they were a year ago. In November alone, a total of $2.91 billion was spent on video games. Total sales from January to November this year are up by 22 percent from 2007, totaling $16 billion. Video games are looked at as a way ... Read More

New York - Despite Xbox 360’s big sales during Black Friday Nintendo is in the lead building a huge gulf between them an all rivals. Nintendos Wii sold three for each Xbox bought during November reported NPD a research group. Four Nintendo titles were among the ten best selling games in November: Wii Play, Wii Music, Wii Fit, and Mario Kart. Wii’s motion-controlled games consoles held three top selling spots. Analysts had lower expectations for sales of video games in the United States ... Read More

New York - Sales for the Wii this holiday season are out and show that the Wii is outselling the next closest gaming console, the XBox 360 by almost 3 to 1 in November. Microsoft had hoped that black Friday would propel them to the front of the market, but the Wii held onto its lead and actually pulled farther ahead than anyone had imagined. Wii shipments this month have exceeded 2.04 million while the XBox tallied in at 836,000, far under monthly ... Read More

New York (That Happened!) - While rumors about the arrival of a Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360 console is circulating the internet, Netflix has taken a further step to position itself as a meeting point for the console from Microsoft and multimedia content in it. After announcing this summer that they would be responsible for carrying streaming movies and series to the Xbox 360, we know that with the next update of the console, the content you can get will be in ... Read More

Boston (That Happened!) - It’s not a game anymore. Talk of a slowing economy has been running rampant for months, maybe even the last year, but things are getting serious when gamers put down their controllers and start taking notice. This past September, the industry is reporting a seven percent drop in sales, the first real decline in this usually robust industry in over two years. This drop is compared to the sales of September 2007. Despite these dramatic numbers, this drop is not ... Read More