Mario Galaxy dazzles
Gaming round-up PS3 enters record books
OF FIRST NOTE in this gaming round-up, is mention of Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity drive.
Penny Arcade announced the start of Child's Play 2007, allowing people to contribute toys and cash for children's hospitals around the world. In conjunction with Amazon.com, charitable fellows need simply go to the Child's Play website here, click the hospital of their choice, and purchase any of the toys, games and DVDs on the wish-lists, which will then be sent directly to the hospital.
Hopefully the good readers of the INQ will part with a few beer tokens and help out their respective local children's hospital.
Xbox 360
Rock Band distributor Electronic Arts says Rock Band supply will "definitely"
fall short this holiday, with big sales expected to barrel through the rest of
this fiscal year, and next. EA boss John Riccitillo
said
consumers should queue on release for the game...but EA would say that.
If you're wondering what must-have games you should have for Christmas this year, look no further than Eurogamer's 360 round-up.
And if you're not a fully paying member of Xbox Live - ensure you're around for the free Xbox Live Gold event over November 23rd through November 26th.
PS3/PSP
Sony's assistance to the Folding@Home project via Playstation 3 resulted in
reaching the milestone of a petaFLOP of computation power.
Sony announced the September 16 milestone has been recorded to Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network in existence. The milestone was reached again on September 23.
The latest sales figures from Enterbrain show that the PS3 is catching up with the Wii in Japan.
As reported by Reuters, the October numbers still clearly indicate a comfortable lead for Nintendo, but the gap between Wii sales and PS3 sales has dwindled substantially, now standing approximately at 2-1.
Official retail numbers for the month of October stand at 110,415 Wii consoles and 47,183 PS3 units sold in Japan. Not so long ago, the Wii was pummeling the PS3 6-to-1.
Sony released a new PSP firmware this week - version 3.72. More details here.
Similar to the 360, if you're wondering what must-have games you should have for Christmas this year, look no further than Eurogamer's PS3 round-up.
Wii/DS
Mario Galaxy has been released in Japan this week, shortly before the game is
released in the UK and US. We've already had a play, and can guarantee an
amazing experience - go pre-order it now.
The game was release on the 1st of November in Japan, and has the following release dates world wide: US November 1, Europe November 16, Australia November 29.
1up has a review here, GamePro here, and Tim Rogers of Next-gen.biz reports from Japan on the release of Mario Galaxy.
As part of Nintendo's recently-released investor briefing data, Gamasutra is also publishing the latest sales figures for the company's major DS and Wii franchises, with Nintendogs titles selling over 15 million worldwide, and New Super Mario Bros breaking 11 million. For further statistical fun read Gamasutra.
Here's Eurogamer's usual Wii Virtual Console round-up. µ
Comments
ps3 not catching up on wii
If the wii is still outselling the ps3 2-1 how on earth is the ps3 catching up? The sales gap between the two is growing at a slower rate, so the ps3 is still falling behind, but at a slower rate.November 12th
It's November 12th for the US, not "November 1" as int eh article.Wii: PS3
In addition to John's comments, sales of the PS3 haven't actually increased either. The 'catching-up' is due to sales of the Wii slowing. I'd imagine Mario Galaxy would give it another huge boost.Everyone bought a wii
Virtually everyone who wanted a Wii bought it already. You can't expect Wii's to keep selling at the same rate, while PS3's are getting interesting as more titles arrive and running linux speedily is an option.Wii: PS3
Wii sales are falling as demand has out stripped supply and there are no more Wii's left to buy, hence a slight increase in PS3 sales. Bought Mario Galaxy today, can't wait to play...