It seems Sony want’s to start off the giving season by offering some sweet deals on the PSN. Flower, The Last Guy, Comet Crash, Prince of Persia Classic and Bomberman Ultra are all on sale for $4.99, while Smash Cars and Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao can be snatched up for $7.49. That’s roughly 50% off each of those titles.
If you’ve been debating picking any of these games up, now is your chance. The prices will be reflected in today’s PlayStation Store update. I already have the ones I want in that list, including Flower and The Last Guy. Will you be buying any of the sale games?
Yep, you read that right. Modern Warfare 2 has the best first five days of an entertainment product ever. Let that sink in for a second. Raking in a whopping $550 million over the first five days, here’s what Modern Warfare 2 beat out (from the press release):
- The largest reported five-day opening worldwide box office gross figures, held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ($394 million)
- The largest reported five-day opening domestic box office gross figures, held by The Dark Knight ($203.8 million)
- The largest reported five-day worldwide video game sales record, previously held by Grand Theft Auto IV (6 million units, $500 million)
- The largest reported opening first-day domestic box office gross figures, held by The Dark Knight ($66.4 million)
- The largest reported first-day book sales in dollars, held by Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows ($220 million)
- The largest reported first-day worldwide video game sales record, previously held by Grand Theft Auto IV (3.6 million units, $310 million)
Pretty damn impressive. There was no doubt this was going to be a huge success, but breaking all these records is crazy. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go play some Spec Ops.
Did anyone really think a game with the word “Halo” in the title wouldn’t move a ton of units? Early reports from VGChartz indicate that 2 million copies of the game have been sold worldwide. Pretty impressive for a title whose worth has been seriously brought into question by much of the gaming press.
Compared to Halo 3, day 1 sales are down around 30%, which isn’t bad, all things considered. Not that many titles can claim they move 2 million units on the first day, including both games in the Gears of War series.
We’ve been digging deep into Halo 3: ODST and you can catch our full review really soon. For now, go get into Firefight and try not to suck.
You must really like CoD: World at War. Activision sent out a press release that the recent Map Pack 2 has sold over a million units combined between Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. Not too shabby.
Four maps for $10 isn’t a bad deal, either. If you’re a CoD: WaW player, you should grab these fun bags. We’ll have our full review of the map pack this week, so make sure to check back to find out exactly what we think about them.
You may have noticed a lack of NPD reporting here at Loot Ninja recently. We’ve decided that it’s just not worth writing about anymore. There’s a few reasons, but mainly gamers just don’t care that much. Does the fact that the Xbox 360 had a 6 percent year-over-year drop affect how you’re going to be gaming? No. Will reading about these sales numbers have you running out to buy stock? Probably not.
The other big reason is that NPD’s are becoming less and less a true representation of the real sales landscape. Hell, they don’t include Wal-Mart, the biggest retailer in North America. You can bet your ass a lot of games and systems get sold there. Also, no digital distribution is counted towards their sales figures. With this model becoming increasingly prevalent, the numbers being reported can’t be seen as a true representation of what is actually sold over the past month.
Now, don’t get me wrong, if someone crazy happens, you know we’ll be talking about it. But in typical months where it’s the same story (Nintendo rapes the competition), we feel there’s better material to discuss about actual games.
Being a cheap ass bastard and it being a recession, I’ve cut my gaming purchases back until things are on sale or free. In the UK, retailer GAME has put on a Spring Sale clearing lots of stock. I picked up Gears of War 2 new for a lower price than I can buy it used, and also managed to grab Star Wars The Best of PC for 20 quid. That’s 6 games for the price of 1 new game, bitchin. If you are looking for some old classics I suggest you check out the PC section where you can get 3 games for 10 quid. Other retailers such as Asda have cut prices as well, so there are plenty of good deals to get out there. Post in the comments any good deals you see out there.
What happens when an average American mom walks into the average American super store to buy her average American son a Nintendo DS? Shenanigans. A Florida woman was surprised to find the $138 dollars she spent on a handheld turned out to be rocks wrapped in newspaper. Wal-Mart told her to contact Nintendo and Nintendo shrugged it off as a Wal-Mart problem. What makes this so absurd is that someone returned the SAME BOX OF ROCKS a week earlier and some shithead put it back on the shelf for resale. The woman got a refund and a $20 gift card for her troubles, but this is not the first time people have bought gaming merchandise only to get burned. Quality control needs to step it up a little.
This weekend only you can pick up The Orange Box for 66% off on Steam. That’s Half-Life 2, Episodes 1 & 2, Lost Coast, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 for $9.99 or £5.66 for those who deal in Queen’s head. If you haven’t picked up any of these titles you are missing out on some great gaming, so head over to Steam and get cracking before sundown on Sunday. I picked it up just to have Portal on my PC. My love affair with Steam has been rekindled.
Even though Nintendo took the lead again this month, the industry saw a year over year 17% drop in sales. The Xbox 360 is the only console to see year over year growth, while everyone else dropped a bit.
- Wii – 601K
- Nintendo DS – 563K
- Xbox 360 – 330K
- PlayStation 3 – 218K
- PSP – 168K
- PlayStation 2 – 112K
Not too shabby overall, but you can definitely see the effects of the economic recession. Hit the jump to see how software sales ended up.
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Come on people, stop thinking Nintendo isn’t going to pwn the competition. Maybe one day later this year, who knows. But for now, bow down to your video game overlords.
- Wii – 753K
- Nintendo DS – 588K
- Xbox 360 – 391K
- PlayStation 3 – 276K
- PSP – 199K
- PlayStation 2 – 131K
Software numbers weren’t too shabby last month either. You can check them out after the jump.
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