- Sony announced the Blossom Pink model of PSP-3000 will be released in Japan on March 4, 2010, for 16800 yen.
- Namco Bandai released a new preview trailer of the PSP action RPG God Eater, the game will be available in Japan on February 4, 2010.
P L A Y S T A T I O N 3
- UNCONFIMRED: Japanese retailer reported that Gran Turismo 5 will be coming out in Japan on March 25.
- OPM confirmed that Gran Turismo 5 will have over 1000 vehicles, all vehicles will have modeled cockpits, physical and mechanical damage modeling. The game will support 16 players online, and HD video uploads directly to YouTube. All tracks will have full weather, night and day effects. In addition, there will be Indy and Nascar cars and tracks.
- Sony will release God of War Trilogy for PS3 in Japan on March 25, which includes God of War, God of War II and God of War III in one package.
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- Sega announced the online server for Chromehounds will be shut down on Jan 6.
M U L T I
- Koei will release Hokuto Musou for PS3 and 360 in Japan on March 25, 2010.
- Famitsu posted the Top 5 selling games for 2009 in Japan, with Dragon Quest IX on top, and Final Fantasy XIII managed to squeeze it for its two week sales.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii, Nintendo) - 2,485,150
Tamodatchi Collection (NDS, Nintendo) - 2,311,948
Final Fantasy XIII (PS3, Square Enix) - 1,698,256
- Nintendo of America announced over 3 million units of Wii were sold in North America during December 2009, and the company expects the DS systems (DSi and DS Lite) to have a new all-time calendar year sales record for any console or handheld system, which is expected to reach around 11 - 12.5 million units. In addition, New Super Mario Bros. Wii sales are approaching 4 million units in North America.
- Here are Famitsu's hardware sales figures in Japan for the year of 2009 in Japan, from Dec 29, 08 to Dec 27, 09.
NDS - 4,025,313 [29,160,589]
PSP - 2,307,971 [13,386,455]
Wii - 1,975,178 [9,501,999]
PS3 - 1,727,041 [4,391,407]
360 - 331,706 [1,197,873]
- In a recent interview, Capcom's Antoine Seux discussed some of the company's thoughts on game sales on Wii, DS and PSP:
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles sales - the sales are below what they hoped, with a total of 16,000 units sold after 3 weeks. It seems gamers have moved on to other systems. The Wii market is oversupply and gamer oriented games are selling less and less on Nintendo console.
DS market is declining and PSP is dying in 2009 due to market saturation and piracy
Capcom has never been strong on DS, third person and action games are not replicable on DS
Monster Hunter has always performed reasonably well in Europe on PSP
Capcom will focus on PS3 and Xbox 360
Capcom is hoping to push Monster Hunter to the western market with the launch of Monster Hunter 3 for Wii
2010 will be difficult for the DS and PSP, they expect to see the rise of PS3 and 360
- Nielsen posted a US market research, showing that 52% of the PSP owners are female, 49% of Wii owners are female, and 45% of active gamers are female amongst all console systems. Also from Nielsen is a ranking of game consoles by total usage minutes in 2009, Xbox 360 is on top with 23.1%, PS2 at 20.4% and Wii at 19.0%.
- Apple announced there are over 3 billion downloads in the App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch, after 18 months.
