Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment
Sony Computer Entertainment of America CEO Jack Tretton recently released some non-specific stats on a couple high-profile releases on the Playstation Blog, in between thanking consumers for “a Great 2009.”
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 8 Comments
Nintendo takes the lead in both hardware and software sales as the Nintendo Wii and New Super Mario Bros Wii takes the number one spot in the charts 3 and 2 months in a row respectively. Mass Effect 2 had a great 6 day run in January selling around 570,000 units (2 million internationally according to EA). On the flip side Bayonetta, although with it’s high praises didn’t make the top 10 list having been released the first week of January.
Hardware Sales
• Wii — 465,800
• Nintendo DS — 422,200
• Xbox 360 — 332,800
• PlayStation 3 — 276,900
• PlayStation Portable — 100,100
• PlayStation 2 — 41,600
**Numbers based on units sold
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 2 Comments
Although Playstation 3 owners are still hoping for a 2010 Gran Turismo 5 release, last year’s portable installment in the driving simulator franchise has boosted the overall sales of the IP past 55 million units. Series-developer Polyphony Digital announced the benchmark online, along with the reveal that Gran Turismo PSP nearly passing 2 million units on its own. Find the charted figures for each individual title in the franchise, broken down by region as well as worldwide, after the jump.
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Monday, February 8th, 2010 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 1 Comment
Earlier today, EA released a fiscal statement covering the third quarter of the financial year 2010, running from October 2009 through December 2009, that revealed the release window for seven IPs. Following major titles such as Dante’s Inferno and Dragon Age: Origins – Awakenings, both of which will still officially be released in the current financial year, EA will release Realtime Worlds’ MMO-shooter APB and Medal of Honor, currently under development by EA Los Angeles, in Q2 of the financial year (FY) 2011. This period runs from July until September 2010.
During FY Q3, which runs from October until December 2010, EA will release Crysis 2 as well as a currently unannounced instalment in the Need for Speed-series. Crysis 2 is currently in development for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 at Crytek Frankfurt, and will be set in New York city three years after the events of the original Crysis.
Lastly, Q4 of the financial year 2011, running from January 2011 until March, will see the release of Dead Space 2, an unannounced title in the Dragon Age series, a currently unnamed game being developed in cooperation with Epic Games and a unspecified action title that will be available for download. It is currently unclear whether the unspecified action title will only be available as a downloadable title. The title that is being developed in cooperation with Epic Games is rumored to be known as Bulletstorm and is being developed by Epic-owned studio People Can Fly. The currently unspecified Dragon Age title will be released for PC, Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and handhelds platforms.
The statement did not provide any information on possible high-profile games for the Nintendo Wii.
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Friday, February 5th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
There is little doubt that Sony’s digital-only PSPGo has been hindered since before its launch, leaked nearly a month previously and failing to live up to many fan-favorite potential designs. A hefty price tag and some lackluster launch numbers later, and it appears that Sony may be considering re-vamping the PSPGo’s image with a re-launch marketing campaign of sorts. Via Gamervision, it appears that the main focus of this possible re-launch will be a lower price tag, although nothing is confirmed beyond rumor status at this point. As always, Sony’s response to Elder-Geek’s call for comment was that the company “does not comment on rumors.”
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Monday, February 1st, 2010 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 1 Comment
With many Game Industry veterans voicing their expectations regarding the iPad recently, it has become clear that developers have mixed feelings with respect to the viability of the iPad as a gaming platform. However, SCEA Director of Hardware Marketing John Koller stated that the launch of the iPad would be a ‘net positive’ for Sony in the long run, as he expects that the iPad will introduce a new segment of the market to portable gaming. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he stated that “when people want a deeper, richer console, they start playing on a PSP.”
Koller also pointed out that since the release of the iPhone in 2007, which quickly proved itself to be a viable handheld gaming platform, PSP sales have nearly tripled.
Several third parties, amongst which EA, have already announced they will develop games for the platform. Others have voiced their disappointment, with Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata calling the iPad “just a bigger iPod Touch.”
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 3 Comments
Despite James Cameron’s “Avatar” now fighting for the top grossing film of all time slot, the game version of the hyper-fable failed Ubisoft’s sales goals by a significant margin. Coming out a full two weeks before the film has been the reason most have attributed to the failure, the top brass at the publisher have mentioned that releasing licensed media in December has always been a risky move. Speaking shortly after the company slashed its guidance, CEO Yves Guillemot spoke on how the company has taken the hit.
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 3 Comments
With Spike’s VGA awards out of the way, the Game Developers Choice Awards are in full swing. Instead of awards voted on by the public, a group of 500 selected game creators will announce their picks for the best of 2009 on March 11th. The nominees and award categories are as follows:
Best Game Design:
Best Visual Art:
Best Technology:
Best Writing:
Best Audio:
Innovation:
Best Debut:
Best Downloadable Game:
Best New Social/Online Game:
Best Handheld Game:
Game of the Year:
Feel free to give us your own unofficial votes below, Elder-Geeks!
Monday, January 11th, 2010 | Posted by Eliot Hagen | 1 Comment
While it’s essentially an enhanced remake of 2008’s Metal Slug 7 for the Nintendo DS, Metal Slug XX for the PSP, slated for a February 23rd release, has received its first trailer. See it after the jump.
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Friday, January 8th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
Game publisher Konami Digital Entertainment recently announced their region-licensing of their various IP to Mindscape Asia Pacific for the Australia and New Zealand regions. The deal is effective immediately, with one of the first titles published in the region being the recent Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (Elder-Geek review here.)
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments
The Japanese market may seem to have had a good year, if their lead software sales are any indication. Financial firm Enterbrain recently released the calendar year’s fiscal results, and several games post impressive numbers. Dragon Quest IX took first place in 2009 with 4.1 million units sold, Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver following with 3.3 million. Rounding out the top five are New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2.4 million,) Friend Collection (2.3 million,) and Final Fantasy XIII (1.7 million.)
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Monday, January 4th, 2010 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 1 Comment
EA has made a public announcement that they are shutting down a host of online servers to make way for new ones in the future, “All of us at EA would like to thank you for your valued participation in our online gaming community. We hope that your enthusiasm for these games extends to our current lineup and beyond”. Some servers that are cut include titles such as Burnout Revenge, Facebreaker, FIFA 07, Fight Night Round 3, NASCAR 09, Marvel Nemesis, Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, Need for Speed: Underground 2 and Tiger Woods 07. EA has also listed online servers to be shutdown on February 2nd:
February 2, 2010 Online Service Shutdown
UEFA Champions League 07 PC and x360
Facebreaker x360 and PS3
Fantasy Football 09 x360 and PS3
FIFA 07 PSP, PS2, PC
Fight Night Round 3 PS2
Madden 08 Wii
Madden 08 PC
Madden 09 Xbox1
Madden 09 Wii and PSP
March Madness 07 x360
NBA 07 PSP, x360
NBA 08 PS2, PSP, Wii
NBA 09 Wii – Europe only
NBA Street (2007) PS3 and x360
NCAA Football 08 PS2
NCAA Football 09 PS2
NASCAR 08 PS2
NASCAR 09 PS2
NASCAR 09 PS3 and x360 – Europe Only
NFL Tour PS3 and x360
NHL 07 PSP and x360
NHL 08 PC
Tiger Woods 07 PC
Madden 09 x360 and PS3
Madden 07 Xbox 360
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment
Looks like the new year is officially underway for Square’s latest in the Kingdom Hearts franchise with this leaked trailer for the PSP-exclusive Birth by Sleep, now supporting a new title and revealing far more information.
Monday, December 28th, 2009 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 2 Comments
Even though legendary developer 3D Realms was forced to lay off the entire production team working on Duke Nukem: Forever earlier this year due to financial trouble, the co-founder of the studio, Scott Miller, recently stated that “the next few years should see a strong resurgence in Duke.” However, the fate of Duke Nukem: Forever remains unclear at this time, as 3D Realms is still involved in a legal battle with publisher Take-Two Interactive over the rights to the series.
Miller was recently quoted in Gamesauce as stating:
There are numerous other Duke games in various stages of development, several due out this year. We are definitely looking to bring Duke into casual gaming spaces, plus there are other major Duke games in production. [...] Almost all of these [projects] are unannounced.
At this time, upcoming Duke Nukem games are known to include a port of the classic Duke Nukem 3D to the iPhone and a series of three separate games currently in development for the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, though none of these currently have a fixed release date.
Friday, December 25th, 2009 | Posted by Vincent Lam | 2 Comments
EEDAR, the Electronic Entertainment Design and Research has release sales figures for 2009. As a whole, 1,099 games were released this year as opposed to 1,092 the year previous. Jesse Divinich, spokesperson of EEDAR states that, “”For just the current generation home consoles (PS3/360/Wii), 2009’s release quantities increase the total availability of games to consumers by 55 percent. Unless retail shelf space grows by the same amount–and it isn’t–than the retail shelf life for an average game decreases dramatically. “ In terms of video game released in relation to gaming platforms, Divnich noted that DS and Wii has significant bumps in their release numbers despite drops in console sales early on in the year, while Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 were slightly down and would be lower if not for digital distribution. Divnich predicts that there will be a 5-8% drop this coming year due to industry and marketing trends seen from the previous console generations.
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