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The dual sticks are cool and all but I think that portable gaming works better with games like Mario Kart and Pokemon and stuff where you can play a bit and put it down rather easily.

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No way, the thing is like a tiny PS3. It runs shit like this already:

December 2011 Top 10 Games (New Physical Retail only; across all platforms incl. PC) Rank Publisher
1.) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360, PS3, Wii, PC)** 1 Activision Blizzard
2.) Just Dance 3 (Wii, 360, PS3) 2 Ubisoft
3.) Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360, PS3, PC)** 3 Bethesda Softworks
4.) Mario Kart 7 (3DS) 4 Nintendo
5.) Battlefield 3 (360, PS3, PC)** 5 Electronic Arts
6.) Madden NFL 12 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2)** 6 Electronic Arts
7.) Assassin's Creed: Revelations (360, PS3, PC) 7 Ubisoft
8.) NBA 2K12 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2, PC) 8 Take 2 Interactive
9.) Super Mario 3D Land (3DS) 9 Nintendo
10.) Batman: Arkham City (360, PS3, PC)** 10 Warner Bros. Interactive

Annual 2011 Top 10 Games (New Physical Retail only; across all platforms incl. PC) Rank Publisher
1.) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360, PS3, Wii, PC)** 1 Activision Blizzard
2.) Just Dance 3 (Wii, 360, PS3) 2 Ubisoft
3.) Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360, PS3, PC)** 3 Bethesda Softworks
4.) Battlefield 3 (360, PS3, PC)** 4 Electronic Arts
5.) Madden NFL 12 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2)** 5 Electronic Arts
6.) Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, Wii, NDS, PC)** 6 Activision Blizzard
7.) Batman: Arkham City (360, PS3, PC)** 7 Warner Bros. Interactive
8.) Gears of War 3 (360)** 8 Microsoft
9.) Just Dance 2 (Wii) 9 Ubisoft
10.) Assassin's Creed: Revelations (360, PS3, PC) 10 Ubisoft

**(includes CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware)

I dont feel like posting numbers for Feb, but it looks like Vita didn't have the start people suspected. 225K for the month of Feb. Early reports I saw were saying around 400k. Pretty awful. I hope Vita gains some traction.

That said, I saw a man playing the baseball Vita game at the hospital today. I enjoyed seeing it out in the wild.

I haven't seen a 3ds out in public since it came out a year ago

What's your point, Smith?

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My posts usually don't have a point

I think his point is the 3DS sucks and no one is buying it.

His words, not mine.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

This should be your signature.

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Better yet it should be he rank/title.

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when i joined I wasn't a complete troll, you have created your own monster.

And there's no difference.

Industry bomba.

Yeah, absolutely depressing numbers... and games. Hahaha.

Well, The Witcher 2 is good...

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Yeah well E3 is coming up and there's all that new console buzz, also the games weren't the best.

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Remember when NPD's were exciting? I actually forgot this happened tonight.



edit: I actually do find Diablo at #1 semi-surprising. This is for physical games. I would imagine that most of Diablo's audience downloaded that game. Interesting how people are still buying physical copies of PC games and shows that Diablo is one of those things that transcend the average PC player.

I'm not too surprised. It seemed to me like the majority of people were buying it. Also it sold like 3.5 million in a day and had a total of 6.3 millions sales in a week so even if the majority did do digital download the physical sales still probably crushed everything else, especially when Prototype 2 is #4.

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Yet ATVI slipped today despite a positive market. WTF is up with that? They expected even bigger numbers?

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

I don't think ATVI will go up. Diablo is a huge game but it was expected to do huge numbers. Even if it did have a positive impact on ATVI I'm sure them paying off Zampella and West had a negative impact. They could have lost $1 billion if West and Zampella won their lawsuit so I'm sure the payout they got to settle was huge.

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It sounds like I was right about other games not doing as great as expected. Max Payne apparently sold 440K, it was expected to do about 600K from what I've heard.

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Dragon's Dogma did less than 100k. Ouchies.

It looks like the opposite of Skyrim. Great combat with a kind of shitty world/environment.

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