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11/06/09
Luke, you're being foolishly optimistic when you say "While the worst of it seems to be behind us, 2009 will still be remembered as the year of the global economic crisis."
When metal prices shoot up to hedge against the mass printing of monetary units, and part of that metal inflation occurs from counties, like India and China to buy more gold from the IMF than invest in the American Dollar, it shows itself to be just the start of things to come.
Some here might argue that it's just an American thing. Well, it's not, and the "ripple effect" has once again reached other countries and continents as a result of this. With such a radical change within the economical structure, we are starting to see something that might take decades for other countries to recover on, all the while other countries take on the role of hegemony. It's happened a few times in the last 100 years. It is actually happening again, only the United States is feeling it for it's second time in it's rather infantile history. If we are lucky, it will take the United States two to three decades to pay off everything, provided we don't go to war with China and india in the mid 2020s in attempt to nullify debts.
While others are bickering about healthcare, they completely undermined looking at the more important issue, which is the self and co-investing of their futures. By that, I mean retirement, and the roughly three fourths of people that are bound to be destitute, forced to work till they literally die, and even worse. It is really here, along with the systemic problems within the cronyism of U.S. Government where the people of the United States and our political representatives have unilaterally managed to destroy what leverage we actually had.
So, from the macro perspective, no, Luke. What might seem like a recovery is actually a ruse. The problem however is that not nearly enough Americans actually take the time to see that far down the future.
Then again, there are also some of us that are fully aware of such occurances, and are investing our future gains on the shifting trend.
If the inflation increases much higher (as I expect it will), then you can expect worse game sales in North America for 2010. #retail
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In other news, the Large Hadron Collider overheated and got shut down today because a bird dropped its bread. #retail
11/06/09
- Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber
11/06/09
but anyways, just wait til mw2 comes out. also, there were a lot more steady sellers last year like wii fit, mario kart, and brawl.
gta 4 dropped, and music games still werent as played out as they are now.
10/26/09
Forza 3 has topped the charts, not surprising since it has been well reviewed and has had some pretty good marketing. [forums.gametrailers.com] PES 2010 has done better than I expected, beating FIFA 10 in the All-formats chart which is surprising considering how well the latter series has sold in recent years. It sold more on PS3 which I'm guessing is because of brand familiarity although I'm not sure if this is has happened in previous years.
Brutal Legend dropped 15 places on 360 and completely off the charts on PS3, it looks like the game has had sort of a backlash. Eyepet came in at 17 and topped the budget game charts. I'm actually tempted to get it because Amazon has the game and camera for the same price as the Playstation Eye on its own. Also, Borderlands is at 8th and 20th on 360 and PS3 respectively, pretty good for a new IP.
#britain [kotaku.com]
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10/21/09
The thing that stands out to me is that Bowser's Inside Story has dropped off completely after one week. Nintendo of Europe only has themselves to blame, the game hasn't really had any marketing and apparently has been quite hard to find in some retailers. Its sales in Japan and America show that the game has a huge potential to sell, but hasn't in Britain because of NOE's poor promotion, which is ridiculous.
#britain #salescharts
10/21/09
Bowser's Inside Story not selling I almost take as a personal failing, because I've not been able to find the time to pick it up. I'm really interested in seeing UC2's legs, that is a game that deserves stellar sales.
I hope the return of PS3 GTA4 to the charts isn't due to the imminent DLC coming out for the 360, cos those poor bastards are gonna be pretty disappointed... #talkamongstyourselves
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BUT, it doesn't work in Ireland, and I presume, neither will this.
BUT WE STILL HAVE THE NICEST GUINNESS!!
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Double Standards are fun don'tcha say?
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Of course others who use M$ might be refering to them charging for everything. You want free TV check out the BBCiPlayer, ITVplayer, MegaVideo, YouTube, etc on the PS3 but you want to pay for tv see the 360. You want free online gaming, see Sony - you want to pay see M$.
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I'd really like it if they relasied all ps3's have a HDD so it could download stuff n run like the full desktop client.
the Sky deal is not as good as this article makes it out to be as pointed out by many commentors a sky sub you'll already have the Sky box ans the Sky player hardly has all the Sky content, and at low streaming quality.
09/28/09
Add to this that the Sky Player is obviously going to suck up a LOT of people's download limits, and I can't really see this one being as massive as it's being made out to be. It'll probably be cool for the odd match to sit and watch with a few mates over XBL, but at the same time, I could have them over and watch with them in the same room in HD.
Think I might "nothankyou.jpg" this one.