Market research firm NPD has released new video game sales figures for September 2008, and while the Nintendo Wii is still far and away the top-selling video game system, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 shows surprising strength, trouncing the PS3 in the United States during September. According to NPD, Microsoft sold 347,000 Xbox 360 consoles during the month, following price cuts early in the month that put the least expensive Xbox 360 below the price of the Nintendo Wii. In comparison, Sony managed to sell 232,000 PlayStation 3 consoles during the month…although the Nintendo Wii was far-and-away the console winner, moving 687,000 units during September.
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The Sims 2 Goes Gold
“The new game reworks the original by adding fully 3D graphics, and moving the gameplay away from simply fulfilling the basic needs of its characters and towards a more aspiration-based, goal driven system.
The title will go on sale in the USA on September 14th, with a European launch date of September 17th. While EA has – naturally enough – not released its internal projections for sales of the title, we can only assume that expectations are higher than the 158,000 units the original The Sims was expected to sell; including expansion packs, it went on to sell closer to 40 million units.”
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