Despite economy, gaming execs 'cautiously optimistic' about holiday sales
by David Hinkle 
{ Nov 14th 2008 at 6:05PM }
The gift of gaming may prove to be stronger than the current economic woes that plague the United States. Gaming executives spoke during the recent BMO Capital Markets conference, with even Nintendo's own Reggie Fils-Aime tossing his two cents into the mix, with each stating that they were generally optimistic about this holiday season."If I look at this from an industry perspective I think cautiously optimistic is quite appropriate," Fils-Aime told Reuters. "If I look at it from a Nintendo perspective, I would say very optimistic." With Wii Fit, as well as the popularity of the Wii itself, we'd say Nintendo has nothing to worry about. But, with the way things are, third-party publishers could have a tough time selling their Wii titles this holiday.
What do you all think?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
FantomRedux @ Nov 14th 2008 8:25PM
That'll mostly be because 3rd party games tend to either be really good and in short supply, or really shit and taking up most of the shelves. I recently a friend who works in Game, who sold someone Dogz over Nintendogs, that he should be ashamed of himself. Is that what its coming to? theyre that desperate to get rid of these games, they'll tell someone to get that at the same price as a much superior game?
Until stores stop selling people this shite, the good stuff won't have a chance to come through. Look at TWEWY. Practically a commercial flop, but an extremely good game. Reason no-one bought it? Stores orded the latest in the Imagine series instead. Ugh
Robert27 @ Nov 15th 2008 1:41AM
I´m planning on finally getting Galaxy xD!.
Besides that well I want the music games, Call of Duty W at W,Sonic Unleashed and Allone In The Dark.
Fanotm Redux got a good point, who the hell would buy Dogz?!
Anti-Villian @ Nov 15th 2008 11:52AM
Alone in the dark is a terrible game do not buy it, the only games I have are Wii sports and Alone in the dark, It is so dreadfully slow, badly acted, cleshé, chunky and generic I haven't pushed myself to finish it, which I usually do for any game I own.
The only upside is its interesting use of items as weapons but even that is hardly a highlight.
Unless you are really really like zombies.
Gringo @ Nov 17th 2008 10:40AM
If you should get a game, get Disaster: Day of Crisis.
The story telling is awesome and the gameplay is very very addictive... there are many sides to the game and it doesn't disappoint ;)
just too bad it hasn't been promoted decently...
I also have yet to get Galaxy, but there are so many good games I still have to get... my holiday Wii purchases will be for sure CoD WaW and Tatsunoko vs Capcom!!
Then I need to save for SF4... but that's a different topic :P