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btw, I think the DS sales dropoff was spurred by the 3DS announcement.

It's NORMAL for sales to decrease in April from the prior month March sales.

Year over year the 360 actually sold a few thousand more units. Roughly 5% increase.

The PS3 had a 50% increase in sales year over year or roughly 60,000 units.

The PSP decreased 50% to ~60,000 units.

The DS dropped 50% or ~500,000 units from the year ago April.

The Wii sold 63,000 fewer units than a year ago. A nearly 20% decrease.

Molyneaux is full of crap. They didn't invent a new AI. Just an advanced EyeToy.

Talking to an npc will be no different than in any other game except you'll be able to perform gestures without a controller ....unreliably.

Reggie is right. Give him credit where credit is due.

Free Bioshock 2 with purchase of a 360 at Kmart helped. PLus the 360 has a ton of discounts during the months. $50 giftcard from Amazon deal with Elite purchase. $25 card with Arcade purchase. And Target had the same deal as Amazon as well. I believe Best Buy also had a big promotion.

Hence sky high 360 sales.

This month Wii has a sweet deal at Walmart. IF that keeps up you'll see Wii sales jump although NPD doesn't get official Walmart numbers - it guestimates them.

EA needs to put less games on the Wii. 3 or 4 per year max. Put AAA teams and budgets on them. and knock the ball out of the park. And don't release a sequel the next year.

The games also need to a bit arcadey in nature. So EA needs to ditch the everything and the kitchen sink feature/option model that run their marketing department. Sometimes less is more.

They need to be arcadey because folks playing Wii games don't want to spend 5 hours creating a character with 50 option categories or 3 hours figuring out a career mode or clicking through a bunch of menus or warnings they don't have time to understand. The game can and should be challenging enough though for those that get good at it. I'm talking Golden Tees, or Deer Hunters or Madden Arcade-versions etc on the Wii.

Tiger Woods, for example, great core game, but no on the Wii has time to wade through all the bloat in that game.

And 3rd parties should refrain from games like MadWord or HotD:OK or even EA's own Dead Space. First the blood gory stuff is better done on the other systems. Second, anyone with kids isn't going to let them play or be able to play with them in the room. HotD might have been ok with the green blood, or something, but then they overdid it with the record number of f-bombs.

DeadSpace is also a miss because you know darn well EA didn't put a big budget on the game. You know it will be a so-so effort. AT least that's the perception from core gamers. Not worth $50 tot hem. To everyone else, it's just another mediocre EA or 3rd party game on the surface. Not worth $50 either.

Madden is a miss too on the Wii because it still is too convoluted for the Wii crowd and missing too much crap for the core crowd without the great graphics. The controller in that game hasn't proved to be any better than the gamepad either.

I think it would be better if EA made Madden Arcade Wii edition using the same sort of principles they used to make the Madden arcade machine game. STreamline it. Make it fun. Make it smooth. The only thing they don't need to do is make it eat quarters.

Nintendo chickened out. They should have made the new DS 4x as large. Make it Kindle sized. Tablet sized.

That will get the old people to line up.

And gamers will lineup as well because there has never been a videogame device in that size category in recent memory.

You pay a price of using Google maps on your phone. Ads & commericals baby!!

And in turn you also less responsiveness because it is tied to the cloud and not local.

And you can't look at a map outside the cloud.

Who knows about battery life either. Is is crappier than a local app would be?

Also this is a marketing video. Since when is voice command technology going to work even close to as good in the video? Yeah good luck getting it to recognize the Bohemian restaurant like the guy was able to in the video - like that wasn't staged x2. How come this voice tech isn't on Google Maps on my computer if it works so well?

And the tiny street view navigation crap is pure nerdness. Something you only show off to your geek friends.

Don't believe the hype.

The big question is will BR even replace DVD? I don't think many people care that much about BR even if they have hdtvs especially if BR discs are more expensive.

Bah. It sounds like they used a very expensive pc. YOu can build a fast fast rig for $800. Plus most folks are likely to have some sort of pc already which they can upgrade for not as much.

And they shouldn't count the TV on the console side. They should count the $10 more per game though. That adds up.