[Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption] has become the US’s best-selling game of 2010 so far, according to new NPD figures.
You could take GamesIndustry’s lead paragraph in this article on game sales, replace the top seller with the term “blockbuster Xbox 360 game released this month” and it would look the same as it has for the past four years.
Mainly, one game for PS3/Xbox 360, and the rest are all Nintendo console titles. Powerful stuff.
Ever green vs annuals.
Good all year or good for the moment.
…and Nintendo laughs all the way to the bank when Pachter, et al, say “this is the year Nintendo fails…”
What’s interesting is it may not even be true.
Unless they combine both the 360 and PS3 versions of the game, which hardly seems fair.
IF we’re talking single console/handheld, Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver is the #1 selling game in the U.S. this year, and possibly NSMBWii is #1 on consoles as well.
It’s a pretty distorted viewpoint.
EA kept claiming the same thing about MAdden during the height of the PS2 years.