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Wii leads the way on healthy Black Friday

Black Friday proved to be a relatively bright light in an economy largely characterized by dark, gloomy reports.
Overall, retail sales for the day after Thanksgiving were up 3 percent from the same day in 2007, with preliminary estimates putting total sales in the U.S. at $10.6 billion, according to Shoppertrak RCT. (Shoppertrak derives its retail benchmark from a wide range of categories, including consumer electronics, sporting goods, apparel, and general merchandise.)

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I Make Stuff Up5650d ago

What I find most interesting is that the 3rd placed item is a Blu-Ray player.
It would be interesting ti see how much momentum Blu is going to gain throughout this shopping season.

poindat5650d ago

Blu ray players were definitley selling. I went over to Fry's Electronics on Saturday and HD-Tvs and Blu ray players were flying out the door.

Bnet3435650d ago

A healthy Black Friday? Oxymoron of the year. I feel sorry for the old ladies that got punched and trampled I also feel sorry for that Walmart worker that died in the stampede.

mikeslemonade5650d ago

The 3% increase didn't take inflation into consideration.

FantasyStar5650d ago

You can't mix Black Friday and "healthy" in the same sentence without the words "chaos", "trampled", and "death".

Kyur4ThePain5650d ago (Edited 5650d ago )

Yes, while bad things happened, I think we should look at this news in the proper context - from a business standpoint, Black Friday seems to have been a lot better sales wise than feared. Unless you tell me you were in mourning all weekend and bought nothing.

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Death5650d ago

The sources are price grabber and ebay. These are about as useful as amazon rankings.

-Death

Kyur4ThePain5650d ago

While I kind of agree with you, it is interesting and could bode well for the accelerated adoption rate of Bly Ray.

Stoneroses63005650d ago

good to see nintendo dominating.

Gr815650d ago

Did you expect anything less at this point? All year They've been dominiating, it was only going to be furthered during the holidays.

SONYSLAVE5649d ago

yes true but too bad that the nintendo seal of quality went to a gold color to a sh!tty brown

quantity not quality lol

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Why Is No One Making AAA Horror Games Anymore?

Saif from eXputer inquires, "Despite the everlasting popularity of the genre, why hasn't there been a good AAA horror game in a while now?"

Jin_Sakai1d 3h ago

Because the gaming industry is obsessed with live service games.

Rynxie14h ago

Because he touches himself at night to characters like lady Dimitrescu.

Crows9010h ago

You're the one still thinking about her

Rynxie10h ago

@crow

Did I give away your secret? It's okay, if you sit on your hand and numb it, you can pretend it's her playing with your little stick.

MaximusPrime_1d 2h ago

Good for me, I have no interests in horror games

-Foxtrot18h ago

Even when they do it's first person trying to copy Outlast, Five Nights, P.T etc

I think the Dead Space / RE2 / RE4 Remake and the Evil Within 2 showed you can have a good story based, third person survival horror game.

jeromeface15h ago

remakes is another good reason

thesoftware73014h ago

Calisto Protocol was also fun with fantastic presentation.

FinalFantasyFanatic7h ago

I feel like we haven't had much in the way of horror games for years, I think it became rare after the PS2/PS3 gen. Maybe i'll pick up that Crow Country that recently came out, that looks good.

Venoxn4g4h ago

Crow Country needs some more love.. and more exposure

Redemption-6416h ago

Because outside of a fee games, most don't sell that well

Crows9010h ago

So in other words...AAA publishers don't have creativity or passion for games.

CrimsonWing6915h ago

Didn’t we have Dead Space Remake and Resident Evil 4 Remake last year?

thorstein15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

Among others

And isn't Dying Light 2 a horror game?

Scissorman15h ago

And Alan Wake 2 and Alone in the Dark.

richardmmorales7h ago

We also had The Quarry and The Dark Pictures The Devil In Me.

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N64: Recompiled — Creating Native PC Ports Is A Godsend For Game Preservation

"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.

gold_drake2d ago

it is, i might be finally able to play Snowboard kids 1 full screen ha.

purple1011d 20h ago

il beat you to the ski-lift,

framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?

talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr

morning rant over.

here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

itBourne1d 18h ago

The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game

gold_drake1d 14h ago

SK1 had a fairly good framerate. sk2 maybe not so much ha

Redgrave1d 14h ago

Some food for thought:

Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?

UltimateOwnage1d 14h ago

As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.

franwex1d 10h ago

I mean. They may borrow them…

Profchaos1d 8h ago

Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online

Inverno1d 13h ago

The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.

Profchaos1d 8h ago

There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.

This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.

But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii

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LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars Available for Free on Prime Gaming

Discover how to get LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars for free through Prime Gaming. Enjoy this classic adventure in the Star Wars universe today!

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