It'll be supported for at least three more years. It's still greatly outselling the PlayStation 3 on a month-to-month basis, and it looks like a $99 model (about damn time) is incoming within the next few months.

Sadly, that makes it an easy platform for cheaply made, tossed-together cash-ins.

I bought a PS2 last October, the first console I have ever bought. We added a Wii this past July. I have no interest at this point in upgrading to either a 360 or PS3. The PS2 is selling so well that Sony has a legitimate issue on their hands - on one hand, they've got a cash cow that shows no signs of letting up, but on the other hand, PS3 sales are really suffering, to the point that you can almost call off the "next gen wars" in the US. So they continue to make games for the PS2, and people continue to buy both the console and the new games.

These are September's hardware sales numbers:

Xbox 360 527.8K
Wii 501K
Nintendo DS 495.8K
PlayStation Portable 284.5K
PlayStation 2 215K
PlayStation 3 119.4K
Game Boy Advance 75K

Here are August's numbers:

Wii 403.6 K
Nintendo DS 383.3K
Xbox 360 276.7K
PlayStation 2 202K
PlayStation Portable 151.2 K
PlayStation 3 130.6K
GBA 69.5K

As far as individual titles go, the 360 version of Madden obviously out-sold the PS2 version when it was released in August, but then look at the September sales for Madden:

PS2 MADDEN NFL 08 205K
360 MADDEN NFL 08 173K

The PS2 isn't going away any time soon.

lol @ this game

k dood, they are friends now and if you can't accept that, you can just GTFO

what? thats not what i implied at all, i accepted it, and sat around at gamestop waiting for the shipment to come in. this is the most exciting thing to ever happen in my life

seriously you guys its MARIO & SONIC AND THEY'RE IN THE SAME GAME TOGETHER!!!!

9.7 at IGN. 97 at Metacritic.


Damn I want a Wii for the first time.

I played it for eight hours over the weekend at my brothers house. If anything, 9.7 is too low. TRUST me, it's the most fun I've had playing a game in over a decade at least. I've been driving to gamestop when I can just to play the one they have set up there. The game is like meeting Jesus, Muhammad, and Paul McCartney and then having sex with all of them.

i just compared super mario galaxy to a gay orgy with two black guys and cute old british guy, maybe i should think about my life

also, how is this a contest? of course sonic will win every footrace, and of course mario will win the high jump. and the fireball shooting contest.
so predictable

My Gamestop has Mario demoning on their Wii and it is the complete game. The goofballs running the store said that two guys off the street have come in and beaten the game. Each took about 10 hours to get to the end, although they left a large number of stars uncollected. I didn't get a chance to play as another guy (loser) was in the middle of trying to finish the game.

Personally, I think I'll wait a day or two, buy the game and play it at home. Call me crazy.

the Simpsons Game

Hmm.... graphics are OK for PS2 - Spyro still looks better. Gameplay is OK, but you gots to fiddle with the camera controls a bit. And the plot is a choppy as anything on their last few seasons. But it's the Simpsons, and it's kinda entertaining (so far).

IF you had to choose:
1)Rock Band at launch, buying Mario Galaxy and Mass Effect in December
2)Mario Galaxy and Mass Effect at launch, buying Rock Band in December(if I can find it)

Opinions appriciated thx

oh hay who wants to buy me a wii for x-mas?

um, galaxy first for sure.


rock band for holiday vacation.

anything worth playing on the PC?

How is call of duty?

Yep.

Of course, I'm buying Rock Band, Mass Effect, Mario Galaxy, Uncharted, and possibly Need for Speed: ProStreet or Assassin's Creed. And maybe some crack.



It's great -- really great -- with several "holy shit" moments, but for whatever reason, I wasn't as into it as the last couple games. I think it's the shorter missions and shorter overall game length. But yeah, absolutely recommended. Haven't even dug into the online multiplayer yet.

One for Rock, one for plummers, and aliens. More more.

i originally planned it out that way, but since rock band is going to be so tough to find this christmas, im thinking get rock band now, and when i can afford it just waltz over to target for my mario and mass effect. but im really looking forward to mario and mass effect.

If your PC can handle it, Crysis is incredible:

mario is GOTY unless mass effect is, go with those two.

I'm trying to think of a Monday I've looked forward to more.

why monday. shit is coming out tuesday

andrew have you played umbrella chronicles, if so, give me the scoop, worth 50? fun?

Yeah, played the early build in April, the updated build with the Zapper at E3, and another (potentially retail) build last month in London.

It might be decent, but I doubt it'll be a great game. I don't know, the footage shown in London actually made it look slightly more interesting than I thought, but... eh, what I've played has been kinda meh. I'm not into it.

After playing Crysis, any game advertised as "next gen" should be summarily dismissed and laughed at.

Playing Crysis on a 42' plasma is one of the most jaw dropping experiences I've ever had in gaming.

I am also enjoying Call Of Duty 4 and Hellgate: London (despite bugs) on the PC.

I know I know. Launch day is fast approaching, and I keep flip flopping. Yesterday I was Rock Band, today I'm Mario/Mass Effect.

I got Mass Effect at a K-Mart in Wisconsinnnnnnnnnn

BASTID! Enjoy your alien on human lesbian action. What little you can see anyway.

No such luck out here on the west coast......I would give my left nut to play that game early.

hurr

Walked into Best Buy saturday night just looking around, saw a display for this game, realized that the game was there, on sale. I nearly shit myself, I ran home and played it until 7 in the morning, beating it. I don't know how it happened or why, but God truly smiled down on me this weekend.

I read on one of the blogs that this is the year of the broken street date in video games. People who work at retail can't read. I know those games have giant stickers saying DO NOT SELL TILL whatever date. I'm mostly jealous that Andy is playing Mass Effect, and Dan is FINISHED Mario, and I have to wait. At the same time, I'm not looking very hard.

It does seem like there are more street dated titles this holiday season than usual. Granted, this is my second year in a row of not working retail for Christmas (after working at either GameStop or Best Buy from 2000-2005), but seriously... if you're shipping Mass Effect to stores nearly two weeks ahead of a launch date, that's kind of a douche move as it is. If it's ready and plentiful, release it already.

you'll have to give us more than that.


put it in the pantheon, yo.

i will once i hit 120 stars

i'm at 81 right now, this purple coin shit is for the birds D:

86 stars now, this game is fucking serious.

100 stars i dont wanna sleep

damn. 120 stars in 48 hours? good luck and god speed.

im gonna go to bed right now and make for the summit tomorrow.

i only got like 5 hours of sleep and also i've hung out with two people for a few hours since i've bought it, i'd have all 120 by now if it wasn't for those stupid interruptions

its a little after nine am. My next class is at 3:00 pm. I have 20 stars to go, all I have is my passion, courage, dr. pepper, and some of the best Mario skills the world has ever seen

THIS ENDS NOW

Bowser has no idea what he's in for this time.

120 STAR GET!!!!

MOTHERFUCKERS DIE MOTHERFUCKERS DIE MOTHERFUCKERS

FUCKIN GAME AINT EVEN OUT YET

I RULE

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Soooooo . . . better than N64?

Right now, asking me, Yes. I think it's better than 64. Not something I'm completely certain about typing. Certainly getting 120 stars is much more CHALLENGING, some of the stars took roughly 30-45 minutes of retrying.

Regardless if it's better than 64 or not, it certainly is on that same level, and aesthetically speaking, Galaxy certainly blows it away, I'm still wowed by it.

According to my Wii, it took about 23 hours of gameplay to get all 120, in 4-5 sittings(can't remember). beating it probably took a little less than half that.

damn, man. congrats.

wow.






...

I WANNA WII.

So, over the summer, I realized that I wanted a wii.

But now I see that the 360 has the new katamari game. I can't think of any reason this doesn't seal the deal.

I hope I'm not as good as Sausage. Winter break rolls around and I am going to be playing a lot of Mario Galaxy with nothing else to do. Would be sad to be done in only 24 hours of playing (not that that isn't still a massively large game).

wha? i can't remember the last time a platformer was more than 12 hours or so.

and to be honest,*SPOILERS* [spoiler]I'm only half done now that I unlocked Luigi.[/spoiler]

and i wouldnt worry, my playthrough was quick and to the point, i could imagine spending twice as long as I did just admiring the design and scope of it all.