No more Vista posts for a while. 🙂

It seems that my bold predictions for the Nintendo Wii were only half right. The Wii is a runaway success (it is still impossible to find one on the shelves here in Vancouver), but in terms of software sales, Nintendo games are the only real sellers for that system. Add to that the impressive numbers for the Nintendo DS.

Meanwhile, the XBox 360 and the especially the PS3 are having a hard time penetrating the market. Both Sony and Microsoft are playing bait and switch with the idea of a price drop, but at some point they will have to stop the wordplay and just do it. My personal feel is that there are simply not enough great games to make people want to pay for a next gen system. Gears of War was fantastic, and Halo 3 will sell lots (and hopefully be very good too), but the rest, in general, are little more than PC ports and bumpmapped, hi-res versions of last-gen games. I will pay for that, but the average gamer is not in a hurry.

In other news, XBox Live Arcade has received a few really cool additions to its lineup: surprisingly good remakes of Prince of Persia and Pac-Man Championship Edition; and a little gem, in the form of an oldschool action game, called Heavy Weapon.