NegCon

I am a fan of $10 games. It's pretty much the magic number for old games and I. Ideally they'll have their boxes and stuff and be at a garage sale of some sort.

Any way, I came across a NegCon for $10 and I am very happy. This is not a game, it's a rare cool controller that came out when the PS1 was young... and it's sweet! Also works with a good group of games like Ridge Racer, Wipeout and even some PS2 games.



To learn more please see Wikipedia!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeGcon

Not too much else new on the gaming front... but the Christmas season is heating up in Japan... check out these numbers for Dec 4 - 10!! Man, I wish I knew where to get numbers like these for North America.

Platform	Sales	Total
DS Lite	309,603	6,441,813
Wii	85,439	435,797
PlayStation 3	50,171	237,967
Xbox 360	35,343	145,846
PlayStation 2	30,460	1.328,827
PSP	28,930	1,592,948

Platform	Sales	Total
Wii	350,358	350,358
DS Lite	176,901	6,132,183
PlayStation 3	31,436	187,796
PSP	23,917	1,564,018
PlayStation 2	23,115	1,298,367
Xbox 360	4,053	110,503

The above stats are from Magic Box again (love that sight!) Pretty cool to see the numbers, obviously they are, once again, heavily skewed by the supply of the PS3, but still interesting... also of note is that the 360 will soon have a sweet RPG that the Japanese are gonna love, I'd love to know what MS paid to get the team that it to make the game.... Blue Dragon is coming, should do well over here too!

In other news I got a copy of Wipeout for the PS, pretty sure it was a launch title way back then and one of the good ones! The weird thing is that it came out it came with a paper wrap over the box with different graphics. The one on the left is the wrap, the one on the right is the actual box. Seems like someone at Sony had a change of heart at the last minute. Both represent the game well but the one on the right is far more stylish... just like the game.