ok, 3 weeks between posts, not quite a daily update and I seriously doubt my fan still checks the site, but I will continue to post... I am just that dedicated. =)

Haven't posted stats on how the machines are doing in a while.. so here you go!

Japanese console hardware sales for the week of April 16 - 22:

NDS Lite - 172,359 [2.345,334] units

Wii - 77,913 [1,248,230] units

PSP - 29,459 [770,363] units

PlayStation 2 - 11,398 [297,205] units

PlayStation 3- 11,000 [391,291] units

Xbox 360 - 2,307 [87,183] units

Nothing too surprising here... portable gaming REALLY has picked up, is this cause we're still "between generations?" - meaning that the current new generation of machines is not quite in mass market pricing... or is it that the portables finally provide some decent and immersive graphics?

The PS2 is beating the PS3... isn't that interesting... I wonder how pissed Sony is at that... and is that a sign that the new generation hit too soon? Other than being prettier does the new generation offer anything that the old one can't?? Are people going to be slow to pick it up?? Nintendo kind of banked on the ability to create good enough graphics, your eyes won't bleed from their games, but your EXPERIENCE will be different from the previous generation....

Personally I just think Sony needs some good games out there, something worth paying $700 for.... and if Metal Gear comes out for the 360 as well... then they might be in for a rougher ride than they were with the PS2.

Vectrex!!

Yeehaw!! Part of the glory of the 80's was that the videogame industry had pretty much no idea what it was doing. This little gem is the hard to find (cause it was unpopular) VECTREX!! It was a self contained, sort of portable video game machine that used true vector graphics like Asteroids did in the arcade.

The controller was built in, only 20 some games were ever made for it, and if memory serves, it looked REALLY cool in the consumers catalog back in the day.

fun facts
--this system had a true analog stick .... way before the N64!!
--it did not have a colour screen, but you could add a plastic screen over the screen to simulate colour... awesome.