The Depression Isn't Hurting the Wii boys - despite it being still 250 bucks. It's what I stated before, the mainstream media and the Governments of the world are scared of with the PS3 and XBox represent.

But speaking of the XBox, There still using memory cards? So much for being a leader.

We cant blame the Japanese now - they have bought more PS3's than Wii's in the last six weeks to two months - thats being the games being releases back to back to back. They take time it seems like. And since an FF demo outsold every RPG in the generation so far, something tells me its more than just "luck".

The Japanese have a system where they pay the young and old a stipend on which spend on stores. It reeks of Socialism, however it has kept that industry alive for the most part. They still have issues beyond this.

Europe has set laws in place that makes the Wii more viable than XBox and PS3. Only law made Nintendo its money and with out that they would have been washed on the dust. 

The US is a different case. The PS2 Is now 99 bucks - a full three hundred dollars under its younger brother. As long as it makes money then it will continue to do well.

But doing well and doing better are two different things, of course the PS3 will do better. But these are worrisome signs in the mid point of the game.

E3 is coming and the booth babes return. Much to the chagrin of those who live in the anti human societies and Governments of the many states of America. 

Speaking of which, Bayonetta gets a bad rap of being a DMC clone. It may act like DMC, but aspects of the game are more "Wife of Bath" than "Inferno"

The fact that the Internet has bought back a game that was pretty much a memory (Punch Out) and it might sell more than the very impressive UFC Unleashed and the much improved Fight Night 4 showcases a problem and a split between the countries metathemes and maybe its people - it has been like the hulu commercials have stated - the wii has turned the video game meta culture brains into mush.

Speaking of a Brain Drain, the UK has problems keeping its best and brightest in the UK game industry. They are moving to Canada and or France. I got one good reason why, its those CCTV devices. Another one is that you don't want to go back making stuff that you did in high school.

I hope that the Campaign that Sony is planning for the PS3 is sort of like the Apple advertisements. Despite Apple being behind in the things that matter - the mind share these advertisements have had some effect on the future of Microsoft (the quick move to Windows 7 from Vista for example). It is perfect for the yuppies on the fence for high end systems, would humble Wii fans for being such well Marxists and keep Microsoft on their heels. It will sell some games too.

The Sony Store gets a bad rap. Endgaget didn't see what I saw over at the Comcast Center, well groomed men selling product. It kinda scares the Apple yuppies who rarely take a bath. The lights do need a little work.

There seems to be a boredom in the Industry, and that effects sales. That and the fact we are in a deep recession and people worried about jobs and people should be happy about where they are. But what i sense is this might be the second lost generation (the other one was way deep between the first and second gens) the Industry has have. This is because of the Wii, and not about price points and what not. If the Wii was promoted differently, given a different design and wasn't so much about the gimmicks - it would have been a watershed moment in the industry. However because of these gimmicks and now the peherials make more money than the actual game, and people wonder about the good old days when things weren't so confusing and so costly.