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MTV's Scott Guthrie has disclosed that “more than 1 million”

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MTV's Scott Guthrie has disclosed that “more than 1 million” Beatles songs have been downloaded for the game. Considering the game has sold “only” 1.7 million copies worldwide since launching in 2009, that's a pretty good adoption rate for replica Cartier W1550051 Men's watch downloadable content if you take them as one million individual song downloads.Since they're most likely including albums sales in that number, however (which will bloat the figures), it shows most people picking the game up either aren't aware of, or are simply not interested in, downloadable content.

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While it looks like the industry as a whole has weathered the economic storm, that doesn't mean it was left unchanged. Diving down into the numbers shows that a bulk of the industry's revenue was generated by a handful of the biggest publishers, companies like Electronic Arts, Activision and Nintendo. Smaller studios Designers Replica Cartier Santos 100 Mens W20073X8 Watch were absorbed or shut down.This consolidation of development power will likely have a lasting impact on video game innovation and creativity. Only time will tell whether it will be a positive one.Well Played is a weekly news and opinion column about the big stories of the week in the gaming industry and its bigger impact on things to come.

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“Wii, Nintendo DS Lite and Nintendo DSi combined to sell more than 7 million units in the month of December alone,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “Clearly there is overwhelming consumer demand for fun games, motion controls and value. This remarkable hardware sales surge presents a tremendous software opportunity for Nintendo and its third-party Designers Replica Cartier Ladies W62017V3 watches partners as we head into 2010.” And Nintendo isn't the only company excited about 2010, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter writes in his monthly report on the video game industry that it is a “relief to finally put 2009 behind us” adding that 2010 is going to be a big year.

This year starts out with a bang, rolling out an unprecedented number of big titles. Many of these possible blockbusters were initially set to hit stores last holiday, but were pushed back into early this year, creating the potential for a second big run of game purchases.Among the standouts are Dark Void, Bayonetta, Mass Effect 2, Darksiders, Designers Replica Cartier Ladies WE5002X2 watches MAG and Army of Two. February and March also have a share of big games hitting, leading many to speculate that 2010 could show not just a rebound of the game industry, but a surge in sales.Pachter calls the release schedule for the first half of this year “one of the strongest in history”.

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