Yea by me lol. I said If we try and keep the 360 in front as a consumer. And these freak fans for no reason. Will get bored of gaming and it wil fall. If we push gaming to its new leaders and except them as programmers and gamers. Wii and PS3 for power.W would be gaming at a much higher level now. But the developers did not have the Wii, or cell "True Next Gen" games done yet. Or they gave them no attention. So this was bound to happen.

Some of us need these gaps in the release calendar to allow us to catch up with the games we couldn't afford to buy when they first dropped.

The problem is, that x-mas brought us countless good games you can now buy used for half price. Distributors should spread their big-budget-releases wisely over the whole year. If we know what to expect, we can save our money for that.

*Waits for PS3 to overtake 360 sales*

It's coming, it's just taking a damn long time, lol.

well as long as good games are made, people will buy them, nomatter what month it is

So whats a day in the life of an Analyst hanging out at gamespot.com for a few hours

@VenomRitual

Seems they do, but the analysts predict they'll bark less once they're asleep.

But thats only a prediction.

can the NPD tell me if dog's bark?

In other news...this article is really not needed.

Awesome, some more information that is basically meaningless....

Cause nothing good is coming out...

The NPD just announce things that the public already knows and gets paid for it. That must be an awsome easy job.

Well duh. Holidays are over, so a lot of disposable cash was already spent and many gamers had multiple titles to play through. And the biggest factor, no top-shelf games released in Jan, just filler like BP. The numbers will upturn again for Feb, with a few high quality titles like DMC4 and LO releasing.

@ TTDog
Worse, they get paid to randomly guess stuff too. We give away for free.

Seriously... do people get paid for spouting the bleeding obvious like this?

hopefully another victory for the Xbox360

thats already expected

we all know wii and ds are continuing to dominate as nes and snes dominated segas consoles wait and they always have dominated sega lol from its begining nes till t he end of sega - gc

In other news... the sun will rise yesterday.

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i don't know if its down by that much. dmc4 came out and burnout. i think its not as down as everyone says it is. turok probably garnered couple copies as well

How seriously should you take a prediction at the end of the month, a few days before the sales figures are released?

And in other news... the sun is probably going to rise tomorrow!

Wow....a report that tells us that the gaming industry didn't fair well in sales for the month of January....

No freakin' duh, analysts.....any gamer after the (finance breakin') holiday season coulda told you that. Every gamer knows not much comes out in January and even if it did--after December you're too damn broke to buy it anyway.

after christmas people dont usually have the money to be spending on games... you dont need to waste money on surveys to know this

Hmm. I did a lot of video game purchasing in january. What the hell is wrong with the rest of you?

With the US port of Super Smash Bros Brawl, Grand Theft Auto IV and other big titles around the corner, it makes sense that Jan sales would slump

Thats why Dark Sector is out in March.

I watched the Special on Gamer TV of Dark Sector showed how they made it also lots of other things.

Def getting Dark Sector NOW!!!

This is like watching those hour+ long Pre-Super Bowl reports... Although this information was a bit more obvious, all in all it was pointless... And, quite uninteresting.

Gee, I can come up with the same "predictions" just by looking at Gamestops release list.

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when hasnt january been a sucky month...everyone realses everyting during christmas that january is pretty much always dead and then march or so things start to pick back up again

Nothing good came out in Jan, only thing that was good was burnout

When Burnout Paradise is the big game of the month, yeah I expect that January sales will be down. But March and April will be pretty solid.

i got paradise in jan i think

Here's a thought: How can I buy games when my freaking Xbox 360 keeps coming back "repaired" yet still broken? Maybe if I had a console to play I'd buy one or two games, but Microsoft likes keeping McAllen Texas on the map instead of actually fixing the problem. God forbid they fix the Xbox 360's overheating and RROD issues or else India would fall into the Indian Ocean never to be heard from again. I pray everyday for this. Amen.

Its been a slow month. Without much games coming out so its kinda obvious.

wait what did this article say....it confused me...what are game sales lower or something???

So, is it because of the shorter reporting period or the fact of US recession fears?

meh, an article about the NPD figures would be more interesting than people making predictions a couple days before the monthly report comes out

hahaha..oooookay then.

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Am I the only one thinking this is very uninteresting news?
Seriously, give us something exclusive or insightful and no more of that economic prediction crap we seem to be getting more and more often. Also, did you notice that a lot of the other articles seem to be written by gamespot.uk...

compared to the last couple months, I guess so

does anyone really care about their ****

In other news, the sky is blue, britney spears is a psycho and the world will end in 2 hours!

Lost Odyssey might spark some life into these sales, maybe not much, but maybe some, at least for 360, not sure of any other big name games coming out for the ps3 or wii

So...basically...nothing...really happened. Just like the last few seasons of the X-Files!

Ok, so do these people get paid to think up the obvious or what?

I still don't see why the PSP doesn't outsell the DS.