Gamers Evolved

EA (Electronic Arts) announced that, beginning September 1st, they will no longer be offering online support for its older – more specifically those developed prior to 2007 (that’s old?). The first round of shutdowns are almost solely for the older sports titles, which probably won’t make much of an impact on the gaming community because most of the hardcore gamers (those needing support) stay up to date with each year’s new release. Now the second round on November 1st is gonna cut support for Burnout Revenge and Need for Speed titles, which will probably have a more noticable impact on gamers.

Nintendo is still owning the polls (don’t worry, we’ll translate for you : ), led by the DS Lite which continues to dominate sales with 150,000 units followed by the supply constrained Wii with 77,000. The Xbox 360 saw a small sales increase, with Microsoft’s console recording 3,872 units. The big suprise? For the first time in many months, the PlayStation 3 outsold its predecessor (the PS2 for those alittle slow) with sales more than doubling from last week’s total of 12,187 to 28,829 units this week.

Hardware sales for the week ended July 29 (This is for Japan):

• DS Lite: 150,494