List of 2009 playstation 2 video games software#

In what will surely be remembered as one of the Wii's darkest days, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was Still, it's highly unlikely that the Wii will be able to match last year's record-setting numbers in the fourth quarter. Then, as the busy holiday shopping season approached, NintendoĬut the Wii's price by $50, resulting in a sharp spike in global sales that the hardware maker is still riding. Wii, which moved more than five million copies in its first four weeks and will almost certainly show similar longevity. Wii Sports Resort, which has sold nearly nine million copies already and will likely ship at least a million units per month well into the new year, as well as

List of 2009 playstation 2 video games software#

However, software sales were bolstered in July, thanks to Nintendo's seemingly indefatigable Wii was showing signs of weakness in the second quarter, with company salesĭropping by nearly half compared to the same time a year earlier. Still, the bad news seemed to outweigh the good. It's since gone on to sell more than three times that number. VGChartz, unless otherwise specified) and earning a tidy $310 million in the process. There were also major layoff announcements from the likes of Electronic Arts, Sega, Microsoft, and THQ, while prominent studios including Midway and Eidos were downsized as they were swallowed by and folded into larger companies.īut that didn't stop the traditional holiday flood of blockbusters, which includedĬall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, crowned theįastest selling game of all time after moving 4.7 million copies in its first 24 hours (all figures courtesy First quarter sales resulted in the industry'sįirst year-over-year drop in Canada since 2002. It was a year of highs and lows in the world of games.