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The Most-Awaited Games Of 2009: Wii (Gamasutra)

With nearly a full year of of game releases ahead, Gamasutra is picking out noteworthy titles due in 2009 for each home and handheld platform, this time for Nintendo's Wii. Despite claiming the largest worldwide installed base out of all three seventh-generation consoles, Nintendo still struggles to overcome the widely held belief that its Wii catalog suffers a surplus of unexceptional casual ...

PS2 is still a winner for gamers (Guardian Unlimited)

While the games industry appeared to be bucking the economic trend with a bumper year over the Christmas holidays (at least for Microsoft), it seems that many gamers in the US are sticking with their old faithfuls. According to Nielsen (pdf), the PlayStation2 was the most popular console of the year. From MCV:

Why Xbox, PS3 Fell Behind Wii (Forbes)

Microsoft and Sony will talk up their console-centric home entertainment plans in back-to-back keynotes at CES.

Games groups will find 2008 tough to beat (Financial Times)

Last year was a record period for video games in the UK, with sales of software and hardware hitting an all-time high of £4.03bn ($6.1bn). The Nintendo Wii was a must-have Christmas gadget for a third year.

Wii Virtual Console News and Releases for 1/5/2009 (Blogcritics.org)

Two new entries for the Wii Shop Channel help kick of 2009, including ... sand castle building? Welcome to 2009, fellow gamers! Hopefully, this year will be as good a year to us as last year was, especially on the Wii Shop Channel. Sure, some weeks were slow, but WiiWare got off to a solid start and the Virtual Console kept churning out good retro games. In the end, we got a bunch of great ...