What Analysts Will Be Buying For Christmas

Gamasutra's 'Analyze This' gets opinions firsthand from analysts examining the gaming industry. Today they have up a piece looking at gaming purchases that are good Christmas buys. Unsurprisingly, many of them focus on the next-gen consoles, with a few looking 'back' to hot sellers like the DS and Guitar Hero II. From the article: "We feel that Nintendo DS will perform strongly this Christmas in all major territories while PS2 software, nowadays largely ignored by the mainstream media, will continue to sell in significant volumes until 2008. PS2 software will generate around $5.2 billion in software sales in 2006, down from $7.6 billion in 2005. Although new hardware launches are exciting, it is easy to forget that launch performance is not indicative of longer term results. The first meaningful indications as to how the next generation will shape up will not emerge until late 2007. - Ed Barton, Screen Digest"

Re:Analysts?

[grogdamighty]

Linux will be ready for mainstream desktop use this year. No, seriously.

Re:Analysts?

[BurningPi]

It already is; people just don't hear about it enough. On the other hand, I can't imagine anyone buying their wife a boxed linux distro ("Hey, sweetie, I got you FC6. Merry Christmas!")

I don't think the title is relevant, it sounds like it should be talking about what the analysts will buy their families for christmas.

Re:Analysts?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Hey, sweetie, I got you FC6. Merry Christmas!"

More like Season's Beatings! I mean -- straddling-the-cutting-edge Fedora? You could at least act like you cared, and get her something like Ubuntu...

Re:Analysts?

[sugarman]

The Nokia N-Gage will reduce Nintendo to a fraction of their handheld marketshare".

Hey, give them some credit. 999/1000 is still a fraction.