Sebastian : Sebastian felt the economy and the global game sales can be attributed to Nintendo

U.S. analyst: the global game software sales last year, breaking tens of billions of
U.S. investment consultancy firm Lazard analyst Colin
Sebastian has made the forecast, despite the global economic downturn, in 2008 global sales of game software, or will reach a record 10 billion U.S. dollars. Although the NPD survey data has not been announced, Sebastian said the United States in December last year, game sales increased by 5-10 percentage points higher than the same period in 2006 increased by 36%.

Sebastian felt the economy and the global game sales can be attributed to Nintendo. Because the Nintendo Wii game console to occupy a number of sales list, while another analyst Michael
Pachter said it made the forecast, Wii console last month's global sales may reach 3 million.

As Microsoft and Sony, Lazard at least one analyst believes that a company has adopted a correct pricing strategy. "We believe that the Xbox360 console sales benefited from a large portion of the price last fall, and now the price of this game console is only 199 U.S. dollars. At the same time, PS3 console continue to lose market share. We have noticed a lot of game publishers and the retail Business has come to expect PS3 console price cuts this year.