So, what did you get up to over the weekend? I managed to snatch a few Call of Duty 4 sessions in between Duplo and football sessions with my son. The CoD 4 beta is running til September 30 apparently, so there's still a few days to apply for an access code and join the slaughter - though coming in as a rank-free newbie will be like taking on an SAS squadron with a pea-shooter and a yellow belt in Judo.
Anyway, here are five stats on last week, just to get us up to date.
Six The number of days before the official launch of Halo 3 that pirates have managed to get code on the web. This, of course, follows the Argos incident in which the catalogue chain started selling the game several days early.
54,000 The number of square metres inhabited by the Tokyo Game Show which concluded yesterday. Apart from Sony's controversial unveiling of Dualshock 3 ("Ladies and gentlemen, it's the controller you all wanted in the first place. Yay!"), the show floor was apparently dominated by Wii titles - and Nintendo didn't even bother tyo show up. Succinct sum-ups can be found at Wired and Next Generation.
486,659 The number of copies Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII had sold in Japan by last week. The game has somehow turned PSP into the biggest-selling chunk of games hardware in the country: 95,487 units compared to DS's 79,974.
11.6 million The worldwide Xbox 360 sales according to Microsoft. "Software sales for the Xbox 360 are also the highest at 24.3 million units total, compared to the 19.8 million software titles sold for both the Wii and PlayStation 3 combined," reports Neoseeker.
One quadrillion I don't even know what that means, but it's the number of floating point calculations per second being handled by Folding@Home, the PS3 distributed computing initiative organised in conjunction with Stanford University. Okay, so PS3 is currently losing the hardware sales war but what is Wii doing about disease, eh? Nothing!
