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:
The stats show that the PS2 accounted for 31.7 per cent of the US' total game time. Microsoft's Xbox 360 claimed the second spot with 17.2 per cent, followed by Nintendo's Wii with 13.4 per cent.
Ouch - the original Xbox was next, followed by the PS3, not far ahead of the Nintendo GameCube.
Of course, while folks like us get all het up about the latest hardware and software, there's a massive user base of the original consoles. Heck, I bought my grandmother a copy of Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? this year, and that was the big seller in 2006.
On mobile, nostalgia also seems to have captured the imagination, with Tetris, Wheel of Fortune, Pac Man (both Mr. and Mrs.) and The Oregon Trail in the top ten across all carriers.
What are your guilty old gaming pleasures?
