Thursday night headlines

It was announced that there would be a white drum set for the Wii version of Rock Band unlike all of

the others. Many people when hearing this thought that this was tragic, I myself did. But I just got a picture of the drum set for the Wii version, and they actually look ok. I mean black would look better, but this isn’t as bad as we thought. Plus the pads are softer so… maybe take advantage of that, somehow.

 

By the way, unlike the other versions, the Wii version actually has wireless guitars. Well, a wireless mic and maybe even drums would be a lot better also, but hey. Wireless and rocking!

While we are on the topic of an EA game, I should mention the Take-Two deal. Take-Two is reiterating the hostile $2 billion takeover bid and the deadline for which EA will go directly to stockholders is April 18th, 2008 at 11:59 EDT. This is an offer which if headed up to stockholders would be unlikley to be refused. EA is offering over 50% what the company is right now worth. In case you didn’t hear, the offer was refused because of GTAIVs release and Take-Two is basically saying after about a week, the company could be worth way more than $2 billion or $26 per share.

Lastly, March video sales skyrocketed 57% at a record $1.7 billion when all sales are combined. It is easy to say one of the main sellers was Super Smash Bros Brawl, which actually hit sales of more than 2.7 million units, a majority of which were sold the first day of launch. Behind it was Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. You wouldn’t think of sales these high with the appearent recession in the US economy. Video game sales aren’t really the best source for the US economy currently, and that helps show the new reality that everyone’s a gamer.

The Nintendo Wii sold over 700,000 units in March with it’s friend, the Nintendo DS, running up at 698,000. Software sales were the #1 source of this major rise which brought in $945.6 million.