As a CAG, I know that I can find the best deals to video games around. It’s as simple as doing a quick search, and sometimes easier. Still, something is missing from the front lines.  Homebrew and free games.  Where are they?  It’s true that while you can find mention of these in the forums and in the CAG blogs, they still are never officially mentioned. I understand that there may not be much (if any) money to be made from mentioning these, and far from all of these games are worth mentioning.  But don’t you think it may hinder your cred? And we all know Cheapy is a gangsta with a capital glock.

And all I ask is that he either mention these on his blog, or in the CAGcast. Especially when some of these games such as Still Alive DS, or Guitar Fun, deserve the attention. While Cheapy does need to think about money, Wombat feels like the one who would stand up to the little guy, yet he doesn’t seem to want to talk about these games either.  Ive asked them on seperate occasions, and even asked the community in the CAG blog awhile back, and they dont seem to want to answer. Is it the stigma that surrounds homebrew?  Is it the fact that it just doesn’t interest them? (though if it interests CAGs, that shouldn’t matter, right?) Or is it something else all together?

So now I’m adressing it. And asking them, where’s the dedication to the truely cheap?

January:
Wii: 274,000 (Total: 7.7 million)
PS3: 269,000 (Total: 3.5 million)
360: 230,000 (Total: 9.5 million)

February: (end of format wars)
Wii: 432,000 (Total: 8.1 million)
PS3: 280,800 (Total: 3.8 million)
360: 254,600 (Total: 9.6 million)

March:
Wii: 721,000 (Total: 8.8 million)
360: 262,000 (Total: 9.9 million)
PS3: 257,000 (Total: 4 million)

April:
Wii: 714,200 (Total: 9.5 million)
360: 188,000 (Total: 10.1 million)
PS3: 187,100 (Total: 4.2 million)

NPD numbers taken from DVDGuy’s Blog

Amazing! The PS3 sold 82,000 less in April than their January sales. Considering the numbers, its obvious that the format wars either had no effect on the PS3, or in fact, hindered it slightly. I doubt the latter though. And in the months after the end of the war, the 360 outsells Sony’s system! The truly amazing part of these numbers, is that the Wii continues to dominate the competition, in fact outselling both, combined, in March and April. That is such a large lead that the Wii went from being behind the Xbox 360 by 1.8 million units (w/ a 1 year lead), to just over half a million behind in four months. So while Microsoft and Sony continue to spin their numbers in any way possible, Nintendo laughs. Literally.
Back to Wombat, though. His arguments were plainly taken out of context, and really seemed to be a bunch of nitpicking. He didn’t really address the point which is what really mattered… Why hasn’t Sony delivered. I have the answer, because they’re trying to catch up with the other consoles so much, that it seems that they’ve lost what their real goal was. They addressed the problem later in the podcast, and in the end, the title was apt: “Wombat’s Bad Fact Day”. So Wombat, since I really do like you 95% of the time, please make sure you’re factually caught up before you say something that causes you much more hate mail than your average day.
Also, I want to make it clear that I have issues with the other systems too. Xbox – make your systems stop dying, your system is the only one that dies on a regular basis, which means, its not that hard to fix. Nintendo – I have new hopes now that WiiWare has hit, but for god sakes, give me a USB hard drive!!! In the least, open up my SD card so I can not only store save files on there, but access content directly from there, and I mean games. Seriously, I have the most plain and obvious reason you should do this, but thats another story…

*NPD numbers are not a representation of all sales, but are considered to be the most accurate depiction of sales because they track sales for many high profile companies.