Industrial News: This week’s video game forum was clogged up by David Jaffe, creator of God of War,’s sneak preview comment on what is one thing he would have done differently for the PS3. He said, “This will probably come back and bite in my ass in four years, but I would have took out the blue-ray and sold the box for less”. If you haven’t seemed the full video yet, click here to watch this Sunday’s bonus round. A lot of gamers also blamed GameTrailers for sensationalizing the video so they can drive more traffic to their site.

            On the forefront of the console war, I will again pull data from vgcharts. Let me emphasis one point that some visitors have been critical about. I do not believe 100% the numbers that vg game has, but I think they do a thorough job analyzing the NPD data and they actually come very close in the numbers of consoles sold for the last generations; but of course, often this number does not include sales from Canada or Wal-Mart. However, I will be consistent with the data and I will just quote them until a better source comes along.  Please note that when Microsoft or Sony said that we have “shipped 10 million Xboxes”, it does not represent the numbers of consoles sold through to the customers, that is where the NPD data comes in, and I think VgChartz does a pretty good job at analyzing the NPD data.

Game Buzz: This week the three news articles that have received the most viewers are the fan-base movie trailer of MGS, which I admit it’s quite professionally done considering the budget of the home-made movie. The second most visited link is that Ace Combat is no longer an exclusive to the Xbox, and it’s now making its way to the PS3. I predicted this three weeks ago when I wrote the Ace Combat history, so no surprise here. Crysis’s conceptual picture take the 3^rd place of this week’s mostly viewed pages. As I am writing this article, from Crytech’s website; they are looking for PS3 programmers to apply for a job there. Many fans are hoping Crysis is coming to the PS3; however, the argument of the PS3’s ability to handle Crysis is uncleared. The numbers of Lair trailers that we have seem, it’s a not an un-usual bet that many gamers believed that the PS3 may just be able to make it look close to its PC counterparts. Now, of course, being a non-biased gamer, I wish the Xbox gamers would be able to enjoy this as well, so let’s hope they put out an ad for this as well.

DiggingTheWeb: I am sorry that recent updates on the sites are lacking, but the nature of my work sometimes prevent me from updating routinely, you will usually see it once every 2-3 weeks such as this week. Anyways, I will try not to back-track and give you guys more breaking news as it arrives. Thanks for y’all support.

           With the help of the European debut, the PS3 manage to gain a total of 350K units (an impressive 11% increase of total numbers of PS3 in one week) surpassing both the Wii and Xbox this week at 330k and -90K for the Xbox 360. You maybe wondering, how come the total number of Xbox 360 dropped? Well, this is all un-official data and gets refined all the time, no one really know who many Xboxes are actually sold through retailers. We can see a trend though, Microsoft, watch out because the Wii and PS3 are really taking a bite out of your market share! Of course, MS still has a whole lot of exclusive to help its sales in the next 24 months, so we will see how many faithful PS2 owners they can convert or get them to upgrade to the 360.

          Since we are on Microsoft, I might as well mentioned that this week's forum has been non-stop Microsoft bashing for a change (take a break, Sony) for its bullying business model. MS has apparently forced Epic, creator of the award winning Gears of War, to release the remaining map pack for a price! Epic wanted to do it for free, but MS will not allow that to happen, ouch! This is my thought, I am not a Sony fanboy or anything, but if Sony brings out Home and improve on PSN, and it remains free...MS will have to change its online strategy and start giving out free cakes to everyone. As of right now, Live still has online superiority over PSN.

Game Buzz:
             The most popular news this week is the PSM scan of FF13! This is pretty impressive; we have about 10 different forums of various languages linking to PSM - FF13 to Exceed Hollywood Level Graphics? Which generated about 2259 page views in one day? This is truly impressive compare to any other links I have posted. The other news worth mentioning (breaking 600-700 page views) are Unreal Magazine Scans (you guys love mag scans), DS: Crazy Ass Japanese Dating Sim..you can lift up her dress? (crazy Wii game), and First look at Super StarDust HD 4 New Screenshots.

Digging The Web:
             This week has been a busy week for me, so I didn't get a chance to update the Food site, I do have many crazy idea that will leave you guys laughing and going "WTF?!", and I am sure it will roll around soon. Stay tune for it. The gaming portion of the site seems to be doing quite nicely in terms of content and visitors. We broke 11469 Unique Visitors as I am writing and 21424 pages have been viewed.  Over 60% of you guys have bookmarked my page, which is very inspiring for me to know that people are coming back everyday for the daily dose of DiggingTheWeb. Again, I thank you for your readership! Until next week..

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             Although at first glance you may think that this number seems reasonable after the PAL and European launch that the PS3 gained about 210k units. But if you compare the charts closely from last week before the launch, the "Others" already had 520k units. Everywhere I have been to, claims that the PS3 have racked in anywhere from 500-600k in sales, so the actual figure for the PS3 now must be hovering around 3.2-3.3 million units world wide. We will see an update shortly from the guys in VGCharts.
 
Game Buzz:
             Interestingly, the top visited link that almost broke 1000 page viewed is the Lair release date and box-art, so this validates how popular this game is going to be. Holding 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place is Toriyama's soft confirmation that FF13 is going to be on the PS3 due to its ideal development environment, and the new gameplay Crysis Footage as well as GTA second by second dissection is holding out about dead even respectively.
             The game that made the most noticeable mention this week is the GTA IV trailer, which was dissected second by second, frame by frame by numerous website, and there was a screenshot that said "Visit Vice City for $300" billboard. What is going on?? No one knows, RockStar's mouth is shut tight on this rumor.

DiggingTheWeb Development:
             Digging The Web is all about entertainment and hanging out, so I am slowly starting the food humor section, the first week's theme is about chocolate and it's already up! The most viewed page was the chocolate flavored condom commercial.
             We broke 6000 unique visitors since yesterday and had about 12519 of page view, and this is quite high for a site that is about 2 weeks old. Thanks to the people who clicked on the google ad when they see things that interest them as well, because it helps to keep the server running and takes the load off of my shoulder.  As this week kicks into high gear for me; I may have trouble providing news as fast as before, but I will try to keep up with all the April craziness.   Thank you guys for reading the site!

Onto VG charts, a look at the ongoing console war shows the following:

            Sony is now the offical underdog! Can they stay the King of the Hill for the 3rd time? Let us know what you think on the boards. Btw, PSP, hardly a flop in my opinion, in just two years, it has taken over 33.7% of the total handheld market, back in 2004 Nintendo dominated 99% of the handheld market. Well, you have to lose some, to gain some. Moving on!

Game buzz:
            Which news made the biggest splash this week (technically the past 4 days since the website hasn't even been launched for 5 full days yet!) Here we go:

Drake's Fortune 2006 2007 progression link has 1002 page viewed making the the King of the week, followed by famitsu scans of the 3 new IPs from Cellius with 552 page viewed, and the third place is held by the new bioshock trailer for both PC/Xbox at 379 page viewed.

DiggingTheWeb Stats:
             Here we go, it has only been one short day since i updated, but hey, its Sunday! Time for a weekly summary:
you guys love to visit around 17-23 (5-11PM) Pacific Time!  I guess that's when we all kick back and relax with a cool one right?


Look at that! Saturday was the highest traffic of all time, breaking the 500s! you guys rock!! I must tell you. (ignore the Sunday number, its only 7 in the morning. We haven't even started yet!). Feel free to compare what I have posted yesterday. Also increase in the numbers of visitors (more than 1000 new visitors have stumbled upon us):



that's all folks, stay tune for more news!