I have heard recently a lot of praise for 2007 as one of the greatest years for video games. Well you can't really argue against the games that have been released this year; Halo 3, Bioshock, Crysis, Metroid Prime 3 and what is currently the number one title on Gamerankings.com Super Mario Galaxy.

This year has been the year that four platforms have released a salvo of killer apps; the four platforms in question being the PC, DS, Wii and Xbox 360. Unfortunately the Playstation 3 has not really had any games to match the competition this year.

In just under a year Nintendo have released the latest iterations of their biggest titles; Metroid Prime 3 , Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and Super Mario Galaxy. Microsoft have pushed Halo 3 out of the door, their biggest franchise, to the tune of "biggest multimedia event in history." The PC has had Crysis and Bioshock, too games showing how the PC does the shooter* genre extremely well. The Playstation 3 has been marching to the tune of "wait for 2008," although God of War 2 has shown there is still very little need for fancy next generation technology,.

Sales wise well the year belongs to Nintendo. The DS has increased the gap between the PSP by a large margin. Meanwhile the Wii has beaten the Xbox 360's overall sales and is now the number one selling home console, not bad when it has barely been out for a year. The Xbox 360 has continued as normal with a large sales blip upon the release of Halo 3.The Playstation has been lagging behind both competitors all year but the recent price drops and new "40gig" system packages have revived sales dramatically.

It'd be very easy to say this year has been the year of Nintendo because of overwhelming sales and fantastic game sales and I will do just that; 2007 belonged to Nintendo.

However I have one big problem with people proclaiming this year as being one of the best for games. Has everybody forgotten the first 6 months of 2007?*

* If you don't realise what I am talking about just ask yourself what good games were released back then?

**Yes Bioshock is arguably an RPG but for arguments sake it's a FPS.