Sorry there was no Christmas blog but once again I couldn't get my little brother off of World of Warcraft long enough (he's giving himself headaches now). Anyway I had a very happy Christmas and I hope all of you did too, I know a lot of people on the site took a short break so they could spend their Christmas with their families but now everybody seems back and ready to welcome in the new year. For Christmas I got Command & Conquer 3 and The Orange Box and my brother got Halo 3 and Bioshock. I've played a little of Command & Conquer andWorld of Warcraft this week but my main focus has been on Guitar Hero 3, Halo 3 and Animal Crossing: Wild World. I wasn't that hyped when I actually started playing Halo 3 but even if my brother hasn't laid his hands on it yet I'm really enjoying it, it's such an awesome shooter and a brilliant conlusion to the series, not that Guitar Hero 3 still isn't a blast (5 stars on Raining Blood by Slayer on Easy and I got myself the Axe Grinder Achievement). There really were too many good games this year to play all before 2008.

However I've been watching the Best of 2007 awards and have come up with a list summarising how many consoles had its games win awards. The totalling did turn out to be a little more complicated than expected. I have had to exclude certain catagories (e.g biggest news) and when a game has been nominated for it's release across several platforms I've had to add fractions of awards and then round off at the end. I've also of course removed the platform awards from the listings for obvious reasons and for the overall scoring I've added up all the awards the consoles won from Special Achievemnts and Genre Awards and then subtracted what they won in dubious honours. Before you start reading I think the most important thing I need to mention though is that this is only a statistical summary and should not be treated as anything else, enjoy.

Special Achievements

• PC: 7
• Xbox 360: 7
• Wii: 3
• Nintendo DS: 1
• Playstation 2: 1
• Playstation 3: 1
• PSP: 0

Dubious Honours

• Xbox 360: 3
• Playstation 2: 1
• Playstation 3: 1
• Wii: 1
• PSP: 1
• Nintendo DS: 1
• PC: 0

Genre Awards

• Xbox 360: 4
• PC: 3
• Wii: 2
• Playstation 2: 1
• Playstation 3: 1
• PSP: 0
• Nintendo DS: 0

Game of the Year

• Won by Wii

Overall

• PC: 9
• Xbox 360: 8
• Wii: 5
• Playstation 2: 1
• Playstation 3: 1
• Nintendo DS: 0
• PSP: -1

• Microsoft: 17
• Nintendo: 5
• Sony: 1

I really didn't expect the minus one to be thrown in there but on the bright side if I were counting platform awards the PSP would of come in at 0 awards.. Anyway my choice for Game of The Year in case your still wondering was Halo 3. Thanks to everyone who commented on my last blog, I'm not going todo a fanboyish shout-out this time but know that I apprecaite it. Sorry to anyone who's Christmas blog I couldn't get round to posting on but believe me there were a lot of Christmas blogs but I do wish you all a happy 2008 to everyone, although it'll be hard to top 2007 in the gaming department.

-Gamer_152