Editorial: 2011 - Year of the PlayStation (Part 3?)

Numbers don't lie. Well, they can. Ask a mathematician why 1+1=3 and have your mind BLOWN. But most of the time, numbers don't lie. In four years of competition, the Nintendo Wii has dominated worldwide console sales, and it hasn't even been close. Even with a year's headstart, the Xbox 360 has only managed a about 60% of the sales of Nintendo's motion gaming juggernaut.

And lingering in a (comparably) distant third place is the console you know by now is dear to my heart, the PlayStation 3.

(A quick aside: if you're not altogether excited for my views on the PS3, or think I'm being biased in my overall game coverage, go back and read my formal introduction, then go read some of the Gamerologist's other pieces. I'm probably not going to be your cup of tea.)

New Year, New Games to Play, and a Look Back

In just under six hours, Pacific Time, the year 2010 will be over. It's been a pretty big year for me: new home, new relationship, new responsibilities at work, and a brand new blog that has been so much fun to work on (as infrequently as my brethren and I make the effort to do so).

2011 is poised to be a stellar year in the gaming industry. The first full year of the Xbox Kinect, the arrival of the Nintendo 3DS, a metric ton of stellar first- and second-party exclusives for the PS3, and who knows what else is on the horizon. In the next week or so, I'm going to share my thoughts on what I envision as the Year of the PlayStation (shocking, right? Me, writing about PlayStation). But before I do that, I thought I'd share what games I played this year, and what still need to play more of next year:

Games Finished
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Enslaved: Odysssey to the West
God of War
God of War II
God of War III
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Guitar Hero 5
Heavy Rain
inFamous
Red Dead Redemption
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves

Games Played But Not Completed
3D DOT GAME HEROES
Battlefield 1943
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Brutal Legend
Burn, Zombie Burn!
Civilization V
Critter Crunch
Flower
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
God of War: Ghost of Sparta
Grand Theft Auto IV
Gran Turismo 5
LittleBigPlanet
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
MLB 10: The Show
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Mushroom Wars
Shatter
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
Transformers: War for Cybertron
WipEout HD
Zen Pinball

That's WAY too many games in a year! But just wait, 2011 looks packed too! And there's still a lot of games out there from before I bought my PS3--and quite a few from 2010--that are still worth a look.

What did you, my gaming friends, feast upon in the virtual world for the last 365 days? Let us know!