Did you have yourself a Mario little Christmas? (I can hear you groaning.) Analyst Jesse Divnich says that "Nintendo saved Christmas," with Wii sales on an all-time high for December. Without these sales, he says, the industry would have felt "the full wrath of the recession."

Despite the brave front that Sony is putting up, analysts from the industry are seeing right through it, saying that the gaming giant does have something to be worried about with their flag-bearer, the PS3. Three of them - Cole, Divnich, and Pachter - shared their thoughts on the matter, and you need only click on the full article to check it out.

Analyst Jesse Divnich is making yet another bold claim, saying that music games like Guitar Hero have reached their peak in popularity and can only go down from here on out.

More Divnich wisdom in the full article.

With the state of the economy as it is, people keep throwing the question, is the games industry recession proof? Well not entirely, not according to some analysts at least, who believe that certain game titles will have disappointing sales.

Sony got the worst out of economic turbulence, says EEDAR director of analytical services Jesse Divnich. Presenting his study of hardware and software trends to Gamasutra, the Sony brands were seen to be bottom-dwellers.

Analyst Jesse Divnich, who made a booboo predicting that the Xbox 360 price cut will affect sales of the PlayStation 3, now wants to make another point: console exclusives decrease sales of competing consoles. Interesting. More after the link.

Well somebody put his foot in his mouth. Remember how analyst Jesse Divnich kept saying that sales of the PlayStation 3 will suffer if it failed to introduce a price cut like the Xbox 360 did? Yeeaaaaah... remember when that didn't happen?

So what does Divnich have to say about it now? Click.

Yesterday, analyst Jesse Divnich prophesied some doom and gloom for the PlayStation 3 if Sony won't introduce a price cut. And Sony listened. And then ignored him. Sony's sticking to their guns, saying that there still won't be any price cut for the holidays.

Analyst Jesse Divnich gives another two cents to the holiday predictions pile. Like last time, he predicts doom and gloom for the PlayStation 3 this Christmas season, saying that as great as Resistance 2 and LittleBigPlanet are, they just can't beat the appeal of a cheap Xbox 360. More details in the full article.

Ahead of the NPD data once again is everyone's favorite video game analyst, Michael Pachter. As usual, Pachter pegs the Wii to be the clear winner for last month, selling twice as much as the PlayStation 3. For now, he also predicts that the PS3 will sell more than the Xbox 360, though he may change his tune next month when the 360's price cut will start to show in sales.