Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has said the slump in video game software sales over the past year should not be blamed on the economic climate but on the lack of big games.

"My belief is we should not blame the bad economy for the cause of slow sales of video games. The slow sales must be due to the lack of great software that everyone wants to buy," he told Venture Beat.

"We have not shown off the great attractions of whatever we are selling. This is not the problem of Nintendo alone, but the entire video game industry. After all, something that is really fresh can make our industry grow.

"The important thing we have to tackle is making attractive games and marketing them well toward the end of this year. I think the whole industry should be more cautious about how we act and how the general public perceives us."

Nintendo absolutely rocked E3 last week with the revelation of the amazing 3DS and a truly impressive line-up of titles for it. That should do the trick.

He should forward that as an email to Ubisoft, EA and Activision while he's at it

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EA own Bioware don't they? Mass Effect, Dragon Age Origins... Oh and Visceral Games (Dead Space).
Quite happy with them TBH.

I have generally stopped buying games and just rent them instead now and pick up the odd game when it drops in price

Rent MW2, buy RDR/FF13 etc

It takes me so long to complete games these days I can't even justify renting them , and there's many I'd keep anyway

£10 a month for unlimited games, one at a time

Can get through 2 a month on shorter games, £5 a game is pretty cheap

I generally wait till the games drop in price before getting them though

Last game I bought for full retail was GTA4 on launch day, had it reserved etc