Yup, two of the big three today, SONY and Nintendo announced their results for the first Quarter of 2009. The results for both….were expected if you kept your expectations low and didn’t see the gaming industry as “RECESSION PROOF” contrary to what some analysts were saying around this time last year. The Wii went down from five million shipments to two million, the DS got a boost thanks to the DSi, and every Sony platform saw drops as well, though not as sharp as the Wii experienced.

Well no that previous statement’s wrong. In a twist of irony concerning Sony still celebrating the PS2′s longevity, the PS2 managed the one increase in today’s report, from 1.5 million to 1.6 million. I’m sure Sony is still happy to have the longest and best selling console in history still going, but if the PS3 is supposed to follow the ten year life cycle of it’s forefathers, shouldn’t it have started to gain the crazy traction the PS2 did once the BIG games started coming out?

In any case it’s not good news for anybody, but at least things aren’t dire all around the industry. The barrage of third party studio closings the industry saw over the past year has seemingly slowed, and hopefully everyone’s taken precautions so that this generation doesn’t become the one known for the death of the plucky and independent third part studio. – The Ben