Considering that not everyone can afford to give hundreds of dollars on a tablet iPad, Amazon has released its own product at a price much lower than Apple’s.

Although not an iPad scales performance, performance that most users do not need anyway, tablet Kindle Fire, which costs only $ 199, has enjoyed great success, being sold from November 2011 until late last month in ten million units.

At least this is what the report made ​​by analysts at consulting firm Newzoo, the report also shows that the number of American users of Kindle Fire is 17,400,000, and of those using iPad 30,500,000. Of these 6.5 million use both products, the total number of Americans using tablets is 59 million, 36% are using them for games.

And in Britain there are enough Kindle Fire users, namely 3.7 million, but the number of those who prefer iPad is almost double, 7.5 million.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3′s publisher Activision Blizzard, Inc announced, Monday, that its most recent entry to first-person shooter game genre grossed $1 billion in sales just 16 days after its release on November 8, 2011.

The proud publisher put MW3 in line with highest grossing entertainment franchises in the planet like “Harry Potter,” “Star Wars” and the National Football League.

Activision also said in a statement that its high-budgeted game bested James’ Cameron movie “Avatar” which earned $1 billion in gross sales in 17 days after it premiered in 2009.

Meanwhile, giant online store Amazon.com also declared MW3 as the no. 1 game in 2011 even if there are three weeks remaining before the year ends.

Here is the top 10 best-selling games in Amazon.com sold as discs, not as digital downloads:

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
2. Just Dance 3 (Ubisoft Entertainment)
3. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks)
4. Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
5. Portal 2 (Electronic Arts)
6. Batman: Arkham City (Warner Bros. Interactive)
7. Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft)
8. Madden NFL 12 (Electronic Arts)
9. Gears of War 3 (Microsoft)
10. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision)

It has finally happened, in all the years of christmas number ones being dominated by Simon Cowell and his Xfactor winners, we have had a second occassion where they have not been number one for christmas.

The first time this happened was a few years back when Bob the Builder made it to Christmas number one. Simon Cowell then was outraged that the nation could pick such an awful song to be number one at christmas but what the kids wanted, the kids got! This year a song from Rage Against The Machine made it, although this isn’t usually the place you’d see music news, but i feel rage against the machine is suited to us after modern warfare 2 was beaten to best game of 2009.

Have you bought the rage against the machine song? I think its a good song, but number one at christmas? It certainly is a little refreshing that we have nothing cheesy. What caused rage against the machine to be number one? A massive internet campaign! This internet campaign was anti simon cowell and anti xfactor. No one wanted the christmas number one to be groomed on ITV. We all want it to be chosen by the people of the UK.

How was simon cowell after this latest defeat? Well he was devastated but not quite as outraged as last time he missed out on christmas number 1. The rage against the machine was released in 1992 and the band will be playing a free gig some time next year in the UK to thank everyone who ressurected this song.

Amazon has published its user-generated list of the most wished-for video games in the UK, USA, France and Germany. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 topped the list in the UK, demonstrating that miraculously there are still people in the UK that haven’t got a copy of the game. Its not surprising to be honest with the game shashing sales mor than anticipated in the first week alone! Even though more copies of the game than ever before, were shipped on date of release, expect this to be game of the year.

Meanwhile the Wii Fit Plus was the most wanted game in France and Germany, proving that perhaps us Brits aren’t as active as our European neighbours. Probably accounting for the growing obesity in the UK, and the fall in sales of new Wii consoles.

Despite analysts suggesting that the Wii sales bubble had burst, Nintendo’s console featured in three of the four lists.

Here’s the list in full, for those of you need some Christmas present ideas:

France
Wii Fit Plus – Game Only (Wii)
New Super Mario Bros Wii (Wii)
Wii Sports Resort with Wii MotionPlus (Wii)
Wii Fit Plus with Wii Balance Board (Wii)
Professeur Layton et la Boite de Pandore (Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box) (DS)
Mario & Sonic aux J.O. d’hiver (Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games) (Wii)
Nintendo Wii, Black
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS)
Nintendo Wii, White
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)

UK
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360)
New Super Mario Bros Wii (Wii)
Wii Fit Plus – Game Only (Wii)
Wii Sports Resort with Wii MotionPlus (Wii)
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Wii)
Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (DS)
Assassin’s Creed II (360)
Assassin’s Creed II (PS3)
Wii Fit Plus with Wii Balance Board (Wii)

Germany
Wii Fit Plus – Game Only (Wii)
New Super Mario Bros Wii (Wii)
PlayStation 3 Slim, 120GB
Nintendo Wii, Black
Assassin’s Creed 2 (360)
Nintendo Wii, White
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)
Wii Sports Resort with Wii MotionPlus (Wii)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PC)

USA
New Super Mario Bros (Wii)
Nintendo Wii, White
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360)
Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board
PlayStation 3 Slim, 120GB
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)
Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
Wii Fit Plus (Wii)
Assassin’s Creed II (360)