Worldwide Hardware:
1: X360 - 534,911 (-46%)
2: PS3 - 515,016 (-32%)
3: 3DS - 504,822 (-18%)
4: WiiU - 325,462 (-30%)
5: Wii - 215,349 (-44%)
6: DS - 151,331 (-55%)
7: PSV - 137,853 (-34%)
8: PSP - 43,809 (-17%)
Worldwide Software:
1: (X360) Call of Duty: Black Ops II - 760,935
2: (PS3 Call of Duty: Black Ops II - 654,449
3: (Wii) Just Dance 4 - 518,154
4: (X360) Halo 4 - 358,373
5: (X360) Kinect Adventures! - 339,909
6: (PS3) Assassin's Creed III - 326,239
7: (X360) Assassin's Creed III - 256,920
8: (WiiU) Nintendo Land - 235,797
9: (PS3) Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Taisen OG - 215,426
10: (PS3) Far Cry 3 - 213,105
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
FuRyu revealed on Friday its Exstetra fantasy role-playing game is getting an HD remaster that will launch this summer on Steam.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Usually christmas period is where the 360 pulls ahead of the ps3 but sonys console seems to be holding on "according to VG"
Anyway those are good numbers, for such old machines congrats to Sony and Microsoft.
Even Nintendo wii did well :)
Edit* even though everything is down this is the twilight of this gen remember
Nice sales for all consoles. Sony held it down this year, the 360 usually pulls WAY ahead during Dec (Last year, 450k). Only a 19k difference this year. Congrats Sony and MS, this fiscal report coming up is gonna be interesting.
I'm glad to see the WiiU up there but I am shocked to still see the Wii selling. I mean there hasn't been a relevant game for that system in a year (maybe 2).
But all in all good to see consoles still going strong. Now...bring on the next gen please!
Super Robot Taisen OG, a series we'll never ever get here.
:<
the difference bewteen Sony and Ms is much slimmer than last year.... which means sony fans will not scream:
"Its Vcharts"
now it will be "good job sony".
Vcharts is only bad when Ms numbers are good. When Sony is doing well, then Vcharts is the a great source of data.
that said:
if you believe the numbers, it seems that they all did mediocre compared to last year.