Worldwide Hardware:
1: 3DS - 495,133 (-29%)
2: PS3 - 300,661 (-33%)
3: X360 - 169,602 (-51%)
4: WiiU - 134,849 (-34%)
5: PSP - 105,948 (+22%)
6: PSV - 88,786 (-24%)
7: Wii - 81,173 (-52%)
8: DS - 63,684 (-50%)
Worldwide Software:
1: (PS3) Call of Duty: Black Ops II - 191,625
2: (X360) Call of Duty: Black Ops II - 180,905
3: (X360) Halo 4 - 176,412
4: (3DS) New Super Mario Bros. 2 - 156,394
5: (3DS) Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 134,535
6: (Wii) Just Dance 4 - 121,473
7: (PS3) FIFA Soccer 13 - 108,233
8: (X360) Far Cry 3 - 105,391
9: (WiiU) New Super Mario Bros. U - 94,173
10: (PS3) Far Cry 3 - 92,073
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.
New Super Mario Bros. U was a good title to launch with the Wii U, it seems.
Both the basic and deluxe version needs NSMBU bundled with it.
so does anyone ever compare vgchart info with the legit numbers and see if they're accurate?
Wow, props to Sony, there are on a roll!
Ha! I love how PS3 leads in multi-console releases. Kudos.
I posted this on the US weekly thread, but it bears repeating...
I'm going to rant for a second:
Before I start I should first mention that I own a PS3 and only a PS3...
What the f&*# is going on with PS3 game sales? I'm looking at the 2012 global software chart and it's embarrassing. The top three PS3 games aren't surprising: Black Ops 2, FIFA, and ACIII. But what's at #4? Resident Evil 6. Seriously. RE6 sold 2.2 million copies on PS3.
But wait, it gets worse. 1 million people bought RE Operation Raccoon City. Wtf people. More people bought that POS than Dishonored. Also, Borderlands 2 only sold 1.2 million copies. The sales of Borderlands 2 and Dishonored combined on PS3 are less than RE6 sales.
You know what's not on the list? 2012 1st party games. Here are some numbers (and they're bad):
Starhawk: 200,000
Twisted Metal: 600,000
LBP Karting: 400,000
PlayStation All-Stars: 380,000
Those 4 combined are less than RE6's sales.
Starhawk selling that low is pathetic. You can kiss Lightbox goodbye because of that. They fired 75% of their workforce and are making iPhone games now.
iPhone games.
For the record I bought Twisted Metal, Starhawk, Borderlands 2, and Dishonored (among others this year) and haven't bought a Resident Evil game in 7 years.
Get your crap together PS3 owners.