VGChartz Writes: "The 8th generation lead during the first eight months, but the 7th generation has lead every month since then. The gap shrunk slightly in the 11th month, but has grown in the latest month. The gap grew by 1,062,092 units.
The 7th generation handhelds in its first 12 months have sold 25.89 million units, while the 8th generation has sold 22.59 million units. The 7th generation currently leads by 3.30 million units.
7th Generation Total Combined Home Console Sales: 25,886,446
8th Generation Total Combined Home Console Sales: 22,589,244
Total Lead: 3,297,202 – 7th Generation
7th Generation Total Combined Handheld Sales: 79,777,408
8th Generation Total Combined Handheld Sales: 49,454,182
Total Lead: 30,323,226 – 7th Generation"
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Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-
I think the only game here for me is Nine Sols. Was always interested in that game.
Good month for me, I wanted that particular footy game and thought it might be due. Anyway who cares, shame about the site I'll miss the comment sections. All the best everyone.
Naughty Dog was reportedly divided on the controversial fate of Joel in The Last of Us Part 2 during the game's development.
Funny considering Bruce left half way through development and now we get told there was an internal conflict with the story direction.
Makes you think…
I think it was good decision, if he was still alive, he would have been a mascot just like Kratos, drake and many others. These old dudes gotta die for new characters to take center stage with their own storyline. They keep dragging the emotional baggage into many sequels and eventually the story just turns into absolute shit show.
It was ironic because people complained heavily about the story in the Uncharted games not having sufficient stakes because all the key characters always survived, despite the dangerous situations they were always in. Then ND killed a character in a more serious series and everyone lost their minds. Just shows that people don't always really want the thing they say they want.
I thought the more common complaint about Uncharted franchise was how the main cast are the good guys acting so nonchalantly while killing hundreds in cold blood (aka the dissonance between gameplay and story cutscenes). They just did it again in Part II.
I don't think he would necessarily need to become a mascot (and besides, technically, I'd say Ellie is... So regardless, someone was going to be).
From a narrative perspective, I do think it has a similar effect to Ricky dying in Boyz N Da Hood: very likeable character, and you're really motivated to see the get back—in this case, it's more intense because it's an interactive experience. Most people hated Abby, but I get what they were after with portraying the cycle of violence and revenge—unfortunately, the game appears to want to take the side of the bad people.
But I will say that if Joel survived, it does become harder to tell an interesting story. What COULD have happened is an exploration into the rift between Joel and Ellie after the trolley dilemma events of the first game. It could have been interesting to see Abby out for revenge at the same time Ellie hated Joel.
Sorry just had to say this lol! RICKYYYY!
Man Cuba Gooding Jr was miscast in that movie, but that part was cringey it was sad and funny at the same time man.
I understand but the way they went about killing Joel, was poorly executed. Even the show of the Last of Us games tried to improved it, but it was just as bad. Well at least Joel got to know the reason why he had to die, before the death happened in the show. That part gave us the full context, but the game just let it happen with no pay off.
Joel death should have been a midway thing through the story, so we at least get to play him a little more with Ellie. Abby didn’t need to be this Hulk looking woman, but more like the show Abby which is a beater idea in my opinion.
Honestly as much as I loved the game, they could have just not killed him off.
I get it creator vision and all but killing a character that made you millions is just wrong imo. At least have him go down fighting.
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
7th generation had the Wii which was really sold like pan cakes for Nintendo and due to that reason Nintendo is the only company doing worse this generation compared to its previous one but Sony and Microsoft are actually doing better than last gen. At the beginning of the last generation people still considered a blackberry a cool at the time. The two generations are incomparable to each other because things that were and were not available back then like it will be next generation if their even is one. As for comparing first year sale on PS4 against the PS3. PS4 won by a long shot.
While the situation between last gen and this one is definitely different the trend is still worrying, when graphs start resembling going down a mountain there's something to be concerned about.
With MS and Nintendo both failing with their early launches, along with the return of more mainstream PC gaming, these numbers make sense. Handhelds have suffered from smartphones and poor Vita sales. Still, these are not the trends you want to see after such a huge rush out of the gate after a near decade long generation. It shows that lots of people aren't willing to upgrade yet and it remains to be seen how long it takes for adoption to pick up, or if people even decide to buy new consoles at all.
We're due for a console destined to sell worse than the Gamecube this generation. 7th gen was really healthy with a 100M selling Wii, and both PS3/X360 selling over 80M each. In fact, 7th gen had the most combined sales (260M+) ever in the past 7 generations so far. The 6th gen had 155M for the PS2, and less than 30M for both Xbox and GC, going under 210M. The PS4 is really healthy, and Xbone doing fine as well, but the Wii U is just a downer. As for the 3DS and Vita, the Vita is only slightly doing better than the Wii U, and the 3DS sure as heck won't even reach half the DS's sales.