VGChartz reports that their estimate for American hardware and software chart for week Ending Aug 9th, 2008 is as follows:
Total Hardware: [Last Week #]
DSL: 145,021 (-28%) [200,223]
Wii: 90,895 (-14%) [105,974]
PSP: 64,890 (-9%) [71,507]
360: 63,079 (-30%) [89,568]
PS3: 50,352 (+23%) [41,027]
PS2: 37,502 (-6%) [39,961]
Top 10 Software:
1 Soul Calibur IV (360) 104,253 402,289
2 Wii Sports (Wii) 90,895 13,518,003
3 Wii Fit (Wii) 76,173 1,637,512
4 Soul Calibur IV (PS3) 69,156 236,514
5 Wii Play (Wii) 57,002 6,873,490
6 Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 55,255 2,805,048
7 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3) 49,157 1,174,019
8 NCAA Football 09 (360) 32,822 455,380
9 Guitar Hero: On Tour (DS) 30,599 679,388
10 Pokemon Diamond / Pearl (DS) 28,113 5,454,815
Software Totals: [Last Week Total]
DSL: 915,023 (-6%) [971,783] Tie Ratio: 4.38
360: 804,679 (-24%) [1,063,210] Tie Ratio: 9.30
Wii: 799,252 (-8%) [867,297] Tie Ratio: 6.18
PS3: 465,060 (-20%) [583,000] Tie Ratio: 6.54
PS2: 312,826 (-2%) [319,965] Tie Ratio: n/a
PSP: 204,103 (-8%) [222,171] Tie Ratio: 4.01
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
LucasArts gave Jango Fett his own game in 2002, and it pulled Star Wars into a much dirtier, rougher, and more interesting corner of the galaxy.
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.
Why do people keep approving this sites "sales numbers"? They're more like sales guesses. Maybe its because the .com at the end gives you a false impression of a legit site, I could make a .com site and post random guesses.
vgchartz and your obvious 360 fanboyism, will you ever be so neutral in the console war?
after julys npd vg should be banned.
after all NPD numbers, VGCharts continue with their wrong predictions. PS3 outsell the 360 in 2008 every months but one. We should stop approving those articles from VGchart.
These damn estimates again
EDIT
Estimates are guesses, but there educated guesses, which this is obviously not educated.