The free-TV, rather subdued, European launch of the PlayStation 3 is done, and the sales figures for the first (and crucially important) weekend are being calculated. Speaking to SPOnG today, a Sony spokesman would not even hazard an opinion with regard to the weekend's sales figures, stating that the company is awaiting figures from Chart-Track.
Nor are any of the major retailers prepared to comment, on the record, anything but bland PR-driven statements.
Under terms of strict anonymity, however, SPOnG was told by they contact at one branch of a major retail outlet, that on both Saturday and Sunday it sold more 360s than it did PS3s. Is that a bad sign? Yes. This soon after launch it would be just about acceptable for the masses of expensive, late PS3 stocks to be moving slowly. However, for the 360 to outsell it at launch weekend should come as a shock to Sony.
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
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst
Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.
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live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating
Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.
Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.
This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality
..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....
...Really???
PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.
Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.
He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
You have a games console called the Xbox 360? Its superior GPU, affordability and combination of an online service that its intergrated into ALL Xbox 360 games with a unified friends list and a friends list that stays the same no matter what games you play also an online service that is GLOBAL rather than regional says it all.
Games on the 360 look and play better thanks to the better visual capabilities of the GPU along with the better pad with rumble that is the 360 - overall the 360 wins easily across the board.
For every 1 of these fud articles their is 5 "PS3 is selling Great" articles . I love how the PS3 article will be based on an entire countries point of view. And the "PS3 isnt selling" ones are based on "1 retailer branch" at most. lol...
whoever promotes these articles need to stop. And the answer is no Sony should not be worried about 1 retailer branch. I bet no one bothered to ask if they had more Xbox360's than PS3's in stock and I bet they did. lol
This is getting to be silly and ridiculous. I refuse to acknowledge these articles anymore. They are running out of steam. Now its down to 1 retailer branch. Next it will be "some kid on the street told us no one is buying PS3's...Sony should be worried"...lmao
LAME !!!!
This is just useless. All this contradictory articles, one minute you see: "PS3 is selling great!" and the other "PS3 is not selling at all!, entire shipments have been left untouched!"...let's just wait for the OFFICIAL figures.
As for the first poster, man you really are close minded huh?. I mean I don't deny the 360 is powerful and has good games (after more than 1 FULL year out, that is...) but you cannot say that the PS3 is not good machine, or that the games LOOK better on the 360 -> Oblivion, for instance, LOOKS better on the PS3.
And I'm glad you like the rumble (which is heading to the PS3, by the way)...but I think that's just the most useless feature to ever be implemented on videogames...oh well, each person has their own point of view.
Hardly a respected source for reliable news. Too early to say if the PS3 has sold out yet. There are Know doubts that PS3 is selling. I'll wait for official sales numbers before judging it.
Okey, let's not compare Oblivion then. Let's just compare multiplatform games available at both consoles: As far as I know, both consoles prove to show almost the same graphics. So either way, the games do not look "better" on the 360 either. I wanted to prove that just because the 360 has 1 game that outdoes any other on graphics (Gears of War), you cannot say the "games" look better on one console than the other. The PS3 can, and probably will; show graphics on par and even better than those of Lost Planet and Gears of War.
That was my point, as I said; I think the 360 is a good console, but I can't stand people being so close minded that they don't recognize that the PS3 is a good machine too.