Does Nintendo rule supreme? Research firm Millward Brown has released its fourth annual list and report, which ranks the most valuable brands in the world in a top list.
VGB adds: "While technology giants top the list, our favorite gaming systems have also been very successful in business and brand management. Let's forget about value and take a look at their popularity in the Top 9 gaming console and handheld brands."
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.
The ps3 barely beats the original Xbox
I wonder what the polling sample was.
It makes sense for the DS and Wii to be at the top, and for the 360 to have the edge on the PS3, based on install base, but in what world does the original Xbox have brand name superiority over the PS2?
PS2 outsold Xbox like 6 to 1 and it's the only last gen console still in production. Hell, people often refer to my PS3 as a PS2, just because they're so used to saying it.
Man Xbox has sure achieved a significant improvement in the market in terms of brand recognition. I loved my Xbox last generation and even though I had a PS2 as well and loved a lot of the games on that system, I was a bigger fan of the Xbox for its online service, for its amazing graphics and games like Chronicles of Riddick EFBB, Halo, Jade Empire, KOTOR, the Splinter Cell series and many more.
This generation I again own both systems and again I have a bit of a preference for my 360. I really do like both systems but Microsoft have done so much right this generation and only a few things wrong and I just love the overall gaming experiences the 360 gives me.
I am not trying to make this into a fanboy fight at all, because I really do love my PS3 as well. I am just happy to see that Microsoft has become a major player in the video game industry. I think they deserve it.
Amazing how low the brand value of the PS3 is. Not to mention the oddity of seeing the brand power of the Game boy still currently trumps the psp and the ps2. Man... it's bad times for sony and gaming. Dark days indeed.