The UK's official console sales figures for the last year have just been released by GfK/Chart-Track. They show that in the 12 months to June 2009, the Xbox 360 outsold the PS3 by almost 2:1.
The Wii sold nearly as many as both of them put together, with the DS still the biggest seller of all and the PSP coming in in last place with less than a fifth of the DS' sales.
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
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.
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.
Not surprising really the UK is practically identical to the US when is comes to console sales.
Gotta feel for the PSP though, less than a fifth of DS sales and Sony is about to raise the price of it with the PSP Go, such great logic.
There is anyone left in the UK that can afford a console at the moment. The economic downturn is taking its toll across Europe and I can definitely see this trend continuing in the UK.
Yer, the only people I see with a PSP are high school kids but when they first came out nearly everyone was getting one. It's strange how it turned out really.
be glad that all consoles are selling well. competition is good everybody. remember that. nobody likes a monopoly
The RRP for the PS3 is £299, a big difference.