Using US and Japanese sales data Sony Protection Group present to you a graph of the first 24 weeks of life for the Playstation family of consoles (not PSP).
As you can see the PS3 is clearly out pacing the PS1 and is slightly behind the pace of the PS2. Given the huge amount of buzz coming in the future months for the PS3 we'll update this chart for you and see where we are.
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.
S2Killinit
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.
what caused the two rapid increases in the PS2 sales?
Was it a price cut?
Or a big release like FF/GT/MGS?
They should do one on Nintendo consoles. lol
Ps1: people out grew Nintendo
Ps2: Spill over from the PS1 success, games, DVD helped, All the dev support.
Is this generation the same? "hardly'. Trend and popular opinion has changed and is in Nintendo's favor not to mention the PS3 is playing catch up to the 360. Could PS3 come back and win in the end yes but who cares, I sure won't give a fack about the PS3 when the Xbox 720 is out.
Come on wheres the Summer love (Justin Timberlake) it's Love Stoned this generation. MS's bringing sexy back.
First off, the PS2 got rocked launched because of
GTA
That is now on the 360 on day one also.
Furthermore, 7 years ago the gaming world had a lot less people that bought this stuff.
Thus: you can't compare these numbers. The PS3 isn't doing good in this timeframe, plus: it did well the first few months selling to fanboys but now it ain't selling anymore. Plus biggest problem:
The PS2 was FIRST to launch the console. The XBOX came one year later. This gen, the 360 is first to launch. Its a big, big advantage
GTA didn't launch with PS2 Mart. You're more full of it than usual.
Nor were there any price cuts this early in the other consoles lives. As for no competition, thats crap too. Sega had a console there each time. They simply werent up to the competiton for various reason that dont need be gone over now. Remember Dreamcast was the first out last Gen, NOT PS2, and PSOne had Saturn. Dont act like there was no competition just because Sony made it look that way.
Alot of the points you made PoG are still true today.
Alot of people have still outgrown Nintendo. I dont care how much hardware they're selling. They is one game I like on the system and thats why its my least favourite. Just about everything that has come out is a mini game collection designed to use their gimmick or an inferior port of games that are better on both the other consoles.
Spillover sucess from PS1, PS2. BR helps. Lots of Dev support. There are still plenty of Playstation fans no matter how much some of you guys dont want it to be true. Yeah Sony has had its bad press. Mainly on the net. And no surprise most of them are Xbox fans. Who cares, theres only 20 million or so of them. And the mainstream never hears you so....who cares.
BR wont have the impact DVD had, but then again, lots of people are buying LCD's and Plasmas. Hell thats just about all people are buying. Is it hard to believe BR might be popular in a year. Maybe 2. And the dev supports still there so dont worried about that. A little hestitant maybe, but they just want mor userbase. Plenty of games are in developement.
You guys can try and spin this bad if you want (why do you do that)but these number say different. PS3 is doing well despite all the thing going against it. Its outselling Xbox worldwide this year. Imagine when it actually has games. Or a price cut? You'll have nothing left to complain about.
Dont get me wrong guys. I'm not claiming PS3 is going to win the war or sell 100 million. I'm just saying its not the disaster you guys want it to be.
I think it's a great start for the PS3, and I'm not worried the slightest bit about the future. The console came out very expensive, and with very few games. This will change, and things will turn around.
What's with Mart btw? Making up all that stuff, crazy .. Attention?