Courtesy of VGCharts Sony Protection Group have the above graph which shows life time to date consoles sales for the PS3, Wii and Xbox360. The launch dates have been aligned for a clearer comparison. While there is no doubt that the Wii is selling like gang busters they think SONY fans can feel assured that the system that has 'had a rough start' and 'has no games' seems at pretty much the exact pace that its main competition did at launch.
As with all Reality Check posts, they will re visit this in a few months.
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.
that vg charts is unreliable, is this true or is there a more valid site?
Please tell me, I'd like to know.
Can anyone tell me WTF this is, that I just found in my inbox on this website?
"1 hour ago | By: huntersville
for all of you that say that my post is stupid or i dont know what im talking about, well we'll see when my post is prooven true, then what and where will your post to counter my post stand, you post so many things to counter me and the thing is i have countless sources, and i do my studies, as i have said i am partially with ibm, and i know what the cell is more than you, if your pc cpu and gpus are so much more powerful than ps3, then why arent they state of the art, and why arent they being used in medical research, i can almost guarantee you have no answer, you sound so confident in your counter posts, the sad thing is that none of your counters make sense or are true, you know why? because all of you post to counter my post, but all of your counter posts are different, but mine remain the same, you say glitches of ware didnt max out the 180, but sadly i have so many facts of why the game did max out the 180, you say that dx10 is so great, but the truth is that it wont dread water against what ps3 has in store, you say the ps3 dont have 9 processors, but there is a ps3 commercial that even says the 9 processors, and it is from play B3yond, you say that the ps3 isnt a supercomputer, you are right, in a way that is, it aint it is greater than a supercomputer, weather you like it or not the cell is a supercomputer, processors in a cluster make up what is known as a supercomputer, and who ever said that the 180 has processors, they are cores, cores and processors are completely different, as a matter o fact the processors contain cores, if you didnt already know, and you also tell me that the ps3 didnt cost sony 40 billion, well just go have a look at wikipedia, and youll see that the machine cost sony well over 40 billion, i feel so sorry for you posting all of this, because the truth is that you are putting many industries in diar injury, it is dangerous making statements with no proof, and then when the segment of industry that i defend shows you that the machine is what i have stated, then what will that leave for your defense, you will leave your segment of market in great pain, because believe me people are looking at these posts, weather they be consumers, or fans of one particular section of industry, now they are looking forward to the ps3 being weak as you say, they are looking forward to seeing the 180 put out better graphics than the ps3, they are looking forward to in 2 to 15 and even further along than that for games to look so so great compared to ps3 on your pc with your dx10, they are looking forward to killzone 2 looking not as good as crysis, and glitches of ware, they are looking forward to ps3 not delivering cgi and b3yond cgi graphics in game, the difference with me and you is that i have sources that i have studied even before ps3 came out, and i know my machine very well, but you my friends are in a serious bind with your knowledge, you think you know it all but you know extremely little, so sorry for you when e3 comes and all of you look stupid, and then i will tell you that the specs of the ps3 dont really matter, the cell enables cgi graphics that you are so fond of speaking of, and you speak of the rsx being whatever that gpu is that you speak of, you know people are looking forward to your posts that you say it is a "g71" or a "7800 series vid card", but wait a minute, your contradicting yourselves on that because those are two totally different graphics units, im right am i not, well this goes back to what i said about you all using different stuff and not sticking to one point of facts such as i do, your posts are nothing but meth-influenced opinions, i sometimes wonder who pays you, but whoever does you are going to be very happy because they ripped therselves off, asking you all to post bullsh1t about ps3, you pc people always post sh1t about that lame azz dx10, is that truely all you can throw at me, that sh1t as i have said is not impressive, not compared to the things tha"
THen it stopped. I have no idea, but PC gamer??? I only use the 360 for gaming. Anyone that knows he might be talking to you. I thought it was a good laugh, no interpunction used
Huntersville, if this is the average PS3 user, God be with ya all. You will need it
@ snoop_dizzle (below)
I can't even remember I've reacted on his posts, because they're all like this. Unreadable with no facts or anything usefull in general.
Guess he's sending this out to a lot of persons on this site, if not ALL of us ;-)
@ Virtualgamer (below)
Too bad dude, Dusty or any other mod don't take action anymore then maybe setting someone on one bubble. I don't mind either, because it gave me a laugh and I think it's not meant for me as he is clearly talking to a PC gamer haha
The only true to date info we can ever achieve for units sold would be from the companies themselves. vgcharts, consolewar, etc only can give us estimates
the sony protection group site sucks.
that is what has been said all along, the ps3 sales are mirroring the 360 sales with respect to when the sytem launched... and this with the 360 having absolutely no competition, and the ps3 going up against the crazyness of the wii, the 360 and the supposed killer lineup of games, and the life of the ps2 with games still coming out such as GOW2. Let all the FUD be washed away.
VVVVV
oh yeah forgot about that, so i guess its a wash then, 360's shortage after launch, and ps3 not in the biggest market of all until about 2 months ago. even steven