The latest weekly hardware sale figures from Japan have arrived and if you were expecting another week of total Nintendo domination, you wouldn't be wrong. The NDS racked up an astonishing 123,211 sales this week to finish in first place, followed by the Wii with 69,748. Sony's PSP came in third with 26,358 units sold, whilst the PS2 with 11,814 units is still managing to sell more than its big brother, the PS3 with 8,998. The Xbox 360 as per usual trailed in last with 2,219.
Hardware - This Week | Last Week | YTD | LTD
1. NDS - 123,211 | 127,542 | 3,414,208 | 17,419,887
2. WII - 69,748 | 58,644 | 1,685,301 | 2,604,944
3. PSP - 26,358 | 26,097 | 953,788 | 5,485,917
4. PS2 - 11,814 | 11,311 | 369,024 | 20,523,883
5. PS3 - 8,998 | 9,627 | 453,179 | 910,737
6. 360 - 2,219 | 2,044 | 101,944 | 366,646
7. GBA - 573 | 712 | 38,152 | 15,336,231
8. NGC - 226 | 256 | 7,836 | 4,177,304
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.
In before the storm.
Nothing to see here, move on! ;)
Look at the US numbers they gettin worse for the ps3. The 360 is hot on the ps3's heels nipping for that #4 spot in japan. lol
360 - is a write off in Japan.
PS3 - There is still hope for the PS3 but Sony need to do something fast.
Wii - Wow, just Wow
... A massive change in the PS3's position (perhaps up to third above the PS2/PSP) once concrete detials and release information of Winning Eleven come to light.. The Japanese go crazy for that game! And I for one know lots of people in the UK waiting for PES7 before taking the plunge... Football is a massive seller in Europe and Japan...