Competition is usually great for consumers, especially in the gadget world. Competition among phone makers is the most obvious example, but even digital cameras, laptops and netbooks, and HDTVs are all part of a highly competitive electronics landscape. Buyers can now find these products at lower prices with more features than ever before. It’s tough, perhaps even un-American, to argue against competition, but in the video games industry, a little less competition would do gamers a lot of good.
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.
Competition is awesome for consumers. ALWAYS! Never think that giving one company total control of an industry will result in a win for consumers. Thats dumb. And you are dumb , or at least way overly optimistic about the human race,if you think that.
for real then it would go stale like madden
good article with a compelling argument...however......
we are at the end of this console generation. This is blatantly evident by the decreasing amount of games shown at E3.
Expect new consoles announced at next years E3 for release in fall 2011.
No. No. NEVER. One company becomes a Dictatorship. "You play as we say, or not at all." Where's the freedom, the autonomy?
NO thank you. Sony and MS keep each other on their feet for the hardcore, Nintendo offers choices for hardcore and softcore. This is how things SHOULD be.
First of all the gaming market as a whole has never been more lucrative or financially viable to investors with a over 7% sales growth the between 1st qtr 2009 and 2010.
I know we hit a recession late 2008 through 2010 however.. this article could have been written for car industry, housing industry and every retail segment that exist today.
Frankly, the last thing we need is one console to rule them all.
If it ever comes to pass we will all be stuck with fantastic mediocrity.