A recent Nielsen survey revealed that approximately 68 million people played video games on home consoles last month alone. Nielsen "Gameplay" metrics has started tracking video game activity using the data gathered by their current sample of TV viewers. The research company surveyed more than 12,000 households containing about 33,000 individuals.
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.
gee, i never would have figured this out cosidering the ps2 has the LARGEST user base on the planet!!! that is like saying "bpeople surveyed reported using Windows on their computers more often than using apple's operating system!" lol
can we stop with useless articles already???
slowly.........like dripping water the ps2 will leave it's place at the top to the mighty ps3
@ cain141 ---- that's probably one of the best points n e one has made on this site - ms stopped xbox1 and made the successor cheaper, but sony continue ps2 and release expensive successor
"The survey discovered that the overwhelming majority of gamers spent their gaming time on Sony’s last-generation system the Playstation 2. The seven year old Playstation 2 accounted for 42 percent of game use in households during the month of June. Microsoft’s original Xbox trailed in a distant 2nd place last month with 17 percent of gamers locked into the last-gen green X. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 rounded out the trifecta showing up in 8 percent of people reporting. Despite being the leader of the next generation war, the sum of Microsoft’s two systems still only equate to roughly half of the Playstation 2’s audience alone (the PS3 doesn’t add much). Nintendo’s Gamecube grabbed 4th place with 5.8 percent of gamers (really?). Nintendo’s lovable Wii garnered only 4 percent of players during the month. The dubious honor of being at the bottom of the barrel went to, of course, the Playstation 3 with a mere 1.5 percent."
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PS3 to PS2 says: "I was born a little late and almost needed a C-section to make it through, but once I shed this baby fat Papa, I'm gonna grow up to be just like you...."
PS2 to PS3 replies: "Alright, alright Jr..... now just take it easy, because you've got to learn how to walk first. Things weren't this advanced when your Mom and I were your age. Just follow me and you'll be fine.......oh, got your first price drop already I see, huh?....atta boy....atta boy....keep it up son, and you're going to be the shining member of this family one day..." =]
even if just a modest percentage of PS2 owners gravitate to the PS3 over the next few years, the PS3 will easily win this console war. The Playstation brand has the largest user base and library of games.
Stealing all the ps3 thunder. Go ps2 go!