GC reports this week top selling hardware in EMEAA region for the week ending Jan 8th, 2011 is as follows:
Hardware:
Wii 204,648 (-40%)
PS3 185,420 (-42%)
DS 182,463 (-45%)
X360 149,351 (-43%)
PSP 88,463 (-45%)
PS2 43,393 (-46%)
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.
*cough* No way im clicking that article. Cant blame me. I saw the charts, and..... saw the source.
EDIT: Yes author. You can disagree me, but VGCharts are just unreliable.
VGCharts = waste of time
I don't know why any reasonable person would quote vgchartz as a source, Anyways the npd data is gonna be released today so I am waiting for that.
X360 sold less hardware than ps3, but sold more software. And GT5 sales < 100k in their strongest region is eyebrow raising...have Le Pirates already struck?
Who wants a console like the xbox 360 it has no games in 2011