Kotaku reports:
"Go on. Pick your mouths up off the floor. They'll get all dirty, then you'll get sick, and nobody wants to be sick at this time of year. Especially when people ask you how you got sick, and you have to tell them it's because you care too damn much about the Japanese hardware charts and went and freaked out upon seeing that not only had the PS3 beaten the Wii again, but that the PSP had nearly caught the DS. And that's not relying on new colours or a Final Fantasy game. Those are regular, old-fashioned sales".
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.
but will it last?
I am impressed...very to say the least but it needs to last for it to really mean something.
The gap are falling if I remember it right, I think Wii will come up next week... Anyway, props for Sony, we can see that still there is interest in PS3 over Japan, Sony just need more games (which are coming early next year).
This is the second or the third week?
I knew it this is what we have been saying these last few weeks, where are the Xbots now? and im a PS360 owner so no bias
It's true though. Once the good news starts rolling in you don't see any xbots comming in and saying anything except for the few hardcores who'll scream xbox to their death. I have to laugh at the people who compared the PS3 to Dreamcast...Puhhhleasse!
The problem with the Wii is that with such an innovative console it needs extremely innovative games. What's happening right now is that a lot of companies are just releasing quick mini games to cash in quick. This can't last down the years because the gimmick will wear off and it's also bad because the last time this happened the Videogame crash happened. You'll only sell to so many casual gamers until you run out and casual gamers are just that, casual gamers and they don't buy a lot of games. Nintendo is going to start giving attention to their hardcore fans again because it's their hardcore fans who stuck through with them and got them through the N64 and Gamecube. You might sell 15 million in the first year but in the next few years can Nintendo keep it up when Sony starts pulling out their big guns? Sony outsold the Wii thanks to what was it? Dynasty Warriors or Genji? well if Sony can outsell the Wii thanks to a little title like that just imagine when MGS4 and FF13 comes out. The Wii has nothing to counter it. Even Mario Galaxies didn't hold a comfortable spot on the charts.