Given that this week's software sales charts from Media Create show Nintendo DS and Wii games outperforming everything that isn't Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, one might assume that Nintendo hardware would see the biggest boost in sales. Oh, sure, selling over 222,000 Nintendo DS Lites is no small feat. It's damn impressive. However, the week to week doubling of PSP sales, pushing over 180,000 of the things without a major software release is, well, its kind of hard to sort out. But more power to 'em, I say.
In handy list form, here's how the console wars went down in Japan for the week of December 10th to the 16th.
Nintendo DS Lite - 222,132
PSP - 184,610
Wii - 170,558
PlayStation 3 - 63,720
PlayStation 2 - 18,025
Xbox 360 - 8,561
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.
I bet Sony is smiling somewhere. All three of their products (including the almost 8 year old PS2) is trumping the 360 yet again in Japan.
PS3 is that pizza like slice colored in red. Yum!
Looks like they are set to cruise at about 40,000 at least till DMC4 comes out. The wii is selling like crack once again though. Damn pulling out some ds numbers. Great job by psp too.
nobody is talking about the wii vs ps3.
its about ps3 vs 360. the 360 is getting its ass beat by the wii also if you havent noticed by now.
america is also wii land since it outsells the 360 here too according to your logic.
3rd, the wii is outselling the ps3 and 360 in europe also so i guess thats also wii land.
EUROPE UP FOR GRABS? yea okay.............thats why the ps3 outsold the 360 there by more then 80,000 last week.
japan, the ps3 outsold it by more then 55,000 this week.
and in america, the ps3 gets beat by about 90,000 a week but add all those numbers up and the ps3 is OUTSELLLING the 360 dumbass.
so how was your post relevant again?
do any of you live in the Land of the Rising Sun?