The Bitbag writes, "I made a prediction in an article back in October explaining my reasons why Playstation 3 will come in 3rd this holiday for sales. I stated 5 reasons to back my claims and now that Christmas is over, we can revisit the sales of December to see who came in first, second and third."
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.
Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst
Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.
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live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating
Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.
Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.
This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality
..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....
...Really???
PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.
Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.
He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
looking at US totals only is not seeing the big picture.
World wide hardware totals for December according to VG chartz, which is what this article is going by.
1. Wii - 2,176,529
2. 360 - 1,220,832
3. PS3 - 1,080,457
Wii F*cken dominated! And that was even with shortages, go to a store right now and you probably won't find one.
I can't believe that PS3 held it's own against XBOX 360 worldwide. If you would of told me that earlier in the year, I would of said you're f*cken nuts. 360 had Halo 3 and the greatest lineup of games ever according to most gaming media. It was also still cheaper than PS3.
Things weren't looking too good for PS3 for a while there. If you're a PS3 fan and you're realistic, you gotta be pretty satisfied. It should atleast have a chance to have a good 2008.
Don't want to sound too PS3 fanboy, but if these worldwide totals are close to the truth, then I don't know any other way to look at it. The numbers say it all, it's pretty close.
PS3 didnt come in 3rd.... being the first full Christmas selling in Europe and everywhere else... only end of its first year... with "no games" and at 399$-499$ and it still didn't lose haha. HILARIOUS. Sony is very happy right now. I dont think ANYONE expected they could still sale 9 million by the end of the first full year. 2008 is gonna be even better. And 2009 even better...
I HAVE A PS3 AND 360... PS3 didn't obviouslt do THE BEST. It did do very good though for a 399$-499$ priced conosle lol. Software sales did equal per ratio in the US and the won in Europe and Japan... what is there no to understand... honestly both consoles did good. PERIOD. PS3 will see better software sales next year FOR CERTAIN but the 360 is doing well. Its just amazing the PS3 with no really big games and costing almot double outsold the 360 that just released Halo... IT'S biggest game ever. IF YOUR BRAIN CAN'T UNDERSTAND THAT UR F#CKING STUPID.
bRO WHAT DID U NOT UNDERSTAND? Isn't it OBVIOUS that the year old Playstation 3 with 3.3 million users in the U.S. is NOT going to outsell a 360 with 8 million users? WHAT DO U U NOT UNDERSTAND? Notice it sitll did outsell the 360 in Europe and Japan in Hardware and Japan... guys if the PS3 already came from behind and was winning in the US the 360 would be a HUGE FLOP. It just released Halo... what is there no to understand? PS3 sold a million software in the US. The 360 sells 2.7 million... lol u think its gonna stay that way? What do u want to pretend the PS3 isnt relaly a year old? Do u you want to pretned its gonna stay at 3.3 million by the end of 2008? IO dont get it.. it still won in Europe and Japan and New Zealand. Probally Australia too or at least tied. The PS3 actually won in hardware sales.... THINK ABOUT THAT. WOW. You KNOW its going to be winning in 2-3 years. Everyone knows it. But to be winning now with its game selection versus the 360? Its not even funny. The 360 got PWNED. How do u think the PS3 is gonna sale more soft ware DUHHHH by selling hardware .... and at almost TWICE THE PRICE it beat the 360 that JUST RELEASED HALO! You can pretend that software for the PS3 should be winning but there wasn't a chance in h3ll. Especailly considering Halo, Mass Effect and Bioshock was released. GUYS ITS NOT EVEN COMPARABLE. Put things into perspective. The PS3 is gonna outsell the 360 almost all next year in Hardware. It really is... but software.... its gonna getr WAYYY better but I doubt in its second year its going to just magically outsell the 360's userbase. Anyone with a brain in their head understands the PS3 is gonna catch up... its going to happen... but in 2008 alone? LMAO NO. Its gonna take 2-3 years at least but it will begin outselling the 360 more in its seoncd year. The games are actually ccoming people. THE WHOLE WORLD like MGS. And GT5. And final Fantasy. and Killzone 2 is gonna impress alot of people. Socom. Theres a sh!tload of games coming. Either way I'm relaly just happy BOTH consoles are gonna do good this generation. Even if Sony only sold 9 million a year for the next 9 years it would still sale 100 million. Its not gonna happen that way thouguh.. sales have already picked up. PS3 ahsmomentum going with it now and great games are coming out. ALOT of them. The only difference this generation is the Xbox is a good system or "thought of " as a better system to. Its not gonna just get stuck at 25 million and not go anywhere. But if u honestly believe its going to be keeping up with the Playstaion 3 in 2-4 years when the PS3 price is low and all the games.... You are seriously handicapped... what really makes u believe the PS3 isnt gonna sale like any other playstation when its the onle console in the freaking world that just could beat the Xbox in these circumstances. Its not even funny. IF this would have been the 360 that came out a year later with no games and the PS3 lauched first with all its games... IT WOULD HAVE BEEN RAPED TO THE CORE. BUT THE PLAYSTATION3 JUST WON EVERY SINCE THE PRICE CUT. IT sohuoldnt have at all YET!i UNDERSTAND ITS ONLY 25K UNITS... In reality it should have lost by 300k or more. It actually won. OFCOURSE IT CANT WIN IN SOFTARE DUUUUHHHH AND IT WONT FOR A COUPLE MORE YEARS!
All those poor bastards that got Playstation 3's for Christmas. Most of those users probably had no idea that their new system wouldn't play their Playstation 2 games.
1st place - Wii
2nd place - PS3
3rd place - PS2
4th - DS
5th - PSP
6th - PS1
7th - Sega Genesis
8th - SNES
9th - N64
10th - NES
11th - ...
12th - .....
13th - .......
15th - Heatbox360
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