An amazing video tracking the console sales that started with the diminishing dominance of Nintendo with its N64 that started in 1996, and what would be the rise and total domination of Sony and its Playstation brand for ten years to come, until the release of the Nintendo DS in 2005 and recently the rise of the Wii in 2007. It also shows the unfortunate demise of Sega and its Dreamcast.
?? = "SEGA"
???? = "Bandai"
??? = "Nintendo"
"SFC" = "Super Famicom"
"WS" = "WonderSwan"
N64= Nintendo 64
GC= Gamecube
GB= Game Boy (original, Color)
GBA= Game Boy Advance
SCE = Sony Computer Entertainment
PS = Playstation
PS2= Playstation 2
PS3= Playstation 3
PSP= Playstation Portable
DC= Dreamcast
SS= Sega Saturn
WS= Wonder Swan
Also, these pie diagrams seem to track only the sales in Japan, as the Xbox and Xbox 360 is not shown (except for that one year).
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.
dumb azz high school drop out trying to make pie charts left out alot of others considerations to the "game console race"
how did this get approved...its been up since yesterday...and Kotaku calls it "Sony is losing"...when it doesn't even take into account that Sony is still selling more equipment each year than the year before (give or take for the most part)
the only thing that this chart shows is that Nintendo has managed pull in millions more people that otherwise were not involved with this market...it only shows how much of the market each company controls...but does not show anything with the overall growth of the market...which is all that matters...so at the end Nintendo has like 70% of the market in year long sales numbers...yet it doesn't tell you that there are now well over double the overall market population entirely...Sony still has the core consumers that it did in the late 90's, its just now Nintendo found out that soccer mom's are indeed very very bored...
by this chart alone you would think Sony is selling hardware at the rate nintendo was in 96...haha...no...the only thing is happening is that now Nintendo is selling 6X's the amount of stuff they ever did before...thats it...its not Sony slipping...its just Nintendo finding an entirely new demographic and running away with it...
also this is just Japan by the way...a worldwide chart would have MS making a much more substantial appearance...
im with the present. and nintendo dominates