I think that you got mixed up between Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 3.In any case I wish that Yakuza 4 will get a release date in the west but somehow I doubt that due to low sales for Yakuza 3 in the west (according to vgchartz,Yakuza 3 only sold 160k copies in the Us and Europe combined!)
good sales for SEGA games.I just didn't like that AvP sold that much cus it means that in the gen, a bad game can sell as long as it's a FPS game.
Edit: Turok sold more than 1.2 m copies while Haze sold near a million (actually more than 800,000 copies).Maybe AvP sold more than those due to its fanbase.Still a bad game but if you are happy with your purchase then that's good for you ;)
Should have been "fans need Dark Cloud 3" instead ;)
that's because in japan,voice actors are actually famous.in other countries,most people don't know or even care about voice actors.have you ever walked in the streets and saw people saying "oh my god! That's *enter name here* he is voice actor for *insert anime or game here*"? no you haven't but in japan,it is the case so it's natural that japanese voices sound better since it has more interest and fame unlike in the west where almost people don't care that m...
any japanese game will have hentai or a doujinchi.even mario and sonic has hentai images! XD it's just inevitable for games and animes to have hentai images or doujinshis ;)
I'm sorry but who is Kinji Mikami? Unless you mean Shinji Mikami,the creator of Resident evil.Well the guy left Capcom and became a part of Platinum Games so don't hold your breath for this ;)
Like aphe said,sales weren't an issue back then.same as the days of the SNES/Genesis. This whole sales/graphics thing came out this gen.But I agree with you about Okami.It should have entered the list.Okami is art ;)
Edit:Alpha,it seems that you forgot that there was another console,the Gamecube (didn't mention Dreamcast cus it died early) and the Gamecube had better graphics than ps2 so are you going to say that ps2 fans used the sales argument with gamecube fans? th...
As long as there are tekken,soul calibur,ace combat and tales games,namco will always be an important company to me.I mean imagine if the next sequels for these games went exclusive to one console,you think fans will act as if it's nothing important? it will be huge news and most of you know this ;)
wait,you think Yoshinori Kitase is a RANDOM japanes producer/scenario writer?!! I guess that you are new to video games industry then.I'm not gonna argue about the main point of this article which is why the ps3 being the lead platform for whatever reason, but don't call some people "random" just because they said something you don't like to hear :P
I'm sorry but there is nothing wrong with what he said.his comment is what most people think about when a new sequel comes out without its mastermind behind it.maybe you shouldn't misjudge people like that next time ;)
well it's a chance for Bungie to prove that they are really talented.Don't get me wrong Halo is a great franchise (to fps fans) but to me,a really talented studio is the one who can make more than one game (not a sequel but another game) and receive praises for it too.and I don't mean just Bungie but any other studio who gets praises all the time for just creating one game and milking it all the time.of course I'm just a gamer who is expressing his opinion and I could be right or wrong but I ...
@ico92: that's why I said that you should look at it from Japan's view.lets say M company released not just one game but more and 2 of its games ranked as the 1st and 2nd by reviews,popularity and sales then its logical to say that M company is the best video game maker for that year.There is no biased thing with this if you really think about it ;)
some of you people are amazing.actually I realized that most of the members in N4G are amazing.That's why I started to post less here!
first,remember that their culture and taste in games is different than the west.rpgs rules and fps games suck.I'm sure that if we had many japanese websites instead of western sites then it wouldn't be strange to you or saying BS about Famitsu,which makes me go to the second point:
Dengeki posted "SURVEY" results about the t...
I knew that Okami was going to be mentioned.this game is a masterpiece and I consider it the best game that came out last gen (just read the reception it had in wikipedia,damn) but yeah I agree that the first hour is just talking and giving info.it was one of the reason which made some people return it and get a bad game instead.and lets not forget that you play as a wolf.but after that hour and maybe little more,you'll see the brilliance of that game.when I saw that a game like this didn't s...
actually this proves that SC wasn't a system seller and i'll tell you why:
-xbox360 sold 70k this week in america.if i'm not mistaken,this is the lowest week sales for xbox360 in 2010 so far! A system seller means a spike in sales but as we can see , it's the opposite here.
-500k for SC is for america and europe so we should look at europe numbers as well,yet we can see that the ps3 outsold the xbox360 with almost 18k units,with worldwide sales showing that ps3 outsold xbox360 w...
even if there was a ps3 version,I don't think it will be as amazing as the first game since Kamiya left Capcom but you never know ;)
so after having many great japanese games for more than 20 years,suddenly some people think that a game being japanese or more japanese is a bad thing! :P
this month ps3 had amazing worldwide sales and it passed the xbox360 hardware sales for this month again thanks to japan and europe.as for the US, there were a week or two where the ps3 sold more but mostly the xbox360 sold more in the US.I say the gap for this month in the US will be between 20k and 40k for the xbox360 ;)
what's unbelievable is that some of you think UK is Europe as well as US is the world XD
But seriously do some checking before posting.like for example checking the Europe numbers from vgchartz.for example the hardware sales for the week of the 27th of march in europe were ps3: 90k , xbox360:50K.and ps3 has been selling the xbox360 weekly in Europe for some time now.you can check it there if you want ;)
P.S: also in that week the ps3 outsold the xbox360 worldwide by 90k!jus...
the thing is,we don't have a one event thing like the oscars to decide which game will be goty.and unlike last year,this year we have many great contenders.plus every site will have its own contenders and in each site almost any game with 9/10 score and above will be a goty contender in that site so there isn't really a point discussing this.lets just wait for the end of the year and enjoy the show ;)