Well, Halo 3 hasn't even sold 100k in Japan lifetime (Japanese hate FPS). 300k first day is excellent result for most games in Japan (except DQ and FF).
Those aren't last months sales of vgchartz. Real figures for may are:
Platform VGC Americas
Wii 717,030
PS3 197,765
Xbox 360 213,324
PSP 214,653
DS 504,540
PS2 117,660
Did you count last week of april to total? Week ending 4th of may is NOT part of may NPD (the whole week is part of april NPD).
I haven't played Conan yet but when WoW started 4 years ago it wasn't ready from start either. Most endgame instances and quests were added months and years later and game was extremely buggy.
FF4 DS has 1 gigabit cart which is 128 megabytes. ASH has 2 gigabit cart which is 256 MB. Although most of their games would easily fit to 256 MB cart.
It will still take several years for PS3 to get past 360 in installed base. WW it may happen in couple of years but definitely not in NA. With just 50k difference in monthly sales in NA, it would still take 12 years for PS3 to have larger install base there.
Disney also has a game studio which makes exclusive games for Wii. So their support for PS3 isn't as strong as you think it is.
Yes, obesity is at least partly hereditary. But it still doesn't change the fact that if you eat less and exercise more you won't become obese. Kids with obesity genes just have to eat less and exercise more than kids without them. In poor countries there are no obese kids even if parents have obesity genes.
"Rumors are floating around the net that GT5 could see an '07 release"
This is partly true. GT5 prologue could be released this year (probably not) but it is basically just an extended demo. Real GT5 will probably be released holiday 2008 or even as late as 2009.
"360's CPU is based on the Cell."
No, it's not. PS3 and 360 CPU are very different although both are designed by IBM (I won't go into technical details). Even Wii's CPU is designed by ...
"Even so they didnt change the system just the controller. There is just no way i can call something next gen when all the wii has is a gimmick. I know they want to keep it simple but i think they took it to the extreme is all im saying. A tiny upgrade from the gamecubes specs would have been good enough."
Wii is twice as fast as Gamecube and a bit faster than xbox so there are actually some small changes in hardware. Also Wii has Wi-fi and internal flash memory.
Japan isn't as small as you think. Japan has population of 130 million and USA 300 million.
"MS' investment has not, nor will it ever be a success in JPN. 6yr and it is doing WORSE now than it did when it was selling the original Xbox."
Although 360 is doing badly in Japan, it is actually selling MORE than original Xbox. At similar timeframe in Japan Xbox only sold less than 500 consoles a week.
Wii can't do HD, not even in 2D. Maximum Wii can technically output is 480p. There will never be any HD games on Wii because it simply can't do it. Not even firmware updates can chance this fact because restriction is on hardware.
Sony only removed EE from european version. GS is still there. So they removed PS2 CPU but not the PS2 GPU. And right now GS can't be emulated.
Blue Dragon has 3 DVD's and Lost Odyssey will have 4 DVD's on 360. These are probably the only ones right now but I'm sure there will be more games on several discs soon. Are those discs needed is another matter...
These are probably from Famitsu since Vgchartz doesn't have numbers yet.
Did you notice how Vgchartz (and Famitsu) count both Pokemon games together and M-Create treats them as separate games (as they should IMO, some people actually buy both versions). Which is why FFVII:CC has been leading in M-Create and Pokemon in Vgchartz.
Disc space don't matter so much with movie formats. Picture and audio quality and price are much more important with movies. People only care whether it can fit 1 movie on 1 disc and even that may not matter because changing discs doesn't bother most people. About 90% of people don't even know how much space does DVD have and don't care (or they think space in minutes). It's not important when you are just playing movies.
If you are using computer or console, disc space is more...
"they have 512 mb of shared ram
ps3 has 512 mb of split ram where 256 is used for video and the rest is used for audio. They are having a hard time getting their games to run as smooth as 360 thats y many mulit platform games are running at 30fps on ps3 compared to 60 frames per second of the 360. Ps3 is trying to utilize their split ram in deifferent manners but when u design ur system so powerful and make such a stupid mistake u are just asking to loose the console wars....
On PC side there have been digital distribution of games for years allready. And I really talk about full games, not about demos. I bought and downloaded Sam & Max season I through internet several moths ago legally. Well, the episodes weren't big, only around 50-60 MB per episode (total size around 300 MB), but still... Actually Telltale Games as a company makes almost all of its money from digital distribution of games and sequel for Sam & Max is coming soon too. And Steam has sever...
I should add one reason why many people don't like combo discs. I know a lot of people who don't like dual-sided DVDs because they are more difficult to handle (to some at least) and more prone to scratches and finger prints. I doubt most people actually care about pictures on other side of disc.
Of course higher price is the biggest reason why most don't like about them, especially because most buyers of HD DVDs don't use them on DVD players.
"Those mgs4 sales are just for 2 days, mind you. It's already over a million according to Tgv. The sales will be over 2 million world wide by next Thursday according to analysis over at sim exchange too."
No, it's 3 days (thursday, friday, saturday) because it was released on thursday. And almost all games are released on thursday in Japan.