@Logicwins
The DS hasn't outsold the PS2.
Total DS shipments as of end of quarter 2: 147.86 million
Total PS2 shipments as of end of Q2: 152.3 million
DS might not even necessarily pass the PS2. PS2 only shipped 40k less than the DS last quarter and DS is seeing massive year on year declines now that the 3DS is out. And with the price cut bringing the 3DS to the same price as the DSiXL those declines will speed up even more now.
Last September, the month that it got a price cut, DS decreased in NPD compared to August NPD. And in Europe the same cut only gave a minor (like 10%) boost for 2 or 3 weeks.
If the co-op is anything like Sigma 2 than prepare for another insanely hard platinum. I can hardly wait.
Actually Cave still actively makes 360 exclusive games. Although bullet hell shooters are so niche to begin with anyway that they don't really have a big impact on the overall market. Plus they seem to be shifting some of their focus to the iPhone and iPad.
Games are always more expensive in Japan, especially with how weak the dollar is currently. FFXIII was something like $90 at launch. This will probably be $30-$40 in the states.
@Boletarian If you're in a 24 hour endurance race and whether you win or not comes down to the last lap you're doing something wrong. You should know by the final hour or two if you'll win.
Gotcha bitch! I love Contra Hard Corps. One of the best action games of the 16-bit era. And indeed, an amazing soundtrack as well.
I hear you on that. The first time I beat Ultimate Mission 2 I had a grandmaster at the game helping me out but it kind of felt like I cheated so I practiced really hard and went back and beat it again and beat one of the Genshins myself. I'd say the hardest part of that mission is getting into the groove of walking the 2 Genshins. Once you get used to his attack patterns actually fighting him is relatively easy.
Yakuza 3 is pretty difficult (The pool and the batting cages induced a huge amount of rage in me), but I don't think it quite ranks in the top 5. Top 20 easily though, especially the JP version. Although Yakuza 4 is a lot easier than Yakuza 3.
If you have the Fury expansion it's a bit easier on Syncopia. Although it's still very hard. When I finally got that I died literally 1 second after reaching zone 75.
Hey, you took my comment from PS3trophies.org! At least credit me. My goal is to have 3 of those plats eventually (SO4 and SF4. Already got NGS2). I don't think LP2 is even possible anymore. The top of the leaderboards seem to have been optimized. Warhawk... well that's just too big of a time investment. Up until the recent patch I'd say Blazblue Continuum Shift deserved to be on this list. The challenges were quite hard, although you didn't have to do all of them like in SF4...
PS3 came out in November 2006 in North America and Japan/Asia and March 2007 in PAL. And honestly I agree with you, we'll probably see a new console by 2013. Although in regards to Nintendo and the Wii, I don't think they'll support it for an extended period of time after the WiiU comes out. It'll probably be off the market by 2014. Looking at their past history Nintendo seem to drop support of their previous gen hardware relatively quickly. GBA was mostly dropped about a year...
Every little bit helps. They're going to be shipping several million of these things. Even if removing the LEDs only saves them $0.50 (Total guess. It could be more than that) a unit, if they ship 10 million of this model that's a $5 million savings.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Capcom said that the HD remake of MH3rd would be going west.
Actually I thought you didn't need homebrew to run the Fatal Frame 4 mod. But yeah, that's why I have my console modded as well. I don't pirate but what's the harm in making your console region free?
God, I hate those NOA bitches. I have completely and totally lost faith in them. Whatever. My Wii is modded to be region free so I'll just import. But this is still a ridiculous imposition for the vast majority of North American Wii owners that might want this.
They removed a few links for Litchi but she still has amazing damage output potential, and one of her bnb's can go even longer now. Lambda is still beast depending on the situation and her lockdown and mix-up game are still mostly intact but it's still pretty much a necessity to know how to do the instant crescent, and that loop is still in anyway. Those are my 2 favorite characters. And although it only played a very small role the patch helped me get the 100 challenges trophy. Thank...
Is this just a straight up ROM dump like the Mario collection? Honestly Squeenix, would it kill you to add some kind of enhancements?
And on top of that, PS2 didn't sell as much as it did late in life purely because of its price point. It's sold so much because Sony started to aggressively expand into developing markets. If they hadn't followed that path than PS2 likely would have topped out at 130 million, not the 160-165 million that it will likely end up at.
As with the games themselves the cover is clearly influenced by Jacob's Ladder. Looks great, I can hardly wait for this collection.