Japan hardware sales for May 21 to 27: DS, Wii, and PSP snag top three |
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For those who have been out fo the gaming loop, here's the story for the past few months. The Nintendo DS has been selling like hot cakes, the Wii has always been pulling second place, and Nintendo's shoveling greenbacks off their lawn. Media Create's sales charts from May 21 to 27 show exactly the same scenario.The DS Lite's sales are up by 14.61% raking in an amazing 127,467 units sold. The Wii is also up by a good 12.36% selling 58,644 units. The PSP is pulling in at a decent 26,097 despite sales being down by 5.12% since the last check. Things to note include the PS2 outselling the PS3 with both of the sales climbing for each of them.
Console Sales in Japan 21-27:
- DS Lite: 127,461
- Wii: 58,644
- PSP: 26,097
- PS2: 11,311
- PS3: 9,627
- Xbox 360: 2,044
- Game Boy Micro: 407
- GBA SP: 288
- Gamecube: 256
- DS Phat: 81
- GBA: 17
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w00t for PSP!
wahoot!
the PSP pWnS the Wii and the DS!
Nay it disne. Cannae ye nae count?
the VIDEO IS SPOT ON info about the PLAYSTATION 3'S RSX GPU. KILL THE FUD WITH FACTS...
ENJOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ6vvxM3ISU
MYTH:
xbox360 GPU greater than the playstation 3's GPU
MYTH BUSTED...
notice this is OFFICIAL INFO RELEASED FROM IBM, INDEPENDENT SOURCES and BOTH MICROSOFT AND ATI and SONY and nvidia on each of their systems GPU''s, their words not OURS WE JUST GATHERED THE DATA.
Game Boy Micro out ranks Game Boy SP.
The only explanation I can conjure up for this is the same reason anyone over here (US) would buy a micro. Easiest hand-held system to play in a school if such electronics aren't allowed.
Otherwise screw that tiny tiny tiny screen.
Yawn. Meanwhile, 360 games have smoother framerates than their PS3 counterparts, plus some actual G D anti-aliasing. Chief, it's one thing to trumpet a platform's superiority; it's another thing entirely to back it up with some sort of substantiation - a difficult job, in this case. Best of luck.
Simultaneously.. where in that video is the discussion about how 256MB of textures provide visuals equal to or better than nearly twice that? Shrug. I think that's one statistic in whose case you don't need a video to intuit which is in fact better.
While I'm at it.. why do we only ever see Japanese sales figures on this ostensibly Western blog? Is it because the Japanese are the only ones who feel they need to pat themselves on the back weekly in assurance that the evil foreign products have been kept at bay yet again?
about anything PS3 related apparently. First things first the 360 doesn't have anywhere near double 256mb of texture space. The machine has 512mb total which still has to be shared with other things within the game. So it never has nearly double 256mb of textures. Maybe 400mb max if its during a place in the game where other game functions aren't required aka a in-game movie thats rendered in game perhaps.
Second... The PS3's GPU aka RSX has access to all 512mb of ram. It just has 256mb of dedicated which is always there. It can also access the other 256mb of system ram if needed.
Another another thing. They post sales stats from all Regions they just don't come out as often for Western sales.
360 games have smoother framerates because games were made to run on 360 then port over by lazy developers who haven't learned everything the PS3 is capable of. And this can be proven by Bethsada's work with Oblivion. The graphics are sharper, less pop in, load times are faster, + less drops in frame rates.
So Basically STFU unless you know what you are talking about.
360 has a YEAR advantage over the PS3...
Of course some multiplat games looks better in the 360...because devs know 360 better than ps3...
You guys are stupid or what? This happens in EVERY damn console....compare every damn console's first year titles to the current/last year titles....
Compare perfect dark zero to any current 360 title.........or better....compare it to R:FoM
PS3 is superior on all fronts minus the online. This is common knowledge. No worries, the 360 has a head start, PS3 will catch up soon. Folklore already looks better than gears of war. You can quote me on that.
The PS3 is not superior on all fronts. The controller is better on the Wii and the 360's controller is more comfortable. The 360 and the Wii have more games. The 360 and the Wii are cheaper to buy. The Wii is more fun than the PS3 (my opinion and obviously many other peoples. Plus the PS3 is Fuc#ing huge and consumes a massive amount of power. It fails on so many levels i cant count them all.
There’re 2 types of NEXT-GEN games: brand-new games and heavily-updated games.
* Brand-new
- There’re no relationships between the predecessors and the new title (made from scratch, built from the ground up).
- These titles have the capability to use most potential power of the systems (consoles).
- These titles look spectacular and fantastic in the graphics, sound effects, physics, and technology departments.
- Gears of War (UE 3.0), Resident Evil 5 (New Proprietary Engine - NPE), Final Fantasy 13 (White Engine), Haze (NPE), MotorStorm (NPE), Ratchet & Clank Future (NPE), Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (NPE), Crysis (CryEngine 2.0), Grand Theft Auto 4 (Rage Engine), Killzone 2 (NPE)
* Heavily-updated
- Literally, these games were made by updating the former games.
- Can’t overcome technical limitations (restrictions).
- These titles can use only small amount of power of the systems due to many reasons (optimization, efficiency of architecture in terms of hardware and software, et cetera)
- These games can’t impress the gamers.
- Halo 3, Armored Core 4, Tony Hawk Skate series, etc
Unreal Engine 2.5 was used to make Unreal Tournament 2004. UE 2.5 includes Karma Physics engine. Then Epic totally renovated (modified) UE 2.5 to make UE 3.0. Since UE 3.0 is extremely different from UE 2.5, UE 3.0 is classified as a brand-new engine (i.e.: UE 3.0 has Havok Physic 4.5 engine).
Halo 3 is an updated version of Halo 2 which was released in 2004 by using Renderware Engine (by choosing this updating-method, the developers can save huge amount of development time and budget).
In a report, it says Gears of War’s 90% is based on DirectX 9 tech (10% is DX10 tech); based on this factual data, the specialist (writer) assumed that Halo 3’s 98% is based on DX 9 tech. DX10 gameplay means: perfectly breakable buildings and vegetation (shoot at any parts of a building, then those parts must be penetrated realistically like in Crysis), perfectly deformable objects (in Gran Turismo 5, every inch of the car is perfectly deformed), soft shadows, 100% real facial-animation (Bungie never have to worry about this tech since we can’t see Spartans’ faces, LOL), depth-of-field, motion blur, etc. Crapalo 3 doesn’t have any of the above DX10 gameplay elements.
Halo 3’s beta footages look mediocre. There're beta footages of Gears of War and Resistance available online, unless you are blind and illiterate, you must announce the fact that beta builds look 95% same as the final (retail) versions.
Halo 3 (Bungie), Perfect Dark Crap (Rare), and Shadowcrap (FASA’s Shadowrun got the average review score of 65/100) have extremely similar graphical qualities and artistic design. I’ll educate you on this matter. The developers of all these games are owned by Microsoft. These developers share all kinds of techs which are used to make X360 games (DX 10 based, not OpenGL 2.x based).
Killzone 2 is being made by Guerrilla which is a subsidiary of Sony; it has 130 employees (programmers and graphics designers). The total budget for KZ2 is $60 million (just for your reference and ignorance, Epic spent $9 M to make Gears of War with 80 devs). Also KZ2 is in Guinness Book 2007 as the most expensive video game in the entire gaming history.
In 2005, Guerrilla hired 50 programmers and designers ONLY from AAA-level companies around the world; these new developers are the CORE-brains behind KZ2.
Killzone 2’s actual gameplay footage (pre-alpha build) was shown to journalists at GDC 2007 expo behind closed doors. These journalists said in news articles ~
- KZ2 is both graphically (lighting, shadows, mind-blowing sky, river) and technologically extremely advanced.
- It was like watching Next-gen Black 2 and Half Life 3 combined together (we now know what kind of shooter KZ2 is). Everything which was hit by bullets and missiles were penetrated.
- The characters (soldiers), indoor and outdoor environments are extremely detailed and gorgeous.
- The sound effects were blowing away the audience.
The controller is a personal preference. Personally I like the PS3's controller better but thats just me. Wii has more games lmfao? They are all sh*t except Zelda & Paper Mario. Also again 360 has had a year. Lets see who has a greater amount of "good" games by the end of 2007. And if you add the Massive Power Brick that comes with the 360 to the size of the PS3 the 360 is actually almost the exact same size. And yes you must take it into account since the PS3 doesn't have a huge ass brick hanging from the back of it.
[br][br]Also the PS3 is of a higher quality build which makes a big difference in price obviously. You get what you pay for really comes to play here. You can pay 0 for a 360 which is likely to overheat and die along with paying a year for online. Or you can spend 0 more and get superior build quality and free online. Sorry but I want a machine thats gonna last and is free to play the game how I want to play after I've bought it. Its bullsh*t to buy a game then continue to pay to play it.
[br][br]The 360's online experience is superior because it gives you text based awards for wasting your time playing a game an extra 4 hours so you can brag to your friends about how much of a life you have? Wow ya I really wanna pay a year for that stupid sh*t. Not to mention PS3 doesn't lag online even on Resistance which has 20 vs 20 battles. 360 servers lag all the time. [br][br]Dollar Broken Online That Rewards You For Time Wasted FTW!! Not...
Yes the controller is a personal preference, so are the games, personally i dont like the PS3 games. you say that the PS3 is built well and that is part of the reason that it is so expensive, well then why is the Wii so much less, it really cant take that much money to make a well built system. You say that the 360 overheats, well that hasnt happend to any of the systems that 15 of my friends have (none of them have PS3's)
jeeze Some Gamer needs to chill out.
He's so far gone he's resorting to that it consumes massive power bs as he types on his PC with a 500 watt power supply.
And also for a little zinger on your controller comment. The Wii has such a good controller it couldn't even have 1 decent set up for Metal Slug, a game which demands... a d-pad and 3 buttons.
Dude it's widely known the 360 has the highest fail rate of any console to date. It's a shame you don't get to see the defective bins in your local retail chains.
Also the difference between an HD system and an SD system in price is just like the TVs really. I don't want to play Mario Party 8 with little bars on the side when widescreen should be a gimme this far in.
How much ram do you think non-graphics tasks take on an effectively OS-free console, oh knowledgable one? You allow that it's perhaps as little as 112MB? This isn't WinXP. The 360's Live overhead is well-documented and quite low indeed, particularly when compared to that endured by the PS3. If you think code (not sound, not graphics; code) typically eats up 100MB, you probably ought to return to C++ class. My god, if that were the case, what would the poor devs have done with the 360's originally intended 256MB? Tic tac toe? Don't use fuzzy math to defend the PS3 unless you want to come off sounding like you're making excuses.
Second. Saying the PS3 can access the other 256MB (I notice you ignore non-graphics overhead in this case) is like saying a 256MB 3d card for the pc could always just use internal ram to cover its inadequacies if a game needed something better. Ie, a load of bollocks. Technically not untrue, but academically bankrupt. This argument, even more than the first, proves you're just covering for the PS3 now.
What are you going to do when DMC4 comes out on both systems, but only one of those two systems has any anti-aliasing? Whine that CAPCOM are a bunch of lazy developers? You've already accused NAMCO of this. GG on that. Tell me why Virtua Fighter 5 not only looks bland compared to DoA4, but operates at half the framerate. Was Sega being lazy with a 360 port? Hmm.. seems a little unlikely to me, somehow.
Anyway, keep it up. This is a riot.
It is COMPLETELY true that RSX has access to both 256 megabyte banks of RAM. It is DESIGNED for this, just like PSP and PS2 were before it.
Not only that, but the 3D models, don't stay in video ram, they go in system ram. RSX has a dedicated 256 MB of ram for it's framebuffer and textures. 360 has no dedicated texture ram and has to share like a laptop with a sub-standard graphics card. 360's bandwidth is divided amongst the GPU and CPU, unlike on PS3
360 only has 10 megs for a dedicated framebuffer, which isnt even large enough for 720p, so it must use tiling, and have a full copy of the framebuffer in normal ram.
PS3 is not much bigger in volume compared to the 360+power brick, and only uses 5 watts more of power. And considering it has proper cooling, it's worth it
Like for the ps2/xbox/gc, it'll take at least on or two years before the next-gen takes it's place. We need good games to pay for a console.
in japan:
PS3 will sells with square-enix games
X360 will sells with mistwalker games
wii will always sell since doesn't cost even ½ of the others.
the winners? the one who have the most exclusives. Surely the ps3 will win over japan when the FFs pops, I suppose JRPGs can oversell against the mighty wii.
In US.. maybe x360 and ps3 will have a fu*** good fight when the ps3 gets it's games, but I'd say the x360 will still win... or the wii? I mean, the parents always buy the cheapest things on the christmas list... lol dunno
Again with all the hating on consoles. So many people waste time arguing which is better. Yes I am a sony fan. I also like thr 360 and the Weeeee(not really). People keep saying the 30 has more games so the ps3 sucks. Well of course it does jackass it's been out almost a year and a hald before the ps3. Give the console some time. People also say the ps3 has no exclusives, well no *****, why make a game for a console that wont be out for a while when there is one out now. I was thinking of buying a 360 for halo 3, but then I realized that it was the only game for the 360 worth buying. I love the 360 really I do, but it hardly has any games that I would buy. PS3 has all the games I want. MGS4, FF, Resistance, Heaven;y Swords, and a bunch of others. The 360 had nearly a year and a half to dominate the market, I say give the ps3 the same amount of time and see what happens.
Well my opinion is the Wii is not fun at all and many people agree with me also. I had one, and sold it. Yet my PS3 gets played every day (Tekken). The wii controller is inferior in all aspects. The 360 controller is great for analog but its dpad sucks. The ps3 has decent analog and a great dpad and is light. I don't understand how you can say the power brick being built into the PS3 is negative. Its clearly a possitive. The PS3 feels sturdy and heavy. It feels like something that is worth $600. Wii has more games but they are crap. 360 has good games but also had a head start. Wii is cheap, but you get what you pay for. 360 is pretty good all around but the PS3 just has so much more potential.
First of all x box might have a tiny weeny weener bit smoother framerate than the ps3 because the ps3s games run alot more stuff on them thats why the ps3 looks a hellava lot better in game thatn the 360.. if you dont believe it why dont you go google for the article that talks about how ps3 is releasing so far the best quality games of the consoles.
PS2 > PS3
Folks, talk about bandwidth is thin gruel indeed when the games just aren't proving your point for you. And bringing up that PS3 "quality games" article? Do you want to look like an idiot? Even PS3 diehards averted their eyes in embarrassment at that hideous spin article.
Aside from the aforementioned framerate disparities, one other piece of data returns to mind, because, just like the framerate observations, it is something that a person can point to _today_ and not some happy, unproven and effectively unprovable statistic: Epic has already said that GoW could not be fully reproduced, visually, on the PS3, due to specific, unsurmountable hardware inadequacies. Keep in mind that this is the same Epic who will be releasing just about the only worthwhile PS3 game this entire year. How about it? What defense will there be if it looks, well, like Resistance? I only hope they don't truncate the game's visuals for both platforms just because it has to be released on the PS3.
17 GBAs sold
i dont usually get mixed with these wars but saying the xbox 360 controller is better than Sixaxis then maybe you should try playing with the sixaxis first.
first of all i can OWN you in any fighting game as long as you use the 360 controller. and its too big for regular hands, xbox 360 controllers are designed for NBA players geesh. all playstation controllers are properly designed to accommodate regular hands, and great to use on any type of game.
i remember the the SNES genesis wars, people saying sega's controler is better than nintendo's havent got a slightest idea, i have converted many sega to nintendo fans because i let them play both systems and same game and they all agree, the SNES controller controls way better. and its just the same on xbox360 and ps3.
about the metal slug on wii, dude buy the classic controller for Wii, its well worth it.
The only way sony will win this is if they lower the god damb price on the PS3 i mean £400 for a gameing console.It sad to see that the PS2,Wii,PSP,DS are outselling it just shows people arnt prepared to buy it a second thing they need good games the only game i think is decent is R:FoM and Oblivion, motorstorm sucks.
I bought a Wii and i think its great i cant stand the people that say"ohh the Wii is ***** little kiddie games"when the've never played on one and i dont get why people are so worked up about probably just jealous that the Wii is selling like hotcakes and your lucky to see someone buy a PS3 and its almost reached Xbox360 sales within 7 months.
japan is a whole country of nintendo fan boys
Thank you Spector!!!
I was so pissed when I set up Mario Party 8 for the first time and realized that those damned bars don't go away during gameplay. Solid bars + bad for those of us with plasmas. Grumble grumble...
WTF is up with developers that can't take the time to program their material to render full screen 16:9 visuals in mid 2007! I just don't get it... sad.
Sorry but I do own a Wii and the only games that are worth while are Zelda + Paper Mario. It has sh*t for games. Less than the PS3 yet its so much more amazing.
It's obvious you can't afford to buy a PS3 when you are unable to spell the word "damn". Even tho I do agree that price is up there but its no different then buying an extra warranty for the 360 since you know it won't go up in flames. This spelling mistake however leads me to believe you are around 13~14 since which therefore classifies you as kiddie bud sorry to say :(. While you and your posy of pre-pubescent buddies probably love cooking mama in all its post stirring glory I'm sure the majority of gamers are only buying Wii for potential releases if not just for Zelda since it looks like pocket change compared to a real next gen system right now.
what the hell is with the DS Lite!!! How can it still be selling everybody in Japan must have one unless Nintendo have made a console which breeds!!
Everyone in japan has like 8 nintendo ds.... They are fu cking strange over there...
WHICH IS WHY WE DONT NEED TO SEE THESE FU CKING NUMBERS EVERY SINGLE WEEK QJ... DAMN IT
It's been the same damn numbers every week for months, why the hell do you have to post them? It's not news, it's not interesting..
why do people post this crap
i have both and sureley the wii is better than the psp most people will probobley agree with me but youre right in saying the psp is better than the ds
Why do people write essays to express their fan-boyism?
i was one of the people who got one hahahahaha.
CHEAP!!!!!!!!!
ok the ds is great and all but im wondering, who is buying them??!! how do you sell over 100k every week? it never goes down!!!!
Look, it's mr. copy and paste BS!
Keep fighting! Every lie you make up leads to more PS3 sales since the fans can't differentiate lies and opinions from truth.
You would be interested if the PS3 could actually sell well in the only region it has ever sold well. Oh no wait there's Germany. How long will that keep up?