Famitsu weekly console sales - Nintendo still dominates Japan |
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This probably isn't surprising, but Nintendo continues to dominate the gaming industry in Japan - both consoles and handhelds - as Famitsu proved in their latest weekly console sales chart.
The chart covers the period of May 7-13, with the DS Lite leading at 160, 009 units sold. Nintendo's other handhelds are still selling well too: the original DS at 303, Gameboy SP at 398, and Gameboy Micro at 403 (Japan and them small things). Sony's entry to the handheld industry, the PSP, sold 33,4 38 units thanks to recent big titles such as Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War.
Similar to Germany, Wii takes control of the next-gen scene with 55, 724 - a whopping 47,172 lead against PS3's 8, 562. Xbox 360 comes in at last place with 2,369 units sold. Meanwhile, the PS2 sold more than the PS3 and Xbox 360 with 11,854 units.
Here's the list for your:
- DS Lite - 160,009
- Wii - 55,725
- PSP - 33438
- PS2 - 11854
- PS3 - 8562
- X360 - 2369
- GBM - 403
- GBASP - 398
- DS - 303
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luckily, Japan doesn't matter as much in terms of hardware sales. It only matters because of its developers. If PS3 keeps the big Japanese devlopers, who cares if Wii is dominating. Look at the PS2 sales. Only 20 million were sold in Japan to this date and 100 million across the world. Of course the PS3 being more than $600 in most other countries doesn't help. I love Japan, but I just don't understand the obsession with the Wii. PS3/360 are much better imo.
that picture is scary, nintendo is for kids it all started when mortal kombat came out and there was no blood in the super nintendo version and then when playstation came out with mature games nintendo never followed suit, same for gamecube same for wii nintendo is for kid company I dont care if nintendo wins this gen for me and millions of gamers the wii is not an option because nintendo caters to the kiddies only.
http://wii.ign.com/articles/792/792012p1.html
soon the xbox will pass the ps3 in japan and sony will be doomed. look it seems like every week it gets closer. and who the hell is buying all of the DS. they averaged over 100,000 a week sence it came out.
Bill Gates said that Halo 3 will absolutely be the best game the X360 console can offer (in the ‘Time’ magazine in 2006).
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, Epic spent $9 M to make Gears of War with 80 devs). Also KZ2 is in the Guinness Book 2007 as the most expensive 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.
So, what will be the best game in 2007 (and early 2008)? It’s Team Fortress 2!
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.
Killzone 1 is and unproven intellectual property. KZ1 got the average review score of 78 from 152 different game related publications. Even if KZ1 was not a bad game, many people bash KZ1 because it failed to become the Halo 2 killer as advertised (Halo 2’s average score: 94 from 185 publications).
Moreover, Halo 2 (Win Vista PC) got the average review score of 71 from 34 publications. LOL, the score 71 is below ‘decent’ category; therefore, let’s forget about Halo 3 and KZ2 because of the above reasons.
IGN and GameSpot are world’s 1st and 2nd biggest game related publications in the whole world based on the number of visitors and the size of database. 1Up is the biggest game magazine company in the world (1Up publishes not just 1 but 3 different magazines).
I spent quite some time to read hands-on previews and impression reports at the above 3 websites on Team Fortress 2. The journalists from all 3 publications were actually invited to Valve Corp. recently (just in this month); they actually played the games for a few hours. Now, this is the surprising thing I found out. 1Up’s article says they are extremely impressed by TF2. GameSpot’s article says TF2 is the best looking game (in 2007) they have seen so far. IGN’s article says they are sure that TF2 will be the best game in 2007 and will beat Halo 3 or any other famous games. Go and read the previews and impressions by yourself unless you are blind and illiterate.
TF2 has 9 extremely different (distinct) classes. In other class-based shooters, most gamers only play as certain classes due to so many issues (some classes are not fun to play with, unbalanced classes, et cetera); however, in TF2, all 9 classes are equally strong, fun, and balanced. Also, the graphics is as good as the gameplay. The sound, music, and replay value are superb, too.
- Demoman: the only class with explosives
- Engineer: teleport; powerful & upgradeable turret; supply dispenser; requires tactical thinking & planning (+ camping); only good for defensive roles
- Heavy: most health; mini-gun is the most powerful weapon; slowest moving unit
- Medic: loved by your entire team; it’s foolish to attack or defend alone (lone wolf)
- Pyro: most powerful unit in small areas; short-ranged attack
- Scout: fastest-moving unit; double-jumping (mid-air directional change) can reach special routes (also good for dodging bullets); weakest health
- Sniper: charge shots; weak at closed-combat
- Soldier: rocket launcher; with rocket-jumps, you can fly and land on top of the enemy’s base
- Spy: invisibility; total disguise; he excels at the black arts of infiltration and assassination; useless in direct combat (has a butterfly-knife)
Too bad that doesn't count how many different version of systems they made people buy over and over, because of their cheap inefficiency's.
lol about the first sentence