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• 26Jul 08

  Last Gen

  Looking at at the last gen in terms of game sales for the PS2, crapbox and kiddy cube and it's little surprise at the sales spread of last gen. Million seller games are good, 3 million is a milestone, 5million+ is just gold. Basically looking at games that sold 4 million+ as being Silver, 5 million+ as being gold and 10 million+ as platinum I've come across the following: Crapbox only had 2 gold games (no silver no plat) and both of those being Halo 1 and 2. The games had a wide gap as in Halo 1 sold 6.43 million and the next lowest was Splintercell with 2.93 million. Kiddy cube unsurprisingly had 4 titles (3 gold 1 Silver) all of which were from the house of Nintendo with their capital franchises (mario, zelda, metroid, pokemon). So in order was Mario Kart DD, SSBM, Mario Sunshine and Zelda's Windwalker. PS2 had 22 games total (4 Plat, 8 gold and 10 silver). GTA SA, Gran Turismo 3, GTA VC, GTA 3, Gran Turismo 4, Final Fantasy X... Being that now not a whole lot of games are out for the new gen consoles, but for the PS2 at least that was a list of games about 10 years in the making. Quite impressive. As it stands now, crapbox 360 has 4 silver +, Kiddy Cube 1.5 has 6 (not including fit, sports or play), and the PS3 has just 1 (GTA 4). The next couple of years should be interesting in both console and game sales #s.
  • Posted Jul 26, 2008 4:48 pm GMT
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• 15Jul 08

  E3 2008 part 1

  Well, the highlight or shadowing in my eyes anyways was the announcement that the crapbox would be getting FF13. Yes in the past the FF series went from the Nintendo systems onto the Playstation systems, however that was because the N64 was inferior to the PS. Plus the fact that the N64 didn't have any JRPGS. Quest 64 doesn't count. I still feel angry that Sony has once again lost a exclusive for whatever reason and until they announce a exclusive FF7 remake for the PS3 ... no even then I still might not fully forgive both Sony and SE. It upsets me because like I've said in previous blogs that the crapbox is not the system to have JRPGs on and the demographics and game sales show this without a doubt. Lost Odyseey, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata combine probably won't break a million in sales in their lifetime on the 360.. whereas FF12 which was given some tough love by critics still sold very well. I have no doubt that FF13 PS3 will outsell the 360 version by at least a 5:1 ratio, but I'm still distraught over the loss. Sure it's not as bad as saying the game is exclusive to the 360, but it's still a loss in my eyes. My faith in Sony has been strained and questioned in the past, but now it's all but destroyed. Maybe it's a sign of the times: money rules all (because I'm damn sure SE didn't just one day decide that releasing a JRPG on a system that had horrible JRPG sales would be a good idea one day. Pretty sure that M$ approached SE and not the other way around).
  • Posted Jul 15, 2008 6:03 pm GMT
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• 9Jul 08

  Crapbox getting JRPGs?

  Apparently the abysmal sales for LO and BD didn't knock enough smarts into Square Enix. Hopefully with the financial failures of the upcoming lineup for the crapbox SE will smarten up. The turdbox is for users too stupid or too poor to build their own PC rig for superior FPS gaming. Keyboard + mouse > mongoloid controller. Not saying the Wii should get those titles either because pre-teendo users already have harvest moon and pokemon kiddy farm. So here's hoping SE will stop wasting time on the crapbox and letting exclusive series fall into obscurity. At least Atlus and NIS haven't lost their minds yet, they know it's stupid to release RPGs on a system that caters to FPS and sport game fans. Almost time for the 360 to fall into 3rd place in this console war.
  • Posted Jul 9, 2008 5:55 pm GMT
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