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Europe Weekly Chart, Ending 2nd Mar 2013

Hardware:

1: PS3 - 47,224 (-1%)
2: 3DS - 31,127 (-4%)
3: X360 - 26,174 (+3%)
4: PSV - 8,295 (-2%)
5: WiiU - 6,982 (-10%)
6: Wii - 6,488 (-11%)
7: DS - 5,758 (0%)
8: PSP - 1,601 (-8%)

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Pope_Kaz_Hirai_II4063d ago

Hold on i saw a worldwide article saying the vita sold 82k worlwide i was thinking most of it came from EU but i was wrong .. was it Japan?

joel_c174063d ago

Yep price drop in Japan. I'm surprised how badly the 360 is going - but I know these are just estimates

Greenmanboy4063d ago

Yes apparently Japan sold 60,897, amazing what a price cut can do

Bathyj4063d ago (Edited 4063d ago )

it must be.
apparently a price drop can cause a sales spike. who'd have thunk it.

hint hint sony, make it worldwide for godsake. vita nearly outsold xbox wordwide, if thats not a sign people actually want to buy a vita but are waiting i dont know what is.

aceitman4063d ago

and the price started on the 28th of feb. so if u look at japan the sales can reflect from the 28th to the the 3rd 3-4 days of data imagine a whole week.

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Bathyj4063d ago (Edited 4063d ago )

ps3 sold more than 3ds.pretty incredible.

all the ps4 buzz hasnt hurt ps3 sales but i think it was a mistake not to have a price cut with the ps4 announcement to really cash in on the good press.

porkChop4063d ago (Edited 4063d ago )

There's likely going to be a price cut at E3 along with the proper unveiling of the console. They'll probably drop the price to $199, which is really when they SHOULD have released an actual "Super Slim". The name doesn't even make sense anyway because it's barely any smaller than the Slim.

http://media.gdgt.com/img/p...

That's a REAL Super Slim.

MasterCornholio4063d ago

- tears -

God i miss that thing.

shutUpAndTakeMyMoney4063d ago (Edited 4063d ago )

Ps4 will be beast..

EU Smarter than USA.

Sweelix4063d ago

you say the same thing everytime...

microgenius4063d ago

but he says the usual truth everytime

TechnicianTed4063d ago

Really? I think he just makes funny comments myself, I doubt he makes any of his posts with a straight face.

But if you think he says the truth every time then you must agree with all these 'truths' -

Love the Xbox 360, Def alien tech #13
19h ago by josephayal | View comment

Anothet 10x Supreme victory for Microsoft in usa #6
1d 10h ago by josephayal | View comment

Final Fantasy XIII is the best game in the series to date #2
1d 14h ago by josephayal | View comment

Games Make Me Happy
I'm 77 and have been gaming since the 80s #6
2d ago by josephayal | View comment

Mario and Luigi
Next year the Wii-U will be dominating #4
2d ago by josephayal | View comment

$40 next gen games
games will cost a little less #6
3d ago by josephayal | View comment

Genuine Games
I really don't Care i have:

191 Wii Games
5 Xbox 360 Games
6 PS3 Games #14
5d ago by josephayal | View comment

If you think he speaks the truth, then I guess that's what you believe. Myself, I think he just makes outlandish comments, just for a giggle.

microgenius4061d ago

yeah you are right i should have stated my point completly so:
he says the usual truth everytime he says Extreme victory for sony

AdvanceWarsSgt4062d ago

These numbers are already much better than February's. Practically all hardware were barely selling over 10K each week.

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5.5

Soul Covenant (PC VR) Review - CGMagazine

Soul Covenant feels like a game from the early 2000s, with its repetitive gameplay loop, waggle controls, and nonsensical story.

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Cold VR is all About Acting Super Hot

Indie developer Carlos Alfonso is working on Cold VR, a game where standing still isn't an option. The complete opposite to SUPERHOT VR.

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Abnor_Mal4h ago

This sounds very interesting, Superhot was a great game to take inspiration from.

Babadook71h ago(Edited 1h ago)

I liked the VR version of SUPERHOT. If this ends up being as good I'l pick it up (once available) for PSVR2.

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Tomb Raider Remastered just quietly censored one in-game detail

Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered players are ticked off by the game’s most recent patch, which censors in-game pin-up posters of Lara Croft.

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rlow14h ago

This is why gaming is screwed. When people change things to fit someone’s agenda, it’s a slippery slope downhill.

Christopher4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Even if that agenda is of the developer? Way to remove developer rights.

***One player called it a “huge problem with modern games,” saying they can now be “ruined AFTER people buy them”.***

The level of drama. Yes, I recall sitting there for more hours than I did anything else in the game. These two pinups are the core of the game, after all!

coolbeans2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

rlow1's cringe catastrophizing aside, I do think developers *ought* to strive to maintain an original work to the best of their ability. The language of a "remaster" tacitly implies that - for good or ill - what's being resold is what fans remember but better.

Profchaos2h ago

Games can be ruined after purchasing them yeah we know this not from this but from GTA IV which had half it's radio content patched out due to licensing expirations and to me that was a huge deal.

This pin up poster is a bit of nonsense but the whole argument of modern games can be ruined post launch is Absol true.

DedicatedDark1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

It's not their work to censor. They are incharge of restoration & remastering the work, not overwriting it.

Barlos32m ago

It's not the agenda of the developer though, they're pandering and trying to increase their ESG score.

Way to support censorship...

victorMaje30m ago

It’s not the end of the world for sure, but I understand the hate towards this kind of change. I believe it’s also a matter of principle.

Imagine a Picasso painting being restored & the restorer deciding there aren’t enough strokes, or some lines aren’t straight enough or curved enough…not sure it would/should sit well with people.

Have all original devs signed off on this change? Even if it’s the case, are we saying older gamers are better mentally equipped to process what was there than current gamers, hence the change?

Enough time ago the case was made that games are an art form. We’re supposed to have won that case.
So which is it? Are games art or not?

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Eidolon48m ago

Hasn't this been happened for over a decade since remasters? I can't see that it's any worse now. Maybe if Sweet Baby starts getting their hands on remasters we will definitely have a problem.

Rebel_Scum3h ago

tbh I dont see something like this as censorship. Does anyone else not find it strange for someone to stick pin ups of themsleves in a locker room?

Now of it was a pin up of some half naked firefighters it might make sense as Lara might like that, and if they removed that I would cry censorship. But removing pin ups of the main character, yeah I get it.

Barlos27m ago(Edited 27m ago)

It's a game, and they were placed there for the audience. It's not real life. If it was, she wouldn't have fought a T-Rex now would she?

Yes, it's censorship but it's a bit less in your face. If they were in the original game, then they should have been in the remasters. It's bad enough that they have that ridiculous unnecessary warning at the start, but then they start removing things post launch. I don't care how small the change, they shouldn't be doing it. It's nothing but ESG pandering but in a subtle way.

SimpleDad5m ago

By the year 2030, this remaster collection will totally be changed and censored. Probably will remove Lara as a playable character. It's ridiculous. Glad that my family didn't buy this.
I still have Tomb Raider 2 PS1 as a memory.