During the seven days from Nov. 13 to Nov. 19, there were 43,378 of the consoles sold in Japan compared with 88,400 sold on Nov. 11 and Nov. 12, according to figures published by Enterbrain Inc. Friday. The company publishes local gaming magazine Famitsu and its figures are generally regarded in the industry as reliable.
Another local market data supplier, Media Create Co. Ltd., estimated sales in the first full week at 42,099 units and said they dropped further to 32,622 units in the week from Nov. 20 to Nov. 27. Media Create earlier estimated launch weekend shipments were 81,693 units.
Gary Green said: You’ll be forgiven if you haven’t heard of the Ar Tonelico trilogy. The previous two games arrived so late in the PS2’s life-cycle that they simply went unnoticed. While most were tinkering with their shiny new PS3s, Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia and Ar Tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica were being ‘returned to sender’ by your local Game stores. Luckily, you won’t need to have played them to understand and appreciate this third and final chapter, Qoga (pronounced k-yoga) tells the story of a racial war between humans and Reyvateils, a breed of biologically produced female cyborgs capable of reproduction, while still having a digital mind.
Oh my god. I kinda wish this would get a remaster on PS5, it would be awesome. One of my favorite games on PS3.
That and 3D Dot Game Heroes. It's a shame that some stuff is stuck on PS3.
Ar Tonelico 3 is good I still prefer the first AT game. The music is solid in all the games and Akiko Shikata is a very talented singer bringing life to the game. Only annoying part is well I find is Saki I always choose Finnel or Tyria. KOEI so needs to HD remaster the franchise along with Ar Nosurge and Ciel Nosurge since it never came to North America. I would day one the Ar Toneliceo games and Ar Nosurge if they were remastered.
I still have the limited edition of Qoga unopened. Unfortunately it never went up in value like I had hoped all these years.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
I think the biggest problem is games, there is just nothing out for the japs yet, i mean if a Final Fantasy or a Dragon Quest were here im sure the machine would sell every single one for a bloody long time!!! but once these type of game hit the system im sure things will pickup significantly, same as Blue Dragon and to a certain extent Lost Odyssey is doing for the 360.
This isn't a drop in sales at all rofl.
How could they sell more consoles than shipped by sony ?
They simply shipped more consoles on launch day than the days following, that's all.
It's obvious
1.5 game per unit sold @ launch PS3
4.5 game average attach unit @ launch 360
1.9 Game @ launch PS2/Gamecube
2.4 games @ launch XBOX 1
There you have it. The thing won't sell as long as gamers don't see games to buy for. Except for those that wan't to install other OS on it, the fanboys that will even buy a real grill if PS3 is marked on it and all those that follow Ken saying: "You'll buy the PS3 even if there are no games for it".
fanboys have cleaned up the supply and nobody else can afford this overpirced system. Did they really think people would pay $600 plus $50 for a video cable and money for a charge cable just to play Resistance? Oh yeah...they should have worked 2 or 3 jobs to afford it. I guess the average consumer realises the 360 system and games are superior at a more reasonable price, becasue 360 sales are surging! When you are successful releasing $300 consoles why would you charge double that and expect the same success. It's also funny the top selling game was #29. Through the past year the 360 games have constantly debuted in the top 10. I guess the fanboys are broke and watching Ricky Bobby.
DJ is late for his Damage Control duties.