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03:54 AM
01/01/10
They just need to release high quality products here and there and people will buy them like crazy. They don't even need to do any marketing. People will track their products down and buy them.
What a magnificent dick.
01/01/10
I wonder how much their shares have gone up over the last five years since the launch of Nintendo DS.
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And I'm pretty sure they've already past the 2 million limit.
12/31/09
It doesn't have anything to do with supply issues. If you see the sales of previous FF games, it is following the same pattern. FF games are front-loaded, they don't have much legs.
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Fuck all of you casuals.
that is all.
flame on!
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*Casts level 3 Eroti- I mean Permafrost!*
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Seems like a long-shot since the dropping rate every week is very steep in JPN.
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True, maybe many DS owners have two or more DS's, but what is the probability of them buying two copies of the same game?
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12/31/09
Final Fantasy just hasn't peaked my interest at all. I may pick it up depending on how it's reviewed in the US, but to me it looks painfully generic.
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fffffuuuu
12/31/09
what a fucking joke.
what a FUCKING joke.
12/31/09
Every system has shovelware to some extent. But the PS2 has more great games than almost any system in history, while the Wii has the most shovelware of any system in history (barring the iPhone). Comparing the two is a lot like comparing complete opposites.
12/31/09
Here's an idea: if you don't like it ignore it.
PC gaming, throughout all its years, has amassed a fuck-ton of shovelware and crap games. Doesn't stop me from still enjoying the ones I like, and it doesn't make me constantly post about it.
12/31/09
I really can't understand the hate for shovelware, either. You're not forced to buy it, you know. Does shovelware somehow invalidate your existence as a gamer? You guys act as though shovelware is all people buy for the Wii, when the reality is that most of these don't do so hot.
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We get it, you don't like the Wii. Find different, more valid, complaints.
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"Every system has shovelware to some extent. But the PS2 has more great games than almost any system in history, while the Wii has the most shovelware of any system in history (barring the iPhone). Comparing the two is a lot like comparing complete opposites."
First of all, there's no ranting and raving going on here. Second, the whole post is about the quantities of shovelware vs quantities of quality software. I really have no idea why you would even write that to me, unless you didn't read it.
12/31/09
And if you want to get into more valid complaints, we could. But again, if you would just bother looking in the mirror, I could ask why you are so upset about something as trivial as posts critical about the Wii. I could ask you to find something valid to complain about. I could say that I've seen posts like yours a million times, because there are a lot of Nintendo fanboys. The whole point is that you're lecturing to me about shit that you are equally as guilty of, and I don't really know why.
The whole topic is basically presented as "Wii vs. PS3." I don't find the conversation moving to this very surprising. The story pretty much set it up.
12/31/09
Second, you only said in that comment that the Wii has shovelware. That's filed away safely in the "No shit" category. You didn't mention anything about the good games in its library, of which there are quite a few. It doesn't have the extensive history of the PS2 to have that number of hits yet, but it's got a pretty solid collection of them given its relatively short tenure. The two are not complete opposites other than in control mechanisms, really. Their chief similarity lies in their amazing market penetration and expansion. With such install bases comes the shovelware. Both have plenty because of how many systems are in homes, not because one system or the other was particularly more attractive to shovelware makers.
Saying "sure the PS2 has lots of shovelware but it's also got good games" and "the Wii has lots of shovelware" is expressing little other than bias. You need to show both sides of the picture.
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It's not bias to state that it has a much more impressive library. I think the DS has the most extensive library of quality titles of any system ever made, and that's made by Nintendo. So it's not bias.
You're right that they both are similar in that they are the leaders of their respective console generations, but they are completely different in respect to their libraries; especially the ratio of quality to shovelware. Even giving Wii the benefit of the doubt for being out for a shorter amount of time, I think it's a gross exaggeration to assume it would catch up. They would do well to catch up to the ratio on PS3 or 360, which both do not have the amount of quality titles that the PS2 had.
12/31/09
Just because you're not biased against Nintendo doesn't mean you can't be biased against the Wii, btw.
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Games for Gamers dude, not granny or your little niece.
12/31/09
Although the inverse would be true by omitting the word "sales."
Unless Mario's been working out, but I fail to see how an all mushroom diet would be good for the figure.
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Doesn't have anything to do with Japan because there is no crapbox360 Version.
In the US and EU PS3 FF13 will also outsale the 360 Version.
FF13 did good for this userbase - It isn't as huge as the PS2 was.
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It's D rated. The cutscene's show about the limit for that rating, but the rest is a standard looking strategy game.
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The reason is quite simple, Japanese homes are comparatively small, the main benefit is ditching larger CRT sets for thin flat-panel HDTVs conserves on space.
12/25/09
I also knew that bluray recorders were huge in Japan, but I figured it was just because they held a lot, and could hold like a day's worth of SD TV on one disc.
12/25/09
It's also helped that BD-R prices have dropped dramatically recently, a 25GB BD-R is $1.50~$2 per disk right now and a 50GB is around $5. I'm sure people mix and match which shows they want in HD and SD.
Another issue of course is that Japanese rely largely the 'network' channels and are less reliant on cable and satellite then the US.
Digital HDTV broadcasting started in 2000 in Japan, and once the major players like NHK, NTV, Asahi, TV Tokyo, TBS, etc changed to HD public adoption was much easier.
The big thing now is 1seg, basically a H.264/MPEG-4 AVC stream broadcast over the air. Most mobile devices and cellphone are 1Seg ready so that you can watch digital TV on your portable device (the DS and PSP have 1Seg adapters as well).
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