LAST WEEK'S JAPANESE HARDWARE SALES FIGURES
You’d better get used to playing games by waving things about, basically, as that’s all there’s going to be in about 18 months time.
NDS: 285,192 WII: 101,320 PSP: 35,172 PS2: 14,815 PS3: 12,974 360: 3,205
And that’s for ‘Golden Week’, which is like a Japanese Christmas and Bank Holiday rolled into one, and a time people tend to buy games consoles for something to do while at home in their tiny little paper houses.
Once everyone’s finished wasting vast piles of money developing their current PS3 projects there’ll be 50 collections of mini games released for Wii every week. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a remote control being waved near a human face… for ever.
We can’t wait to see what Sony’s embarrassing climbdown will be. Emergency 50 percent price cut? Cheaper new PS3 version without Blu-ray drive? Free t-shirts? Something has to be done before September, or it’s exit hardware industry time.
filed in WAR ON PS3 on May.11, 2007
May 11th, 2007 on 12:18 pm
I acted now to avoid disappointment AND saved myself £399.99.
wdfbwz: what bees regret doing.
First?
May 11th, 2007 on 12:54 pm
I saw one of those funny signs in the HMV window yeasterday “Wii out of stock! PS3 Availiable!”
Don’t have a camera though.
May 11th, 2007 on 1:04 pm
My local Game has a sign in the window which says “PS3 – New Stock Just In!”
A friend of mine works there and says it’s bollocks – they haven’t sold the old stock yet and aren’t likely to either.
May 11th, 2007 on 1:13 pm
Could this be the end?
May 11th, 2007 on 1:44 pm
Or the beginning?
May 11th, 2007 on 2:13 pm
Or the begining of the end…or the end of the beginning, now im confused, damn, gimme another drink
May 11th, 2007 on 2:42 pm
It must be the thick middle bit.
May 11th, 2007 on 2:52 pm
It must be the thick middle bit.
Like a good German woman.
pyeziial = Pizza-flavoured medication.
May 12th, 2007 on 6:30 pm
are you sausages for women?
again?
May 13th, 2007 on 11:18 pm
Maybe we need to start fighting against the Wii before we’re doom to play shallow mini games for the rest of time.
May 17th, 2007 on 2:00 pm
M-my photo! *swoon*
For reference, I believe they’ve now dropped the price again to £389.99; can’t comment on disappoint quotients though… but they do have some cracking 360 deals.