WHY GAMING’S GONE TO SHIT. AGAIN!
This has only been out for five weeks and its sold over 2 million copies.
The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions haven’t been released at all and It’s yet to be released in Japan on any format, so this figure will grow.
Shenmue 1 & 2 (including the re-released Xbox version of Shenmue 2) COMBINED have sold less.
I don’t know the exact figures because I’m too furious to check, instead opting to make wild accusations.
Happy fucking new year games industry.
filed in "NEWS", ACTUAL GAMES, INDUSTRY NEWS on Jan.07, 2011
January 7th, 2011 on 3:47 pm
Yes, but Shenmue didn’t have Move support and, come one, it was a bit pants, really.
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard “Do you remember the night of the incident?”. They had exactly one version of each line.
“Rez”, however, now THAT was a game!!!
January 7th, 2011 on 4:32 pm
We’re more likely to see Michael Jackson- the Conrad Murray Experience than we are Shenmue 3. This makes me sad.
January 7th, 2011 on 4:48 pm
Now that’s a UK:R post, full of hate. I like it.
Set your phasers to hate level 11…
because of this
The hate levels have never been so high
January 7th, 2011 on 6:42 pm
Thank you UK:R for reminding those of us who haven’t already got new hobbies to fucking get some. And quick. The norms have won. What started with the Playstation has finally taken its logical course. It’s over. We are living in the post-Wiipocalypse. (not a very clever name, I know. What else can we call this living hell?)
January 7th, 2011 on 7:10 pm
“The age of the ‘Casual Gamer'”?
*spit*
January 7th, 2011 on 8:11 pm
Wacko was on Megadrive, so he’s alright by default.
January 7th, 2011 on 8:37 pm
Vegetable growing contests are where it’s at. Anyone fancy putting a fiver in the kitty and seeing who can produce the biggest potato during 2011?
January 7th, 2011 on 9:28 pm
Lets all dance like a dirty Pedo!
January 7th, 2011 on 9:40 pm
I prefer virtual vegetables. It only takes 7 game days (3 hours if I’m not masturbating) to grow a potato in Rune factory frontier. In a game you also dont have to contend with the inevitable blight or bout of potato famine either, but this is off topic so Anne r u ok, Anne r u ok, r u ok Anne.
January 9th, 2011 on 3:35 am
If by ‘fiver’ you mean fist, and by ‘kitty’ you mean cat, and by ‘potato’ you mean turd, then no, I’m out. Otherwise I’m in.
January 9th, 2011 on 3:49 pm
Can you really blame people for creating rubbish if it sells? If somebody was willing to buy rocks from you for £40 each, you’d probably go along with it too.
January 9th, 2011 on 5:07 pm
That’s the problem though, isn’t it? All these johnny-come-latelies who wouldn’t know a good game from a gimmicky load of old twonk. I don’t buy the idea that casual gaming is automatically shit. Tetris is the best game of all time and it’s also arguably the ultimate “casual” game. But apparently people can’t use their brains any more, they can only flail their arms around like an electrocuted baby.
January 9th, 2011 on 7:53 pm
I see Tetris has been touted for the 3DS already. So it’ll be just like it always was, but now with added headaches. Joy.
January 12th, 2011 on 10:14 am
I don’t see the correlation between casual gamer and crap taste in games. Most of the ‘hardcore’ gamers I know own some shockingly crap games that become acceptable in their circles purely because they’re rare and/or Japanese.