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Playstation 2 Outsells both Xbox and Gamecube
Laurens writes "Despite various claims of both Microsoft and Nintendo, this article by the Los Angeles Times has the first independant salesfigures on all 3 next-gen consoles. And it seems the good ol' PS2 sold best this holiday season." I'm an hour into FFX and don't foresee turning my PS2 off much this week. Can't talk now. Must see Lord of the
Rings, and then play more FFX. Is this a great time to be alive, or what?
The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred three months ago, and now we're involved in a WAR and you people have the gall to be discussing the fact that the PS2 sold best this holiday season and how you're playing FFX and watching the Lord of the Rings and saying it's a "great time to be alive????" My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!
The bodies of the thousands of innocent civilians who died (and will die) in these unprecedented events could give a good god damn about the fact that the PS2 sold best this holiday season and how you're playing FFX and watching the Lord of the Rings and saying it's a "great time to be alive," your childish Lego models, your nerf toy guns and whining about the lack of a "fun" workplace, your Everquest/Diablo/D&D fixation, the latest Cowboy Bebop rerun, or any of the other ways you are "getting on with your life" (here's a hint: watching Cowboy Bebop in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddies is *not* "getting on with your life"). The souls of the victims are watching in horror as you people squander your finite, precious time on this earth playing video games!
You people disgust me!
boy, it shows you took the time to read the article, the numbers discussed in the article were constrained to the following dats
nov 11 - dec 8 : PSX2
nov 15 - dec 8 : XBOX
nov 18 - dec 8 : GC
using only the sales between those dates, the figures were genreated, and while PSX2 has a whole week more time than the GC, the numbers indicate that had the times been equal, Xbox would have come out on top, followed by psx2, then GC.
i agree though (as does the article), initial sales are nothing, and the psx2 comparision to these 2 launches doesnt mean much, lets look at sales a year and a half from now and see how they are doing.
well no wonder - the ps2's target audience are white male conservatist ppl which care about the Xth release of their favorite racing, sports and slaughtering game. ps2 players dont
tend to have a richt fantasy, most games just try to recreate a real world. james bond for example is a crap game where the typical ps2 player, a looser in real life can play the cool guy. ps2 and its games are just the lamest i have ever seen.
the inovative factor of ps2 games is matching zero. whereas if you take nintendo, at least they dont try to simulate reality, but bring you a total wicked view of virtuality.
Yeah, terrorists are slamming crowded jetliners into crowded skyscrapers, some nut is sending deadly diseases in the mail, the economy is in a recession that's putting thousands of our fellow geeks out of work, and Americans are dying in a war, but at least we've got neat video games.
Look at the past history of the console market. Only two major units have ever been going on at once, while others get left behind. This time around, I think the GameCube is going to get left. Compared to the PS2 and XBox, the GC just sucks. I've not seen anyone walk out of the local stores with one, and the availability of games is nothing compared to PS2 or XBox.
In the local Circuit City, they have demos of all three sitting side by side, and I've yet to see anyone even bother to play the GameCube.
...All I can say is that my life is pretty strange...
Let's see:
-- The United States is still bombing brown people.
-- There was a massacre at the Indian Parliament.
-- Tibet is still being absorbed by China.
-- Priceless artwork was lost in a fire in NYC.
-- There is a murder every few minutes in a nation that touts freedom above all else.
-- That same nation, incidentally, is becoming a police state in the name of protecting its citizens.
-- People live in garbage heaps and eat whatever they can find.
-- People still get murdered for their shoes.
-- A hemmoraghic disease that strips its victims of their dignity as well as their lives is running loose in Africa.
-- Somewhere right now, a child is starving to death.
-- Somewhere right now, someone is having sex against their will.
-- Somewhere right now, someone is being tortured for no reason other than holding an opinion different from that of the regime.
-- Somewhere right now, a teenager who might have grown up to cure cancer or bring about peace in a troubled region is being mercilessly bullied. That teenager will probably wind up committing suicide.
No, this isn't a great time to be alive. It's one of the worst possible times for most of the people on this planet. Unfortunately, ignorant fatasses like yourself turn a blind eye to the suffering of others.
You should be ashamed of yourself.