Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the well-they're-just-so-much-cuter dept.
Kamalot writes "JoyStiq is reporting that the new Nintendo DS pre-orders are outselling the new slimmed-down version of the PS2 in Japan as well as the Xbox. Outselling the Xbox is easy though. They sold less than 200 in Japan last month."
Either the DS trolls from gamefaqs have taken over slashdot, or the people who run slashdot can't read.
Re:Just to clarify
by
AndyChrist
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But the X-box exclusives...the games that make you buy an X-box over other consoles, are mostly pretty weak. Even Halo isn't so attractive if you own a PC.
(Halo is the FF7 of FPSs. Good game. Not as good as it was hyped to be, and hyped for FAR too long...and originally it was hyped for a different platform. AND it's most strident fans usually never played another game in the same genre before it)
I mean, look at the x-box titles they get in Japan. Probably the most saleable exclusive apart from Halo is Shin Megami Tensei Nine, which looks like an alright game, but is missing the one factor common to all the really successful Megaten games (unless you count Devil Children)...Kazuma Kaneko, the character designer. Panzer Dragoon Orta is nice, but Panzer Dragoon didn't help the Saturn much...even in Japan it did pretty well but wan't really a rousing success.
The X-box was doomed from the start in Japan, and it had little to do with nationalism. Hell, Microsoft had a hit platform in Japan before! (MSX)
Re:Just to clarify
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Anonymous Coward
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Cuz it's not really that fun of a game, the graphics aren't amazing, and it isn't innovative in the least.
My question is how can you like Halo over every other fps out there?
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Either the DS trolls from gamefaqs have taken over slashdot, or the people who run slashdot can't read.
But the X-box exclusives...the games that make you buy an X-box over other consoles, are mostly pretty weak. Even Halo isn't so attractive if you own a PC.
(Halo is the FF7 of FPSs. Good game. Not as good as it was hyped to be, and hyped for FAR too long...and originally it was hyped for a different platform. AND it's most strident fans usually never played another game in the same genre before it)
I mean, look at the x-box titles they get in Japan. Probably the most saleable exclusive apart from Halo is Shin Megami Tensei Nine, which looks like an alright game, but is missing the one factor common to all the really successful Megaten games (unless you count Devil Children)...Kazuma Kaneko, the character designer. Panzer Dragoon Orta is nice, but Panzer Dragoon didn't help the Saturn much...even in Japan it did pretty well but wan't really a rousing success.
The X-box was doomed from the start in Japan, and it had little to do with nationalism. Hell, Microsoft had a hit platform in Japan before! (MSX)
Cuz it's not really that fun of a game, the graphics aren't amazing, and it isn't innovative in the least.
My question is how can you like Halo over every other fps out there?