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Blue Dragon Outsells Zelda in Japan At Launch
Computer and Videogames is carrying the news that the 360's new JRPG Blue Dragon has outsold Zelda (and all other Wii software) since the game launched last month. This can mean only good things for Microsoft, as by all account the Wii's software lineup didn't do too shabby a job of selling either. From the article: "The latest Media Create Japanese chart puts the Mistwalker RPG at number four in the top selling titles in Japan for December 4 through 10, which has managed to shift a respectable 80,000 copies in the country giving it the number two all-time 360 sales record behind Dead or Alive 4. Blue Dragon has received a considerable level of hype in Japan, largely thanks to the fanbase surrounding Dragon Ball Z artist Akira Toriyama who designed the characters in the game, and a special edition Japanese Blue Dragon 360 bundle which some Japanese retailers reported to have sold out of within minutes of opening pre-order." Update: 12/15 01:10 GMT by Z : As Chris Kohler points out, the game outsold Zelda the week of its launch.
This is so interesting it'll surely draw like, 1000 or comments.
It's nice to see some 360s selling in Japan, but I wonder how many of these people bought a 360 out of frustration, due to limited Wii and, to a larger extent, PS3 shipments.
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Can't get to the article from work, but....Game was released last month. The Wii was released 12 days ago in Japan. Are they just comparing those 12 days, or the whole time the former has been out?
I am excited for this game. I loved Chrono Trigger. I think I've played it in it's entirety about 10 times.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Its looking more and more like no console will dominate this generation. All of the consoles made mistakes, all of the consoles have good points and bad points, and none totally overwhelm the others, with good games of all categories hitting all 3.
It seems like the ages where a single console could be sufficient if you picked well(unless you just HAD to have that ONE game...) are over.
The article is about how two RPG's are selling in Japan...
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
It's for a single 1 week period. Not overall
That's exactly what it means. There's two sub-types of RPGs... console RPGs (eg. JRPGs) and computer RPGs) (eg. western style). JPRG's are more linear and scripted, don't allow the player as much choice in terms of what character(s) they are, but this allows them to tell strong story as the player progresses. Computer RPG's on the other hand give you a lot of control of what characters to play, where you want to go, but as a result, it's not possible for the game authors to tell a strong story... the world doesn't usually dramatically change throughout the game.
http://www.the-magicbox.com/game20061207.shtml Nov 27 - Dec 3, Zelda for Wii sold 139,011 copies. But it didn't sell enough to hit the charts during Dec 4 - 10? Or did they just forget to list it?
Yes, it's a Japanese RPG, developed by Squaresoft. It's worth noting that the J in JRPG doesn't denote the nationality of the creators so much as the style of RPG. Squaresoft's RPG mostly fall under the JRPG heading.
However, this distinction is becoming less clear as some western-style RPG's make it to console... Oblivion, for example. I think the JRPG name distinguishes it from the other more clearly.
It seems a little ridiculous to me to compare the sales of a game for the 360 (which has been out for a year and is readily available to purchase) and a game for the wii, which is a brand new console that is in short supply. I know plenty of friends who would buy zelda in a heartbeat but are holding out because they aren't able to secure the wii itself. The numbers also don't account for those people waiting for the gamecube release of zelda for whatever reason (can't find a wii, can't afford a wii, don't like the wii's control scheme, etc).
TFA does concede that the lack of wii availability may be a factor but doesn't mention anything about the factor of the gamecube version, nor does it stop them from making sensational misleading headlines and opening statements. Not saying that the blue dragon sales aren't impressive and a nice boost for microsoft but it just seems silly to compare it to zelda sales given the current factors.
As the article notes, this game was developed by Mistwalker Studios, not "Squaresoft". Further, I can only assume you meant Squaresoft as in the same square that makes Final Fantasy. In which case, Square merged with Enix about five or six years ago, and is now called "Square Enix".
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Zonk, please stop.
.. the fact that the gap between the Wii's graphics and the 360 and PS3's graphics is even greater than that between the PS2 and X-Box 1 makes me think it'll be left behind. Yes, it's innovative, but since when has innovation paid off in the games industry of late?
You could speculate that perhaps quantaties of the game - and especially the Wii hardware - have become near-impossible to secure in Japan...
Speculate? Unless Japan's love of Nintendo has fallen off a cliff, that's exactly what's happening. You don't buy the game if you don't have a Wii. There aren't any Wiis to buy. Therefore, people aren't going to buy the game.
Personally, I'm amazed there are enough 360s in Japan for the game to sell that well, going from Microsoft's abysmal track record there thus far.
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1. More people have xBox360 systems in Japan today, thus the market for new Japan-friendly games (which have been in short supply until recently) is much much bigger than the only just-released Wii console users (only 400,000 sold on release week in Japan, all they could ship, not a one left).
2. There aren't any RPG games to speak of for the Wii yet - all the cool Japan-friendly game releases for these won't be around until late this year or in first quarter of 2007 - thus, while one could "call" Zelda an RPG, it isn't. You only get to play Link, just to start.
3. As the market share of Wii consoles continues growing rapidly, the number of copies of Zelda - and the eventual Japan-friendly RPGs - will skyrocket. Hard to play a game when you don't have the console yet. As Japan market share goes past 1 million Wiis by January, they will sell more games.
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Additionally, Mistwalker Studios is headed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, who created the original Final Fantasy series.
Some folks would say that Blue Dragon is "more JRPG" than FFXII, which actually had more of a MMO and western feel to it.
-- jchenx
.. the fact that the gap between the Wii's graphics and the 360 and PS3's graphics is even greater than that between the PS2 and X-Box 1 makes me think it'll be left behind.
While this might matter in Japan, where HDTV is standard in most households, in the US only 5 percent of households have an HDTV, and in most cases Dad won't let the kids play games on it, because he bought it to watch sports and pr0n.
The xBox360 doesn't have many games on a standard 480p normal TV that look that much different, and so far all the game reviews I've seen say that most of the games aren't that great.
Give it about six months, and we'll see what the real numbers are. Everyone I know (dads) is buying Nintendo Wii consoles for their kids.
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A Blue Dragon comic started running last week on comic magazine Weekly Shonen Jump to coincide with the game release. The fact that the artist for another popular series, Death Note, is creating the comic is drawing just as much attention as the game's Toriyama-based characters.
Whoops, my mistake. The president of Mistwalker is also a founder of Square, I got mixed up.
I agree. The numbers, by themselves, are interesting. But comparing to anything else, such as "outsells Zelda" is not. It's not particularly fair, for all the reasons you've mentioned.
Now, a couple weeks from now, it'll be more interesting to see how many 360 units Blue Dragon will help sell. Having a one-time spike from Sakaguchi/Toriyama/Uematsu fans is nice, but what MS and Mistwalker really would like is for word-of-mouth to take over and convince more mainstream gamers to pick up the title and a 360. It would be similar to how GTA3 really convinced mainstream gamers in the US to pick up a PS2, because they had to check it out. Of course, there are some huge differences between Blue Dragon and GTA3 (locale, price of the console, competition, etc.).
That said, I've heard lots of wonderful things about this game, so I can't wait until it comes state-side. I am almost done with FFXII, and have been a bit displeased that it's gone away from it's "JRPG" roots. It's still a great game, but playing DQVIII last year reminded me how traditional JRPG games, while "old school", can still be a lot of fun.
-- jchenx
Nintendo is sold out of wii. There are very few fanatics who'd buy a game without owning a console to run it on. So it would be really odd if Zelda outsold Wii, and Wii sales are currently capped by supply, not by demand. If you look at the figures, great most of current happy Wii owners already have the Zelda. What percent of Japaneese XBOX 360 owners bought Blue Ghost though?
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The Wii was only out there for a couple weeks of the time measured. This sounds to me like an attempt to make the 360 look better in Japan. Fact is its doing terrible. Latest news shows that total 360 shipments are less in the last year than the Wii or PS3 have amounted in their few weeks. Glad the game is doing well as it looks cool. But this kinda stuff just further shows how despirate they are to make it look like they arnt doing so poorly.
So Microsoft's strategy is to release 1 RPG per year for the 360. I guess I'll pick one up around 2009.
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I'd add a third type -- Action RPGs ala Diablo and Titan Quest. Not as deep as Fallout, Baldur's Gate, or other traditional PC RPGs, but certainly not console-like.
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It's great when Blue Dragon sells 80,000 copies, but when you consider that there's only a grand total of 170,000 xbox 360s in Japan, well... don't expect Blue Dragon sales to hold up. *cough* There's already far more Wiis in Japan than 360s, the only reason Blue Dragon sells so quickly is it's the only game for 360 owners to buy. It's like Halo here, the game practically came with the xbox1.
The biggest stumbling point, IMHO, to HDTV though
Ehh, what reviews are you looking at? Well, it'll all be moot. Come back in a few weeks when all the gaming magazines and websites start listing their "Game of the Year" nominees. The "buzz" is that several 360 games will be nominees for sure: Oblivion and Gears of War. I would argue that Dead Rising and Viva Pinata also deserve to be high marks in their respective genres.
Then again, if you don't have a 360 or have any notion of owning one, you probably don't know about these titles. Which is a shame. That's why I try to be multi-platform, since ultimately, I don't care which console a good game is on. (Of course, not everyone can afford to go multi-platform, which is completely understandable as well)
-- jchenx
Which is rather surprising. Although not as surprising as a game on a console that already has a smaller userbase outselling it. If Microsoft can keep this up, they just might be on the uptake in Japan. I'd be interested to see next week's sales.
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One of the interesting questions is when will game designers who sell a certain type of game in Japan realize the vast untapped markets in the US for the same kind of game? I've seen tons of reviews on G4 TV for many Japan-only games that I know many many Americans would love to play.
Even if they were Japanese-spoken with English online help, my guess is the untapped market for such games is vast - and growing.
But if they just had some local American voice dub talent redub it, even if it were kind of quirky, the market would be huge.
One hopes the Wii designers will realize this and plan to port games they used to think of as Japan-only to US and Canadian markets.
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= The chance of it getting released anywhere is slim to none?
Indeed, Blue Dragon did outsell Zelda during Blue Dragon's launch week. According to the numbers at GAF, Blue Dragon placed 4th overall in Japan with 80,348 units sold during the week of 12/04 - 12/10. Zelda did not even make the top 10. However, Zelda launched the week before (11/27 - 12/03). In that week, Zelda placed 4th overall with 139,011 units sold. Furthermore, Zelda launched on 12/02 so that means it sold 139K+ units in just two days, whereas Blue Dragon launched on 12/07, giving it four days to amass its 80K+ sales.
Hardware availability had little to do with Blue Dragon outselling Zelda last week. XBox360 has been out for a year in Japan but had barely sold over 100K units before Blue Dragon came out. The Wii sold 350K units in its first two days. (Last week's hardware numbers have not been reported yet.)
Four games does not a console make.
The "buzz" is that several 360 games will be nominees for sure: Oblivion and Gears of War. I would argue that Dead Rising and Viva Pinata also deserve to be high marks in their respective genres.
Hmmm. Gears of War is 5 out of 5, Dead Rising is maybe 4, Viva Pinata is a definite 4, but there are many other games that are barely a 2 or 3, and quite frankly, that's not very good.
So far, when you actually look at the Wii and PS3 and xBox360 titles available in the US, it looks like the Wii has a stable of 4 and 5 rated games, the xBox360 is middle of the road (with barely as many total 4 and 5 games as the just-released Wii), and the PS3 is well, just not up to it, with only one decent game to speak of, and a lot of really glitchy but nice-looking games to round it out.
Maybe it's different in Japan - I've heard the xBox360 released a number of cool Japan-only Samurai games, but haven't heard of any cool PS3 ones yet in Japan, and it's still early for any Wii games (launch was just a short while back).
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Oops, perhaps I jumped the gun on the lifetime XBox 360 sales number. According to gamasutra, 178,069 XBox 360 consoles have sold in Japan during its lifetime as of last week. That's much higher than 100K and I doubt that the extra 78K units were sold just last week. ...or did they?
Doesn't Japan have some sort of WiiBay for people willing to spend 500K yen?
Producer Hironobu Sakaguchi produced most of the good Final Fantasy games. Designer Akira Toriyama did the Dragon Ball manga and the Dragon Quest games. Composer Nobuo Uematsu's music from Final Fantasy is so popular, it's played at special symphonic concerts.
Even the XBox's low esteem in the Japanese market can't screw this up.
Analogy:
Hey, kids, who wants to see a movie about an archeologist?
Noooooooo!
Hey, kids, who wants to see a movie about an archeologist played by Han Solo, directed by the Jaws and Close Encounters guy, and produced by the Star Wars guy?
Yaaaaayyyy!
The thing is, the Wii has been out for a few weeks; the XBox 360 has been out for close to a year. More XBoxes means more potential game purchases. Now, if we were comparing sales of the new Zelda game to the sales of some XBox game from a similar place in the XBox's lifecycle, that'd be something. This really is apples and oranges.
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The XBox360's superiority in graphics and computing power has nothing to do with HD-TV, its far away from the Wii in SD-TV just as well. What is holding back the XBox360 so far is that a lot of games are still build for multiple platforms. If you see Marvel Ultimate Alliance on the XBox360 it won't look that much different then on a PS2 or Wii, the gameplay is all the same on every console and the much better bump mapping, resolution and light effects on the XBox360 won't change that.
...) I have some serious doubt. There are of course other issues such as the lack of a second analog stick for camera controls that might provide quite a few problems as well.
With the real NextGen titles like Assassins Creed, Deand Rising, BioShock and friends things are however changing, those games look much better then current gen and also feature gameplay elements that the current generation couldn't do, crowds, physics and stuff as seen in those games won't work unless you have some spare cycles left and on XBox360 you have plenty of those, while the Wii already seems to struggle, many reviews put its graphics between Gamecube and XBox1, no game so far features anti-aliasing and other issues.
Now the new controller on the Wii is nice, but so far it doesn't seem like a magic-item to solve anything, almost all multi-platform games (Madden 07 being the only exception so far) scored higher on the other consoles and the best game on the Wii so far is Zelda, which would have worked with a classic controller just fine. If the developers will find out how to put the controller to better use in the future we will have to wait and see, but given some of the rubbish third partys produce sometimes for the DS (TombRaider, NFS:MF, Burnout,
I have no doubt that the Wii will find its niche (party games) and will make Nintendo money, but will it hold up against XBox360 and PS3 for the next five or more years? I don't think so, the differences between Wii and the rest today are only the beginning, the gap will get larger and larger in the coming years.
Granted I have not read TFA, but this comes a little surprise to me, as it is currently impossible to purchase a Wii, even in the most country of country in Japan.
I was lucky enough to have a pre-order and get my wii (and zelda) on launch day, but since then, there have been almost no wiis available in any stores (I'm searching for a wii twice a week at about 3 stores, and still have had no luck).
If no one has the hardware, no one will buy the game.
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The XBox360's superiority in graphics and computing power has nothing to do with HD-TV, its far away from the Wii in SD-TV just as well. What is holding back the XBox360 so far is that a lot of games are still build for multiple platforms. If you see Marvel Ultimate Alliance on the XBox360 it won't look that much different then on a PS2 or Wii, the gameplay is all the same on every console and the much better bump mapping, resolution and light effects on the XBox360 won't change that.
All I know is what I've seen and what people in head-to-head reviews who've played both consoles - as evidenced in reviews at the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal for example, as well as G4 TV, Spike TV, etc - in that, sure, the xBox360 and PS3 have nice graphics, and they look cool close up (less than 4 feet for an HDTV that is more than 40 inches in size), but in the end it's all about the game play.
For most people, in 480p (standard TV), it really isn't that much different. And a lot of the PS3 releases don't even have good game graphics and camera controls - for example, water waves sloshing thru the land in a few, or bouncing into walls in Need for Speed 2, or whatever.
Again, it's all about the games. It's like my sports coupe - in the hands of someone like me, who actually knows the limitations of the vehicle, you can drive up to the ski hill with it, but the average Joe can't even drive their 4WD up to ski hill without getting stuck. Sure, they have more power, more clearance, they should be able to beat me there, but in real life they can't.
Now, the lead article is about first-week sales for the Wii in Japan of Zelda, compared to an already released user base of xBox360 consoles with a game that was released a couple of weeks before. It's like comparing pomegranates to oranges. Pomegranates may be better, but if they only are available right now, and people are used to oranges, you'll sell a lot more oranges.
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Those are called dungeon crawlers or hack-and-slash RPGs.
As has been pointed out, Blue Dragon only outsold Zelda in Blue Dragon's launch week. Zelda sold 146,250* in its launch week last week, compared to 80,000 for Blue Dragon this week.
Incidentally, if you use the console comparison thing, the 360's 1 year launch lead wasn't a helpful factor for Blue Dragon, as the Wii had an installed base lead of 170,000 after its launch week; almost all of that launch day, for that matter. The lead is probably a little smaller now - Blue Dragon has been heavily marketed and bundled so it'll be a good week for 360s, and I don't know how many Wiis Nintendo is shipping to Japan weekly. Still, I haven't seen the charts themselves, just seen the vague references in the article.
*(Note: Link appears to point to a page that changes weekly; I couldn't find a permalink. 03 Dec is the Wii Launch Week).
"So far, when you actually look at the Wii and PS3 and xBox360 titles available in the US, it looks like the Wii has a stable of 4 and 5 rated games, the xBox360 is middle of the road (with barely as many total 4 and 5 games as the just-released Wii)"
Where do you get these numbers from? Based on reviews from gamespot, the Wii has 5 original titles (7 if you really want to count virtual console re-releases) that get a 4/5 or higher. The 360 has 40.
Why must fanboys consistently lie about the numbers?
Just to be an ass and clarify something for you:
480p is Extended Definition (EDTV), and is not a very widely used standard. 480i, commonly called NTSC (the current incarnation of which has been the North American and Japanese TV standard since the early 80s), is a good 100x more common than 480p. NTSC is also refered to, sometimes as Standard Definition (SDTV). The european "equivalent" (slower frame rate, but slightly higher definition) is PAL.
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Interesting. But not exceptionally relevant, in that when viewed from more than 4 feet (1.2 meters) away on a set of 40 inches (um, 1 meter) the visual difference is not very noticeable between any of the 480 and higher level standards. While interlacing (the i part) does have some qualitative difference, it's mostly visually impacting when you're close - say on an LCD monitor that is an average on 1 to 3 feet away.
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It outsold Zelda this week. Zelda launched last week. The title is wrong.
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Basically, Zelda sold twice the amount Blue Dragon did in its first week (140,000 to 70,000). Did Zonk even click the link he cited for the story?
It's great that Blue Dragon made it into the top ten in it's launch week.
The bad news is, even with the Blue Dragon/360 Core bundle, it still didn't manage to outsell the PS3, and didn't even come close to matching sales of the Wii for the same week. There are still more Wii's and PS3's in Japan than 360's, and it remains to be seen whether Blue Dragon will have the legs necessary to give 360 a real sales boost, or whether it will fade out after this.
It's a significant accomplishment (although not quite as much as the summary tries to make out), but it's still pretty underwhelming.
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Yeah, but the Wii came out on the 2nd... Everybody and their mother bought Zelda on the 2nd, which could explain why sales weren't so great on the 4th and after.
Actually, this article is about Japan, so the Wii has only been out for 12 days.
This is great!
A Coldfusion clone outsells a wii game!
This apparently also includes the upcoming Dragon Quest IX. Go watch the gameplay video.
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Clarification: 500K yen is roughly 4300 USD, which is enough to buy eight to ten Wii (NTSC U/C) consoles on US Yahoo! Auctions, enough for your extended family. I'll admit that I don't know how much a Wii (NTSC J) console goes for on Japan Yahoo! Auctions.
Look, I am excited about the Wii as anyone else, but it's a lie to say that the Wii "has a stable of 4 and 5 rated games", when it doesn't. You've got Zelda as probably the only 5-star game, then a few other titles at 4-stars (although many of them are multiplatform), and then a pretty steep drop-off from there. And it's really not fair to compare the 360 library to the Wii, since it's been out a year longer. You would expect to see better games finally coming out for that system. I don't consider that "good news" for MS, as they're doing exactly what's expected of them.
I have no doubt at all that the Wii will get better games. After all, few console launches have that many great games (and the 360 was no exception). It's an amazing feat, actually, to have a Zelda game at launch, and is the one reason why I'm still trying to find a Wii. But I think it's dangerous to start hyping a console more than needed. I would be upset if I bought a boatload of Wii games, expecting them all to be "4 or 5 star" games, when they turned out to be very mediocre. I'd much rather be told which games are outstanding (Zelda, Trauma Center, and Rayman) than end up spending money on Red Steel, Call of Duty 3, DBZ2, etc.
-- jchenx
Also, I disagree that the market is huge. Trust me, if it were something that was profitable, it would have been done already. Quirky Japanese games have been around forever: dating sims, hentai titles, weird puzzle games, manga/anime titles, etc. The reason we don't usually see them in the US is because it's expensive to bring any title to market, much less one with a niche audience.
If you haven't already, you should check out this interesting article from The Escapist regarding the games industry: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/8/3
That said, I do think times are changing. For one, there are brand new retail venues available to gamers. There's Steam and online console marketplaces, such as Xbox Live Marketplace and the Wii Virtual Console. Why not leave a game totally untranslated? I know there are many gamers that are willing to play untranslated games (they often have modded consoles to play import titles). Then if a game really becomes popular, then a publisher or developer could spend the extra money to translate it, and release it to the masses.
-- jchenx
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Zonk's Microsoft masters are probably telling him not to post anything anti-XBox.
Where the hell did you come up with 5%? Did you just pull it out of your ass?
According to this survey done in June 2005, HDTVs are owned by more than 24% of households in the US.
HDTV ownership will probably hit 50% before 2008, because of the crash in LCD TV prices.
Apparently you haven't played Dead Rising or Gears of War. The 360 actually had the highest rated launch titles of any of the next generation consoles (see Slashdot article several weeks back).
There are lots of great 360 titles, Live Arcade with original and classic titles, downloadable full demos, movies, trailers, and TV shows, an excellent online matchmaking and friends service, videoconferencing, and a lot more. It's shaping up to be a damn nice console.
well... 12 days 1 month
Here is the weekly chart (in Japanese)
http://www.m-create.com/jpn/s_ranking.html
Huh? Are you saying that Wii graphics are worse than Gamecube?
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have you never played Baldur's Gate 2 or the Fallout series? Or maybe even Planescape: Torment?
disclaimer: I've been known to store numbers in my ass for which to dig out when quantities are required.
...nowadays kids wouldn't know what Jaws, Close Encounters and Han Solo are. And Star Wars, well... maybe they would know prequel trilogy. About that guy with one artificial hand who was a good pilot and stubborn apprentice who dated Natalie Portman.
12 days falls into the "less than a month" category.
Also how is a post (GP) overrated when it was never modded up to begin with?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/616169 1.stm
'Less than a month' is too broad for defining twelve days. It would be like saying "the average high school student spends less than 12 years in high school."
HDTV penetration in the US is higher than in Japan (or in Europe), and is around the 25%+ mark now.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
HDTV penetration is in the mid 20% range right now in the US, higher than in Japan or Europe.
And to say that the XBox360's games don't look that much different on 480p TVs is ridiculous. The level of geometric complexity is something completely different from what PS2 or XBox games have.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
The thing about surveys is that you can't ask 350 million people the question. So you check with 500-2000 or so and extrapolate. That 24% figure probably comes from a higher-income demographic than the 5% figure. And your link is as accessible to me as the GP's lack thereof, since I ignore registration sites on principle.
For instance. Given everyone I know personally, exactly one has usable HDTV (less than 1% in that particular demographic) and he makes something like $130k at Intel. A couple others have an HDTV set, but one's used as a computer screen for a badly sighted person, and the other's only hooked up to an SD DVD player.
So to me, the 24% sounds like the weird figure. Here's a site with a 16% figure from this October. No registration required. Still seems high to me...
No, just "Gamecube Wii XBox1" at least judging from the currently released games, if the Wii will ever get a game that uses the hardware as good as "Resident Evil 4" did use the Gamecube we have to wait and see.
Actually i was just looking into this for another comment on this article, and if you check GAFs hardware sales numbers the 360 is at 142k so far this year as of the last week's reported sales, and according to the last hardware sales article from last year they sold 70k in 2005. So about 210k consoles total.
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What difference does it make? It isn't up to you to determine anyway, as it was my comment. The entire point of which was the xbox 360 has been out much longer than the Wii.
You're right, but your comment read more like you were referring to the Wii's American launch than Japan's. Sorry, I didn't mean to get you all worked up. Let's all take a deep breathe and relax--it's friday.
First I thought of then I read "rpg" & "blue dragon" was this thing at Wizards of the Coast:m in/957890000A
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dnd