Japanese hardware sales, June 16 - June 22: Summer blockbuster edition

HA! They must be hiding the evidence. Joystiq is sooo clearly xbox 360 bias :P the one month they go up and everyone else goes down the numbers in the picture are super small hehe.

*Just kidding*. Joystiq is fairly fair all around switching side's from time to time taking cheap shots at everyone.

I think is because a Gundam game was released.

You know your avatar reminds me that I never got a chance to play MGS:ops.I would like to play even if that means buying the greatest hits version with the fugly GH sticker on it.

Never seen the PSP GH sticker but as long as it's not a huge yellow stamp or a silver case screaming "I'M CHEAP!" then it can't be that bad... :P

The GH sticker is just the regular red sticker like the ones in the Ps2 games for the Euro/ American versions.

The Japanese GH version is a silver case with a yellow sticker pointing out how cheap you are but is better than nothing.

IRRELEVANT! It's still the best game of forever divided by zero.

I loved the part where...

F*CKING HUGE SPOILERS AHEAD,STOP READING DAMMIT.




Ocelot and snake beat the sh*t out of each other is both awesome and completely ridiculous. Mortal Senior Citizens Kombat WTH? Its feel so bad to laugh at that but no way people that old could stand that beating.

MGS4 N00BZ DON'T RYEAD DIS! SPOYLERZ!



Yeah that crossed my mind too... then I kept punching the old man... too bad canes and walkers were not around...

Oh and Microwave Alley is the single greatest moment in gaming history, along with your first Colossus, Headshot, team kill, Portal song etc...


END SPOYLERZ


Anyway, I'm off to go freakin' swimming cuz It's freakin' 103 freakin' degrees in freakin' Idaho. (and it gets -10 or more in winter... Why do I live here?)

Why the hell I typed "its" instead of "I".

Well there should be a fighting game like that, it would sell like pancakes on xbox live.

In case you want to know the weather here changes very quickly. Sometimes is hot as hell, other times is freezing and today is raining. We don't have natural disaster but is always a good idea to keep an umbrella in the car.

Abd I should be working right now.

Hate the Triple if you will... but what do you think of MGS4? That's what I want to know.

Look! An annoying fanboy!

Didn't realize they still let those things out in the wild

“Didn't realize they still let those things out in the wild”

The government reduced the budget of the pounds so sometimes one or two fanboys escape.Don’t worry I called the pound and they should be here any minute now to put this fanboy our of his misery.

"Look! An annoying fanboy! Didn't realize they still let those things out in the wild"

*Pulls out Pokedex and hears electronic voice*:

Fanboymon. The Pre-evolution of Fernandomon. These small fat pokemon are devoid of all logic, intellect and reason. When they see something pretty they latch onto it and refuse to look at anything else. Only when one attaches to a Wii, do they evolve into Fernandomon.

Seriously Xbox fan dude, you need to answer this, do you like MGS4 or any of "Sony's" games for that matter? Or are you really that sad that you have to hate an amazing game because it's on a certain system?


I HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE the PS2 (Seriously, It killed my family and burned down a local orphanage...), But I still LOOOOOOOOOOOVE MGS 2&3, Shadow of the Colossus and a few more... don't let the dislike of a company/system keep you from playing these amazing games!

Foetoid did you just mixed Pokemon with Digimon? You,you INFIDEL.

@ raikage

I watched some guys play it at a friends house, played it for like 10 mins and quit (explanation down below) and here's my honest to God thoughts...

Lots of cutscenes. Possibly too many. BUT I know a lot of MGS fanboys love that aspect of the series. Also I'll admit that the storyline and the world that the maker of the game series created does require a lot of explanation and dialogue which I can appreciate...

Gameplay wise I was intrigued by the "stealth" aspect. However in a way it was sorta frustrating watching a person play it just cuz it did get a LIL boring after a while. Plus it seemed at certain points in the game that it was IMPOSSIBLE to use "stealth" to accomplish your mission. I don't know if you get what I mean? Also I'm really fond of the 360 controller and while I was playing all I could think about was just how weird/uncomfortable the ps3 controller felt. It just felt awkward moving around, shooting, etc.

Character wise it was awesome. Liquid Ocelot may be the best villain of the year. It had lots of funny parts. The sequence with Meryl and Johnny where he OR should I say she proposes is hilarious. Loved the shootout. The B&B Gang was awesome. Loved Drebin's explanation of their past. Very interesting bosses to say the least. In short I found all the characters interesting to some degree even though it was my first time deeply exploring the game.

Graphically it was stunning.

Overall I felt it was interesting but I just didn't feel the absolute desire to rush out and buy a ps3 to play the game thru.

If it came to the 360 I'd probably pick it up just because of the controller and wanting to watch all the cutscenes from start to finish.

I think Final Fantasy XII and FF XIII Vs will truly be the test as to whether or not I avoid buying the ps3...

@The_Punisher

Bit ironic that you jumped on him for being a fanboy when you make comments like, "Nice to watch MS die", "
If he's not Solid Snake, yawn.", "So how's life under a rock? Microsoft been treating you nice?", and pretty much everything Xbox exclusive to you is 'disappointing'.

Actually it is SERIOUSLY illegal for a DQ game to be released on a school day. I'm not even kidding.

Well... they can't release Dragon Quest on weekdays... the game is huge in Japan.

Regarding sales, Dragon Quest is a bigger seller than Final Fantasy in Japan.

That's whack lol, if that's the case, Nintendo need to make the DS go 5th so they can keep all those units for launch day.

Actually, DS will jump up again in July when the DQ5 remake comes out. I just can't wait for it to come to NA.

It's not illegal, but it is a Square/Enix policy to not release new Dragon Quest games on weekdays.

More like the week of the PS3.

The game is awesome though ... MGS 4 that is ... How is Wii Fit treating you Fernando?


I know I still have to get up with you ...

They are still here but this trap is too obvious, they will wait to a negative article about either Xbox 360 or Wii to declare victory or Sony to defend.

I don’t know why fanboys do this. When I was a PSP fanboy PSP fanboys received a lot of crap from ds fanboys in the forums and I was in charge to keep PSP forums clean (I got the Janitor from hell achievement) but I never gave a damn, I kept waiting for MK:U and the end I got MK:U and it sucked but I got so many good games at the end that I didn’t care.

Some guy then recommend me System wars ,he told I would be perfect for that he said:

Yada yada yada I got perma-banned 4 times.

Then I got a Ds to see what the buzz was all about, it was fun and I bought a few games for it. I’m still waiting for the new Kirby game but I haven’t played a JRPG since I don’t like them, in fact I was disappointed about Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.

Seriously why “Fire Pokemon” are so useless in story mode?

Maybe is just me but MGS4 would sell more if the limited packs weren't so limited.

I would love to buy a PS3 with MGS4,instead I have to wait for the MGS4 bundles that could never arrive here and like hell I’m buying a Ps3 without MGS4 or Killzone 2,okay maybe I would buy a bundle with Socom or God of war 3.

Wait till next year! Then we'll see who's laughing! HA!

Don't fucking put words in my mouth I never said anything was dead. I WISH the wii died, but i'm not dumb enough to believe it will anytime soon.

I'm just amazed a game system can continue to sell with nearly nothing out for it. Maybe one day I'll understand this simple minded animal called the casual gamer.

Yeah tmac, I wonder why the PSP is selling well also.

I'm also curious how the sony fanboy tmac will explain this occurrence...

"I'm just amazed a game system can continue to sell with nearly nothing out for it."

That's pretty weak coming from a PS3 fanboy. The Wii had a couple of must-have exclusives within a year of launch. The PS3 just got its first one.

"Maybe one day I'll understand this simple minded animal called the casual gamer."

I know, right? It must take a fucking genius to blindly support Sony."

Yep, all the systems except Xbox dropped. PS3's just fell alot farther than everybody else. Oh well.

Bitching and crying about anything you will never own is just stupid. Especially if you have to type out your thoughts in an internet forum. Believe me, I know, I bitched about GH and RB till I got my mind right by a certain Joystiq member.

Go ahead, check my comments. I'm not afraid to hide what I say so someone can use it against me later.

Hope you guys realize that the small sales of the PS3 could be because they ran out of stock.

I wouldn't be surprised if next week there was a spike in PS3 sales due to restocking.

And why the hell did the 360 gain over there? Did they just release some new titty jigglin' on it over there or something? Maybe the Japanese are finally starting to fall in love with multiplayer games and it is finally catching on?

I don't consider their usual rehashing of the same franchises must have titles anymore. Maybe back when they were fresh in 1996, but not 2007-2008. They should try putting some effort into creating a new game.

I'm an xbox fanboy too assholes, it's just not really worth even bringing up when talking about japanese sales.

Okay, I stay out of this lameness because I have all three systems and equate brand loyalty with being an asshole.

That being said, I almost fell out of my chair laughing when the guy above me said that maybe the poor PS3 sales were due to them being out of stock.

Thanks for the free entertainment you guys.

"I pity you, that you actually bother to remember anything that anyone said on a videogames blog a month ago."

It was last week.

Hahaha...I'm sorry, but that was just a great close to this comment thread.

OMFG this reply system is bollocks!. Have any of you checked out MyWii.com.au, MyPs3.com.au and My360.com.au? They are some of the best gaming social sites ever cause of the ease of posting and topic discussion. Joystiq needs to fix this up. My comment was meant to be for Mr Esc further up :(

Hey man, GTFO with your, "Ehhh, the comment system is so better at ______," and, "_______ does it way better. Joystiq's comment system is fucked up, and we like it that way.

Oh, and I did like your previous comment by the way. I [+]'ed it

Meh, typing with horrible spelling is like making a recycled, unfunny joke.

Even if it turns out ok you still look like an idiot.

Well that certainly didn't go over well. It's just a joke dude. It's really not that hard to scroll past it if it annoyed you that much, but whatever.

i noe liek stop typing lyk dat, sum of us haf to cuz we r born from 4chan. dnot dis us kthxbai