Japanese hardware sales, May 10 - May 16: How it Ends edition

by Griffin McElroy on May 23rd 2010 11:30PM

Right when this post goes live on our site, the tropical, mysterious television series Lost should have just concluded its six-year run. We realize that for the next few weeks, that's all that fans of the show are going to want to talk about. To preempt the takeover our site by such discussion, we're turning the comments section of this post into your own personal soapbox, from which you can proclaim how disappointed/delighted you were with the finale.

We'll start things off: Holy crap! We can't believe they were all dead the whole time. Only, were they really dead, since the whole thing took place in Walt's dream? We guess that makes sense, but we can't get behind the whole "Hurley is actually an angel" plot twist. And we're still not sure about the whole Angel-Hurley spin-off series, but we'll at least give the pilot episode a shot.

Note: We actually wrote this post this afternoon, long before the episode aired. Still, we bet at least one of these things actually happened.

- PSP: 24,475

10,758 (30.53%)
- PS3: 20,463

5,722 (21.85%)
- Wii: 17,570

13,829 (44.04%)
- DSi LL: 15,879

10,854 (40.60%)
- DSi: 9,990

5,749 (36.53%)
- Xbox 360: 4,370

92 (2.15%)
- DS Lite: 2,695

1,331 (33.06%)
- PS2: 1,293

198 (13.28%)
- PSP Go: 871

593 (40.51%)

[Source: Media Create]

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Reader Comments (112)

Just finished it, amazing ending!!!!!!!!!! I'll miss LOST!!!!

Yes I will miss it too :(

I think the ending was great.

It wasn't IN YOUR FACE sort of ending but a nice subtle, symbolic ending. I especially liked the ending scene with Jack lying on the same spot he woke up in, except now his eyes were closing in a peaceful matter after everything had been finished, instead of him waking up to chaos and "hell".

Can't wait for the complete edition on Blu-Ray, I'll definitely buy it even if its in the $100-$200 range.

Not a bad guess.

Still where the F is WALT?????

And the reason there was no Walt was because the things that happened on the island wasn't his best moments in his life, same with his dad.

Really the reason Walt disappeared is that he grew way too fast in real life when only a matter of weeks were supposed to have taken place in the timeline of the show.

Walt was only on the island for a short period of time, he lived out his life elsewhere.

Well one reason he never came back was that he hit a growth spurt haha.. He looks a lot different and it would have been weird to bring him back..

The end was so obvious i didn't think of it.

What sparked that little boost in Xbox 360 sales?

Did you not read the article stay on topic.

Alan Wake + RDR.

I find it surprising they only sold 92 more xbox360 consoles over 6 days, regardless of its' popularity in that region.

I liked the finale, but I dont know. Was expecting more answers.

If they explained everything they would have a harder time selling the box set.

*Just a prediction*

At least they answered the question about what happened to Vincent!

This was the first episode I actually watched.

Your loss.

He's a dumbass for ruining what is probably the best show ever to air on television and I'm the one downvoted, great.
Oh well, like I said, his loss :)

why would you start with the end? you have no connection to any of the characters, and seeing is how that's all they resolved in this episode... What could you really take out of it?

I'm going to miss LOST and all of those lovable bastards from the show.

Great ending though and one I won't forget.

dammit, Ben. it's comments like that that make you wait outside the church while the rest of us move on. you stay out there and think about what you've done.

LOL, one of your guesses was indeed correct.

Partially correct? They were dead, but they weren't the whole time...at least thats how I saw it.

I'm glad they got off the island with the dinosaurs, what idiot would ever want to bring those things back to life. Raptors were def my favorite though.

Yeah, I definitely wasn't expecting them at all. I guess you just usually don't expect the obvious.

... WHAT?!

I don't know. It was too unoriginal for me. I guess I wanted more of a crazy ending. Anyway that show was f***ing epic!

Damn dog.

Made me cry. =/

His name was Robert Paulson.

Damn...That episode was flat-out amazing. Just watched all two and a half hours of that, the two hour long recap, and I'm about to watch the hour long Jimmy Kimmel Live. Seriously, though, that was just amazing. I nearly cried for the first time since Charlie died. I'm not sure I get the whole alternate timeline thing, though: They were all dead the entire time? Like, purgatory or something?

Anyway, when Jack made Hurley the protector of the island was the most shocking yet fitting thing I've seen in any LOST episode. I also think the way they ended the episode was masterful. It just felt so...right. Six years ago we watched Jack open his eyes at the start of the first episode, waking up in the bamboo. Now, six years later, we watch Jack close his eyes at the end of the final episode and die in the bamboo. Absolutely amazing. This was the best TV show ever, and I'm strongly considering rewatching all the episodes just for nostalgia.

God, I loved LOST.

So it WAS purgatory after all......

AWESOME END TO AN AWESOME SHOW

The Complete Box Set on Blu Ray comes out on my birthday

And this is where I post that I've never actually watched the show.

I've never seen a single episode and I don't think I've actually watched a full minute of it outside of commercials adverting for it.

I'm not the only person here am I?

Someone?

...hello?

Duuuuuude....You need to watch this. This is definitely up there in the best television shows of all time. All six seasons come out in a bundle this September, or just go buy them individually. Or if you don't have the cash to spare, you can watch it online (in very good quality) on ABC's site, with only 2 minutes of ads per episode. (Site: abc.go.com/shows/lost)

Really. Amazing show that will keep you guessing the entire time. Everything about it is amazing: The characters, the character interactions, the plot (99% of it, anyway), the acting, the effects (the entire show, aside from seven scenes, was filmed in Hawaii!), and the soundtrack. Oh, god, the soundtrack. I've got Life and Death (The tune played when someone dies) looping on iTunes right now. It's an amazing song, and even if you don't like/want to watch LOST, go youtube "Life and Death Lost" and listen to it. This song brings tears to my eyes.

I've never seen Lost as well.

I've missed lots of great TV shows this last decade.

your not the only one, ive never seen a whole min either. I remember seeing the soup make fun of this part where ppl get beaten by a shadow monster or something i watched in confusion and always thought it was stupid and gimmicky...and if that article up there is not 100% joke i think that proves it

The problem is, it won't be as entertaining now that we know most of the answers. The best part of the show was talking with people about theories.

I never watched it either. I don't have a TV, so I don't watch TV shows. Usually I can't even be bothered to pirate stuff (let alone get around to watching it on a streaming service) so I see virtually no TV at all outside Japanese news broadcasts. (That's an educational thing. Er, I mean, educational as in I'm learning the language, not as in I want to learn what kind of weird shit they get up to in Japan - although it does help with that too.)

I have to say that missing Lost is not something that concerns me. Of shows in relatively recent years, I'm kind of thinking I maybe ought to see The Wire sometime...

You are not alone my friend. You are not alone.

Same here, never watched it. Now I almost feel the need to Netflix it though.

They still never truly explained the island.

I agree, the one thing I really wanted was at least a little bit of an explanation. This whole season was about the flash sideways and the black smoke monster and they did nothing to explain what that light was, what the island was there for and WHY the had to protect it. This final episode was 90% nostalgia. I kept watching from season to season, whenever there was a plot twist I thought "oh man I can't wait to see what that's gonna mean." There was never any meaning :( I enjoyed watching it but after holding on for all 6 seasons and loving every minute of it I just feel like I trusted them to reward our faiths more.

I think they left that to be a mystery. I mean they probably don't want to explain everything because we have to make some guesses and think about the mysteries, even in our own real lives no ;)

I don't think they need to explain the island and all that stuff. By season four the show was all about the characters and what happened to them. The island was just a setting, a vehicle, to get the characters developed. Sure, the island and everything was cool but the important part is what happened to everyone involved. Besides, there's no way they could've eplained the island and had the reveal be something that pleased the majority of fans. Expectations were too astronimical for that. I got closure with the characters and for me, that's all I really wanted.

The whole show represents some of the worst scifi writing of all time. Rather than sticking to either a faith based or a logic / science based conclusion that actually answered the questions raised throughout the series the writers chose to give up. They made everything irrelevant, every episode, every question, The many things that didn't make sense (and still don't)...none of it matters. All I have to say is this, this show should not be regarded as great science fiction. They simply made it in to Joke. Lets see how long we can write the same drivel and keep these idiots watching. I really would rather they just killed off the plane crash victims from season one and focused more on the mythology of the island. Tell us more about Richard, Jacob, the Man in Black, and the very strange woman who adopted Jacob and the Man in Black. This was a bigger slap in the face than the conclusion to seinfeld, The sopranos, and that time when they brought back patrick duffy on Dallas!

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How so?

I really don't see your logic in this. You're saying that by the alternate timeline being purgatory, it somehow negates all of the other episodes and makes them worthless? If so, I don't see how.

A point you made was that they didn't stick to a faith or science conclusion, well that is a recurring theme of the show: Faith vs Science. There is even an episode in which Locke and Jack argue about their beliefs (Locke faith, Jack science) that is called "Man of science, Man of faith".

Personally, I loved the show, but he does have a point. They more or less promised all these years to explain the island, but they never really did.

The show has always been primarily about the characters, not the mythology. Although the mythology is obviously a huge part of it, I think it was more important to give the most attention to the characters. The mythology can't be explained in my opinion and that is how I like it.

What do you mean "explain the island"? Can't it just be accepted that it's an island with mystical powers? Not everything in the show needs to be plausible in real life, or even explainable.

The island is just an island, with powers, and that's all there is to it.

I think you missed the point to lost. It was not about the island but about people who are lost within themselves.

I get what the show was about, but they did promise to answers about the island. They gave some more back story, but never really explained anything. Don't get me wrong, I loved the show, but I do feel we were a bit mislead. Perhaps purposely, but I was a bit letdown by the some of the remaining questions.

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