The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

Szlia

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Thats great, and all. Still the UK with half the pop sold almost double the amount of PS4s.

You can say it's a culture thing to you are blue in the face which just backs up my point that the UK seems to be pretty massive gamers.

But according to the market report they were the #3 market for the 360.
- The UK is without a doubt a massive gaming market and it has been for a while. During the PS2 era the video game market in the UK was something like 3/4 of the Japanese market with half the population (most of these PS2 were Fifa / Sing Star machines though).

- I am not seeing the #2 market for the X360 if not the UK (unless you failed to realize the European numbers include the UK!).
 

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Everything Youre Thinking About Nintendo Is Totally Wrong | Game|Life | Wired.com

The entire internet has weighed in with what it believes is the answer to Nintendo's financial woes: Go mobile, immediately. But the entire internet is wrong.

100% agree.
The only part of the article that is bullshit is that Nintendo controlling the hardware is what makes their games able to be great. False. The Wii motion controls and and WiiU touchscreen don't make mario and Zelda games amazing. They are amazing independent of the controls and would translate perfectly to PS4.
 

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If you have not played Brothers a Tale of Two Sons, do so. I knew this game was coming out for free on PS3, and still bought it full price on Steam just to reward the developers.

Fantastic game.
 

Vaclav

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Hell yes, was hoping we were gonna get TR as well - and Monster Hunter as well? Score!
 

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You only get monster hunter if you are a girly man that plays on girly handhelds while putting penises into your mouth
 

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- I am not seeing the #2 market for the X360 if not the UK (unless you failed to realize the European numbers include the UK!).
Europe and the UK are two different markets according to vgsales, and are not combined.
If they were combined it would be silly to say that the UK is the 2nd biggest market, when you would clearly say Europe is the 2nd biggest market.

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Xbox_360

Europe:

January 2009: 8 million [33] (including Middle East and Africa)

United Kingdom:

January 2009: 3.2 million [51]
 

Szlia

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Yakuza: Ishin! is Ridiculously Fun

Those fucktards at Sega need to localize this instead of burning money on total garbage likeSonic Boom.
The previous medieval spin-off was easily one of the best PS3 game. In the whole serie the writing of the many side quest is regularly hilarious, tackling unusual subjects with a satirical angle, but the main story in Kenzan also had moments of pure classical brilliance (NB: the game is very playable with a little japanese knowledge - or guts - and the very comprehensive help of GameFAQs).

The problem is that the serie is pretty niche outside Japan and that these medieval spin-offs have even more text (there is an in-game glossary for the medieval terms and the historical context) and may be perceived by Sega as even more niche (medieval japan vs contemporary gangsters). They may be wrong and in any case it's sad the serie does not have more success outside Japan, but it might make business sense to bring to the west the somewhat crappy game that has a well known IP and is cheap to localize.
 

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Maybe I missed it in this thread but what was the big PlayStation Magazine announcement? GTAV?
 

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Everything Youre Thinking About Nintendo Is Totally Wrong | Game|Life | Wired.com

The entire internet has weighed in with what it believes is the answer to Nintendo?s financial woes: Go mobile, immediately. But the entire internet is wrong.

100% agree.
I stopped buying Nintendo products strictly because they focused so much and put so many big titles on handhelds only. I'm almost fucking thirty, I don't wanna be playing a gameboy anymore. I want to play shit on my expensive TV and sound system that I purchased with my adult money. Fuck off Nintendo, give me the Zelda that you showed at E3 2011.
 

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Thanks Sean.

As for mobile devices I was a huge fan of the original Gameboy. I have basically done almost nothing with hand helds until October of last year. I bought a 3DSXL. I spent this last year basically 100% traveling and having a hand held was a good way to do some gaming that didn't require me to tug around a second laptop . I have honestly found some of the games on the DS to be fantastic and really enjoy it. That being said if not for work I never would have purchased this and know where Lenas is coming from as I generally agree with everything he said.