Nomura: “Versus” is taking time being developped because the team is trying to explore the whole specs (of the PS3). Our programmers were asking, “is it okay if we program it as a PS3 exclusive? If you’re thinking of porting it to other consoles, we might have to change the specs to follow suit the others.” And I answered, “PS3 exclusive, of course.“
Sorry Xbox fans.
graphics = god awful
frame rate = awful
shooting = god awful
noise filter = makes me want to kill someone
pacing = very slow
controls = almost bearable
most planets = barren and dull
story = generic
Not sure how this game is getting 9s in some publications, but then again we aren’t an ad-driven site so who knows? Expect a full review if I decide to finish the game (we don’t review games we don’t finish).
The chart says it all again this month. Xbox 360’s sales dropped off by more than 30% this month, despite Microsoft releasing its most important title in its history — Halo 3. The Sony family once again reclaimed its throne for the month, pushing impressive hardware sales through the retail channel.
With Sony reaffirming its dominance in the US coupled with waning sales of the Wii in Japan, Sony is poised to easily win this generation. We don’t blame consumers for choosing the Playstation brand: it’s associated with superior quality. The competition simply cannot compete.
Source: Famitsu
PS3 56000
PSP 55000
Wii 35000
PS2 9400
360 70001.Mario Party DS　242000
2.Musou PS3　176000
3.SMG　78000（335000）
4.Musou360　27000
5.FFTA2　24000（235000）
6.Castlevania PSP　20000
7.Wii Sports　18000（2091000）
8.西æ‘サス　16000（112000）
9.Wii Play　15000（1648000）
10.Mario Kart DS　13000（2528000）
It begins. The PS3 is now topping the Nintendo Wii in weekly Japanese console sales. Also interesting to note is how badly Mario Galaxy is performing in Japan. This doesn’t exactly bode well for other non-Wii Fit games for the system.
…or not.
The spiderman series sold 225,000+ units on Blu-Ray this week, an extremely impressive showing for the Blu camp. Meanwhile, HD-DOA with its firesale of the unsuccessful A2 Brand, couldn’t even manage to put up a better fight.
Next week is Ratatouille and Cars, which will provide yet another devastating blow to the stop-gap format known as HD-DOA.
Recently Toshiba decided to opt out of the high definition market when they put their A2 line of HD-DOA players on clearance throughout walmarts across the country. This lead other retail outlets such as Best Buy and Circuit City to start selling the HD-DOA player at clearance prices as well in order to clear out inventory for DVD’s true successor, Blu-Ray.
While it’s not surprising to see Toshiba release their players at a clearance price, SDF did not expect the decision to come so soon. Perhaps after the news that Transformers did nothing to stimulate interest in the dying HD-DOA brand, they felt hopeless up against the release of Spider man 1, Spiderman 2, Spiderman 3, Ratatouille, Cars, Pixar’s Short Film Collection, the Die Hard series, and Pirates 3.
With the remaining HD-DOA players leaving the shelves, this will allow retailers to clear up valuable space for Blu-Ray players and the extensive Blu-Ray software lineup. This act of desperation on behalf of Toshiba only spells immediate doom for the already dead and dying format.
Luckily, consumers are smarter than to pick up HD-DOA players at anything more than the prices they’re now being offered at. Nobody in their right mind wants to be stuck with an inferior stop-gap format that can only support 30 GB discs, 36 Mbs, and feature weak studio support. Playstation 3 will steamroll the competition this season with their competitive $399 SKU and will provide consumers the only true way of playing movies that feature: 1080p, 7.1 lossless, 50 GB discs, 54 Mbs, and a stellar lineup of movies.
