NPD March 2010
- Thread starter RobertR1
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Why? What does it matter whether it's popular with other people or not? It's not like you're forced to play the best selling titles whether you like them or not!A man can dream, can't he?
If someone forced me to play a Final Fantasy game, I'd hope they'd give me a corded controller to strangle myself with. It'd be a lot easier than smashing myself to death with the console and/or controller.
I guess it's one of those things, like Justin Beiber and Lady Ga Ga, where the peripheral contact I have with it through commercials, news stories and press are basically enough to annoy me. It sucks that bad.
Gradthrawn
Veteran
Sounds like your hatred is for the series itself, regardless of the merits of the individual games. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose. But that's a dangerous path you're headed down, that will only lead to the Dark Side. Or perhaps I've been watching too much Star Wars?
I don't hate it but I certainly look at it as a non-entity, in the same way I view fish. I don't eat fish EVER (take omega 3/6 pills) and when I see people order it or eat it, it appears to me as if they are eating a foreign substance, not food. As if I just don't recognize what they are doing and wonder "why would you want to do that to yourself?".
It's important that we get some really sucesfull PS3/360 games out of Japan, typical japaneese games like MGS4 and FF13 show that you don't have to be on handhelds or Wii to be sucesfull.
And it probably dosn't hurt that Square Enix has some money left in the bank, when they're going to fund the next Hitman-game, or whatever other game-franchise wich you like.
Yeah NPD is almost getting...boring...I'm not really sure why.
I'd say predictability, but it's almost like this gen is over in a way. In a real sense nothing will change, neither PS3 or 360 will get enough share to stop basically every third party supporting both, with the odd timed exclusive and such. It's also appeared to me for a while the market is getting more fragmented, with 360 strong in the UK and USA and PS3 everywhere else.
Maybe things will be more interesting in the fall for sure, when we see what Natal and Move can do. But even then it seems we'll never see a sea change the rest of this generation.
BTW, here are UK March sales that were posted on Neogaf (via Famitsu which publishes them every month IIRC). Should probably go in the Europe sales thread, but I think that's pretty buried now
corduroygt
Banned
Top 20:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28131/PlayStation_3_Lands_Most_Titles_In_March_NPD_Top_20.php
Sooo, when can we expect remastered Shadow of the Colossus, FF12, FF7, etc?
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28131/PlayStation_3_Lands_Most_Titles_In_March_NPD_Top_20.php
Sooo, when can we expect remastered Shadow of the Colossus, FF12, FF7, etc?
Well if it makes you feel better, the latest is not anything like the previous ones... a reason why a long-time FF fan like myself (from the original onwards) actually is not much of a fan of the game. But you might like it, see what I'm saying?
It's a decent game, it's just not a 'Final Fantasy' IMO.Yes, for some reason they print the official UK monthly numbers every month. They are normally posted on NeoGAF. It's not that hard to believe. We certainly look at the Japanese numbers.
The gameplay is not selfish enough for MW2 levels. Too much teamwork requried for the Joe Shooter. But quite gald to see growing greatly as a series. They can really blow it up to say, Gears size (5-6mil sold), if they keep at it with BF3.
djskribbles
Legend
Not bad for remastered PS2 games. Also surprised to see Heavy Rain sell ~100k in it's second month.Top 20:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28131/PlayStation_3_Lands_Most_Titles_In_March_NPD_Top_20.php
Sooo, when can we expect remastered Shadow of the Colossus, FF12, FF7, etc?
