Looking at at the last gen in terms of game sales for the PS2, crapbox and kiddy cube and it's little surprise at the sales spread of last gen. Million seller games are good, 3 million is a milestone, 5million+ is just gold. Basically looking at games that sold 4 million+ as being Silver, 5 million+ as being gold and 10 million+ as platinum I've come across the following: Crapbox only had 2 gold games (no silver no plat) and both of those being Halo 1 and 2. The games had a wide gap as in Halo 1 sold 6.43 million and the next lowest was Splintercell with 2.93 million. Kiddy cube unsurprisingly had 4 titles (3 gold 1 Silver) all of which were from the house of Nintendo with their capital franchises (mario, zelda, metroid, pokemon). So in order was Mario Kart DD, SSBM, Mario Sunshine and Zelda's Windwalker. PS2 had 22 games total (4 Plat, 8 gold and 10 silver). GTA SA, Gran Turismo 3, GTA VC, GTA 3, Gran Turismo 4, Final Fantasy X... Being that now not a whole lot of games are out for the new gen consoles, but for the PS2 at least that was a list of games about 10 years in the making. Quite impressive. As it stands now, crapbox 360 has 4 silver +, Kiddy Cube 1.5 has 6 (not including fit, sports or play), and the PS3 has just 1 (GTA 4). The next couple of years should be interesting in both console and game sales #s.

Well, the highlight or shadowing in my eyes anyways was the announcement that the crapbox would be getting FF13. Yes in the past the FF series went from the Nintendo systems onto the Playstation systems, however that was because the N64 was inferior to the PS. Plus the fact that the N64 didn't have any JRPGS. Quest 64 doesn't count. I still feel angry that Sony has once again lost a exclusive for whatever reason and until they announce a exclusive FF7 remake for the PS3 ... no even then I still might not fully forgive both Sony and SE. It upsets me because like I've said in previous blogs that the crapbox is not the system to have JRPGs on and the demographics and game sales show this without a doubt. Lost Odyseey, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata combine probably won't break a million in sales in their lifetime on the 360.. whereas FF12 which was given some tough love by critics still sold very well. I have no doubt that FF13 PS3 will outsell the 360 version by at least a 5:1 ratio, but I'm still distraught over the loss. Sure it's not as bad as saying the game is exclusive to the 360, but it's still a loss in my eyes. My faith in Sony has been strained and questioned in the past, but now it's all but destroyed. Maybe it's a sign of the times: money rules all (because I'm damn sure SE didn't just one day decide that releasing a JRPG on a system that had horrible JRPG sales would be a good idea one day. Pretty sure that M$ approached SE and not the other way around).

Apparently the abysmal sales for LO and BD didn't knock enough smarts into Square Enix. Hopefully with the financial failures of the upcoming lineup for the crapbox SE will smarten up. The turdbox is for users too stupid or too poor to build their own PC rig for superior FPS gaming. Keyboard + mouse > mongoloid controller. Not saying the Wii should get those titles either because pre-teendo users already have harvest moon and pokemon kiddy farm. So here's hoping SE will stop wasting time on the crapbox and letting exclusive series fall into obscurity. At least Atlus and NIS haven't lost their minds yet, they know it's stupid to release RPGs on a system that caters to FPS and sport game fans. Almost time for the 360 to fall into 3rd place in this console war.

Adding to my reason for disdain for the nintendo systems is it's games, or lack of mature themed games. NES and SNES had a wide range of games, but even back in those days the games were... censored. Step in the N64, the kiddy cube and now the wii (the kiddy cube 1.5) and it's all the same. People use the words 'casual gamer' when talking about the wii's main demographics I see "kiddy/family" gamers. Think of all the games out on the other systems, and think of the nintendo systems. Maybe like 5% of those games are ones that I would play as a older gamer. Let me see here, Mario Galaxy or Grand Theft Auto 4. Final Fantasy/Obivion/Mass effect or zelda. Hmmm.. which one is better? Oh yeah, the ones where I don't feel like I'm 13 again while playing them. Sure metroid, zelda and mario kart wii are good games, but even though you might be over 16, your balls haven't dropped and you can talk to me when your older, actually had intercourse with the opposite sex and moved out of your parents house. "it's a shame you don't play, those games are awesom" it's a shame that your balls have recinded back into your groin. Don't get me wrong though, I don't like Nintendo but I can appreciate what they do to gaffle the money, and I still hate the crapbox more.

aside from all the xbots who celebrates M$ mediocre success (phailed against the PS2 and now phailed against the Wii, but at least you got Halolz), what really irriates me the most is seeing the crapbox get exclusive games. Pretty much the only games that I really would love to be on the PS3 would be DOA and the JRPGs that are exclusive to the crapbox 360. Hopefully those games will fail as hard as LO and BD and M$ will finally get the hint that they should just stick to FPS and sports games for the college frat boys. The next star ocean is 360 exclusive.. but hopefully all this will change with poor sales. Let me explain it to you as simply as I could: This is the same thing with PC vs Mac. true gamers use PCs, always have and always will. People who use macs also enjoy sitting in starbucks listing to that horrible music and love the white stripes. For years macs got sloppy seconds when it comes to games (as much as the users are probably used to sloppy seconds IRL) but now imagine that instead of Diablo 3, or Starcraft 2, or whatever game really gets you going being released on the platform that supports 99% of all games, instead it's MAC only. "LOLz but I own a mac!" well shouldn't you be busy sucking on something then? Same way I feel when I read about how Star Ocean or how DOA became crapbox only. That's why I take great pleasure in seeing the system fail. Won't be long before they are once again 3rd place in the console war. But hey, xbots just might get the 720 in 2012

While I love nothing more than to bash the crapbox and it's "wmg live is legendary" BS, this is one aspect that all xbots hail as the best feature whereas I saw it firsthand differently. There was a vgcats comic about the online of all 3 systems and I think the one about the crapbox hits it dead on center. "My dick hat has 10,000.. oh yeah?! Mine has 20,000 points!!" It's sooo true. Much like how xbots love achievements they also love their points. As if to give their sad and pathetic existence meaning while playing a sad and pathetic junk system from a ripoff vendor. Let me tell you about XBL. Sure you go head to head against other people. Watching my old roomie playing games such as halos, DOA, mortal kombat.. yes it was all fun and games.. until you run across the xbots who'll do anything to up their ranking. Constant disconnects, performing cheap moves or outright cheating (lag hax), yep the XBL is the greatest thing. My favorite thing is he would play and go against someone who'd mop the floor with him due to cheap moves, and right before he actually would win a game "connection lost" Yep XBL is so great. This happens in all online games, but since xbots and M$ celebrate it you all can go DIAF.