@digi-demon Yeah, what a win -- down 20% year-over-year and the only new first-party presence on the system is a pile of motion control shit with a Star Wars badge attached to it. Looks a lot like what we saw with the Wii, if you ask me, which is disgusting given how amazing the 360 used to be.
@Texasguy I have no sympathy for Xenoblade when the publisher saw fit to release the game at only one retail outlet. That's a recipe for disaster for ANY product, let alone a JRPG in the current shooter-dominated US market.
There are something like 18 million Kinect users in the market. Typically, you could tie a giant Star Wars-themed bow around a pile of elephant sh!t and Star Wars nerds would not only buy it, but wallow in it. Kinect Star Wars sold <235k copies. Another embarrassment in a sea of embarrassments for the platform.
The top game only sold 236k this month, and yet here's Microsoft (the alleged "leader" of the US market) coming up with Rent to Own schemes and packaging it with a bronzed pile of sh!t like Kinect to get their fuc*ing archaic hardware to keep selling at over $400. It's just shameful and embarrassing. I've been pissed at Nintendo for a decade, and I think Sony was just plain stupid with its PS3 strategy, but Microsoft is just plain fuc*ing embarrassing. I'd never own another one of their platforms if they paid me, and prior to now, they were my primary platform.
Time for a new generation. Sales have been falling for months now. It's not April, and it's not a weak lineup. It's the fact that they are trying (by force) to keep alive a dead generation. This generation held nowhere near the magic or brilliance that the PS2 generation did, and yet they think they can keep it alive longer with archaic hardware sold at a premium. Fools.
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