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Some updates weren't universally hated by the entire world within seconds of being uploaded.
1. The Animal Crossing Wild World mega-feature and public-service review
2. Sonic CD - screenshot parade
3. Cream The Rabbit sexual diagrams
4. OutRun2 screenshot-taking guide for the benefit of inept journalists
5. The personal UKR SEGA Toys Homestar planetarium review
6. Trying to buy an Xbox 360 in London
7. (STILL) THE MOST AMAZING PROMOTIONAL PHOTOGRAPH OF ALL TIME
8. A trip to GamesMaster (in Peckham)
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It came with the template. Maybe in 2014 we'll jump on board the Twitter train and put that in here. Or a radio. That'd be nice.
Pyrrhic victory indeed.
Sad times. Sad times.
"In a really rather sad bit of news, Valkyria Chronicles has sold pretty poorly. Despite solid reviews, the game has sold just 33,000 copies in the US, according to NPD figures."
"An investigation by tech research company iSuppli has estimated that it costs Sony $448.73 to build a single PlayStation3. The standard price of the entry level machine is the US is $399."
I feel sorry for Sega, but death to PS3!
Zorg, the irony of you writing for a PS3 blog is not lost on us...
Home however is that bad it's not even funny any more.
"In a really rather sad bit of news, Valkyria Chronicles has sold pretty poorly. Despite solid reviews, the game has sold just 33,000 copies in the US, according to NPD figures."
It's the USA, what do you expect? TASTE?!
It's great being a Sega fan these days! Somewhat like being a Scotland fan at the World Cup... fuck all to cheer about until England go home.
Spicy, thanks for the great pspsps link - fun-packed website that - a must read. Weekly updates ftw.
But now BR players cost less than the PS3 they are fucked. Time to re-market it as a games machine perhaps?
A Blu Ray player has all the advantages of not playing Home or Little Big Planet. Massive win for the stand alone BR machines, although I still reckon you'd have to be a massive bender to want one.
Sony must have burned through all the cash the Spider-Man films made them by now. They're probably half way through the cash the PS1 and PS2 made and they're looking at blowing the money the Walkman made them in the '80s. Once that's all gone there will be some terse conversations in the Sony bunker before Fuhrer Hirai and his generals blow their own brains out to avoid capture and being put on trial for the genocide of Sega.
It's not even a joly failure like Dreamcast was and that makes my happiness even sweeter. It hurt to see Dreamcast die and while it went down the toilet in misery and regret, you still could play wonderful games between the tears. Playstation 3 won't have that, ever. The only thing it will end up doing is playing Blu-Ray shit on Sundays until it brakes and is replaced by a player half or third of the price. Maybe boot up with MGS4 (which sucks) for those wankers who like watching an old man winning for 10 hours straight. Other than that, not really, and the exclusives for third party (for example, those SEGA stubbornly still does) will be released on some other system.
Can't help but feel these guys were asking for it. Microsoft knows how to play Sony's plan as good as them but has the advantage of having more money. It was inevitable.
Offtopic, Valkyria and Yakuza 3 redeem the PS3, nothing more.