Microsoft's Xbox consoles have never done well in Japan, and 2008 was no exception. IGN learned earlier this week that the entire Japanese videogame industry fared poorly overall last year, dropping 15 percent compared to 2007 numbers. And despite its modest growth there last year, the Xbox 360 once again found itself at the bottom of the heap.
According to new data released by Enterbrain's Famitsu Marketing Data Service, the Xbox 360 sold 23 percent more units in Japan in 2008 than it did in 2007, but that didn't help the console seriously break into the market.
In 2008, the 360 controlled just 2.6 percent of the videogame hardware market in Japan by volume. That translates to 317,859 units, up from 257,841 units in 2007. By comparison, PlayStation 2 made up 3.9 percent of the market, PlayStation 3 controlled 8.1 percent, and Nintendo's platforms made up more than 45 percent of overall sales.
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They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.
You should stick with fortnite or one of the countless bloodborne style games then. What a joke.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
They are making a remake, I think. I loved the original game when it was released, but I tried to play it again in recent years and just couldn't get on with it. The same with the older Hitman games.
Yeah chaos theory still holds up though I gotta say. If you’re a fan of the series I highly suggest you go back to that one. Ubi has said they are remaking sc for “modern audiences”. I don’t have a lot of faith for the future of that company
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
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Rot in your pathetic grave xbot Microslaves.The punishment for your sins will continue until 2016.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
its not going to magically turn around in 2009 either
Japanese don't get fooled so easily. And they are very traditional.
Speaking of all the market share in Japan...
Who actually cares? Japan is currently just a small part of the overall world market and it's even getting smaller. The same with the Japanese developers and their games' sales and quality.
The Japanese are smart people.