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Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 12 - Feb. 18: Angry ranting edition

Not I!You know, you know what? We've had it up to here with some of the things we have to deal with everyday, and dammit, we think it's time we let people know. This crap has to stop.

Where to start? Let's talk about the freaking CPUs they stick us with here at the Fanboy offices. Intel Core 2 Duo's: pathetic. We mean, what the hell? It's like two normal Intel processors duct-taped together. Look, we need insane processing power to make these blog posts funny and interesting, you know? These conditions are unworkable.

And let's not even mention roller coasters. Mechanical and electrical engineers just aren't taking these things seriously enough; they need to start using the medium for proper artistic expression. We need to tell a story full of meaning and character depth during these rides, or people are going to feel unfulfilled and pissed off, like us. And we're really pissed right now.

Finally, to Maxis, developers of the best-selling PC game of all-time and the future title Spore, expected to perhaps exceed that mark set by the exemplary Sims some years back: make a game that doesn't suck ass, okay?

Ugh, these numbers? Where is the emotion? Where is the meaning? Life is so meaningless ....

- DS Lite: 111,814 24,314 (17.86%)
- PSP: 66,156 34,054 (33.96%)
- Wii: 57,972 20,534 (26.16%)
- PS3: 44,000 24,685 (127.80%)
- PS2: 15,364 310 (2.06%)
- Xbox 360: 3,379 804 (19.22%)
- Game Boy Micro: 805 102 (11.25%)
- GBA SP: 738 297 (28.70%)
- Gamecube: 303 20 (6.19%)
- DS Phat: 112 20 (15.15%)
- GBA: 25 34 (57.63%)

[Source: Media Create]

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1. I hope you were sarcastic when criticizing the Core 2 Duos. You know, the best processor in existence.

Posted at 10:25PM on Mar 9th 2007 by lintsniffer

2. Anyone know the cause for the PS3 doubling sales this week?

Posted at 10:48PM on Mar 9th 2007 by raycosm

3. PS3 rose because of Gundam Musou. DSL and Wii and even PSP still beat PS3. PSP is still high with Monster Hunter but DSL and Wii didn't have any new games and still remain at the top.

Posted at 11:26PM on Mar 9th 2007 by hvnlysoldr

4. Wow, i thought the PSP would be around 30k-40k this week, its doing better than i thought it would.

Posted at 3:06AM on Mar 10th 2007 by hashh

5. DSL and Wii still severly supply constrained. PSP and PS3 have no supply issues. Just no interest in the games which sucks for Sony since that means they are losing money big time.

Expect both monster hunter 2 and the Gundam game which has been said to stink like poop on a stick to fall off the charts in two to three weeks. Then the psp and ps3 hardware sales will also plumment.

Posted at 10:50AM on Mar 10th 2007 by i

6. DS games suck: no voice acting...no CD quality music...crappy online games that support 2 or 4 players max and without voice chat during game play. i sold my nintendo DS and havent regretted it, aside from Mario Kart DS but ive gotten sick of that game after playing it for months.

Posted at 5:33PM on Mar 10th 2007 by IWATA

7. no voice acting.

You obviously haven't played any of the recent NA or Japan releases. Because Mechwarrior Phantom Assault, Rune Factory, Jet Impulse, Luminous Arc and several other upcoming games show you are a real stupid piece of ****.

"no CD quality music"

Tell me should we listen to what you or the developers say is the better music quality. Guess what it is MIDI that is better. Also put on your damn headphones when you play a DS game you would be surprised at the jump in quality.

"2 or 4 players max"

Once again your ignorance knows no bounds.

"without voice chat during game play"

Amazing that if the games did have voice chat during game play people would swear that it was causing the online to suffer and should never have been implemented.

Posted at 7:17PM on Mar 10th 2007 by i

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