You pretty much said it, though in all honesty, the consols sales didn't really take off right away either. Also, Onimusha was the first killer app for the system. It wasn't on the level of something like MGS2, but it was the first greatest hits title on the system and reached the million sales fairly quickly.Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno
Lord yes it started off slow...
It's only decent launch title was Armored Core 2 (No, Tekken Tag doesn't count cause it's a known fact that Tekken sucks)
The first game that was released for it that anyone I can remember giving a damn about was Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, followed a few months later by FFX. It was almost 2 years into it's life before it started releasing anything good consistently. But this is pretty normal for any system. The DS and and 360 both only started to get good titles after a year had passed. The Cube and original X-Box had similar problems as well.:rolleyes2
There was also a shortage at launch (though they got that sorted about as fast as they got the shortage of PS3's sorted). They weren't in very high demand at first though. Certainly they did well, but nothing like the Wii is now. But once it started taking off there was no stopping it, and it seems there's still no stopping it yet as it's still outselling every other console.
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