Developer: Point Of View Publisher: Midway
Release Date: 2000 (Various) Platforms: PlayStation, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, Game Boy Advance
When you think about it, the boxing genre has the most hot-or-cold track record. Series such as Punch Out! and Fight Night (previously Knockout Kings) currently represent the upper echelon of efforts. The few barely capable titles (Facebreaker, Victorious Boxer) represent the very thin crust between the awful and the exceptional. The titles that qualify as awful need not be mentioned here. You know who they are.
*AHEM* Don King *
And then of course there is Ready 2 Rumble. It’s been just under ten years since the last release. I had actually written this series off until I heard of the new chapter Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution appearing on the Wii in March. So I felt it fitting to take a look back at what Midway had given us the last time around.
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We all know by now that Nintendo can print money. Whatever it is you want to attribute all of their sales to, whether it be appealing to the masses or just people loving their waggle, Nintendo obviously has something figured out. Nintendo has announced their shipment numbers and boy are they big.
The Nintendo DS has finally outdone it’s older sibling by shipping 84.33 million units compared to the Game Boy Advance’s 81.36 units shipped in it’s lifetime. We know Nintendo stated that they weren’t meant to be direct competitors but it’s always fun to beat up on your older brother. Shipments of DS software have reached 454.63 million units worldwide.
The Wii has now shipped 34.55 million units along with 229.85 million software titles shipped. Even with most hard core gamers bashing the little white machine that could, the Wii continues to outsell the rest of the industry by double the units. You can scream from the hillsides all you want but it looks like the Wii is here to stay no matter what anyone says.
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