They are 3 years old now. In the PS4/One era, stores would have pallets of them on the floor at this time of the year for Black Friday. Not the case now, both consoles are still full price and while not nearly as scarce, you do have to make sure a store has one before going there
It's also, no offense, just not the same now. The PS3/PS4 360/One had really interesting exclusives, a pretty cool ecosystem, media features, and you felt like you were actually gaining something for a bargain if you purchased one.
Now it's like bro come the fuck on we all know that the PS5 and Series X are glorified x86 PCs running custom operating systems with DRM, raytracing isn't enough of a benefit, SSDs are cool but you can get basically the same in a PC.
I don't really have any interest in buying a PS5/Series X juts because I already have everything it could offer me in my PC. Now something like a Switch, Steam Deck etc? That is interesting, a really small console with a decent library that you can actually use on the go.
People don’t read anymore, because most books that come out of the west are woke slop
Are you seriously trying to bring the act of reading books into your little culture war? Holy fuck.
>every book released is shit >wtf why won’t kids read?
Meanwhile every Barnes and Noble has an ever expanding manga section because people actually buy it since it’s not woke
Jesus christ anon that is actually sad. I can't believe you think of the world this way. Have you TRIED picking up a random non fiction book recently?
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Anonymous
>non fiction
If I need information, I take 5 seconds to google it. There is no need for non fiction books in this day and age
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
That's how you get very surface level simplified information. To actually know anything you need to read books that go in depth, there's no shortcut anon.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>T. Boomer high school teacher
If I need more in depth knowledge, I can google that too. And it will take me directly to the info I need, rather than having to scan pages for it
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
That's not how knowledge or learning works. I really hope that you're underage because if you're above 18 that's a legitimately sad view to have on education.
Tell me anon, how old are you? Do you remember how google and the internet used to be back in like 2010 even?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
It was slower but was still more efficient than reading a book.
I’ll ask you this. Both of us need to finish a task we do not know how to do. We start from the same point outside a library. Which one of us will finish first?
Here’s a hint - I’ll have looked it up on my phone and completed the task before you even find the book in the library
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yeah, and you'll stall out sometime in the next 15 minutes to 3 months and I'll be far ahead of you by then, since I actually read some fucking books. Jesus man maybe education just doesn't work for some people.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
He's just retarded. My zoomer nephew reads books and he's not even an introvert like me.
I work in a bookstore, anon isn't the one bringing his culture war into shit. it's genuinely insane what the shift towards in new releases has been over the last 5 years. Sure, you've still got your Michael Connelly, James Patterson, Danielle Steele slop coming out every few months, but tik tok has become a fucking huge influence on the industry and retailers and publishers are leaning into it hard. The outright majority of books by lesser / unknown authors now are always either by/about/for your typical; american progressive pandering shit. It's gay, about minorities, or about how white bad. It's genuinely not an exaggeration.
>probably early 2026
Damn, you are right. My perception of the current Gen consoles is all fucked up, they still feel new probably cause they have such little exclusive content
Not him, but I agree with the theory that GTAO has been used as a live beta for certain things. I wouldn’t be surprised if that significantly trims off some development time
I'd wager it's because of how manga is split into multiple volumes.
Demon Slayer released the last 4 volumes in 2020. Sure 20 million readers is still a fuckton but it's not quite as impressive as 82 million volumes sold.
Like every shonnenshit, it's sad how easy to manipulate are shonnenfags and moefags. They can watch 1000 chaptes of a character painting its hair but they cant watch 110 chapters of Legend of the Galactic Kino.
People will tell you it's because it ended but they're retards. No one talks about it anymore because it has no substance. It got really popular because of the anime and that trickled down to the manga. The anime was only popular in the first place because it's really flashy, not because it had amazing characters or a great story or anything. There's nothing to talk about besides its visuals so no one talks about it.
No, you are the retard. It doesn’t matter how popular a series is, once it ends, the clock is ticking down on discussion because there is nothing further to build on. Garbage like One Piece has eternal discussion because it’s been spinning its wheels for 20 years. There is always something to speculate on when nothing happens for years at a time
>23 volumes for Demon Slayer >people would want to read the entire thing so they buy all 23 volumes >each volume is around 5-7 bucks >congrats, for every 2 units of a AAA game, Demon Slayer makes 23 "unit sales"
I don't even know why gaming is even grouped in here. If anything it's impressive that there's 3 games on the list because games cost like 8 times more for a single unit.
Well it won't sell 80 million in a year. Little unfair to compare a single product to something like manga/comic that has a dozens or more volumes out and all the kiddies and zoomies that were sleeping on it buy it after they see a movie.
>Little unfair to compare a single product to something like manga/comic that has a dozens or more volumes out and all the kiddies and zoomies that were sleeping on it buy it after they see a movie.
Are you retarded? There are multiple videogames already above multiple manga. Beyond me what kind of stupidity leads to these observations when nothing in reality bores out that
>Beyond me what kind of stupidity leads to these observations when nothing in reality bores out that
The fuck are you talking about? Generic Kiddy Slayer was over before it blew up. So it had the benefit of all its volumes selling in mass when Japanese zoomers all flocked to buy it after watching the anime and the movie so they could fit in together.
Because manga is great for the ADHD generation since most of it is pictures with only a little text. Harry Potter books are like 300 pages of pure text
I lived long enough to see Harry Potter babbies talking shit about some other pop fiction shit and pretend their garbage is high art.
What a time to be alive.
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Anonymous
I don’t like Harry Potter at all. I’m pointing out the clear difference between an actual book that is all text and a manga volume which is probably 25% text and 80% art. An grade schooler can finish a manga volume in an hour, it would take them days, if not weeks to read a Harry Potter book in full
Children in the west are conditioned into seeing reading as a punishment, so yes, the fact that any book can reach that chart is impressive and not likely to ever happen again
It’s a young adult series which have always been steered to be less than but it was such a huge phenomenon in the 00s that it gets a pass. Every series after Harry Potter that tried to capture the same atmosphere is garbage
I mean who knows really, GTA6 is going to huge obviously and I'm going to enjoy the shit out of it since it's bound to be way bigger then V, idk if it'll break record's but the day the trailer comes out and the day the game comes out very little things in the entertainment industry will matter
It also has the biggest box office record for japan. And probably movies in general for its year.
It gave manga a huge boost in japan, that is already dying but it helped the industry a lot.
Really was just a perfect storm for it, mostly landing a top notch anime studio that took the child scribble manga art and turned it into a quality level it had no business being at.
It’s interesting to see what an anime can do for a series. There was literally no discussion about Demon Slayer before it got an anime that was really high quality and lured in lots of new readers. Compare with something like Chainsaw Man which was really popular before it’s anime, then the anime dropped with comically low quality and made the entire series a laughingstock
>There was literally no discussion about Demon Slayer before it got an anime
There was, here.
And obviously it was selling decently well in japan for pre anime stuff.
The series went from like 5 million sales pre anime to 150 in less than two years making it the highest selling manga per volume after devilman, a 40+ year old series.
I'm convinced that ufotable had some kind of subliminal messaging in the KnY anime that made every single Japanese person on the planet want to go out and buy the manga, because that shit was suddenly everywhere.
>Can GTA VI break the sales record?
No and the reason is simple shark card's gta 5 has so much sunk cost fallacy to the player base you will need a crow bar to pry them away from it.
Only the 1% that make it huge. There are hundreds, even thousands of active manga series that take years and multiple volumes before even cracking 1 mil sales
>PUBG was bigger than Fortnite?
i don't think anything is bigger than Fortnite every parent i know just gives there kid Fortnite and leaves them to it it's all kids now play all they want to talk about is there skins and buying there points zoomers are beyond help.
>I don’t get it
fuck if i know, but what i do know is that zoomers will never move into the normal gaming spear like we did they will pick one game and stick with it and if Fortnite dies i think they will just give up on video games the suits are going to throw a fit in a few years as this is not sustainable.
Why was Demon Slayer so popular. Obviously having Ufotable adapt your shit is gonna help and the fight scenes were fire but the actual plot and characters were as generic and barebones as they come. I looked at some of the panels of the manga and it looked like shit, so without a good plot, characters or art, how did it do so well?
Ironically children ate it up and their parents thought it was good material for them to be watching/reading. Pretty sure the Japanese government helped marketed it and pushed it too.
Doesn't have too much edge, but still has a digestible amount for a wide range of people. Straightforward, with powerups sometimes being a little bullshit, but isn't on the tier of some retarded O MY RUBBER NEN. MC isn't a homosexual little crybaby and actually tries to get shit done instead of pooping and pissing himself, which also makes him a lot more likeable and someone to root for. Lastly, that one episode made it blow up like mad. I think it was episode 19 but that was the "moment." It's when I started hearing EVERYONE talk about it around that point. I think Games of Thrones blew up the same way during its early seasons.
>entertainment >manga that costs pennies >video game that costs 50x that
not that I'm rooting for GTA, but this is a retarded metric. If AAA video games cost <$10 I can guarantee it would blow this chart out of the water
it's not about total amount of units sold but how quickly it sold. perchance. GTAV sold so fast it broke 6 world records including fastest property to make a trillion dollars, in just three days.
People still can’t readily buy next Gen consoles so probably not. V had it easy cause it came late in the PS3/360 cycle
>People still can’t readily buy next Gen consoles
????????????????????????
They are 3 years old now. In the PS4/One era, stores would have pallets of them on the floor at this time of the year for Black Friday. Not the case now, both consoles are still full price and while not nearly as scarce, you do have to make sure a store has one before going there
It's also, no offense, just not the same now. The PS3/PS4 360/One had really interesting exclusives, a pretty cool ecosystem, media features, and you felt like you were actually gaining something for a bargain if you purchased one.
Now it's like bro come the fuck on we all know that the PS5 and Series X are glorified x86 PCs running custom operating systems with DRM, raytracing isn't enough of a benefit, SSDs are cool but you can get basically the same in a PC.
I don't really have any interest in buying a PS5/Series X juts because I already have everything it could offer me in my PC. Now something like a Switch, Steam Deck etc? That is interesting, a really small console with a decent library that you can actually use on the go.
Are you seriously trying to bring the act of reading books into your little culture war? Holy fuck.
>every book released is shit
>wtf why won’t kids read?
Meanwhile every Barnes and Noble has an ever expanding manga section because people actually buy it since it’s not woke
Jesus christ anon that is actually sad. I can't believe you think of the world this way. Have you TRIED picking up a random non fiction book recently?
>non fiction
If I need information, I take 5 seconds to google it. There is no need for non fiction books in this day and age
That's how you get very surface level simplified information. To actually know anything you need to read books that go in depth, there's no shortcut anon.
>T. Boomer high school teacher
If I need more in depth knowledge, I can google that too. And it will take me directly to the info I need, rather than having to scan pages for it
That's not how knowledge or learning works. I really hope that you're underage because if you're above 18 that's a legitimately sad view to have on education.
Tell me anon, how old are you? Do you remember how google and the internet used to be back in like 2010 even?
It was slower but was still more efficient than reading a book.
I’ll ask you this. Both of us need to finish a task we do not know how to do. We start from the same point outside a library. Which one of us will finish first?
Here’s a hint - I’ll have looked it up on my phone and completed the task before you even find the book in the library
Yeah, and you'll stall out sometime in the next 15 minutes to 3 months and I'll be far ahead of you by then, since I actually read some fucking books. Jesus man maybe education just doesn't work for some people.
He's just retarded. My zoomer nephew reads books and he's not even an introvert like me.
I work in a bookstore, anon isn't the one bringing his culture war into shit. it's genuinely insane what the shift towards in new releases has been over the last 5 years. Sure, you've still got your Michael Connelly, James Patterson, Danielle Steele slop coming out every few months, but tik tok has become a fucking huge influence on the industry and retailers and publishers are leaning into it hard. The outright majority of books by lesser / unknown authors now are always either by/about/for your typical; american progressive pandering shit. It's gay, about minorities, or about how white bad. It's genuinely not an exaggeration.
VI will come late in the PS5/Series cycle
>probably early 2026
Damn, you are right. My perception of the current Gen consoles is all fucked up, they still feel new probably cause they have such little exclusive content
the shortage is officially over + it won't be out for another 3 or 4 years
>3-4 years
They are releasing a trailer dummy. It’s 6 month or less away
ok i probably exaggerated but GTAV took 2 years from the first trailer until release
Not him, but I agree with the theory that GTAO has been used as a live beta for certain things. I wouldn’t be surprised if that significantly trims off some development time
Damn Demon Slayer that high. Holy shit
Which is strange because the manga looks like utter shit.
I'd wager it's because of how manga is split into multiple volumes.
Demon Slayer released the last 4 volumes in 2020. Sure 20 million readers is still a fuckton but it's not quite as impressive as 82 million volumes sold.
Thats because American starved of entertaining story and all they got is wokeshit
>Entertainment story
Demon slayer is dogshit
It sure is. What does that say about the state of western media then?
>Demon Slayer that high
>nobody talks about it anymore
It ended. Anything to talk about has already been talked about.
Like every shonnenshit, it's sad how easy to manipulate are shonnenfags and moefags. They can watch 1000 chaptes of a character painting its hair but they cant watch 110 chapters of Legend of the Galactic Kino.
It ended long ago you retarded homosexual.
i've literally never seen anyone talk about it period
People will tell you it's because it ended but they're retards. No one talks about it anymore because it has no substance. It got really popular because of the anime and that trickled down to the manga. The anime was only popular in the first place because it's really flashy, not because it had amazing characters or a great story or anything. There's nothing to talk about besides its visuals so no one talks about it.
No, you are the retard. It doesn’t matter how popular a series is, once it ends, the clock is ticking down on discussion because there is nothing further to build on. Garbage like One Piece has eternal discussion because it’s been spinning its wheels for 20 years. There is always something to speculate on when nothing happens for years at a time
>23 volumes for Demon Slayer
>people would want to read the entire thing so they buy all 23 volumes
>each volume is around 5-7 bucks
>congrats, for every 2 units of a AAA game, Demon Slayer makes 23 "unit sales"
I don't even know why gaming is even grouped in here. If anything it's impressive that there's 3 games on the list because games cost like 8 times more for a single unit.
Still don’t know how pubg was so huge when nobody on Ganker talked about it at all
>sales record
no
>fastest 1 billion in entertainment industry(held by GTA 5)
definitely
No chance
Well it won't sell 80 million in a year. Little unfair to compare a single product to something like manga/comic that has a dozens or more volumes out and all the kiddies and zoomies that were sleeping on it buy it after they see a movie.
>Little unfair to compare a single product to something like manga/comic that has a dozens or more volumes out and all the kiddies and zoomies that were sleeping on it buy it after they see a movie.
Are you retarded? There are multiple videogames already above multiple manga. Beyond me what kind of stupidity leads to these observations when nothing in reality bores out that
>Beyond me what kind of stupidity leads to these observations when nothing in reality bores out that
The fuck are you talking about? Generic Kiddy Slayer was over before it blew up. So it had the benefit of all its volumes selling in mass when Japanese zoomers all flocked to buy it after watching the anime and the movie so they could fit in together.
How the fuck is PUBG so popular?
Third worlders
It’s shocking to see literature on a list like this
Would Fortnite have made this list if it wasn’t a free install? Or does it’s popularity stem from being free to download?
>michael jackson
hasn't that nigga been dead since the 2000's
Can you fucking read? It's single year unit sales. Those are just the year he died.
He’s sold over 150 million since his death
Considering GTA V is still there and it's a 10 year old game, I'd say yeah
>only one book
>its harry sloppa
says a lot about society tbqh tbh
books as mainstream entertainment are over for good, unless we get directly hit by a solar storm
bump
>zoomer can’t comprehend books being popular
I have zero faith in the future
People don’t read anymore, because most books that come out of the west are woke slop
Seems like manga is doing alright though
Because manga is great for the ADHD generation since most of it is pictures with only a little text. Harry Potter books are like 300 pages of pure text
I lived long enough to see Harry Potter babbies talking shit about some other pop fiction shit and pretend their garbage is high art.
What a time to be alive.
I don’t like Harry Potter at all. I’m pointing out the clear difference between an actual book that is all text and a manga volume which is probably 25% text and 80% art. An grade schooler can finish a manga volume in an hour, it would take them days, if not weeks to read a Harry Potter book in full
Children in the west are conditioned into seeing reading as a punishment, so yes, the fact that any book can reach that chart is impressive and not likely to ever happen again
tbf harry potter is garbage
brb stretching my legs
It’s a young adult series which have always been steered to be less than but it was such a huge phenomenon in the 00s that it gets a pass. Every series after Harry Potter that tried to capture the same atmosphere is garbage
which books would you like to see on that list? also asking because i mainly read Ed McBain books and want to expand my horizon
>one piece is on there twice
It really is the marvel of Japan.
I mean who knows really, GTA6 is going to huge obviously and I'm going to enjoy the shit out of it since it's bound to be way bigger then V, idk if it'll break record's but the day the trailer comes out and the day the game comes out very little things in the entertainment industry will matter
It will probably break the record purely because people are buying it for GTAO2. That shit was able to sell V two extra times
Harry Potter bros stay winning.
Why should anybody even care?
V "only" sold 34 million? I always thought it was far and away from all other AAA, at like 80 million or something.
Wait, that's just for 2013, I get it
Animal crossing? What the actual fuck
No because Rockstar are israelites and wont release it on PC Day 1 so they can get people to double dip a year after release.
Should smash every videogame record tho
How the fuck did Demon Slayer sell so much?
That shit's hot garbage right out the ass.
That's only accounting for physical sales in japan btw, the number should be over 100 million units.
??? That's like over half of Japan's entire population buying that shit. What the fuck
It also has the biggest box office record for japan. And probably movies in general for its year.
It gave manga a huge boost in japan, that is already dying but it helped the industry a lot.
Really was just a perfect storm for it, mostly landing a top notch anime studio that took the child scribble manga art and turned it into a quality level it had no business being at.
It’s interesting to see what an anime can do for a series. There was literally no discussion about Demon Slayer before it got an anime that was really high quality and lured in lots of new readers. Compare with something like Chainsaw Man which was really popular before it’s anime, then the anime dropped with comically low quality and made the entire series a laughingstock
>There was literally no discussion about Demon Slayer before it got an anime
There was, here.
And obviously it was selling decently well in japan for pre anime stuff.
No there wasn’t. /a/ has been polluted by casuals for a decade now, if Jump slop doesn’t have an anime, /a/ won’t talk about it
>a single anime actually had more sales than MJ
I fucking hate EOPs
Anon, those are Japan-only sales.
You can tell because they're only using Oricon numbers, which only tracks Japan.
The series went from like 5 million sales pre anime to 150 in less than two years making it the highest selling manga per volume after devilman, a 40+ year old series.
They'll say that it did, who will check?
You can't lie about sales numbers.
Just sell to yourself for $0.01
I'm convinced that ufotable had some kind of subliminal messaging in the KnY anime that made every single Japanese person on the planet want to go out and buy the manga, because that shit was suddenly everywhere.
>Can GTA VI break the sales record?
No and the reason is simple shark card's gta 5 has so much sunk cost fallacy to the player base you will need a crow bar to pry them away from it.
Only retards need a constant flow of shart cards. GTAO content pays very well once you get established, the hard part is that initial setup
>Only retards need a constant flow of shart cards
and the average consumer is a retard.
is manga really this lucrative?
Only the 1% that make it huge. There are hundreds, even thousands of active manga series that take years and multiple volumes before even cracking 1 mil sales
Bro, that applies to literally everything ever.
>4 Manga in the top 10
we have failed as a species
one piece was KINO in 2010 though
I don't even know what Demon Slayer is.
You sure know what trannies is, though.
PUBG was bigger than Fortnite?
Anon, Fortnite is F2P.
There are no sales to track.
Fortnite is free to download so it doesn’t count towards sales
>PUBG was bigger than Fortnite?
i don't think anything is bigger than Fortnite every parent i know just gives there kid Fortnite and leaves them to it it's all kids now play all they want to talk about is there skins and buying there points zoomers are beyond help.
My little sister plays it all the time and wastes a ton of money on skins. I don’t get it
>I don’t get it
fuck if i know, but what i do know is that zoomers will never move into the normal gaming spear like we did they will pick one game and stick with it and if Fortnite dies i think they will just give up on video games the suits are going to throw a fit in a few years as this is not sustainable.
god gives his biggest sales figures to his sloppiest media products
I can't believe they sold Michael Jackson 79m times I thought the USA made slavery illegal
Why was Demon Slayer so popular. Obviously having Ufotable adapt your shit is gonna help and the fight scenes were fire but the actual plot and characters were as generic and barebones as they come. I looked at some of the panels of the manga and it looked like shit, so without a good plot, characters or art, how did it do so well?
I don't know. I watched the first season and I'm yet to understand why it was a phenomenon.
It broke the typical shonen slop mold of the MC wanting to be the very best. All Tanjiro wanted to do was save his sister
Ironically children ate it up and their parents thought it was good material for them to be watching/reading. Pretty sure the Japanese government helped marketed it and pushed it too.
Doesn't have too much edge, but still has a digestible amount for a wide range of people. Straightforward, with powerups sometimes being a little bullshit, but isn't on the tier of some retarded O MY RUBBER NEN. MC isn't a homosexual little crybaby and actually tries to get shit done instead of pooping and pissing himself, which also makes him a lot more likeable and someone to root for. Lastly, that one episode made it blow up like mad. I think it was episode 19 but that was the "moment." It's when I started hearing EVERYONE talk about it around that point. I think Games of Thrones blew up the same way during its early seasons.
>entertainment
>manga that costs pennies
>video game that costs 50x that
not that I'm rooting for GTA, but this is a retarded metric. If AAA video games cost <$10 I can guarantee it would blow this chart out of the water
Yea that’s true. The game itself is $60 but you also needed a $300+ console and a TV to play it on. Where the manga you just need to be literate
Pubs buy their own games to fix the numbers
who care this shit is going to be pozzed as hell
>game forces you to remember women exist so it’s bad
it's not about total amount of units sold but how quickly it sold. perchance. GTAV sold so fast it broke 6 world records including fastest property to make a trillion dollars, in just three days.
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2013/10/confirmed-grand-theft-auto-breaks-six-sales-world-records-51900
i'd wager GTA6 will at least triple this record but it's hard to tell. the hype is clearly there thoughever. perchance.
What the fuck is this ranking how is that possible.