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Official March 2008 NPD - There are no words. Almost $1B in SW sales
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andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
I don't agree. If the 360 was following it's own path, it should be the leader. PS2 type of leader. It's in it's 3rd year and it's only averaging around 200-300 K per month. That's not leader qualities. So, I would say the Wii is impacting it. Or the market rapidly shrunk from last generation. You can't say Wii is in a different market. MS believed it to a fault but it's not true. The market is expanding but only by the Wii. All other markets are shrinking.Elios83 said:
Agent Icebeezy
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Talamius said:
That is true, but they need to be more proactive about their console, not just to being happy with trading punches with the PS3. As DCharlie said, both of these are poor, but they have their own reasons. However, with a price cut, Microsoft can create separation. I've talked up a price cut a lot because we all know they need it, but it would be such a boost to them to do so. People want GTA and a $200 difference between lowest entries would be a big help for the 360.
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
Someone give this man a medal!ghostlyjoe said:
MWS Natural
Member
It's still good for the industry because developers can use money made off of Wii to fund HD games for PS360mysticstylez said:
.Kabuki Waq
Member
Nutter said:
i just think people underestimate how popular smash had gotten by the end of last gen.
MiamiWesker
Member
Nutter said:
Your predictions are going to extremely low.
Yes Boss! said:
I don't see what's wrong with that statement. A lot of third parties, especially western third parties, simply despise the Wii. Things aren't going to change. SE, Capcom and Sega might be on board (and SE is pretty iffy), but there isn't a lot of love coming from anyone else. At least the DS has awesome 2D games and revivals and continuations of old franchises (in 2D).
Gully State
Member
mysticstylez said:
The wii is a fad too right?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
DKnight said:
Basically your post boils down to "I'm the ultimate arbiter of what's worth it and what isn't, and if anyone disagrees it's because they've been brainwashed into thinking differently, not because there are perfectly valid reasons to hold an opinion different than mine".
mysticstylez
Banned
Yes Boss! said:
It's true, besides MH3 coming to Wii what other major 3rd party games has the Wii taken away from the PS3 of 360? When a console sells 3/4's of a million consoles in March, and it still isn't stealing exclusives, then it's outrageous sales aren't going to effect MS or Sony.
fly high ~ayunite~
Member
If you round up Wii's US LTD (9M) and Brawl's LTD (3M)...
One out of three Wii owners bought Brawl last month. Quite impressive for a "fad" and Wii Sports player :lol
One out of three Wii owners bought Brawl last month. Quite impressive for a "fad" and Wii Sports player :lol
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Leonsito said:I hope I'm not too late to the party, just made this in ImageReady:
:lol :lol :lol
MisterHero
Super Member
Heh as it stands none of my money will be funding Rockband 2. :lolMWS Natural said:It's still good for the industry because developers can use money made off of Wii to fund HD games for PS360
BuckRobotron
Member
I thought I was being a rebel by actually buying CC for PSP. Good to see more PSP owners getting with the program.
360 software is amazing, Army of Two didn't even register on my radar but it sure as hell did for many other 360 owners.
Did just buy COD4 (+1 for next month), game has legs.
360 software is amazing, Army of Two didn't even register on my radar but it sure as hell did for many other 360 owners.
Did just buy COD4 (+1 for next month), game has legs.
AniHawk said:
This is a very late reply given the celerity of which this thread has been increasing in post-count, but I can tell you going from inside a first party and seeing their projected sales numbers LTD and then going to a third party with multiplatform releases and seeing their projected LTD sales totally BLEW MY MIND. Even for non-high demand franchises or titles.
Goddamn it's looking as if the entire 'HD Generation' selling point was a mistake. I know the enthusiast upmarket values it extremely highly, but it appears that they are vastly outnumbered by consumers who just don't give a shit. Telling people that the graphics were great didn't register with the mass market because they had already been told that their 6th generation consoles had great graphics and they were satisfied.
The statements that people make on message boards about their motives don't even necessarily correspond with their own real behavior, nor that of the millions who don't care enough to read a gaming message board, let alone post in one.
No matter how much people appreciate the enhanced performance, features and resolution of the HD consoles, their aggregate behavior suggests that they are not buying these consoles because of their superior graphics and support for HD resolutions. No, they are buying them in spite of their superior graphics and support for HD in order to access their software libraries.
In short, people aren't nearly as interested in upgrading their TV game system as they are in buying currently published software, specifically "system sellers". Xbox 360 and PS3 both have these kinds of titles, but they have to work harder to justify higher system prices than they did last generation. And that is part of why the HD consoles have had such a hard time building and increasing their momentum in this generation.
The statements that people make on message boards about their motives don't even necessarily correspond with their own real behavior, nor that of the millions who don't care enough to read a gaming message board, let alone post in one.
No matter how much people appreciate the enhanced performance, features and resolution of the HD consoles, their aggregate behavior suggests that they are not buying these consoles because of their superior graphics and support for HD resolutions. No, they are buying them in spite of their superior graphics and support for HD in order to access their software libraries.
In short, people aren't nearly as interested in upgrading their TV game system as they are in buying currently published software, specifically "system sellers". Xbox 360 and PS3 both have these kinds of titles, but they have to work harder to justify higher system prices than they did last generation. And that is part of why the HD consoles have had such a hard time building and increasing their momentum in this generation.
MiamiWesker
Member
Nutter said:
YES, very very low.
Psychotext
Member
It's off topic... but what's he doing in the original of that?Leonsito said:
Agent Icebeezy
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Kabuki Waq said:
It was doing like 50k around Xmas time
test_account
XP-39C²
Frillen said:
What do you mean?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
PhoenixDark said:
PlayStation 2 216K
PlayStation 3 257K
PlayStation Portable 297K
Xbox 360 262K
Nintendo DS 698K
Wii 721K
Super Smash Bros Brawl 2.7mil
YES!!!
:lol
StorablePrawn
Banned
skinnyrattler said:
Not even close. A couple decent games does not a Wii Sports make.
Wyndstryker
Member
mysticstylez said:
Was Dragon Quest going to the DS forgotten already?
MidgarBlowedUp
Member
By the time Killzone 2 and Home are out, the xbox360 will look like another last gen console.
In total the, sony brand, psp+ps2+ps3 are taking up (oops)ish% of the march npd (770k).