CitizenCope
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Cross game invites and party chat?duckroll said:Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha 50 bucks a year. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Sorry.
Cross game invites and party chat?duckroll said:Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha 50 bucks a year. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Sorry.
I just think Nintendo doesn't care, because they have their own internal numbers and those are what matter because they're not leaving gaming and they won't ever get pressure from investors to leave gaming either.poppabk said:But the sales figures have helped cement the 3rd parties don't sell on Wii theory. Given the large off chart sales of Wii games, they actually have a lot to lose, depending on what data subscribers see and pay attention to.
Speaking of which we won't get to see how Epic Mickey does.poppabk said:But the sales figures have helped cement the 3rd parties don't sell on Wii theory. Given the large off chart sales of Wii games, they actually have a lot to lose, depending on what data subscribers see and pay attention to.
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Segata Sanshiro said:u ignorant
13 cents a day! fuck starving children!duckroll said:Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha 50 bucks a year. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Sorry.
And eventually budget and full price games seperated for individual formats (even if the definition of a budget game can sometimes be bizzare).GarthVaderUK said:OMG, it's like the UK charts from a few years ago, except we at least got the top 40.
duckroll said:Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha 50 bucks a year. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Sorry.
balladofwindfishes said:Speaking of which we won't get to see how Epic Mickey does.
Oh well.
I wonder how they're going to treat games that have the same name, but are essentially different games? The Call of Duties, for example, usually share a name with the DS version, but are essentially a completely different game.
For Nintendo games, we can use very, very rough estimates from the Nintendo channel, if posters are incredibly desperate. It's better than nothing though.
why does a bad day have to be black? why can't it be a white day?Guy Legend said:A shitty cell phone Shenmue game and now no NPD. Black days for the gaming industry.
-PXG- said:I know right.
Evilore would be a fool to make people pay to access GAF. Just read threads about Hulu Plus or Giant Bomb. People would skip town as if there was a fucking plague.
SonOfABeep said:it's very possible MS wants to hide the inevitable failure of kinect and it's software.
The Faceless Master said:why does a bad day have to be black? why can't it be a white day?
The Faceless Master said:why does a bad day have to be black? why can't it be a white day?
Neogaf+ confirmed.duckroll said:I don't think you understand what I was laughing at.
that's racist!Gravijah said:cause every day is a white day?
duckroll said:I don't think you understand what I was laughing at.
Thankfully, Chart-Track do provide a chart with the SKUs uncombined; individual formats in two types, by units sold sold and by value (which is units sold*price).Sho_Nuff82 said:If it's anything like Chart-track, they will combine SKUs of anything with the same title.
This includes games like FIFA, Toy Story, Harry Potter, Sonic, Tiger Woods, etc, that release on everything simultaneously yet are vastly different titles across SKUs. So the Wii version of Black Ops will be bunched with the 360/PS3 versions if there is a simultaneous launch.
Correct. The sample sheet they sent out (restating June data) does precisely this.Sho_Nuff82 said:If it's anything like Chart-track, they will combine SKUs of anything with the same title.
This includes games like FIFA, Toy Story, Harry Potter, Sonic, Tiger Woods, etc, that release on everything simultaneously yet are vastly different titles across SKUs. So the Wii version of Black Ops will be bunched with the 360/PS3 versions if there is a simultaneous launch.
SlipperySlope said:What were you laughing at?
Starwolf_UK said:Thankfully, Chart-Track do provide a chart with the SKUs uncombined; individual formats in two types, by units sold sold and by value (which is units sold*price).
duckroll said:The idea that you can pay 50 bucks a year and get access to NPD's complete numbers? It's so retarded I don't know what to say.
But a lot of what sales figures help or hinder is perception. The perception that the Wii 3rd party titles sell badly relative to PS3/360 is favored by the limited data we get, because games don't seem to be as front loaded on Wii (when we get the data - Force Unleashed leak a while back for example). It would be nice to think that public perception does not sway the level headed business men at the top who should have all the real data, but who knows. I mean Nintendo (US) released a bunch of charts to disprove the poor third party sales perception so they obviously do care.Dave Long said:I just think Nintendo doesn't care, because they have their own internal numbers and those are what matter because they're not leaving gaming and they won't ever get pressure from investors to leave gaming either.
The other two? Third parties? They could be battling shareholders if Nintendo keeps on winning.
Gravijah said:I think he meant the 50 bucks from a lot of users going towards a subscription to NPD.
duckroll said:Yeah, no. Doesn't work that way.
Yeah, somehow I'm guessing that NPD might be sort of upset about the idea that folks could pay $50/yr to GAF for the numbers that NPD wants them to pay a few thousand bucks for.duckroll said:The idea that you can pay 50 bucks a year and get access to NPD's complete numbers? It's so retarded I don't know what to say.
I believe the implication was that there would be a collective group of individuals all paying 50 bucks a year to amass the amount to cover NPD's subscription fee.duckroll said:The idea that you can pay 50 bucks a year and get access to NPD's complete numbers? It's so retarded I don't know what to say.
LiK said:no more boring NPD podcast discussions.
B-Rad Lascelle said:I believe the implication was that there would be a collective group of individuals all paying 50 bucks a year to amass the amount to cover NPD's subscription fee.
But I think we all understand such a thing would never be allowed due to the fact that those subscriptions are for individual use and it would still undermine the NPD even with NDAs involved 'cause companies would simply get their data through the GAF middle man instead of ponying up the full subscription fee themselves.
Hence there is no solution apart from assuring NPD's destruction at the hands of Nielsen.
duckroll said:Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha 50 bucks a year. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Sorry.
Yes.Gravijah said:Right, wouldn't everyone need their own subscription?
duckroll said:The idea that you can pay 50 bucks a year and get access to NPD's complete numbers? It's so retarded I don't know what to say.
Boney said:Soooo how much is it? $10.000? $100.000?
one gagillion dollars?
Although I am now interested how much people pay for the data.kswiston said:I think it was fairly obvious that it was a joke.
duckroll said:The idea that you can pay 50 bucks a year and get access to NPD's complete numbers? It's so retarded I don't know what to say.
poppabk said:Although I am now interested how much people pay for the data.
Calcaneus said:Personally, I don't care as much about sales numbers as I used to, but its always better to have accurate numbers out there so this kinda sucks.
Didn't they try this before, I remember them announcing it then going back to how it normally was.
Gravijah said:Right, wouldn't everyone need their own subscription?
vicissitudes said:The idea is 200 people pool $50 a year and one person out of those subscribes at $10,000 a year, then shares the numbers privately with the other 200 without NPD knowing about it. How is this in any way ridiculous or unfeasible?