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Why are some of you acting like it was a failure in first place? That percentage is most likely compared to last week. Though we don't have a time reference.
Because it's positive Nintendo news.
Why are some of you acting like it was a failure in first place? That percentage is most likely compared to last week. Though we don't have a time reference.
It's MO with every WiiU sales related thread. Obviously lame troll replies are witty commentary on the topic at hand.Why is it like half the posts in this thread are trolling? Either people making stupid jokes about eShop games not selling (False) or posts like this which show you didn't even go to the link...
I wasn't championing the math (I didn't contribute to it as you can see), but critiquing whoever is disparaging any attempt to translate it into real, less sensational figures.Your mathematics teachers have failed you miserably.
Off the top of my head, Fronzebyte, Wayforward, Nexon, Shin'en, Black Forest, Tomorrow Corp, Gaijin Games, Renegade Kid and Two Tribes have all noted positive results for their games on Wii U eShop. In some cases even better results than on longer established rival services like PSN or XBLA.eshop has been the one main positive grace for the wiiU platform and indies have gone on record again and again how their games have sold pretty well & that nintendo has been very 'liberal' with what they allow developers to do on it.
For the 27% at the end to make sense, the sales before the change must have been a whole multiple of 37.
Worst case, it sold 37 the day before and 3007 after the price cut/patch release.
The negative responses in this thread targeted at those attempting to discuss the sales in real terms behind the PR fluff, the health of the platform and so on are ridiculous. Multiple times more distracting than any troll/joke posts.
Not everyone who isn't dedicated to singing their praises constantly is out to get Nintendo and every product on their systems. You can put your shields down, take a deep breath and please stay far away from the Media Create threads.
Thanks for telling me which posts I was talking about (hint: I wasn't). Anyone with an ounce of sense would approach this news with skepticism due to the metric used and conclude that it's not a good indicator one way or another without any raw data to use as a comparison. Therefore it cannot be used as a measure of the platform's health (which most of us are interested in since this kind of data is so obscured by Nintendo generally). This is what's called an objective viewpoint.I like how you mask blatant trolling and joking as "attempting to discuss the sales in real terms". Tell me, which one of them bothered inquiring how much the game has already sold? Whether this increase was over the last week, month, total sales?
Either you're playing coy or you seriously believe those posts actually cared about the sales, in which case you might want to actually look through a sales thread and see the types of posts people actually interested in sales numbers make
no I dont believe anything, only thing I know is that twotribes were pleasantly shocked at the huge spike
An objective observation would be that developers are not allowed to quote sales numbers in public. Another objective observation would be that apparently TwoTribes are happy with the bump, and wanted to chime in with something they are allowed to quote, thus their increase quote. Other eShop developers have done likewise before and apparently that flies with nintendo.Thanks for telling me which posts I was talking about (hint: I wasn't). Anyone with an ounce of sense would approach this news with skepticism due to the metric used and conclude that it's not a good indicator one way or another without any raw data to use as a comparison. Therefore it cannot be used as a measure of the platform's health (which most of us are interested in since this kind of data is so obscured by Nintendo generally). This is what's called an objective viewpoint.
Thanks for telling me which posts I was talking about (hint: I wasn't). Anyone with an ounce of sense would approach this news with skepticism due to the metric used and conclude that it's not a good indicator one way or another without any raw data to use as a comparison. Therefore it cannot be used as a measure of the platform's health (which most of us are interested in since this kind of data is so obscured by Nintendo generally). This is what's called an objective viewpoint.
An objective observation would be that developers are not allowed to quote sales numbers in public. Another objective observation would be that apparently TwoTribes are happy with the bump, and wanted to chime in with something they are allowed to quote, thus their increase quote. Other eShop developers have done likewise before and apparently that flies with nintendo.
The negative responses in this thread targeted at those attempting to discuss the sales in real terms behind the PR fluff, the health of the platform and so on are ridiculous.
Not everyone who isn't dedicated to singing their praises constantly is out to get Nintendo and every product on their systems.
So 8027 people bought it?
Hahahahah!
Pretty much.
It's not funny cause it's true? (or close to it)
I don't need to prove simple statistics and common sense. You learn that in high school.
Meanwhile, nobody seems to know the PC version exists.
the difference in conversational intelligence between the shit in this thread and a typical media create thread is night and day.
please don't stand/sit/hang there and claim post like these (which make up the bulk of wiiU threads) are 'attempts' to have intelligence discussion......
Being that the basis of this thread is a tweet from Two Tribes, what does Nintendo have to do with any of this?
It took over two pages until someone pointed out how a percentage works, and now everyone's a mathematician. smh
I'm assuming this is the case. Aren't Nintendo's digital sales for indies usually nonexistent under normal circumstances?
Yep. And if you had the original it would just auto-update to the new version.So if I buy this today I get Toki Tori 2 +?
Oh, gosh. I'm laughing my butt off. LOL
Seriously, though. It's a good game. You guys should go and increase that percentage!
Or buy it on Steam!
The best game onthe e-shop. Anyone with a wii u should buy this. Amazing, anazing game all around.
It's too late for this, the math part of my brain is already asleep, but I feel the impulse to do this anyway.
Assumption: 8027% is not a random number meaning "a lot".
So, no number lower than 100 yields an integer when multiplied by 81.27*, and that means that the number of previous sales must be a multiple of 100, which is, uh, well, 0.01 probable, but okay. Therefore, sales must be a multiple of 8127. What am I doing wrong.
* A 8027% increase means (x + 80.27x), which is (81.27x).
In context, 8127 or 16254 (up from 100 or 200 respectively) seems appropriately big for an indie game receiving an update relatively late after launch on a console with a limited install base. (Assuming weekly)
For the 27% at the end to make sense, the sales before the change must have been a whole multiple of 37.
Worst case, it sold 37 the day before and 3007 after the price cut/patch release.
I really enjoyed the original game on Steam; would it be worth getting TT2 on PC again since that's where I have the original, or to get it on the Wii U?
d[-_-]b;81812929 said:No DBZ reference, GAF disappoints... as the Wii U threads are pretty much the same.
So 8027 people bought it?
This
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Yep. I enjoy two more because I'm not a super genius and I prefer the more open world approach.Toki Tori is the best.
The second game is pretty different from the first, which apparently a lot of people don't like.
Those people are stupid. Both games are great.
It could've sold, for example, 11 units the day before. Now, it would've sold 894.
894/11 = 81.2727~, rounded up to 8127%, which is rouglhy an additional 8027% increase over the original 11 sales.
You forgot to take into account that they obviously rounded up their number to a reasonable 2 digit, unless I misread your post.
Could've sold 11 units before, like I said. How'd you get 37?