Son of Godzilla said:Too Human has likely hit more than 1.3 million shipped worldwide. And that, and no other reason, is why LBP has bombed.
Post source or GTFO.
Son of Godzilla said:Too Human has likely hit more than 1.3 million shipped worldwide. And that, and no other reason, is why LBP has bombed.
BobsRevenge said:I'd imagine LBP was pretty inexpensive. Small to mid-size dev team working on a game for a couple years and some decent ads and PR... I'd say it probably has a mid-range budget.
I'd say LBP is already a success, and if it isn't it will be. This game'll have legs (it has a pretty damn good community already) and it'll serve well as a bundle game at some point.
BLaZiN PRopHeT said:So just wondering whats the budget for both games?
test_account said:1.3 million shipped probably means that at least (or around) 1 million copies are sold to consumers. Not too bad in my opinion!
Maybe they mean sold to retailers, but i dont know if that changes anything though.
EDIT: I now see that thechristoph already mentioned the sold to retailers part
Zhuk said:Weren't people saying it sold 1.6 million before?? if so where did that information come from??
BLaZiN PRopHeT said:the point im trying to make is its stupid to make a comment like he did when no one knows the budget for either game. i dont doubt Too human cost more but we would just be assuming.
Son of Godzilla said:Too Human has likely hit more than 1.3 million shipped worldwide. And that, and no other reason, is why LBP has bombed.
Fenderputty said:Ok buddy ... :lol
Yep - it's still bad, and the load times are ridiculous for levels that usually amount to less than five minutes of gameplay.KaosAngel said:The only thing I dislike about LBP is the bad networking. It lags like a MOFO regardless of my location and my connection in Japan is fiber-optics like the one at my parent's place.
Zhuk said:Weren't people saying it sold 1.6 million before?? if so where did that information come from??
test_account said:I think it was Soul Calibur 4:
http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=30200
I dont know about Fallout 3 though.
Regarding the LBP numbers, the numbers we know for sure is:
USA: 356k (NPD) (215k in October and 141k in November)
UK: atleast 200k (ELSPA/Chart Track (i think so at least))
Japan: 71,873 (Famitsu) (based on 3 weeks of sales)
That is a total of 627,873.
These numbers does not include any numbers from the rest of Europe, not the numbers for the December NPD for USA, not the numbers for Canada, Australia and for the rest of the world. Little Big Planet has been out for about 2 months now. LBP hasnt exactly lighted up the sales charts in these territories as far as i know, but i would think that it is a relatively safe bet to say that something around 400k has been sold in the territories that i just mentioned since LBP was launched. That would make LBP sales somewhere around 1 million copies sold to consumers
djblackice said:Can I post some of your stuff from N4G? I like your comments here better than the ones over there.
test_account said:I think it was Soul Calibur 4:
http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=30200
I dont know about Fallout 3 though.
Regarding the LBP numbers, the numbers we know for sure is:
USA: 356k (NPD) (215k in October and 141k in November)
UK: atleast 200k (ELSPA/Chart Track (i think so at least))
Japan: 71,873 (Famitsu) (based on 3 weeks of sales)
That is a total of 627,873.
These numbers does not include any numbers from the rest of Europe, not the numbers for the December NPD for USA, not the numbers for Canada, Australia and for the rest of the world. Little Big Planet has been out for about 2 months now. LBP hasnt exactly lighted up the sales charts in these territories as far as i know, but i would think that it is a relatively safe bet to say that something around 400k has been sold in the territories that i just mentioned since LBP was launched. That would make LBP sales somewhere around 1 million copies sold to consumers
Fenderputty said:I actually thought his blatant trolling over at N4G was better. It was more entertaining.
You know who these guys are....Averon said::lol But I thought GAF said LBP was a bomb.
Gaborn said:Think how many of those copies are sitting on store shelves somewhere and draw your own conclusions.
Son of Godzilla said:Too Human has likely hit more than 1.3 million shipped worldwide. And that, and no other reason, is why LBP has bombed.
SaitoH said:Love the thread title.
I still can't get over the hate this title garners and the myriad of ridiculous complaints.
test_account said:Japan + US + UK is at 627,873 to be exact if i am not mistaken. I dont think we know any other numbers. The only updated numbers we have is from the UK. We are still missing the sales for December in the US, and all of Europe (except for the UK), Canada, Australia and in the rest of the world. I do agree that it might not have sold 700k in those territories by now, but around 400-500k, maybe?
But as you say, it is impossible to determaine for sure, so i am not saying that there arent many unsold LBP copies in the stores, but personally i think the sales of LBP will go at least "ok" in the near future, so i dont think that the retailers will end up with alot of unsold stocks of LBP, but time will tell
EDIT: Unfortunately i have no idea if retailers are running low on LBP stocks. I havnt checked too many stores myself, but i have seen LBP in stock in some store at least. That doesnt necessarily tells how it is on the bigger picture though :\
SaitoH said:I still can't get over the hate this title garners and the myriad of ridiculous complaints.
Gaborn said:Think how many of those copies are sitting on store shelves somewhere and draw your own conclusions.
John Dunbar said:now sony fans truly know what it feels like to be a nintendo fan.
As Mojo already pointed out, i did mentioned the December numbers for the US as well I wonder how much Little Big Planet will sell in December in the USwomfalcs3 said:Well, you're also not incorporating December numbers for the US.
Ah ok, thanks for the info! I do think that LBP can have sold something around 1 million copies to consumer by now though I wrote alittle more detailed why i think so in these 2 posts:TJ Spyke said:Remember that Sony used to actually count systems sitting in warehouses and still in the factories when reporting numbers.
Ye, i agreeFlying_Phoenix said:Pretty much. People forget that some games sell by legs while others sell on a 6 week basis. Not every game flops because it doesn't make the top 5, 10, or even 20 on the NPD. This is much like most Wii games. DDRHP, Z&W, RB, and BB didn't set the charts on fire at all during their first month of release however they eventually stayed at a consistent selling basis on the lower level of the charts to pull respectable numbers. I think people just, for some reason or another, want the game to fail because they are uncomfortable seeing the PS3 (a system defined as a software selling nightmare) pulled respectable numbers for this game. I see it similar to the same people who constantly claim that the Wii can't sell third parties and just stick their heads in the ground ignoring the contridicting events. "Let's ignore RE:UC, RB, GHIII, SatSR, RS, NMH, BB, and etc. and just jump on De Blob and Call of Duty." Same with the PS3 "Let's ignore MGS4, Uncharted, the at level selling multiplats and pick on this game instead."
I'm not saying that this game didn't perform what SONY intended. I mean it definately isn't the PS3's Wii Sports, Wii Fit, or even Wii Music. Though it has performed respectively and denying the evidence that it could have broken a million is just ludacrus.
I think it should be interesting to see how Little Big Planet will contunie to sell. There were some rumors that LBP had sold 300k in the UK by now (see the latest PAL Charts thread here on NeoGaf), but we wont know if that is true or not until we get the ELSPA award numbers for January. We will probably get these numbers in about a month from nowOblivion said:That's true. I forgot that it's been a good while since the game was out, so that does seem reasonable.
That level of collective dementia takes a great many years to fester. Give it time.truly101 said:Great, can't wait for the ton of "SONY AM DOOMED!" and "EFDIS" replies Sony fans are now entitled to give whenever another one of these threads pop up.
Opiate said:I thought this deserved its own post for other sales age folks: if it isn't post worthy, please lock.
http://kotaku.com/5126304/ces-09-ka...as-sold-13-million-psn-accounts-at-17-million
Little Big Planet has sold 1.3 million copies, which we can all assume is shipped to retailer. Also, PSN accounts are at 17 million, but I find this information essentially meaningless because it clearly isn't accounting for multiple accounts on the same machine.
theBishop said:1.3 million shipped (lol, not sold, liars) is not nearly enough when you consider how huge the team was and what they spent on marketing. Some SCE managers definitely got fired over this one.
Flying_Phoenix said:Does this include bundle sales?
Pretty much. People forget that some games sell by legs while others sell on a 6 week basis. Not every game flops because it doesn't make the top 5, 10, or even 20 on the NPD. This is much like most Wii games. DDRHP, Z&W, RB, and BB didn't set the charts on fire at all during their first month of release however they eventually stayed at a consistent selling basis on the lower level of the charts to pull respectable numbers. I think people just, for some reason or another, want the game to fail because they are uncomfortable seeing the PS3 (a system defined as a software selling nightmare) pulled respectable numbers for this game. I see it similar to the same people who constantly claim that the Wii can't sell third parties and just stick their heads in the ground ignoring the contridicting events. "Let's ignore RE:UC, RB, GHIII, SatSR, RS, NMH, BB, and etc. and just jump on De Blob and Call of Duty." Same with the PS3 "Let's ignore MGS4, Uncharted, the at level selling multiplats and pick on this game instead."
I'm not saying that this game didn't perform what SONY intended. I mean it definately isn't the PS3's Wii Sports, Wii Fit, or even Wii Music. Though it has performed respectively and denying the evidence that it could have broken a million is just ludacrus.
Salmonax said:That level of collective dementia takes a great many years to fester. Give it time.