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Media Create Sales 12/24 - 12/30 2007
- Thread starter Cheesemeister
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Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
dolemite said:
It's more like "a game that costs half as much as a demo is a better value"
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
donny2112 said:
There's not a single person who knows a damn thing about sales that lauded it from a sales perspective.
ComputerNerd
Banned
Arde5643 said:
On the chart, the GameCube is about to enter the 2nd holiday period.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
DS vs PSP: Weekly shares of 57.6 / 42.4, bringing total shares to 73.6 / 26.4. If DS stopped selling and PSP continued at this week's rate, it would catch up in 84.1 weeks (August 10, 2009).
PS3 sv Wii: Weekly shares of 25.7 / 74.3, bringing total shares to 26.2 / 73.8. If Wii stopped selling and PS3 continued at this ewek's rate, it would catch up in 56.4 weeks (January 29, 2009).
At the end of the year, total hardware sales passed 16 million, besting last year by about 2.5 million.
Nintendo doesn't quite make 11 million hardware sales for the year, coming to 10.93 million by MC's count. This bests last year by about 1.2 million.
Sony just makes 5 million hardware sales. This may or may not be a new record; I've read PS1 alone got somewhere near that in 1997, but I don't have data going back that far.
Microsoft (well, X360) passes 240K, another new record.
PS3 sv Wii: Weekly shares of 25.7 / 74.3, bringing total shares to 26.2 / 73.8. If Wii stopped selling and PS3 continued at this ewek's rate, it would catch up in 56.4 weeks (January 29, 2009).
At the end of the year, total hardware sales passed 16 million, besting last year by about 2.5 million.
Nintendo doesn't quite make 11 million hardware sales for the year, coming to 10.93 million by MC's count. This bests last year by about 1.2 million.
Sony just makes 5 million hardware sales. This may or may not be a new record; I've read PS1 alone got somewhere near that in 1997, but I don't have data going back that far.
Microsoft (well, X360) passes 240K, another new record.
The problem with that is, we don't have very good year end/beginning data for many years prior to DS. Media Create was only around for 2002 and 2003, and I only have the 2003 data up on my site. Famitsu always ends up combining a couple weeks at the end of the year, which makes it hard to see the "bump, dip, rebump" pattern as we now do.BishopLamont said:
I think so, too...Nutter said:
...but doubling it? Doesn't seem likely yet.
I don't know which way ethelred is looking at things, but 4 full-fledged numbered FFs on one system would be abnormal to begin with. There's also that two remakes down the road could put a potential FF VI remake in 2010 or later, when such a project might make more sense on DS2 or Wii or whatever the latest industry hotness is.ksamedi said:
perfectchaos007
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Is polyphony still planning on selling cars in that game through micro transactions? If so then that means it was $40 for the demo, $60 for the real game, and $1.00 for every car you want to drive in that game. And people are going to eat it right up.Jonnyram said:
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
Wow, I just noticed the DS overtook the Ps2. Fucking nutzo.
Eteric Rice
Member
Link said:
They shall ackowledge it...
Someday. :|
Link
The Autumn Wind
Nah.Eteric Rice said:
EDIT - I'm wondering if the GT: Prologue releases are really such a great idea in the end. They seem to do nothing but steal sales from the full release. Each game in the series had sold more than the last until GT4, which took a sizable dip in sales despite the PS2's userbase being exponentially larger than it was when GT3 released.
To me, it seems to be a lose-lose situation for Sony. Prologue is too expensive to sell huge numbers, but still drags down the sales of the full game in the end because people are satisfied with Prologue. Not to mention by that time, used copies of Prologue are flooding the market dirt cheap.
Jonnyram said:
Your right about that but whatever happened to comparing content vs price. I mean no one complained that bioshock was $60 for a 10 hour single player gaming experience that most people only played once. But everyone seems to be up in arms that GT5P is $44 even though it has decent amount of content and online play to add even more to the experiences. But this is what i hear "no thats to much money for a prologue its just a demo". Maybe I just don't understand how people think but this makes no sense to me, for what I'm getting in prologue the price doesn't seem bad at all.
Edit: But I do agree with Link prologue is going to take sales from GT5 because it is too good of a "Demo"
perfectchaos007
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Where's Cheesemeister for 12/31-1/6 software sales?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
perfectchaos007 said:
where's Media Create for 12/31-1/6 software sales?
Cheesemeister
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perfectchaos007
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Cheesemeister said:
aww. why must they have site maintnence now?
Paying for demo sucks. The argument about volume in a video game is entirely different. See I paid $50 for Portal, and it's about 4 hours long. You might argue that GT5p has more content - it doesn't matter. We're talking about it being a subset of the product they intend to release at a later date.JudgeN said:
Pureauthor
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Vinnk said:
DQIV
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Mr. Pointy
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FFIV will squeak over a million.
I'm thinking FFVr DS is a given. But I think FFVIr might get bumped upstairs - probably Wii. FFVIIr for PS3 will probably still happen with some major Sony investment.
I'm thinking FFVr DS is a given. But I think FFVIr might get bumped upstairs - probably Wii. FFVIIr for PS3 will probably still happen with some major Sony investment.
No, I don't agree with that. I think there is a bit too much content in the game for it to be free. If it was free then the content should be considerably reduced but I am not a fan of this Prologue idea anyway. It seems to be nothing more than milking rather than actually generating any sort of hype for the actual game.Jonnyram said:
Overall, I think $20 US dollars for it is a fair price and considering the fact that everything you unlock and achieve carries onto the main game it would have been a decent investment. $40 US dollars though, that is a bit much. No thank you.
Is the GT5 thing all that different from a publisher releasing what the developer (but no one else) knows as an incomplete product under the guise of completeness, only to come back later with an expanded edition?
The impression I get is that GT5P could be considered a full game in many respects. If Sony released it as is (under the name GT5), and then came out with GT5 Director's Cut or such (which would be the GT5 we eventually get), would that be any different than this situation?
Sony's being honest at least. :lol
The impression I get is that GT5P could be considered a full game in many respects. If Sony released it as is (under the name GT5), and then came out with GT5 Director's Cut or such (which would be the GT5 we eventually get), would that be any different than this situation?
Sony's being honest at least. :lol
Hmm, since the volume of content argument seems to be picking up some steam, let's look at it from another angle...
Ever heard of shareware? Where you download a product and you can use it as much as you want, often with full functionality, for a limited period of time? Or perhaps you are too young to remember, but when Doom was first released for PC, the entire first chapter was a free demo, and chapters 2 and 3 could be unlocked by purchasing the game. GT5 Prologue not looking like such a hot deal now, is it?
If every copy of Prologue came with a coupon that gave you discount off the final game, that would be perfect. The way it stands now is an absolute rip off. You'll end up paying close to $100 in total, for one game.
Ever heard of shareware? Where you download a product and you can use it as much as you want, often with full functionality, for a limited period of time? Or perhaps you are too young to remember, but when Doom was first released for PC, the entire first chapter was a free demo, and chapters 2 and 3 could be unlocked by purchasing the game. GT5 Prologue not looking like such a hot deal now, is it?
If every copy of Prologue came with a coupon that gave you discount off the final game, that would be perfect. The way it stands now is an absolute rip off. You'll end up paying close to $100 in total, for one game.
Mr. Pointy
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I still think Prologue is a stupid idea.
GT4-P ate into the sales of GT4. This will do the same.
GT4-P ate into the sales of GT4. This will do the same.
Eteric Rice
Member
Mr. Pointy said:
It is.
You make Sony look like massive rip offs when you put it like that. :lolJonnyram said:
200,000 give or take have bought the game in Japan, not including downloads and when it releases in EU I imagine it will be more of the same there. Sony are doing a real good job of fucking everyone over here. :lol
So the concept of re-releases in the future is also a rip off in the same sense, right?
I dunno. I guess I could see it oppositely from how Jonny sees it because I collect Biohazard games, which have a long history of milking through re-releases. Except, Capcom tries to label the initial releases as the definitive versions of the title only to employ a bit of trickery later on. Biohazard CODE: Veronica Incomplete, anyone?
I dunno. I guess I could see it oppositely from how Jonny sees it because I collect Biohazard games, which have a long history of milking through re-releases. Except, Capcom tries to label the initial releases as the definitive versions of the title only to employ a bit of trickery later on. Biohazard CODE: Veronica Incomplete, anyone?
Mr. Pointy
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I don't have a problem with ports or remakes if they're good or of a good game.
I just don't like the idea of Sony charging $40 for what is basically an unupgradeable shareware title.
I just don't like the idea of Sony charging $40 for what is basically an unupgradeable shareware title.