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NPD Sales Results for August 2007
- Thread starter sonycowboy
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Agent Icebeezy
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Tzeentch said:
What are these differences?
Eteric Rice
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The DS is this generation's PS2, people.
Count Dookkake
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Well, the media should be getting wind of the beta updates for Home, so expect some mainstream press coverage to really help out the PS3 next month.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Wowhawk does well for an online game.
BIOSHOCK = WOAH!!
BIOSHOCK = WOAH!!
Xisiqomelir
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Tzeentch said:
:lol
Deacon deserves credit for the inspiration (Tabris too)!
tetrisgrammaton
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glad i stuck around to watch the ban
TheDarkKnight774
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Way to go Bioshock!
everything else is pretty boring. Looking at the Hardware numbers is getting dull at this point. Its just the same things every month and nothing is going to change. The roles have been locked for this gen.
everything else is pretty boring. Looking at the Hardware numbers is getting dull at this point. Its just the same things every month and nothing is going to change. The roles have been locked for this gen.
Maxwell House
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Which is odd, since that game has nothing to do with the PS3.Narag said:
titiklabingapat
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Exactly.stewacide said:
WickedLaharl
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stewacide said:
your post is bullshit, but there are those that will agree.
Edit: oh look, someone above me does. what a crazy world!
Different (possibly higher quality) textures and true "drop in" PSN mutliplayer because it doesn't need the LIVE networking layer were the two that were mentioned. I would absolutely not be surprised if the PS3 version has additional special perks that haven't been reviewed yet though.Agent Icebeezy said:
pooteeweet
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Finally caught up.
sonycowboy
Can you you clarify whether the Bioshock numbers includes the CE, and if not is it possible to provide them? Thanks in advance.
sonycowboy
Can you you clarify whether the Bioshock numbers includes the CE, and if not is it possible to provide them? Thanks in advance.
Wii software sales are doing very well. Wii Play and Mario Party 8 continue to do amazingly well and Metroid Prime 3 has great sales for only three days on the market. Mario Strikers Charged has now sold ~250,000 in the U.S. alone, too, I believe.
Wii hardware sales were great, too. Over 400,000 is amazing.
Tough call for Madden Wii, but it still should have passed 100,000, which isn't TOO bad. I mean, it had the competition of all the games listed above.
I'm convinced that the only reason the PS3 Madden even sold ~335,000 was because PS3 owners have been buying little for their system in the past several months. What other PS3 games do you see charting? None. There's no competition on the system. Of course Madden PS3 will sell well then.
Wii hardware sales were great, too. Over 400,000 is amazing.
Tough call for Madden Wii, but it still should have passed 100,000, which isn't TOO bad. I mean, it had the competition of all the games listed above.
I'm convinced that the only reason the PS3 Madden even sold ~335,000 was because PS3 owners have been buying little for their system in the past several months. What other PS3 games do you see charting? None. There's no competition on the system. Of course Madden PS3 will sell well then.
titiklabingapat
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Not big enough and not influential enough, apparently.Sharp said:
Flakster99
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_leech_ said:
Up to this point, no Canadian numbers whatsoever have been posted. What are our chances, sonycowboy?
BenjaminBirdie
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Odysseus said:
But that lack of difference (which is pretty much guaranteed) could very well make a big difference in the console war, because it might keep developers from ever bothering to give the PS3 preferential treatment in the future. Which is what it needs to stand out in the marketplace. And so the snake keeps eating its tail.
WickedLaharl said:
If Sony doesn't drop the price before the holidays, I'd worry. If Warner Bros. goes HD-DVD only, I'd worry. If we don't start seeing the PS3 doing better on multiplatform release comparisons than it has so far, I'd worry. If third parties abandon the PS3 wholly, I'd really really worry.
The PS3 won't be the number one platform this generation, and it very probably won't be the number two platform, but I think it'll be a closer split this generation than last, and Sony will have enough incentives with all the avenues for monetization in the networked world with PS3 that it'll be worth their while in a big way to be as aggressive as possible in salvaging the platform.
titiklabingapat
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If third parties only have to rely on the 360, watch them as Nintendo devours thier marketshare.Mrbob said:
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Stormbringer
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I was actually expecting Corruption closer to 250k based on Matt. C early statements, but I think these numbers are still pretty respectable. We will see how it will do in the coming weeks, but it's notable that it's actually doing better than Echoes so far (which, granted, is not that much of an accomplishment), though once again, we will have to follow it a bit longer to see how much better it's doing. I actually expect it to do clearly better than Echoes, but worse than Prime, as it seems that while the decline of the franchise popularity would be halted, this game would still fail to expand significanty the audience of the franchise.
BenjaminBirdie said:
PS3 is done. It is the new Gamecube in NA.
How would this change from the status quo on Wii right now? Nintendo systems sell because of Nintendo games.
The only place where this is slightly bucking the trend is DS in Japan only. And Nintendo games still sell the lions share.
MobiusPigeon
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Tzeentch said:
i'd say EA will start favoring 360 more than ps3...oh about 2 hours ago and the 360 version of burnout will be just fine.
pooteeweet
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jonabbey said:
I think we're all waiting for that shoe to drop to determine PS3's fate.
Retrofluxed
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Correction to all, the Wii60DS is the "new PS2".
*hugs his Wii60DS combo*
This generation has been awesome so far, lol.
*hugs his Wii60DS combo*
This generation has been awesome so far, lol.
titiklabingapat
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Apparently, yes, or very close to it.schuelma said:
BenjaminBirdie
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Jammy said:
I think it was John Davison who posited, on the celebrated online "pod"cast, 1up Yours, that Madden is one of the few real barometers that help measure the overall buying userbase of any console (the Wii seems to be immune to this) but it's probably fair to extrapolate that the PS3 has about a 400,000 strong pool of loyal users who will buy most big releases for that console. And that the 360 has a pool of about 800-900,000. If you believe Mr. Davison.
WickedLaharl
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titiklabingapat said:
and we're all angry white males!
BenjaminBirdie
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Loudninja said:
It's really not that dumb. Someone posted the other day how much better the GameCube did in the same timeframe than the PS3 is doing now.
sonycowboy
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Flakster99 said:
Not until Monday.
titiklabingapat said:
You're not making any sense. Madden is a very casual/mainstream game. The Wii needs to sell more than 100K copies of Madden, bottom line. Blaming the consumer for being angry young men is just idiotic.
Does the HD disc format really matter these days? Both formats seem to be stuck in first gear and early adopters who hopped on to the PS3 for Blu-Ray already bought the unit I would think.jonabbey said:
Another price drop this soon might kill their sales though, as a lot of people would just wait for another round of drops and retailers would probably flip out with all their unsold inventory. Plus it might alienate early adopters - I don't think they can expect as much good-will as Apple did with the iPhone cuts.
Broken Arrow
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Ether_Snake said:
Nintendo am doomed!!