lowlylowlycook
Member
JoshuaJSlone said:
That's sort of spooky.
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What was the rate the last time you did that calculation?
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NPD Sales Results for September 2009
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That's sort of spooky.
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What was the rate the last time you did that calculation?
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Search is failing me at the moment, but I can do it anew for some old months.lowlylowlycook said:
March 2009
Wii: 0.120 games per week
PS3: 0.114
X360: 0.106
June 2009
Wii: 0.104
PS3: 0.102
X360: 0.097
That the older ones seem higher probably has to do with having fewer non-holiday months in the mix. Though these older ones are still pretty similar to each other, I guess they've gotten even more closer than I realized.
lowlylowlycook
Member
JoshuaJSlone said:
Yeah, interesting. Those latest numbers made it look like either you were measuring some physics constant or their was some kind of fraud involved.
I guess it's just a coincidence that all the differences (ownership demographics, time on the market, game prices, etc.) just happen to cancel out to basically 1 part in 100.
Do we have the data to do a similar calculation on a previous generation or maybe on Japan?
Just goes to show that whatever gaf thinks about each console, to most consumers they are all game machines and they buy games about once every other month for them, whether those are brown murder simulators or kiddy Nintendo titles.
More on the Muramasa sales
http://gamerinvestments.com/video-g...rs-expects-strong-sales-through-the-holidays/
http://gamerinvestments.com/video-g...rs-expects-strong-sales-through-the-holidays/
boiled goose
good with gravy
unomas said:
im guessing wii play but not sports. it is npd based i think
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Arbitrarily removing ~12 million for Wii Play would give approximately:unomas said:
X360: 0.091 games per week
Wii: 0.083 games per week
PS3: 0.092 games per week
Arbitrarily adding in ~ 25 million Wii sports would give:
X360: 0.091 games per week
Wii: 0.107 games per week
PS3: 0.092 games per week
BishopLamont
Banned
Every studio that wants to succeed should look at 5th Cell. I don't get why it's so hard for developers to make games that are fit for the respective platforms they're working on.
Hurray for smart business practice and creativity.
Hurray for smart business practice and creativity.
AdventureRacing
Member
BishopLamont said:
I agree they should look at 5th cell, a western dev which for some strange reason decided to support by far the most successful console in the history of gaming.
womfalcs3
Banned
cw_sasuke said:
No documentation. They have a counter that comes up at the bottom of the screen to show how much they've sold. It was at 65,000 units sold with 4 hours left on the deal. The host said that they only had a few thousand more left in the current advanced order stage.
I think they had multiple advanced order stages since they sold out of their immediate shipment early on.
womfalcs3
Banned
gerg said:
Actually, I found a source.
http://www.qvc.com/qic/qvcapp.aspx/...ms.item.E08086.stream.d.stream.d.CM_SCID.VSTR
There's a video on there that shows the last presentation. You can see the number for yourself.
GrotesqueBeauty
Banned
But it came with an AV cable, AC adapter, wrist strap, infrared sensor, stand and 2 AA batteries for the remote! That's what I call a bargain!Jocchan said:
Hero of Legend
Member
lordmrw said:
I would not be surprised if by now it's already over the forecast of around 55,000 or whatever in Japan, considering that 45,000 number was from June. Surely it's sold 10,000 in four months time.
Here's that post with numbers from June (posted in July):
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=16872670&postcount=11
Anyone know the corrent NPD LTD for Little King's Story, Rune Factory Frontier, and even Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga? XSEED claims they're continuing to have steady sales, even VKES.
Hopefully MMV will give us a new sales update soon enough.
Also, I have to say that handing ARF to Ignition may have been a wise move, because Muramasa obviously outsold LKS and RFF's months worth of sales after merely three weeks? Nintendo even held a launch event in the Nintendo World Store, Ignition must've organized that.
gregor7777
Banned
Not sure I'd put too much weight in that 70,000 number. It's QVC after all.
charlequin
Banned
Jocchan said:
I was about to harangue you for a moment there until I realized that they probably don't mean an extra Wiimote and nunchuk. :lol
Stink said:
I agree with this somewhat. The Blu-ray drive wasn't a mistake if anything it will be the secret weapon.
The biggest mistake in my mind, which is along the lines of what Stink said, was SONY letting Microsoft pressure themselves into a 2006 release with no true 3rd party support. They were being arrogant but truthful when they said next-gen doesn't start until SONY says so, too bad they didn't believe in themselves.
No way, developers could justify their expensive next-gen games with no sign of a PS3 port to take on some of the risk. As it was a lot of high profile multi-sku games got delayed anyway. They should've given developers more time with the machine and launched worldwide in holiday 07. It's not like much would've changed as far as Microsoft getting first dibs on money hatted exclusives, but it would've improved quality on all their new franchises and ports, as well as stuck Microsoft 2 years of sad console sales.