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[zylo]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/sales_chart_us_console_sales.html

Good to see RE4 move up it definiately deserves to sell well.

 

[Solid]

GAF'S SPORTS GOTY NUMERO UNO!

 

[Wario64]

Oddworld jumped from #1 to #7

RE4 at #2...word of mouth seems to be spreading



1 World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International (PS2)

2 Resident Evil 4
Publisher: Capcom | Platform: GC | Genre: Adventure
release:
01/11/2005
3 Mercenaries
Publisher: LucasArts | Platform: XBOX | Genre: Action
release:
01/10/2005
4 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Publisher: Rockstar Games | Platform: PS2 | Genre: Action
release:
10/26/2004
5 Mercenaries
Publisher: LucasArts | Platform: PS2 | Genre: Action
release:
01/10/2005
6 Playboy: The Mansion
Publisher: Arush Entertainment | Platform: PS2 | Genre: Strategy
release:
01/25/2005
7 Oddworld Stranger's Wrath
Publisher: EA Games | Platform: XBOX | Genre: Adventure
release:
01/25/2005
8 The Punisher
Publisher: THQ | Platform: PS2 | Genre: Action
release:
01/17/2005
9 Madden NFL 2005
Publisher: EA Sports | Platform: PS2 | Genre: Sports
release:
08/09/2004
10 World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International
Publisher: Konami | Platform: XBOX | Genre: Sports
release:
02/02/2005

 

[SantaC]

Oddworld jumped from #1 to #7

RE4 at #2...word of mouth seems to be spreading

yep seems like this game will have some legs in February too.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Good to see Mercs is getting some love. Great game.

 

[Fifty]

Wow, I'm amazed that WE is selling that well.

 

[Chi-Town]

Oddworld jumped from #1 to #7

Jumped is when it goes up. This is a fall.

 

[Zelda-Bitch]

Go Capcom!

 

[Speevy]

Go WE8! I'm picking up Oddworld Wednesday.

 

[sonycowboy]

Yes, because the EB charts have been so indictative of NPD numbers.

 

[Drakken]

How the heck is Winning Eleven 8, a soccer game, outselling Resident Evil 4, Playboy, etc.? I mean, I'm all for it, as I'm a fan of the WE games, but that just strikes me as amazing. If these were sales for Europe, then I'd understand, but America? :-O

 

[AstroLad]

Yes, because the EB charts have been so indictative of NPD numbers.

Who said they were, other than you just now?

 

[sonycowboy]

Who said they were, other than you just now?

In this very thread, people are using the EBGames.com ranking as an indicator of how well it's performing and my comment is merely that it's an indicator of how well it's doing on EBGames.com daily sales. A website, which accounts for < 1% of EBGames sales (for a single day), who in turn account for < 10% of US sales.

That was my only point of clarification. You may continue.

 

[teepo]

How the heck is Winning Eleven 8, a soccer game, outselling Resident Evil 4, Playboy, etc.? I mean, I'm all for it, as I'm a fan of the WE games, but that just strikes me as amazing. If these were sales for Europe, then I'd understand, but America? :-O

because every chain that is even carying the game only got 1-2 copies of it?

 

[Baron]

6 Playboy: The Mansion
Publisher: Arush Entertainment | Platform: PS2 | Genre: Strategy
release: 01/25/2005

How in the world is Playboy: The Mansion categorized as a strategy game?

Are they referring to the intricate strategeries involved in separating a woman from her bodice and tunic?

 

[AstroLad]

In this very thread, people are using the EBGames.com ranking as an indicator of how well it's performing and my comment is merely that it's an indicator of how well it's doing on EBGames.com daily sales. A website, which accounts for < 1% of EBGames sales (for a single day), who in turn account for < 10% of US sales.

That was my only point of clarification. You may continue.

Not really, but feel free to read into posts whatever helps you sleep at night. People are using the sales numbers for what they are, sales numbers from EB. I don't see what's so hard to comprehend about that that it requires some elaborate between-the-lines reading to discern true intent.

 

[Matlock]

Mercenaries is doing pretty well--I hope it translates into a sequel in a couple of years.

 

[NWO]

In this very thread, people are using the EBGames.com ranking as an indicator of how well it's performing and my comment is merely that it's an indicator of how well it's doing on EBGames.com daily sales.

No they weren't. Go back and read all the responses before you made the comment about NPD. Nobody brought that up until you did and you know it. You just wanted to come in here and start shit because you have a problem with the chart.

Resident Evil 4 was #1 for the first week it came out, #1 for the second week, #4 for the third week, and #2 for the fourth week on EBGames.com. That's by far the longest any Cube game has stayed on the charts and its also the only to nab the #1 spot. So you'd think Nintendo would take this as a sign of the type of games that it would need to draw in new people since EBGames.com isn't the usual place you'd suspect people to be buying Gamecube games.

 

[explodet]

How in the world is Playboy: The Mansion categorized as a strategy game?

It's also partially a business sim.
Probably one of the few console business sims out there, that just happens to involve breasts.