AdmiralViscen
Banned
The Sphinx said:
Ah, that he said 'one platform' instead of 'one corporation.'
ownt
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Media Create Sales 4/30 - 5/06
- Thread starter cvxfreak
- Start date
Ah, that he said 'one platform' instead of 'one corporation.'
ownt
schuelma said:
Not that it makes a large difference to the final estimation, but I think your estimate of Canadian sales is a bit off. My memory of Canadian NPD numbers is a bit fuzzy, but I recall the general rule is that Canadian sales = 7-8% of US sales. However, for at least post-holiday sales, while the Wii was around 7%, the 360 and PS3 were tracking well below. Canadian shoppers appear to be more price sensitive than their US counterparts.
Epigamic said:
I haven't seen where they've been released since early this year, but NPD Canada numbers showed, as you said, a much larger share for the Wii in Canada (signifigantly more than PS3 and 360 combined, with the PS3 in particular a total non-player).
Of course Canadians can only buy what Nintendo will ship (still totally sold out).
Stormbringer
Member
GaimeGuy said:French is your first language, isn't it?
Well, to put my two cents in, "manoeuvred" is not a recent word, but I'm pretty sure that it is largely accepted in the English language. However, a little look at his etymology shows that it indeed comes from the french.
In fact, I think that it would have been totally french of him to write "manuvred"
.
SouthernDragon
Member
Holy shit, who saw this coming?
Look at those numbers! Obviously, the PS3 is selling the best in Japan. Its numbers dwarf everything else!
Wii was a fad, as predicted.
Look at those numbers! Obviously, the PS3 is selling the best in Japan. Its numbers dwarf everything else!
Wii was a fad, as predicted.
MrSardonic
The nerdiest nerd of all the nerds in nerdland
DS-2007 is still tracking about 650k above DS-2006.
Still on course to beat 2006's record hardware sales.
Still on course to beat 2006's record hardware sales.
TheKingsCrown
Banned
The Nintendo dominated sales threads...they burn the eyes.....
Mithos Yggdrasill
Banned
Sharp said:
Sorry about that, I got the tag for signing up. In 150 posts my opinion won't be any more or less valid, though. Just put through trial by fire.Deku said:
Everyone was sad yesterday because of crappy Square exclusives, which was why I thought the sales thread had such high activity (well, that and Golden Week). But why bother when there are actual games announced? It just doesn't make sense. Sales joy is a poor imitation of the real thing.
Mithos Yggdrasill
Banned
Sharp said:
Don't excuse yourself. When you are Junior it is obvious to be torturated by others members.
Cheesemeister
Member
The Media Create OPs are powered by C#.
Sharp said:
In this forum there are people who like to feast on sales data, you'll have to cope with it or just stay out. I guess it's the geek equivalent of discussing football results in bars/pubs. :lol
Personally I'm more excited about the games, but the madness ensuing from these threads can be enjoyable (NPD threads are a real treat).
I suppose even C# can be twisted to the service of good.Cheesemeister said:
I enjoy it as well, but it just seems forced at this point. Nobody's updating bar Nintendo fans imagining how Sony fans might react, if only they were posting. Which is, again, a poor imitation of the real thing.maxmars said:
Mithos Yggdrasill
Banned
maxmars said:
Yeah, I agree. The GAF is a place that could be very amusing, but it is necessary to "understand" some fondamental rules. The experience will teach you that anyway. In my opinion, be neutral versus all consoles and be patient is the best thing to behave and not only here....
Eteric Rice
Member
Deku said:
The box in the back say woot? I'm guessing this is a Photoshop job.
It's not. It's from woot.com I think. They were selling PS3s in order to buy Wiis for their employees.
I shit you not, you'd have to dig around for the story, though.
Eteric Rice
Member
Sharp said:
Page 21 is where the fun starts in the DQIX thread, btw.
Well, there's no megaton right now so a thread of the first kind is out of the question... and it's hard to get excited about a game I know I'm not going to play.Sharp said:
Was Project Rygar supposed to be a PS3 exclusive? Do a lot of people really love the series (is it a killer app) and it just happens that I've never heard about it until now? That might be kind of fun.
Eteric Rice
Member
haircut said:
No, not really. It seems to be one of those games with a cult following, sort of like NiGHTS.
It sounds sort of like God of War. But it came out before God of War, so maybe it inspired God of War or something?
All I knew about until today was the NES version. Great game.Eteric Rice said:
Anyway, my point was that there is more to GAF than megatons and sales threads, even for the blind Nintendo follower. There are also games (however much GAF tries to ignore them) and it can be nice to get excited before the "first pics" thread, when I desperately scroll down past the actual images to judge based on dark10x's comments whether the graphics are good or not (they're not BTW), and then further to bask in the relieved laughter of non-Wii users and the "downgrade totals" and GCN comparison pics.
Yeah.
Miniboss1232
Member
Sharp said:
I would've been in these threads regardless of the "leader". It's a great time-waster at work, and it's nice to see and discuss market trends, and try to predict the future.
I'm sure there are some Nintendo fans here that want to gloat, but I'm guessing a great many of them don't care one way or the other. I'll always be a bit of a Nintendo fanboy, but this gen I'm more interested in what the 360 has, really. And I feel that the PS2 is arguably the greatest console of all time (it's hard to beat the SNES though).
So I think it's just your perceived impression of a bunch of Nintendo fans, simply because Nintendo happens to be the market leader in Japan at the moment. I'm betting it wasn't like this a year ago.
There are games, but if somebody isn't interested in them and isn't going to play them what's the point of trying to discuss them? Unless there's a leak (which only seems to happen with really high-profile games) you don't learn anything that wasn't in the original PR. And in a big environment like this people tend to come in, make an uninformed comment, and leave the thread... that just makes for boring reading.Sharp said:
For example the Katamari thread is basically a never ending onslaught of people complaining about the graphics... both boring and very counterintuitive. Threads about RPG's always devolve into discussions about how the fully automated playstyle of FF12 is the wave of the future and player input is obsolete... I guess if I agreed that would have been fun for a while.
But sales are different. They're always new. They attract stupid arguments. You can see irrational fanboys at their best (sometimes). Talking about games, on the other hand, will always be boring until FF13 loses exclusivity or changes platforms (for obvious reasons), or finally comes out on the PS3 (giving Sony fans a chance to gloat).
Miniboss1232
Member
haircut said:
You've got a point. As much as I'm sure we all love playing the actual games, there's only so much you can talk about them when: a) You haven't played them; or b) You have played them. You're either going to talk about things that you don't know, or things that everybody knows. Whereas in sales discussions, speculation is always the name of the game, based on statistical data, trends, fanboy reasoning, and pretty graphs.
And who doesn't love pretty graphs?
SouthernDragon
Member
At the graphs changing at 60 fps with 63 bit color at 720p?
If not, I'd say it's a sub-par experience.
The numbers/lists hold at a rock steady 60 fps, which is awesome, but they are monochrome. Oh well.
If not, I'd say it's a sub-par experience.
The numbers/lists hold at a rock steady 60 fps, which is awesome, but they are monochrome. Oh well.
super funk
Member
Sharp said:
I await more wonderful posts such as these from the poster named Sharp.
chibcicylist
Banned
Sharp said:
I think it was pureauthor, but he argued in past MC thread that GAF is actually nothing compared to those at gamefaqs. Or something like that.
So yeah, GAF is all about sales age and megatons, primarilly. And news. Really great sources here.
Eteric Rice said:
I remember this because they'd put it up right before Christmas, with overnight shipping, so it wasn't too hard to find.
Blog post here, click on the PS3 pic for the Wii Rox pic.
I didn't think much of it at the time, but in retrospect it's kind of odd that Woot was one of the few select places to get a large number of 20GB units after launch.
Nightstick11
Banned
AdmiralViscen said:
glad you caught that =]
yep. PS2 has never owned the top 15-20 or so slots of the software charts, and Sony never had a significant portable or other such system that dominated concurrently with the PS2. This DS-Wii stranglehold is nearly unprecedented.
Miniboss1232
Member
Xavien said:moku
Member
(Today, 10:06 PM)
Reply | Quote
Nice avatar moku
Haha, I didn't even notice. Sneaky, indeed.
Xisiqomelir
Member
Xisiqomelir
Member
StevieP said:
Ain't that the truth :lol
JoshuaJSlone said:
I just found out the source of my inaccuracy. My 2004 and 2003 sales figures for DS are not using the actual result from weekly data, but is hard coded (using wrong data). I have adjusted my excel file accordingly, so there will be not big mistake in the future. Thanks for the confirmation, Joshua.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
StevieP said:
next-gen-warz is horrible.
perfectchaos007
Member
Speaking of NPD archives, are Aprils numbers coming out next Thursday?