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Media Create Sales 5/21 - 5/27
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Afaik Hot Shots Golf Course, Vol. 1 is the same game than the already released HSG for PSP, just with GPS support, right? I don't know why people expect it to sell thousands of units, when you can have the cheaper standard version.
And Diablos54, what does this game have to do with Sigma or the PS3 at all? It's a PSP game, not HSG5.
And Diablos54, what does this game have to do with Sigma or the PS3 at all? It's a PSP game, not HSG5.
Pureauthor
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So, guys, massive forum errors aside...
The Sales-Age Saga: Chapter 6
Yeah, sorry about the massive lag in update times, but life got in the way. You know how it is.
The Sales-Age Saga: Chapter 6
Yeah, sorry about the massive lag in update times, but life got in the way. You know how it is.
SouthernDragon
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Sony's Midas Touch has rebounded after 10 years of use and is now killing everything it touches.
Including GAF.
Including GAF.
SouthernDragon
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I doubt it. Who'd buy a PS3 specifically for BC? Stick with your still somewhat viable PS2.
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fixedtanod said:
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FlightOfHeaven said:
Maybe not specifically for BC, but i belive its a huge buying argument for alot of people. I saw quite alot of bitching about the BC compability with problems like jaggies, games looking worse on PS3 etc. (some of this is fixed now tho) and when the Emotion Engine was removed from the PAL systems. If it didnt matter to people i dont see why they would complain about it.
ComputerNerd
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tanod said:
Almost everything increased. Just a faster sales week.
Miniboss1232
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test_account said:
Well, the number of people who think it's a big deal is still small, so I'm not sure why we're even talking about it. It's statistical noise. What caused the Wii's jump this week as well? Or the 360's 18 unit bump? This is all really silly.
FlightOfHeaven said:
Few people buy a console for specifically any one thing (I never said they did), but there are still people buying PS2s in Japan so with the graphical improvements that were made on those games, it makes sense that some would decide to get a PS3 instead of a PS2.
wow, fanboyism at its worst and what has this game got to with sigma's sales?Diablos54 said:Hot Shots Golf Course, Vol. 1 - 2k
:lol :lol :lol :lol Oh god... I can't wait for Sigma to bomb now, since it'll help Trusty Bell force the streams to pass.
JoshuaJSlone
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So I should have the requested software percentage / hardware LTD chart shortly; it's a mess to view it all, so I'm tinkering with the best ways to display it.
That low, huh? Trying to estimate using Famitsu's sold for GBC I thought original GB must be around 25 million, but they really can be radically off. I guess DS will pass GB and PS2 about the same time.Square2005 said:
Have it? I still have the shitty edits I made from it!imastalker co. said:
BrodiemanTTR said:
Moor-Angol
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Link said:
GC version
PS2 version
PS2 budget version
Cheesemeister
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JoshuaJSlone said:
:lol Man, MS marketing owned by unintentional humor.
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Gekkonidae
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Terrell said:
Incisive.
BrodiemanTTR
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Brak said:
It's not Hsu's book, he just did the foreword.
andthebeatgoeson
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Not going after you but I hate that phrasing. Why not just say, '...does not make a trend.'?Myke Greywolf said:
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jj984jj said:
Its just 1st day sale numbers tho.
Are the numbers confirmed btw?
Phife Dawg
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What? :lolmabuza said:
JoshuaJSlone
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So what I did was take Famitsu's weekly percentage amount and divide it by Famitsu's LTD for the hardware. This tells how much of that 100% the average individual console of each type is responsible for. Then I multiplied it by a billion (1,000,000,000) just so it would be easier to wrap our heads around than using scientific notation.
Remember that since these are derived from percentages rather than actual sales, a line going down doesn't necessarily mean sales went down. Really the most useful thing you can get from these graphs is to see that owners of system X were particularly active on week Y, or that owners of system B generally purchase more than owners of system C.
First, here's consoles (PS2/X360/PS3/Wii) since PS3 launch. So the graph wouldn't stretch vertically forever and I wouldn't need to use a logarithmic scale, I've left off PS3 and Wii's first week. As you might expect, with early adopters getting games and hardware limited, they make some pretty large numbers. PS3's launch week: 1085, Wii's launch week: 793.
Looks like PS3 and X360's owners are reasonably similarly active, with Wii generally ahead. Gundabump certainly sticks out. PS2 is definitely on the slow, but it seems it's even beat PS3 twice.
Next, portables from the beginning of 2005 to present.
Unsurprisingly, GBA was low for the last few years and PSP owners generally haven't been as frequent buyers as DS owners, a few exceptions like Monster Hunter 2 (Monstabump?) aside.
I didn't really set this up as a long-term project; it's a bit slapped together and there are some corners cut for simplicity. But if you've got any requests now for different comparisons for more specific periods of time, ask away.
Remember that since these are derived from percentages rather than actual sales, a line going down doesn't necessarily mean sales went down. Really the most useful thing you can get from these graphs is to see that owners of system X were particularly active on week Y, or that owners of system B generally purchase more than owners of system C.
First, here's consoles (PS2/X360/PS3/Wii) since PS3 launch. So the graph wouldn't stretch vertically forever and I wouldn't need to use a logarithmic scale, I've left off PS3 and Wii's first week. As you might expect, with early adopters getting games and hardware limited, they make some pretty large numbers. PS3's launch week: 1085, Wii's launch week: 793.
Looks like PS3 and X360's owners are reasonably similarly active, with Wii generally ahead. Gundabump certainly sticks out. PS2 is definitely on the slow, but it seems it's even beat PS3 twice.
Next, portables from the beginning of 2005 to present.
Unsurprisingly, GBA was low for the last few years and PSP owners generally haven't been as frequent buyers as DS owners, a few exceptions like Monster Hunter 2 (Monstabump?) aside.
I didn't really set this up as a long-term project; it's a bit slapped together and there are some corners cut for simplicity. But if you've got any requests now for different comparisons for more specific periods of time, ask away.
On the other hand, why say that?skinnyrattler said:
PantherLotus
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Excellent work JJ. Confusing on how exactly you got there (the assumption is that this is based on software for each console?) but the point I think is clear.
JoshuaJSlone
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I've previously compiled the data from the software pie charts Famitsu releases, like this:PantherLotus said:
If we know DS accounted for 52.8% of the software that week, and that according to Famitsu DS+DSL has sold 19,852,258 units, then 52.8% / 19,852,258 = the average DS accounted for 2.66 x 10^-6 % of the total 100%. On the other hand PSP has 8.1% of the total and 5,401,573 units sold, so each PSP accounts for 1.50 x 10^-6 % of the total 100%. Thus we can tell that more software was sold for the average DS than the average PSP that week. It's not as good as actually having total software sales, but it's what we have to work with.
My God, I dont know how to figure out these charts anymore. I mean, what happened to the good old days of raw sales graphs? Now we get inverse parabolic graphs of the 6th degree rate of change of the trends, which we then have to multiply by a billion and turn upside-down.
JoshuaJSlone
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One of these days someone is going to come along with a graph the masses can understand and disrupt us out of business.Slurpy said:
RiskyChris
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Slurpy said:
Don't forget to transform the data and display it in the time-frequency domain :lol
JoshuaJSlone
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It's all really quite simple.
JoshuaJSlone said:
If I got all the data off all the various sites and stayed overtime at work where I actually have decent analytical software (Excel, SPSS, MultiMap and other fantastic things) I could work wonders. At home I have AppleWorks and lots of games, the games tend to win.
yes, people actually pay me to make pretty graphs - fools :lol
The problem is if you make simplified analyses that people unfamiliar with the data can understand they tend to be less accurate and if you make complicated things no ordinary mortals know how to interprete it and more importantly how to congratulate you when you got it bang on.
Complete hack job on the hardware analysis
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Last Wk This Wk Percent
NDS 111239 127542 114.65%
Wii 52193 58644 112.35%
PSP 27505 26097 94.88%
PS2 10881 11311 103.95%
PS3 8659 9627 111.17%
X360 2026 2044 100.88%
GBA 791 712 90.01%
NGC 276 256 92.75%
Total Market 213570 236233 110.61%Hardware market recovered 10.61% from last week's post GW dip, mainly due to the DS which is driving sales.. PS3 outperformed the market this week by the slimmest of margins, likely due to the BluRay deals as people have mentioned. PSP is only dropping because of the previous artificial inflation due to a crop of good titles, expect that to stabalise next week.
If I don't go away for the weekend maybe i'll see if I can line up the MC DS hardware data (cheers JJ!) and check for similarities to the Mario Sales which I compiled the other night (see first page of thread).
RiskyChris
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GaimeGuy said:
Not true. I play Zelda II on emulator because my cartridge will erase its saves every week or so.
The other games? Well...
Corwood Rep
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GaimeGuy said:
A ****ing lie. I rip my own PS1 games for the thing all the damn time.