Guy LeDouche
Banned
While the quality of your posts remains as low as ever.CVXFREAK said:
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Media Create Sales (Feb 7-13)
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mashoutposse
Ante Up
Too bad the Game Boy doesn't fold in half. Heck...
Too bad none of those consoles fold in half. Too bad the DS doesn't fold in quarters.
Guy LeDouche said:
I'm tempted to use an insult with the word "Douchebag" in it, but I won't.
I guess by "low quality post" you mean to say that you disagree with me, or that I don't say quite enough. So, you know what, to satisfy you, Douche, I shall complete the post for you.
"PSP has a long way to go to even outsell the DS in full, and with the Pokemon games coming, it's not going to happen anytime soon."
That's quality for you!
JoshuaJSlone
Member
I think you have a slight mistake there. I've just double-checked my numbers with the Media Create threads here since December, and while your DS total matches, I get PSP to be 834,338.Fuzzy said:
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_____________DS PSP
11/29 468,883
12/06 198,892 160,019
12/13 221,625 85,059
12/20 396,674 107,217
12/27 209,522 129,957
01/03 108,561 62,052
01/10 53,527 64,602
01/17 44,608 56,274
01/24 43,226 74,405
01/31 29,552 48,781
02/07 26,205 45,972So the reason I was double-checking this was due to me making another spreadsheet to automatically parse useless values for us. Just some various interesting facts:
PSP reached 1/4 DS total during the week of December 13.
PSP reached 1/3 DS total during the week of January 3.
At this rate PSP will probably reach 1/2 DS total during the week of February 21.
I have a column that shows what week the PSP will reach 1:1 ratio with DS, if this week's difference just happened to repeat indefinitely. Of course that has no basis in reality, but hey.
The worst off it's been was the week of January 3; since it was still being outsold by DS at that point the match date was a retroactive July 27, 2004, when they would meet with -870K units.
The best it's been was the week of January 4, when the match date was September 6, 2005.
Currently it is at January 15, 2006, when theoretically they would meet with slightly below 3.08 million units.
boy, i really hope pokémon ds tanks, though i won't go as far as to predict it. wouldn't be the first time a massive franchise was diminished by appearing on undesirable hardware -- see mario, zelda, resident evil, etc. and if creative stagnation is the other necessary factor, pokémon qualifies there too.
anyway, i've decided to forgo psp vs. ds posts. the whole thing is settled in my mind, and if it doesn't play out the way it should, i'll consider it a failure on reality's part. :lol
anyway, i've decided to forgo psp vs. ds posts. the whole thing is settled in my mind, and if it doesn't play out the way it should, i'll consider it a failure on reality's part. :lol
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
or perhaps Nintendo just understand what the average gamer wants better than anyone else?
scary thought, but if the NDS beats out the PSP or holds its own, then that would pretty much cap it.
as horrible as it sounds, you only have to look at MK vs VF and Tekken to see that we basically don't grasp what appeals to joe public
scary thought, but if the NDS beats out the PSP or holds its own, then that would pretty much cap it.
as horrible as it sounds, you only have to look at MK vs VF and Tekken to see that we basically don't grasp what appeals to joe public
KeithFranklin
Banned
Funniest thing I have read in weeks.
DCharlie said:or perhaps Nintendo just understand what the average gamer wants better than anyone else?
scary thought, but if the NDS beats out the PSP or holds its own, then that would pretty much cap it.
as horrible as it sounds, you only have to look at MK vs VF and Tekken to see that we basically don't grasp what appeals to joe public
Nintendo clearly is incapable of doing enough to beat the PSP. The only way the DS wins is if something is wrong with the total PSP marketing picture and strategic plan. In other words, Sony needs to have misjudged the Western market in the long-term. If this happens, Nintendo retakes the market by default.
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Wouldn't that just make it a wash since, in that scenario, Nintendo would still hold majority marketshare in handheld market while Sony would still hold overwhelming majority marketshare in the console market?DCharlie said:
None of the games mentioned sold to the majority of a given game hardware userbase. So, are you trying to say that makers of fighting games don't have a clue what the average gamer likes?as horrible as it sounds, you only have to look at MK vs VF and Tekken to see that we basically don't grasp what appeals to joe public
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
he he - that's true!
"None of the games mentioned sold to the majority of a given game hardware userbase. So, are you trying to say that makers of fighting games don't have a clue what the average gamer likes?
no , i'm trying to say if that we had a poll of which of those games GAF'ers thought would be the top seller , then most would have probably not chosen MK.
DCharlie said:
Nintendo is up 70:1 in the world. But over the long-term, Sony can get more third parties to make games.
Like I said, the only way Nintendo wins is if Sony misjudged the market and pulls out. Of course, none of these scenarios will come to frutition a day before 2007.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
True that, which is a big reason I like to overanalyze the numbers. There's some amount of guesswork involved in trying to figure out trends, but it's a lot more accurate than trying to apply what I think is logical to the whole world.DCharlie said:as horrible as it sounds, you only have to look at MK vs VF and Tekken to see that we basically don't grasp what appeals to joe public
JoshuaJSlone said:
I'm not wrong, check http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=33566 (my post) to see that your PSP total for the week of January 17-23 is wrong. The PSP and PS2 totals were switched until I pointed it out in that thread.