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NPD Sales Results for February 2009
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Son of Godzilla
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You know, saying that SO4 would have done better if it was multiplat is incredibly insulting to PS3 owners. There are so many things freaking wrong with the way SO4 presents itself, xbots should be proud it bombed.
Although I'm sure it didn't actually bomb, but whatever. I'm so disappointed in that game. Star Ocean is fucking cool. The idea behind it is cool. The uncanny valley doll crap with horrendous animation and those freakish voices is not.
Although I'm sure it didn't actually bomb, but whatever. I'm so disappointed in that game. Star Ocean is fucking cool. The idea behind it is cool. The uncanny valley doll crap with horrendous animation and those freakish voices is not.
mujun said:
I don't care how good the gameplay is, if a game makes me feel I'm a member of Barney's Playhouse, I'm not buying it. And watching that video made me feel like my testosterone level had dropped by 1/3.
I want a decent story, mature characters, and a good gameplay- like Killzone2, Halo 3, Fallout 3, and so on. If they had put bare breasts in that game, I might play with those. Any hentai games around?
Vinci said:
The sad part is, for all the production and promo efforts put into SO4, the best home console JRPG of recent times features those type of talking portraits you mentioned and was low budget enough to be successful without coming anywhere near an NPD chart. And it's VA was 100X better than SO4.
Persona 4: better than any JRPG released on succeeding generation platforms
Psychotext
Member
Well, Killzone 2 had one of your three requirements anyway.hc2 said:
Narcosis said:
I'm still trying to find time to be able to buy that damn game and play it. My backlog is enormous at this point. =(
Though I honestly prefer FE games to Persona ones, which might explain why I'm simultaneously playing through Shadow Dragon and Radiant Dawn. :lol
Psychotext
Member
Sure: http://www.killzone.com/kz/performance_singleplayerstats.psml?kz_user_id=Textuality (Everything done up to Radec on elite basically)cryptic said:
Good story and mature characters... yeah right. If by mature you mean swearing every two seconds, two forgettable main characters, an utterly hateable one and your character who is utterly devoid of personality. As for the story, give me a break... it's good at the intro and at the end. Complete waste of an excellent universe.
Anyway, feel free to PM me if you want to argue about it. It's completely off topic for this thread.
Puncture said:
Lego Star Wars Wii is $19.99 and constantly sold out at Target and Toys R Us
All the Lego series sell best on Wii (with the exception of Lego Indy which is bundled w/360)
and people who played NASCAR Kart Racing know it's a quality game and it's priced @ $39, VERY smart by EA!
mujun said:
Depends on how much of the game is taken up by the story and how much is dedicated to gameplay. I'll never touch a MGS game again - haven't since the second one - but the majority of its playerbase exists because of its story, not its gameplay. Which is frankly not that damned good.
Street Fighter IV is part of the fighter genre. Most of the time, they needn't have a story at all and people don't really go into them expecting one.
RPGs, however, tend to be story-heavy, with cinematics and the like. If the story blows and takes up a lot of my playtime, I won't ever touch the damn thing even if its gameplay is a gift from the gods.
Of course I'm not everyone. People have different tastes. Just explaining my viewpoint.
Paracelsus
Member
mujun said:
It's because of this way of thinking that Jrpgs are going down. If I want a game with just a good action-based gameplay and nothing else, I get an action game indeed. If they don't know how to provide a decent experience as a whole, they should just stop making arpgs and try making action games, a genre that doesn't require character development, an amazing plot or oscar-worthy cutscenes.
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Deleted member 30609
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PSN ID: R_e_zcryptic said:
It had one of those. It's story wasn't bad, just not particularly compelling. Saying that KZ2 had mature characters is absurd.
Luckily, it is a military FPS. It didn't strive for anything more than that, and there's nothing wrong with that.
http://kotaku.com/5177033/wii-fit-officially-topples-halo-3-in-sales
Npd Group
Wii Fit Officially Topples Halo 3 in Sales
By Brian Crecente, 3:00 PM on Fri Mar 20 2009, 7,628 views
Yesterday's news that Wii Fit continued to ride high on the U.S. video game sales chart last month told only half the story.
I just confirmed with the NPD Group that the fitness title's lifetime sales has topped Halo 3's. As of the end of February Wii Fit has sold 6 million copies in the U.S. while Xbox 360 goliath has moved 5.9 million copies in its life time.
Keep in mind that the $90 Wii Fit launched in the U.S. on May 21 of last year, while Halo 3 hit the Xbox 360 on Sept. 25 of 2007.
With 6 million balance boards out there and a legion of Wii owners, there's got to be an incoming wave of games developed for the new peripheral.
Npd Group
Wii Fit Officially Topples Halo 3 in Sales
By Brian Crecente, 3:00 PM on Fri Mar 20 2009, 7,628 views
Yesterday's news that Wii Fit continued to ride high on the U.S. video game sales chart last month told only half the story.
I just confirmed with the NPD Group that the fitness title's lifetime sales has topped Halo 3's. As of the end of February Wii Fit has sold 6 million copies in the U.S. while Xbox 360 goliath has moved 5.9 million copies in its life time.
Keep in mind that the $90 Wii Fit launched in the U.S. on May 21 of last year, while Halo 3 hit the Xbox 360 on Sept. 25 of 2007.
With 6 million balance boards out there and a legion of Wii owners, there's got to be an incoming wave of games developed for the new peripheral.
Vinci said:
i hated the story of so4 (and wks while im at it) but both of them (so4 more than wks) had enough gameplay wise to keep me going, im not sure why, maybe it was the mood i was in, maybe it was something else.
eternal sonata on the other hand, i found the story in it so stupid that i gave up after about 10 hours.
PistolGrip
sex vacation in Guam
Wow I couldnt even watch the whole video... how would I be able to play the whole game... horrificbrain_stew said:
mujun said:
I can respect that; it's just alien to my thinking, which is why I questioned the original comment. To me, games are about gameplay first and foremost - but if the gameplay is mitigated via extensive cutscenes (particularly ones that are utterly horrible), no amount of awesome gameplay can save the game for me. Meanwhile a game with a great story and horrid gameplay will be immediately ignored by me.
I don't play games to watch them, is basically my feeling. Though obviously, there are some who are okay with that.
Wyndstryker
Member
brain_stew said:
Makes me realize how much I appreciate the effort done for the Persona games in terms of voice acting...
Grampa Simpson
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Better yet, post it in the Halo 3 thread.Vinci said:
TheListener
Member
God... where are you??
Grampa Simpson
Banned
Don't worry, I'll be your god now.TheListener said:
jeremy1456
Junior Member
Kagari said:
You honestly think dual audio would help sell this game?
:lol
BruceLeeRoy
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raYne said:
This is America right?
Dirtbag said:
I brought this up a while ago but the moment I realized that we were entering the apocalypse is when I went to help my 65+ year old neighbour move some furniture and she had the Wii fit all set up and ready to go and next to wii fit a tennis racket that she told me was to "help" her swing for wii sports.
jeremy1456
Junior Member
jvm said:
I almost hate to ask this, but is the PSP software selling 4 times better than the GBA or vice versa?
Nothing would surprise me.
BruceLeeRoy said:This is America right?
I brought this up a while ago but the moment I realized that we were entering the apocalypse is when I went to help my 65+ year old neighbour move some furniture and she had the Wii fit all set up and ready to go and next to wii fit a tennis racket that she told me was to "help" her swing for wii sports.
Gaming will seriously never be the same.
This is a defining moment for me.
jeremy1456
Junior Member
jvm said:
Yeah but you've also got to factor in that the DS plays pretty much all GBA games. Were that not the case then I wouldn't even question PSP sales being stronger.
BruceLeeRoy
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Dirtbag said:
Me too man. I would be lying if I told you I didn't weep into my pillow that night.