Jive Turkey
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I would love a new Uniracers.RBH said:
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NPD Sales Results for February 2010
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Really surprising NPD. I wasn't expecting Heavy Rain to chart but it did pretty well for itself. Meanwhile the 360 version of Bioshock 2 outsold the PS3 version by a factor of at least 2.5. And Dante's Inferno did more than I expected, I enjoyed it well enough to be pleased by that even if it just rode God of War's coattails.
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Sho_Nuff82 said:
Jaffe's gonna blow his top.
Curufinwe said:
Oh c'mon,were not talking about its quality. It was pretty apparent that many at Gaf wanted the game to fail,there were threads on that game that were slanderfests,way before it was even released. Because it was a direct clone off of Sony's upcoming God of War it set off that crowd where they had to slander it every chance they got. Their "reasoning" behind their cricitcism may have seemed legit in their eyes,but the constant trollingof the game was a dead give away that it was the usual agenda at work once again.
Which is like I said,. In the end the forum through a tantrum over this game, for no real reason other than it had very good marketing behind it,and because of this it somehow violated stepping on Sony's toes for playing very similar to GOW. It was a decent game,but this forum made it sound like it was a total p.o.s.,which it certainly wasn't.
DaveTheSnake
Member
AniHawk said:
Hopefully this will be the end of the nitemare and not the beginning of another.
And that's pretty funny too. :lol
GillianSeed79
Member
Gamer @ Heart said:
I bought this last week. Don't like it as much as the first and holy jesus fuck the platforming Shinobu (sic?) levels are atrocious, like really, really, really bad. Curious about AvP sales, though, considering there was sequel talk.
DaveTheSnake
Member
Lunchbox said:
It was outside the top ten in January, in 13th. It sold between 137k - 171.2k.
DaveTheSnake
Member
Truespeed said:
I'm big on GOW III selling like crazy, and even I don't think it's going to sell that much in NPD for March. I'm thinking 700k to maybe 1 million at most, and even the 1 million mark is pushing it.
CadetMahoney
Member
it's more ad hoc:RBH said:
Typically, you will see statements referred to as "ad hoc rationalizations" or "ad hoc explanations" when someone's attempt to explain an event is effectively disputed or undermined and so the speaker reaches for some way to salvage what he can.
DaveTheSnake
Member
Lunchbox said:
It's sad, but I hope you are not correct. Zipper has a good history of supporting games(SOCOM: Confrontation), but who knows about the user base. UGH, I wanted to buy that game, but I was addicted to Borderlands at the time. TOO MANY GAMES!
Truespeed said:
Really? I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you but I don't know if I buy into this. It seems like the only title on PS3 that would really sell consoles was MGS4, the system got a huge boost when that released. Like some other guy, most people have already bought their system of choice, there can't be too many people at this point that are still holding out on HD systems until a certain game comes out. I could be wrong, though.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Not to mention the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter is aligned with Mars.Truespeed said:
DaveTheSnake
Member
AniHawk said:
I agree - GT5 is much bigger than GOWIII. If that game ever comes out, it's gonna sell buttloads.
SapientWolf
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I like how it's a dudebro doing the dunking.Lunchbox said:
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Pretty sure that was supposed to be Michael Vick.SapientWolf said:
:lol thats Michael vickSapientWolf said:
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/07/timeline-michael-vick-dogfighting-case
Yeah, I appreciate his enthusiasm but I think he's overestimating PS3 gamers ability to buy software. I know God of War is a more popular brand, but if Uncharted 2 only sold 537K in it's first month I wouldn't expect GOW3 to be significantly higher, maybe 700k or so.
Probably been mentioned already, but I wouldn't be surprised if the relatively lukewarm Wii performance was due to the shortage of Wii Fit.
Wii Fit is not in the top 10 - that shouldn't be the case, because that thing sells like hotcakes. After selling 2.4 million in December and 500K last month, dropping below 200K (for an evergreen title that has been on the charts forever) just isn't natural. It's been out of stock on Amazon since mid-January I think (and is selling used at $130) - Wiis have been out of stock sometimes as well, but at least have been restocked once or twice.
I think Wii Fit is one of the true hardware sellers this gen, and being out of stock has to affect system sales. Makes more sense than the "fad being over".
Wii Fit is not in the top 10 - that shouldn't be the case, because that thing sells like hotcakes. After selling 2.4 million in December and 500K last month, dropping below 200K (for an evergreen title that has been on the charts forever) just isn't natural. It's been out of stock on Amazon since mid-January I think (and is selling used at $130) - Wiis have been out of stock sometimes as well, but at least have been restocked once or twice.
I think Wii Fit is one of the true hardware sellers this gen, and being out of stock has to affect system sales. Makes more sense than the "fad being over".
Truespeed said:
Even with not seeing the final product, GT5 is going to romp all over every other first-party title Sony can put out. Prologue is the top selling PS3 first-party title, and that's basically a priced demo of GT5. GT5 is the PS3 system seller, I'm sure there's people that bought a PS3 just for Prologue, or just because they know GT5 has a slim chance to hit the shelves before the return of our respective makers.
OldJadedGamer
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Truespeed said:
You don't know much cause the biggest game in the history of the PS3 as others have correctly pointed out is GT5.
All this talk about God of War III sales, reminds me of Killzone 2..and when people around here were magically expecting Killzone 2 to sell millions on copies if the first NPD and be "the PS3 system seller".
Heck the incredibly amazing Uncharted 2 did 540k in the first month then dissapeared from the Top 20 in month #2.
One thing that all God of War games have in common, even the recent Collection is that they sell good/great first month, then dissapear, then come back again when the price is reduced.
Heck the incredibly amazing Uncharted 2 did 540k in the first month then dissapeared from the Top 20 in month #2.
One thing that all God of War games have in common, even the recent Collection is that they sell good/great first month, then dissapear, then come back again when the price is reduced.
CadetMahoney
Member
bu-but God of War 3! 1VALIS said:
It'll probably do around 700k i'm guessing.
ShockingAlberto
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If you ignore other games, totally!esc said:
OldJadedGamer
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esc said:
GoW2 did 800k on a userbase of 40 million. GoW3 has to compete with Battlefield 2 and Final Fantasy 13 as well as dealing with the smallest userbase to ever launch a GoW game to. It will do good... but #1 I'm really doubting. It will chart as #1 but only on the PS3 charts.
It's an enhanced remake, though. GoW II first month (~800k) actually did better than Pokemon Pearl (~700k) first month.
Yeah I think it will be close between BC2 360 and GoW III. The combined sales of Pokemon will be more, but it's to hard see one version beating it outright.OldJadedGamer said: