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[Sean]

Didn't even realize today was NPD day, I must have missed the prediction thread too. Only 740 posts after 5 hours, this has to be the slowest moving NPD thread in quite some time.

Left 4 Dead sales were great, seems to have legs. I hope Capcom sees that and makes sure co-op is a part of Dead Rising 2: everyone likes to kill zombies, and killing zombies with your friends is even better.

 

[Psychotext]

Didn't MS said they sold 28 million 360?

Sold to retailers. The charts (estimated or not) deal with sold to customers.

 

[Fuu]

Wii: Quit Smoking confirmed for holiday 09

Ubi beat then. On DS though.

 

[Mama Robotnik]

The lack of gifs in this thread is ridiculous. And no SDF gifs don't count since they are copy and pasted from a youtube video.

I know I've already responded, and its a re-run, but what the hell.

The cornered-on-his-own-ship, full of rage and pain, and defiantly fighting a losing day is, well, somewhat apt.

 

[Fuu]

The cornered-on-his-own-ship, full of rage and pain, and defiantly fighting a losing day is, well, somewhat apt.

It's still one of my favorites.

 

[Bizzyb]

Similar momentum was witnessed in software sales, with 20 of the top 30 games of January made for Nintendo systems. Of those, five games made for Nintendo systems finished in the top 10 best-sellers of January.

Whoa! That's pretty freaking insane.

 

[Lostconfused]

The cornered-on-his-own-ship, full of rage and pain, and defiantly fighting a losing day is, well, somewhat apt.

Its certainly a good one

 

[Regulus Tera]

So I guess Sony isn't posting reactions to NPD tonight.

 

[Flying_Phoenix]

I know I've already responded, and its a re-run, but what the hell.

The cornered-on-his-own-ship, full of rage and pain, and defiantly fighting a losing day is, well, somewhat apt.

Thanks. :lol

 

[Gaborn]

Didn't even realize today was NPD day, I must have missed the prediction thread too. Only 740 posts after 5 hours, this has to be the slowest moving NPD thread in quite some time.

Yep... I mean... how much can you honestly say about these numbers? Realistically you can only put so much spin on something.

 

[DrForester]

The lack of gifs in this thread is ridiculous. And no SDF gifs don't count since they are copy and pasted from a youtube video.

Here's mine form last month. And yes, I'm too lazy to update the numbers (That and I did a wipe/reinstall of my PC and didn't get a new .gif made in time )

 

[Flying_Phoenix]

Yep... I mean... how much can you honestly say about these numbers? Realistically you can only put so much spin on something.

The Wii isn't the best selling platform, Wii Fit is.

 

[timetokill]

There is a lot of interesting stuff here, but it's mostly a continuation of things past. The Wii sold phenomenally so it seems supply is catching up a little, and Wii Fit's continued success can really only be marveled at. Left 4 Dead selling well is fantastic news though as well.

Next month, with a bunch of medium-to-high-profile releases is when the noise will be made, though.

 

[Darkman M]

I know I've already responded, and its a re-run, but what the hell.

The cornered-on-his-own-ship, full of rage and pain, and defiantly fighting a losing day is, well, somewhat apt.

:lol this one is great

 

[Interfectum]

Nintendo continues to dominate as usual, but i think the surprise for January NPDs is the continued success of L4D. Simply amazing. Their worldwide total for PC/360 has gotta be insane.

 

[HK-47]

People full quoting Mama Robotnik gifs should be shot on sight. Not hard to remove image tags.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

The legs L4D is showing is one of the few bright spots of this NPD.

 

[Grampa Simpson]

People full quoting Mama Robotnik gifs should be shot on sight. Not hard to remove image tags.

Why? As long as it's on the same page, it should only load once. Unless your browser has issues.

 

[giuliu]

Sold to retailers. The charts (estimated or not) deal with sold to customers.

same thing can be said about some of the sources he uses.
That's why the only data should be use are reported by npd, media crate, etc.

any quoted number on some websites can be estimated.
I can estimate that the ps3 is already ahead of the 360 worldwide at this point.
I can't prove it right, but no one can prove it wrong either as no one knows the sales of the ps3 in "insert country" in asia/europe.

You can tell me that ms shipped 28 mil and sony shipped 20 mil. I can say that maybe ms only sold 19 mil while sony sold all of the 20 mil shipped. no one knows for sure.

 

[Darkman M]

People full quoting Mama Robotnik gifs should be shot on sight. Not hard to remove image tags.

Is it really that serious now?

 

[GaussTek]

Mama Robotnik... that's amazing :lol

 

[SilverLunar]

People full quoting Mama Robotnik gifs should be shot on sight. Not hard to remove image tags.

The image only loads once...

 

[Chumly]

same thing can be said about some of the sources he uses.
That's why the only data should be use are reported by npd, media crate, etc.

any quoted number on some websites can be estimated.
I can estimate that the ps3 is already ahead of the 360 worldwide at this point.
I can't prove it right, but no one can prove it wrong either as no one knows the sales of the ps3 in "insert country" in asia/europe.

You can tell me that ms shipped 28 mil and sony shipped 20 mil. I can say that maybe ms only sold 19 mil while sony sold all of the 20 mil shipped. no one knows for sure.

Dude did donny kill your mother? Because WTF are u talking about.

 

[outunderthestars]

I know I've already responded, and its a re-run, but what the hell.

The cornered-on-his-own-ship, full of rage and pain, and defiantly fighting a losing day is, well, somewhat apt.

That is a really damn awesome gif.




:lease don't shoot me in the face::

 

[Grampa Simpson]

same thing can be said about some of the sources he uses.
That's why the only data should be use are reported by npd, media crate, etc.

any quoted number on some websites can be estimated.
I can estimate that the ps3 is already ahead of the 360 worldwide at this point.
I can't prove it right, but no one can prove it wrong either as no one knows the sales of the ps3 in "insert country" in asia/europe.

You can tell me that ms shipped 28 mil and sony shipped 20 mil. I can say that maybe ms only sold 19 mil while sony sold all of the 20 mil shipped. no one knows for sure.

You should really watch that, son. You're starting to sound like a broken record.

Spoiler

Finally, the meltdown we've been waiting for?

 

[Kandinsky]

Similar momentum was witnessed in software sales, with 20 of the top 30 games of January made for Nintendo systems. Of those, five games made for Nintendo systems finished in the top 10 best-sellers of January.

Whoa! That's pretty freaking insane.

Man i really miss the good old days when we'd get the full list even if a game only sold 1k :/

 

[professor_t]

its funny 360 fanboys want to go at the ps3 fanboys but cant really go too hard because the Wii is whooping their ass. :lol

What's funny is that you actually have tears in your eyes while you're typing this.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Why? As long as it's on the same page, it should only load once. Unless your browser has issues.

It's called memory.

 

[Flying_Phoenix]

It's called memory.

Get with times, just like previous 56k owners.

 

[Jag22]

I find it funny how serious people take these NPDs.

I swear some of you wait the whole month just for these numbers.

 

[HK-47]

Get with times, just like previous 56k owners.

Its called being stuck on a school connection with tons of other people, you nitwit

 

[Eric WK]

What's funny is that you actually have tears in your eyes while you're typing this.

:lol :lol

 

[giuliu]

Dude did donny kill your mother? Because WTF are u talking about.

Oh this again
look, I'm cool with the charts, but estimated data really shouldn't be here.
remember there was a thread about some website reported some data.
just because they "estimated" the data, the thread was closed.

why shouldn't this receive the same treatment?

 

[Interfectum]

What's funny is that you actually have tears in your eyes while you're typing this.

:lol

 

[Flying_Phoenix]

Its called being stuck on a school connection with tons of other people, you nitwit

Go to by a new server for your school then. Money's cheap.

 

[GDGF]

Similar momentum was witnessed in software sales, with 20 of the top 30 games of January made for Nintendo systems. Of those, five games made for Nintendo systems finished in the top 10 best-sellers of January. These games include Wii Fit™ at No. 1 with more than 777,000 sold, Wii Play™ at No. 2 with nearly 415,000 sold, Mario Kart™ Wii at No. 3 with more than 292,000 sold, New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS at No. 7 with nearly 135,000 sold, and Mario Kart™ DS at No. 8 with more than 132,000 sold.

That's it, then. Third parties would be stupid to ignore this.

 

[Grampa Simpson]

Oh this again
look, I'm cool with the charts, but estimated data really shouldn't be here.
remember there was a thread about some website reported some data.
just because they "estimated" the data, the thread was closed.

why shouldn't this receive the same treatment?

Did you realize that NPD data is estimated? Really, it is. Also, you might not know this, but when juniors are banned, it tends to be permanent. If I were you I'd be logging out of GAF and finding something less stressful to do for a while, until I calmed down.

 

[AirBrian]

Beautiful, Mama Robotnik. Simply beautiful.

 

[professor_t]

There's no way in hell Halo Wars outsells Killzone 2 right? Even with the license, it's a fairly generic (imo based on demo) RTS vs. a graphics first FPS.

I think KZ2 will crush Halo Wars.

What's the best an RTS game has ever sold on a console? Even a mediocre FPS probably could put up better numbers, and KZ2 hardly looks mediocre.

 

[EvilDick34]

I'm glad we've all come to the conclusion that talented devs should suffer at the expense of retarded, overzealous people who spend time on video game forums.

on topic:

wtf @ Wii

heyo @ left 4 dead (that was damn good marketing, Valve)

eh @ PS3/PSP

RIP @ PS2.

what does spamming sony gifs and kz2 gifs have to do with be being over zealous? I could care less about ps3 or the xbox360, i am almost 100 percent just a pc gamer. What im concerned about and why oatmeal got banned is because he was shitting up the thread, that is not called for.

 

[Treo360]

I'd say the world wide "estimates" base on us+japan data are bullshit too.

Hans/Snah Hoffman hybrid? I must know!

 

[Epiphyte]

Did you realize that NPD data is estimated? Really, it is. Also, you might not know this, but when juniors are banned, it tends to be permanent. If I were you I'd be logging out of GAF and finding something less stressful to do for a while, until I calmed down.

Let's not group a sophisticated statistical analysis with GAF's educated guessing.

That's how ioi got confused

 

[larvi]

You're not hardcore unless you have a Sunbeam.

Nope, it's all about the Viking Mixers. $600 for a stainless stand up beauty but worth every penny. They manage to harness 1000watts of mixing power, way more than any old KA or Sunny. Just imagine the smooth textures you will have for your frosting. Can't afford it? Then's it's time to get another job.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

So you actually hoping that KZ2 to not be a fantastic seller.

You want a game to do badly ?

ugh...

Dude, I wish KZ2 well; but I'm being completely realistic here - the PS3 price point is a serious detriment to any potential influence KZ2 has.

It's the harsh reality, especially in these tough economic times; Sony cannot hawk a $400 console.

This is the generation of Sony screwing itself. It will pass, but let's hope they learn a lesson and don't do the same dumb shit with PS4.

PS4 $299.99 @ Launch or GTFO!

 

[starsky]

Mama Robotnik's gifs save this thread. NPD used to be more interesting...

 

[JavyOO7]

I don't mind the gifs (the ones Mama Robotnik makes are great) in this thread but there's no need for people to quote the actual gif. It bogs down the thread even more...

 

[DuckRacer]

I'm curious.

I (and another guy before me) asked donny a question and he already replied back to the previous poster before my post.

And yeah, this npd is slooow. I bet there's going to be more replies on the weekly RB dlc announcement tomorrow. smh

 

[Bizzyb]

That's it, then. Third parties would be stupid to ignore this.

It's a shame it has taken the closures of many studios before they realize they ****ed up backing the HD consoles, but the proof is in the pudding. Software sells on Wii.

20/30 titles on Wii is something that you only ignore if you WANT to go bankrupt and close up shop. Hopefully this will lead to more quality Wii support.

 

[Cipherr]

Its called being stuck on a school connection with tons of other people, you nitwit

Hey man no offense, but thats kind of your problem. Those gifs really aren't a big deal. They load one time. As long as its not completely over the top excessive (this particular npd thread is light on GIF's) then I wouldn't expect anything to be done about it.

 

[MikeE21286]

lol @ Mario Kart DS and New Super Mario Bros.......that's ridiculous