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NPD Sales Results for July 2007
- Thread starter sonycowboy
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badcrumble
Member
People will debate you on this. It saw a significant sales gain because of a price cut. But then again the price cut didn't cause it to leap ahead of the competition.sp0rsk said:
The PS3's game draught ends this fall, and it'll be doing fine for games this fall and in 2008. But it unquestionably needs another price drop soon - possibly BEFORE Christmas - if it's to stay in the game. And it's possible that it will acquire a negative enough stigma - either to consumers or to developers - that even that won't be enough.
Ash Sparrow
Banned
If publishers wanted money there would be more and better Wii games being produced :}FortunateSon said:
There will be some people still making games for it, but mostly ports of 360 games, i don't think PS3 will be getting much original non multiplatform content if it keeps doing poorely.
Visualante
Member
Fall games rush doesn't start until Sony say so.UncleGuito said:
PS3 doomed? People are really nuts on here, I swear. All in all wasn't a bad sales month compared to previous months. Its not getting into peoples homes like the Wii is, but why should it? How many people these days even "get" what HD is? I think what this really shows that if PS3 drops another $50-$100 it will push/break 200k almost every month outside of holiday seasons.
TheGreatDave
Banned
schuelma said:
Luke will be at the 1Up Yours Saturday Night Main Event, won't he?
UncleGuito
Banned
Right- from the reviews I've seen so far for Lair, Warhawk, and Heavenly Sword, I'm curious as to when that will be. The price drop should have done wonders (like they claimed).Visualante said:
super funk
Member
sonycowboy said:
While they are obnoxious, they can also be quite funny. Next month can we have two NPD threads- a serious thread and a joke thread full of pictures and animatronic gifs?
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
I typically don't get involved with these threads, but what's the big deal? A third of the month was over before Sony announced the price-drop. With all of the pre-price drop leaks happening the entire week before E3, it surely stalled sales. The fact that a considerably more expensive machine managed to gain that much traction in the remaining 20 days is impressive to me.
Why would anyone expect a $500 console to outsell a $400 console is beyond me. I always thought the people who risked their accounts with bans were utter morons.
Edit: Ahhhh, corrected. Nevermind. Ignore the post.
Why would anyone expect a $500 console to outsell a $400 console is beyond me. I always thought the people who risked their accounts with bans were utter morons.
Edit: Ahhhh, corrected. Nevermind. Ignore the post.
UncleGuito
Banned
Yes, but pretty much everyone on the forums was 90% sure the PS3 would be above the 360 last month.Tideas said:
haunts said:
The trouble is they need to show publishers why they should switch from 360 to PS3 development; publishers right now make a ton of money off of 360 games. If the PS3 isn't going to be closing a 4M plus gap anytime soon, what incentive is there?
Zerodoppler
Member
LOcKY said:
All they need to do is to start up a bunch of PS2, Gamecube and Xbox -> Wii ports and they'll have money rolling in. I bet that's exactly what capcom is doing after those RE4 numbers. They'd be crazy not to.
GrimReaper
Member
C4Lukins said:
including Sony
segarr said:
I've been feeling the same way lately. I don't have anything against the Wii but I believe it's success may be setting a bad precedent in gaming. In ten years, I better still be able to grab a traditional controller and play traditional games.
But that's a discussion for another day. And it's depressing so I'm not going to talk about it any further.
thestopsign
Member
super funk said:
That would be too messy. We all know which one would be the one with 90% of the posts.
With Wii sales like these Wii taking first place seems guaranteed to me, and 3rd parties have got to be taking notice. At Leipzig I expected to see a massive deluge of major 3rd party support, but while over the last few months we've seen titles being announced by no name developers and small publishers, we still really haven't seen many big names weigh in with strong, multi-title full support. It's got to happen at some time, but I expected it at Leipzig. It's certainly picking up, but I expected more.
sonycowboy
Member
AlphaSnake said:
The price drop was in effect for 26 out of the 28 covered days, at least officially. (NPD uses retail calendar which is different)
Some stores didn't drop their price for a day or two, but it was essentially the whole month.
TheGreatDave
Banned
Eric WK said:
Thank God, because you're talking shite.
AlphaSnake said:
Hindsight is 20/20, but some people still put a lot of faith in the power of the Playstation brand, thinking that PS3 just needs that little push in NA to beat the 360 and a decent sized move to beat the Wii. Obviously that's not the case in the current climate. I expect to see a lot more of the "wait for the PS2 migration"-type posts, which aren't totally without merit but which become slightly more preposterous with each passing month that the PS3 falls farther behind everything.
Dragona Akehi
Retired
Alright it's a little silly for the silly image thread to have graphs, but not this one.
Bring on the graphs -- they're part of Sales-Age and help rather than hinder discussion (which is why images were banned).
Bring on the graphs -- they're part of Sales-Age and help rather than hinder discussion (which is why images were banned).
Eric WK said:
Would you like me to send you an NES pad? I bet we can convert it so that you can play those "traditional" games on your 360. You know what's a better precedent in gaming? Consoles launching at $600. I'm sure consoles that are priced out of the majority of markets are much better for the industry than waggle.