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NPD Sales Results for March 2010
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Whipped Spartan
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lowrider007 said:The GT franchise is king, Kratos will just have to be happy with being the prince for now
That game is never coming out. I am convinced of it. Kratos wins!
Sony has to announce PSP2 at E3 that system is dead.
In my area there was shortages into the first week of March and then after that I saw them every where. Only reason I know is my buddy was looking everywhere for one during January and February.
charlequin
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Vinci said:
So you agree that "the Sony Funman" is a good name for their next portable system.
timetokill
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The funny thing about the PS2/PSP sales is that they're basically identical, statistically. The PS2 might have actually outsold PSP for the month. Since NPD has to estimate at some point, we can assume that a difference of less than, say, 1-5k or so is probably insignificant.
The situation with PSP (dead everywhere except Japan) is going to be interesting with Sony... especially since backwards-compatibility may not really be viable, and they have some other games coming still for the platform (Peace Walker, Monster Hunters...)
If Kutaragi was still around I know they would go with the "4DSP"
The situation with PSP (dead everywhere except Japan) is going to be interesting with Sony... especially since backwards-compatibility may not really be viable, and they have some other games coming still for the platform (Peace Walker, Monster Hunters...)
charlequin said:
If Kutaragi was still around I know they would go with the "4DSP"
Whipped Spartan
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How about Playstation 3 portable or Playstation 2 portable
That makes people think it's a PS2 or PS3.
That makes people think it's a PS2 or PS3.
charlequin
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timetokill said:
I think Microsoft has a patent on skipping one or more numbers to make your system not sound behind-the-times compared to its primary competitor, actually.
Vinci said:
I dunno, the "Sony Deadman" sounds kind of badass.
timetokill
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TheBranca18 said:
He's humble and doesn't want to call attention to himself
Jigsaw said:ff ps3 double 360 sales lmao
kratos
Yikes, and we start right off with a lame post.
a) Not sure why that's "lmao".
b) You went to a different math class than I did, because for the PS3 sales to double 360 sales, it would need to have sold 160k more than it did.
Also, the 360 bundle wasn't counted. I'm sure it wasn't huge, but obviously the 360 version sold a little more than you see here (probably no more than 20-30k though). Wish we were able to get those numbers.
Either way, glad to see the game sell so well. It's great. Fantastic PS3 sales and it did very well on 360 as well. Hopefully this helps push XIII-2 forward. (Though I'd probably enjoy a second offline FF this gen, in the form of XV, even more -- hell, they do both last gen.)
blame space
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PS lite
elrechazado
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I think he's trying to create a new acronymTheBranca18 said:
SuperSonic1305
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Shortages are only real when they aren't Sony products.
PSP have anything good coming out in April? It's gonna drop below 100k otherwise, already at less than 25k a week.
Interesting that once again Anita talked about all but one of the HD games in the top 10 (and even one that isn't) but didn't say anything about the games on the other platforms.
PS3 shortages were mostly resolved mid-to-late March. Wii shortages were mostly resolved at the beginning of the month. I judge this mainly by whether or not Amazon has the system in stock.
Red Steel 2 bombed for any/all of the following reasons:
About the only thing going in its favor was some hype as a WM+ swordfighting game.
Interesting that once again Anita talked about all but one of the HD games in the top 10 (and even one that isn't) but didn't say anything about the games on the other platforms.
PS3 shortages were mostly resolved mid-to-late March. Wii shortages were mostly resolved at the beginning of the month. I judge this mainly by whether or not Amazon has the system in stock.
Red Steel 2 bombed for any/all of the following reasons:
- Consumer disappointment with the first game
- Long delay between titles reducing franchise mindshare
- Total change in art style, setting, and arguably even genre
- Completely stripping out all multiplayer, the one must-have for *all* successful Wii titles
About the only thing going in its favor was some hype as a WM+ swordfighting game.
timetokill
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I thought he was being actually hilariously self-aware... :lol
blame space
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The only chace Sony has left in the handheld market is a PlayStation phone, and that kinda names itself. Or if they wanted to avoid the same acronym, PlayStation Mobile. PSm.
Frustrated_me
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:lol too amazing...professor_t said:
neutralgamer02
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Maybe sony should drop out of the handheld business in the west. If not, then the psp2 better be cheap. I mean 199.99 or less. Otherwise, it will probably be devoured by the 3ds and iphone.
The pspgo has done a lot of damage to sony's credibility in the handheld market.
The pspgo has done a lot of damage to sony's credibility in the handheld market.
Whipped Spartan
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While people are bickering I think sight was lost of the fact that the industry successfully created the holiday season in the spring for the first time. We had 4 million sellers in a non holiday month (Pokemon, BC2, FF13 and GOW). That is pretty big for those of us who like to buy games.
GrotesqueBeauty
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There's a difference between outselling the competition 2-1 then having a month or two dip as stock gradually replenishes and consistently underselling all your competitors, followed by continuing to undersell your competitors.SuperSonic1305 said:
Vinci said:
They didn't really "lose" this month because they were raking in royalties from the 2,728,600+ units of PS3 games that were sold. They certainly sold less hardware than they would have wanted, and whether that's due to supply problems, lack of demand, or a combination of both doesn't really matter to me.
Sony must be happy with the software numbers, but disappointed with the hardware numbers.
Considering there were shortages in February, I don't think it's all that unreasonable to assume that if the ps3 wasn't supply constraint, it would've sold more than 314K due to pent up demand and release of several big name games.VALIS said:
Of course that's speculation just as the posts which assume the ps3 would've sold around 314K even if wasn't supply constrained. We'll never know for sure. One thing that's clear is Sony's inability to forecast..well anything..
ShockingAlberto
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Games like RS2 do the bulk of their sales in the first weekcacildo said:
bc226 said:
It is an unarguable fact that the PS3 has had supply issues since Christmas.
However it was easier to find in March than it was in February, no question there. If you wanted a PS3, you could find it. You might have had to go to a 2nd store but this wasn't a Wii-esque shortage.
EmCeeGramr
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almost games are front-loadedcacildo said:
unless you're talking only like a single day of sales being counted then there's not going to be much chance of it charting next time