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- Thread starter Datawhore
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Damn. ESPN is cleaning house.
I misread those Wedbush estimates. I thought it meant 300K for the pair. Over 300K each. Hell, over 800K for both. That was only 8 days of sales too folks. ESPN2K5 will do another million in August between both consoles. The 20 dollar gamble looks to be paying off for Sega/Take Two. I'm actually shocked at how much the PS2 version sold. EA doesn't have the same type of stranglehold on Xbox as it does on PS2. Madden will get its 4-5million sell through between all the consoles. However I wouldn't be surprised if ESPN gets 2.5-3 million sold through total. Which would be a huge victory. Yes its only 20 bucks to Maddens 50 but they are getting gamers to check out their game too.
Well sports football is a driving force in the NA market and Gamecube is severly lacking in the feature department in this area. I.E. leagues and online play. Not to mention lack of storage space in the beginning (Memory card 59 wasn't big enough to save full franchises) and a controller which isn't condusive to sports gaming.
I misread those Wedbush estimates. I thought it meant 300K for the pair. Over 300K each. Hell, over 800K for both. That was only 8 days of sales too folks. ESPN2K5 will do another million in August between both consoles. The 20 dollar gamble looks to be paying off for Sega/Take Two. I'm actually shocked at how much the PS2 version sold. EA doesn't have the same type of stranglehold on Xbox as it does on PS2. Madden will get its 4-5million sell through between all the consoles. However I wouldn't be surprised if ESPN gets 2.5-3 million sold through total. Which would be a huge victory. Yes its only 20 bucks to Maddens 50 but they are getting gamers to check out their game too.
Well sports football is a driving force in the NA market and Gamecube is severly lacking in the feature department in this area. I.E. leagues and online play. Not to mention lack of storage space in the beginning (Memory card 59 wasn't big enough to save full franchises) and a controller which isn't condusive to sports gaming.
Well, another reason for the increased sales for NCAA and ESPN (and then Madden, of course) could be the absence of MS's Fever and Sony's Gameday.
With only the two brands this year, it's good news for Sega/Take Two and EA.
With only the two brands this year, it's good news for Sega/Take Two and EA.
Yup, they stumbled out of the gate at this hurdle and are playing catch up with the sports market, who went to the other consoles.Mrbob said:
CVXFREAK said:
This better keep selling 30k each month for the rest of the year, or I'm going to get pissed. It's an awesome game, and deserves more. But, I guess the golf market on the GBA just isn't strong enough, or something. Mind you, MG:TT didn't sell all that stupendously either, but it's still far too low for such a great game.
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thorns said:
cause they still make money off of them.
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sonycowboy
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bunkum said:
**** tease!
Just kidding. It'll allow for lots of idle speculation until then.
Anybody look to see who won the Software prediction derby. I've been at dinner for the past couple of hours.
sonycowboy
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Dracor said:
If you read the persons post that I quoted ...
teepo said:GO SEGA
this makes me really happy. i see 1 million+ sales on each console alone for espn2k5. this game will sell like hotcakes in xmas
You would see that they were saying it would hit a million on each console, not combined. I'm sure it's already well past a million at this point combined.
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Vargas said:
Namco must be a very happy first party. Now Baiten Kaitos must surely sell well (but I am concerned about the stupidity of the card battle gameplay
)You had me until the end there. I've heard this argument, but I can't really understand it. I've played sports games that work fine on the cube, even if there's one less button, what's the big deal?Mrbob said:
Otherwise I couldn't agree more that Nintendo has fucked up. They despertly need to attract sports gamers if they plan on remaining competitive in the next console cycle. The best move would be to buy Visual Concepts (I know it's not going to happen) or try to find a new exclusive sports developer. Sure Microsoft sports brand flopped, and 989 is a joke, but just having an assortment to choose from attracts gamers and makes it a "sports system." Obviously matching features like online play and a decent fucking memory card is a good idea as well.
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Imagine if TOS shipped with higher numbers.
Anyway its good to see a GameCube exclusive sell well.
Anyway its good to see a GameCube exclusive sell well.
Mejilan said:
I think it needs to sell maybe 10,000 more copies to have outsold both ToD and ToE here in the states. Not to take anything away from ToS but it was destined to outsell the previous games in the series here in North America. I hope this bodes well for all the RPGs coming from Namco on all consoles.
Mejilan said:
The last two Tales games had a fight ahead of them. Tales of Destiny looked like a SNES game and RPGs were still not so hot. Tales of Eternia was released in September of 2001. Poeple had moved on to the PS2 and only the most die hard of fans even sought the game out. Also there is the the point that certain games sell better on Nintendo consoles. Maybe it can be attributed to a drought, maybe they buy great games but some games just sell more. That is why I think it was destined to sell more than the other two games combined. Maybe I am just crazy.