Official March 2008 NPD - There are no words. Almost $1B in SW sales
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Count Dookkake
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The Year of PS3
virtuafightermaster said:
Maybe Nintendo games sell really well because they are the ONLY killer apps on the console?
Whats Wii have from 3rd parties that is comparable to CoD4, GTAIV, Ninja Gaiden?
Fuck Wii doesn't even have third party games like Army of Two or Lost Odyssey.
The fact is, even with a shitload of shit, Wii software still does comparable to 360 software on a yearly/monthly/weekly/dayly basis..
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Bluemercury said:
Looking at a review site, for example IGN. The number of 9+ reviewed Xbox 360 games and PS3 games are more than Wii's.
If you you added up every Wii game score and take the average, it will probably lower than xbox 360 and PS3.
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Count Dookkake said:
lol Sounds funny right now doesn't it?
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Bluemercury said:
Army of Two is a great co-op experience and Vegas 2 is a great multiplayer experience.
Sony said:
Smash > entire PS3 library
Top 5 360 titles > entire PS3 library
The press release parrots the SDF mantra of "wait until xxx title comes out"
Sales dropped from 70k/week to 50k/week despited Blu-ray's victory
No mention of Killzone 2
Sony needs to hire Microsoft's spin masters!!!
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Lobster said:
Yes because as you mentioned, Army of Two is a killer app.
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Deadly Monk said:
TBH, everything has sounded funny since $599.
Son of Godzilla
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You know, that's actually pretty rough for Nintendo. Their biggest game of the generation and it can't manage to outsell Halo 3, despite being anywhere from $10-$80 cheaper, being out for twice as long, and having more people to sell it to.
DevelopmentArrested said:
No I didn't.
I didn't at all say these were Killer apps..I said that Wii doesn't even have third party games like these..
However, I did list these as killer apps.
Son of Godzilla said:
Whats rough is that Nintendo probably made more money since they didn't spend more than the games budget on advertising :lol
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Son of Godzilla said:
It only took about 1000 posts...
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Sharp said:I wish they'd give us revenue so we could figure out percentage of total software sales and maybe extrapolate something about what's below the top ten. But that's not looking likely to happen
It's likely around the $95-105 million range, since most PS3 titles are selling at or near full-price.
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dammitmattt said:
Army of two is a weak game and Vegas 2 is a pretty standard game probably not worth talking about.....
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I think we can count on Japan to balance it out.Son of Godzilla said:
bigmakstudios
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Now that's what I don't understand. It's so shallow that I can't see why anyone would buy a system for it. The only games that are really worth playing are tennis and bowling, but even they become repetitive rather quickly. Boxing's controls are awful, with specific punches only registering if motions are performed with extreme accuracy, baseball is a horrid misrepresentation of the sport, with frustrating pitching controls (seriously... you can't move your arm backward in a wind up motion without inadvertently throwing the ball before you intended, which results in poor, slow pitches. The controls for this are totally awful) and no depth whatsoever, offensively and defensively (fielding is on "auto-pilot", hitting is based solely on timing, there's no stealing, runners only advance as many bases as hitters, baserunning is also computer controlled, etc). I just don't see why anyone who enjoys games would be pleased with a compilation of neutered sports minigames. The motion sensitive controls were fun as a novelty, but I quickly grew tired of them when I realized that the game didn't recognize realistic motions nearly as well as it responded to concise "waggles".
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Bluemercury said:
That's your opinion. 1.7 million owners disagree.
How much time did you put into these two games?
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But guys, PS3 is cleaning up, probably 10 to 1 against the 360 in Europe, so even with 360>PS3 in the U.S., PS3>>>>>360 worldwide, amirite? PS3 to surpass 360 by end of December confirmed. Year of the PS3, bitches.
So PS3 software sales were about 10% of the total? Good to know. I wish the other three would have given us some numbers, though, as it would make things much easier. Or (and I realize I've already asked for this once and we're not going to get it) maybe a console-specific top ten?dammitmattt said:
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dammitmattt said:
Because the 1.7 million who bought it love them right?
I bought Vegas 2 and hated it.
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bigmakstudios said:
It's like a board game. You pull it out once every month or two and the whole family can have fun for a few hours.
It's just an extremely expensive board game.
BigDubs said:
Uh... Have you compared the Wii hardware sales to all other consoles? It's unprecedented compared to them all. It's selling faster than the PS2. Software wise it's not that much of a slouch unless you're one of those snobby gamers that won't acknowledge stuff like WiiPlay, Carnival Games, etc. And much like the Wii hardware is unprecedented, the 360 software sales are at a level of their own. However, as their hardware has a smaller and smaller percentage of the market, how well with that ratio hold up?
MisterHero
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They don't produce enough software to be true 3rd-parties but rather (for the most part) hold developers and publish their games. So they'd probably break up in the atmosphere and let most of their studios go seperate ways if that were to happen.Slavik81 said:
Well that's what I think.
i'm crazy
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Kandrick said:
:lol :lol :lol
I put my hands over my head, said "HOLY SHIT!" and then saw the first post.
JESUS FUCK
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Kusagari said:
A game's quality has no correlation with its sales. Try again.
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Son of Godzilla said:
Wii Sports hasn't outsold Halo 3???
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papercut said:
It's a better argument than one man's uninformed opinion.
That's because nobody did buy the system for it. It's not the game itself that is fantastic. It's that the game perfectly expresses what the Wii's about and the second you see Wii Sports, you can imagine all kinds of awesome ways to use it that were totally impossible in previous generations.bigmakstudios said:
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dammitmattt said:
it's a shitty argument. Meet the Spartans earned a lot
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Slavik81 said:
I highly disagree. Casual gamers aren't buying stuff for potential. PS3 owners do that. Wii buyers are buying it because Wii Sports looks fun and it's the hot thing to get.
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Anasui Kishibe said:
BU its POPULAR it must be good!
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Anasui Kishibe said:
Well, I've played through both games multiple times and I disagree with his assessment. Bluemercury's credentials are considerably more suspect.
So does that improve my argument?
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
yup yup.
people who love the first one hate the second one because of what they did to Terrorist hunt.
In the first one, there was always a heavy randomness and the AI never felt cheap.
In two, you have things like enemies spawning, being insanely dumb (hello sitting at the bottom of a repel !) , being able to snipe you with a shotgun across an entire map etc etc...
I'd say "This needs patched" but it seems inherently broken. The AI probably did have a few tricks in the first one to futher the illusion, but it always felt different.
Gah, in 4 players it helps , but yes - biggest disappointment of the year.
Also - the ACES system ended up being less than i expected.
And headshots taking precedence is annoying! +1 for a headshot? +3 for a long distance kill? Long distance headshot = +1
Could have/should have been sooooo much better.
That's said, it's still worth a shot. I wouldn't call it completely awful, just a massive let down.
Army of Two is average. It's , again, not awful, but it's not the pinacle of gaming.
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bigmakstudios said:
Bowling, tennis and golf are really fun.....and i had most of my family playing it too.....still its supposed to be a demo and yet the fact that today pple still talks about it, is pretty revealing.