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Japan charts: Media Create 21 - 27 Mar
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JackFrost2012
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Spiritreaver
Member
And thus this thread falls into the shitter along with many many other threads of late, wonderful. The stubbornness is completely unnecessary, no one gives a shit.
johntv said:
We don't really purchase gifts for each other in the US for Easter either. At least that's not a custom I'm familiar with, unless you consider buying chocolate bunnies "gifts."
DarthWufei said:
After all your whining and bitching about arguing about the "same topic", here comes a different one and you still cry! I think you should stick to checking for game news and playing weaksauce MMORPGs like FFXI
JackFrost2012
Banned
Why would a holiday which a very small religious minority celebrate as a private religious affair, with absolutely NO presence in the public or economic spheres, in any way, shape, or form affect DS sales?Amir0x said:
Easter is not unpopular in the Japanese mind, it is non-extant.
The Faceless Master
Member
so does blaming it on easter mean jesus saved the ds and made it's sales ressurect for one week?
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Alcibiades
Member
I've gotten videogames and stuff like that for Easter, but nothing big...
Christmas & Santa were for the big stuff (systems, TV's, etc...)
Easter I might get a game, CD, jacket, or something worth $10-$30...
Christmas & Santa were for the big stuff (systems, TV's, etc...)
Easter I might get a game, CD, jacket, or something worth $10-$30...
Spiritreaver
Member
Nope. this isn't different at all in my eyes, the subject is definitely, but not the concept. And it's plaguing the forum. Reread my post in MAF's thread as I go into more detail about it.Amir0x said:After all your whining and bitching about arguing about the "same topic", here comes a different one and you still cry! I think you should stick to checking for game news and playing weaksauce MMORPGs like FFXI
JackFrost2012 said:
Maybe you missed the point where I wasn't saying Easter affected sales at all? I assumed Easter was Sunday, the only reason I mentioned Easter was because I thought that was the day that the DS received a boost - Johnnyram said it was a Sunday, and I thought that was Easter in Japan. It meant nothing other than an acknowledgement that the sales boost came on such a day, even though we know now it didn't.
The only thing that was meant by it was...
a.) Colors were what drove sales
b.) (I thought) Easter was the day this occurred (Note: Not that Easter had any affected on it)
Perhaps I should have wrote it more clearly, but everyone is so content to argue this silliness now
DarthWufei said:
The concept...of this argument...is that Easter happens in Japan? Anyone, if you didn't notice I was ribbing you as a result of reading your comment in MAFs thread. You bitch too much. Debating is the real meat.
JackFrost2012
Banned
john tv said:
Thanks! So are you gonna buy me a DS or what?
Spiritreaver
Member
I did notice, which is why I said to reread it.Amir0x said:
Spiritreaver
Member
What are you even talking about? I generally stay out of these things, the MAF thread is really the only time I've taken a serious thought to it. And again, reread it, I'm all for debating, but you're missing the point of what i don't like it. We can get into it in PM though if you'd like, I dunno, not tha timportant. But I feel I'm somewhat contributing to it at the moment.Amir0x said:
DarthWufei said:What are you even talking about? I generally stay out of these things, the MAF thread is really the only time I've taken a serious thought to it. And again, reread it, I'm all for debating, but you're missing the point of what i don't like it. We can get into it in PM though if you'd like, I dunno, not tha timportant. But I feel I'm somewhat contributing to it at the moment.
Well alright then, but I still say that this is a different kind of "argument" and that you should totally be celebrating our choice of different subject. If you like, we can debate about the concept behind our debate, and whether it was different enough to be worth bitchin' about
But seriouslah, I'm just joshin'. But as you know, the debates will rage on - forEVER (just wait 'til E3!)
Soulbrighter
Member
Now we know there are 56000 Christians in Japan.
Spiritreaver
Member
Well, color me surprised on the numbers really. I was pretty skeptical about how extra colors would really do for the system. Didn't expect a jump over over 50k, hell even 40k. But like I mentioned before, I haven't really seen the results of additional colors on hardware sales before.Izzy said:Great DS hardware numbers.
But where's the algebra for this thread? At least it's not boring by any means.
soundwave05
Member
AniHawk said:
Yeah those edible chocolate edition DS' are selling like crazy.
soundwave05
Member
XBox sales sure exploded in North America for the all-important Chinese New Years as well.
Mama Smurf
My penis is still intact.
Fucking Easter.
Spiritreaver
Member
:lol You've already got a small set of hardware numbers and enough osftware numbers, go for it.Izzy said:Logically, it's hard to do algebra without solid numbers for anything other than DS - but I'd be more than happy do it if you'd provide the sales info.
:lol I'm only kidding.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
No no no no no no no. Last we've seen, tie ratios are quite similar between DS and PSP; PSP even had the slight edge. The fact remains, though, that while PSP has outdone DS in hardware sales for nearly all of this year, DS still has about 80% more units total out there, and that makes quite a big difference when showing only the top 10 or whatever of software sales. If those three DS games sold at the same ratio to PSP owners, they'd have sold something like 43K, 18K, and 10K, dropping Kirby from 3rd to 4th, Egg Monster from 6th to 7th, and Harvest Moon right off the list.Kai said:
Chibbi Brady
Member
I'm surprised these particular colurs had such an impact on sales. The second set are far more appealing and coinciding with Nintendogs, could possibly puch the DS to 100k that week.
monchi-kun
Member
METEOS???
FinalSolace
Banned
Kai said:
nintendo's gain
sony's debt
Kai said:
From personal experience I'd hazard a guess that because PSP games are long with a lot of replay value, PSP owners don't really buy many games. I mean the average businessman playing MGA on the train to work each day isn't going to beat the game for a month or two so why buy another PSP game. Whereas if they bought Pac-pix and finished it in 2-3 days, they'd wanna get something new to keep them occupied.
Just a thought...