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NPD Sales Results for February 2010
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HAL_Laboratory
Member
This is true.Willy105 said:
Yeah and obviously I'm kidding about Nintendo's sales; they still have a looooong way to go to even reach PS2's numbers. Wii does appear to be losing steam in NA at this time.
HAL_Laboratory
Member
Interesting. Unfortunately I doubt the Wii will have the lasting power of PS2 in the long run, if only because the majority of the world will have adopted HD content exclusively within the next few years. Time will tell.donny2112 said:
palpabl_purpura
Member
I own a PS3, but I'm glad to see 360 and Wii doing well. The more even the competition, the better it is for gamers.
GoW: Collection in the top 20 is very nice, especially for the games to be 3 and 5 years old, respectively. Goes to show what HD visuals, Trophies, and a nice 30 dollar price point can get people to buy PS2 games yet again. Do you hear me Konami/Capcom?
I would buy MGS 1-3, DMC 1-3, and Resident Evil 4 all again if they were in HD with trophies. Ooh, how about Resident Evil 4 for Move? Do it Capcom!
I would buy MGS 1-3, DMC 1-3, and Resident Evil 4 all again if they were in HD with trophies. Ooh, how about Resident Evil 4 for Move? Do it Capcom!
Cornbread78
Member
hxa155 said:
If PS3 could could actually keep themselves in stock, those numberswould have been much higher, when in stock, we sell move of those about 3-1 over XBox.
donny2112 said:
The only thing I could see stopping the Wii from overtaking the PS2 worldwide (Or at least in NA, not sure how the numbers look in Europe, and it won't happen in Japan) is if Nintendo releases a followup console in 2012 (or earlier). Unlike Sony, Nintendo drops support for their older consoles pretty quickly. They won't have both on the market concurrently for 4+ years.
New Super Mario Bros DS and Mario Kart DS will NEVER die! :lolJtyettis said:Make that 12 for Bioshock 2 PS3 then;
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/...ens_vs_Predator_Jump_Into_February_Top_20.php
Yoboman
Member
lol MGS1 in HD?DMeisterJ said:
Frankly a lot of games wouldn't work in HD. GoW Collection worked cause the games looked so clean originally. A lot of those products would require complete reworking
Of course MGS1 could use Twin Snakes assets? I dunno the legal implications of that though
OldJadedGamer
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Cornbread78 said:
Shoulda, woulda, coulda... we won't know until Sony gets off their asses and ships unit to retail. Anything *could* have happened but these numbers are what did happen.
Struct09 said:
He doesn't count though, he's the same person who says that GoW is a bigger franchise than GT. So there is a screw loose in there somewhere.
kswiston said:
For U.S.+Japan, PS2 was at 37.4m at the end of February 2004. For U.S.+Japan, Wii is at 38.0m at the end of February 2010. In other words, the U.S. overperformance for the Wii is compensating for the Wii underperformance in Japan. Therefore, the only difference would be Europe. I know that Wii's done really well over there, but I don't know how it's compared to PS2 in an equivalent time period.
As the myth of last generation has been disproved this generation, install base doesn't guarantee software support, though, so outpacing PS2 hardware doesn't really mean so much.
Bjern Fita
Member
Super late commenting but our gal Anita isn't actually providing any analysis whatsoever. She's merely comparing the period to prevoius years. I get people paying for the raw info but for people to dumb it down for them?
AdventureRacing
Member
Cornbread78 said:
The PS3 is in short supply so when it is in stock it is going to be moved more quickly due to pent up demand. This doesn't mean that if they were always in stock they would keep selling at the same rate. There is no way that if Sony had shipped a million consoles they would have sold them, which is basically what your post would imply.
The fact that there is a shortage indicates that Sony could have sold more than they did but how much more is pretty much impossible to work out. Maybe they would have topped out at 400K or 500K, who knows.
I don't mind people acknowledging the shortage as it obviously has effected the sales of the PS3 and wii. However i don't think you can then jump to the conclusion that both would have sold a shitload more without the shortage as we really don't know that (maybe with the wii we do
).charlequin
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Kintaro said:
This (like your entire argument here) is just more magical fanboy thinking. "Nintendo have it all figured out -- so if they do something, it can't just be that they've made a poor choice or were unable to take advantage of an opportunity due to incorrect priorities or misapplied skill -- no, it must be that they figured something out no one else in the industry has ever been smart enough to see." Ridiculous.
If we assume that Nintendo are, y'know, interested in actually running their business correctly, there is no remotely sensible or legitimate justification for not being interested in the money of people who want to spend less than $50 on games. It's not like these people aren't going to buy the hardware (because Nintendo priced their hardware democratically, not exclusively) and it's not like they aren't going to spend their money on $20 games -- they'll just buy bad third-party junk used. There is literally no way in which this benefits Nintendo more than selling these people good first-party games at $20 a pop would.
Right, that's why Nintendo sell their hardware at a premium and why their online store put an emphasis on a long-tail collection with as much content as possible released upfront... waaaaaaait.
Vizion28 said:
Literally nobody except you is talking about doing this to games that are still selling. This conversation is about the quality first-party games like Fire Emblem, Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, etc. that are literally selling zero copies a month.
DMeisterJ said:
B-Rad Lascelle
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That's remarkable for a Sega-published title without Sonic or Mario mentioned anywhere.Kusagari said:
Wait what? If anything, Player's Choice lines are more short term profit oriented than fixing the price on a high level. Especially when Nintendo makes a Player's Choice line with first party titles, third parties won't sell anything!Celine said:
The only thing I really appreciate is a Player's Choice line exclusively with third party titles, like the line they recently have in Japan. I'd like to see this strategy more often and world wide.
AgentOtaku
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Aselith said:
Dante's Inferno has something pretty important in my book, which is a solid combat engine. I looked forward to every next fight during my playthrough ....I honestly couldn't say the same for GoW Collection
Son of Godzilla
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Fixed?AgentOtaku said:
BishopLamont
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Pachter still as ignorant as always.
SilverLunar
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about this Wii best/player's choice rerelases, i think Nintendo will release them at the near end of the Wii life, or a year before the Wii 2 get released.
There is no reason for them not releasing them, man i remeber it took me 3 freaking months looking for a copy of Fire Emblem, it was sooo hard to find!!
There is no reason for them not releasing them, man i remeber it took me 3 freaking months looking for a copy of Fire Emblem, it was sooo hard to find!!