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NPD Software Sales Results for February 2007
- Thread starter sonycowboy
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miguel_c_hammer
Member
Jammy said:
People seem to have mixed feelings about the game itself, but that commericial is damn brilliant.
DayShallCome
Member
sangreal said:
I mean, when is SonyCowboy going to post some additional info?
chibcicylist
Banned
schuelma said:
I'm really glad raving rabbids is doing so well. Ubisoft needs to adapt them as sort of their mascot. Very great character design. A Rabbids RTS similar to Pikmin would be cool as well.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
SonyCowboy where art thou you?
The Virtua fighter 5 sales really sadden me. What makes it worse is that when PS3 owners come into work complaining about a good game to play and I'll offer them VF5 or motorstorm or Resistance and they will deny them to pick up NBA 07 or blazing angels or Sonic. So friggin annoying. I hope VF5 sells well on 360 or I'll be disappointed again as its very disheartening when a great fighter sells bad.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
a lot of people (me included) aren't very interested in predominately competitive games (fighters, racers, etc.) i agree your coworkers are making some strange choices, but if they're looking for adventure games or platformers, there's really not much for them right now on ps3. it's coming, it's just not present at the moment.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Rayman's 4th month > Virtua Fighter 5?
That hurts. :lol
That hurts. :lol
Well you have to consider user-bases. It is unfair to compare a PS3 game sales to a Wii game when Wii has such a larger base of consoles to buy video games.Jirotrom said:
Faaar to soon to begin comparing the two when they(for not at least) have great differences in how many systems are in homes.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
the ultimate message is that it's never okay to care.
Cheebs said:
The two systems launched at almost exactly the same time. How exactly is it unfair to make comparisons between how software is selling on or the other? It's almost the perfect case study, actually. It's not like the Wii started with a year's head start on the PS3 -- they started at the same time, one just happened to build up faster hardware and software sales. Of course we can compare them.
Actually, the PS3 had a head start.... It's not that it isn't fair to compare Wii and PS3 sales, it's just not as fun. I hope the PS3 can put up a better fight next month.ethelred said:
I don't really think VF5 sales are all that bad. VF4 did most of its sales as a GH title and I amagine 5 will do the same.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
JJConrad said:
The argument we've been hearing for months is that the Wii will never see a ramp-up of 3rd party support because Nintendo fans don't buy 3rd party games.
Here we are, 4 months after launch, and not only are Nintendo-published games smoking flagship PS3 1st and 3rd party offerings, but decent 3rd party fare like Red Steel, Rayman, Sonic, SSX, and Tiger Woods are doing much better as well.
If games like Oblivion, GRAW2, or Lair on PS3 get outsold by the likes of Godfather, Driver, or Medal of Honor on Wii in the next few months (in terms of units and revenue), how long will it be before we start seeing more Manhunt-level announcements from Western devs?
Or, how long do we expect devs to wait for PS3 game sales to become respectable? VF5 selling about 1/10th of the PS2 version can't be a great sign for companies bringing over major PS2 sequels this year. I think for the majority of 07-08 PS3 owners are looking at 360 ports making up 90% of their software library.
AdmiralViscen
Banned
googog Wii third parties.
You can be sure that a lot more Wii support by major publishers is coming based on the recent success. More than that, analysis of sales will point out that original titles is what you wanna do on the platform and can be done with relatively low risk. Things will look very different by the end of the year.Sho_Nuff82 said:
It doesn't feel that way yet because the relevant decision have just been made or are being made still. Luckily, development of games for wii doesn't quite take as long.
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
OMG, deja vu. Gamecube all over again. Getting all the games but they just sell less. Soon, people will be choosing Wii Madden over PS3. Total mind****. I hope I'm around for Nintendo to **** it all up again in 2 generations and the Splorgenborg to take over.Sho_Nuff82 said:
Yes, we can do that with ANY console, as the idea of per capita sales is to generate an average sales percentage if all consoles had sold equally. Governments use per capita for average income evaluation, and if it can be used for something that important, using it for software-to-console sales averages doesn't seem like a huge stretch.Brak said:
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Then we could determine the number of software pieces sold compared to the hardware sales and make some manner of ratio
Sho_Nuff82 said:
and if you've been following sales long enough you would know that sales in the launch period usually mean squat cause people are usuallly less discriminate about their purchases, publishers know that too which is why they try to push new IPs near the beginning of a generation
Fuzzy said:
Without the "three days later, massive software data is released" thing, it's less interesting from a sales perspective, but I find some of the comments and discussion to be interesting. I end up skimming it for posters who I find to be somewhat coherent from other threads to save time, though. I like the fact that this thread is only 7 pages, so that I can read through the entire thing. 49 pages makes that somewhat difficult, thus the skimming part.
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Segata Sanshiro said:
I like Star Wars, so perhaps we can name this "ratio" after something from those movies. X-Wing ratio or maybe TIE ratio. Something like that.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Link316 said:
Ahhh, there's the problem then. PS3 owners are just far too discriminating!