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MW2 is about to come out and be on that list in less than a month.
I don't think it's premature at all. That has to be the biggest release this year (sorry, ODST) and Activision are certainly drumming it up to be with good reason.
I meant that top 10 is premature.
Because it doesn't include MW2.
Which will certainly be one of the ten best-selling games of the decade.
I took it for that since it is basically the end of the decade so if it gets on there that would be insane.
Edit: For reference, last count Halo 2 sold 6.3 million copies in the US.
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Halo_2
I think it could do it. My town alone (which is tiny) said they've already got a couple hundred pre-orderers that will be there launch night.
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Killzone 2 (Released Feb 27)
Feb NPD - 323k (3 days)
March NPD - 296k (5 week reporting period)
This is what the sales model for the vast majority of games looks like.
The 360 and PS3 install bases are much bigger now than they were in 07, and the PS3 should do decently this fall with its price cut. MW2 will be one of those games that just about any new 360 or PS3 purchaser will get along with the system this fall, as well. And there's a lot less competition from big budget AAA games this fall too, I think.
It'll be a close call.
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worldwide it does (14+ million sales worldwide versus Halo 2's 8 million worldwide), but maybe not in the US alone.
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Just going back to this for a sec. True, the Go wasn't around to help sales of these, but:
1. The current PSPs could use these.
2. It's actually more convenient for Go owners to just download the thing directly than fuck around with codes.
3. The Go will likely sell like crap.
Add those up, and I doubt the Card Voucher games will do much better next month. That's going to lead to some pissed off retailers. And these vouchers were supposed to help make up for the fact that the Go doesn't use regular disks. Sony really, really didn't think their plan through.
Maybe the massive price cut and new form factor?
First full five weeks of a price dropped PS3/PS3 Slim.
Will not do this well in October.
Your memory is terrible. Clearly you need to use backloggery more often than you already do. September was the month that the Slim came out and Sony started advertising the price drop. Uncharted 2 came out in October.
Anyway, it's nice to see the PS3 get a boost but the question is whether it can sustain that momentum. At this point though, it looks unlikely that the Wii will manage to catch up to the PS360.
Wow at the PSP software sales though. I hope the PSN sales are better because if not... It's completely dead outside of Japan. Hopefully Sony will actually realise how poorly they planned the PSP Go and make sure the eventual PSP2 launch goes a bit better.
Heh, I picture in my head them constantly saying for years "The bestselling console in the world!*"
"*for the month of September 2009.
This is going to cause some problems. I don't get it though, if you limit it from the start, sure, people will put up with it, but doing it now? Seems a bad idea.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
How quaint!
You forget that the cheapest model of the 360 relied on memory cards as it does not include a HDD. Though they did start including a free one and now internal memory, there were some good third-party cards that allowed micro-SD cards to be used.
I'm guessing this also stomps out people who've hacked regular non-proprietary hard drives to get around the outrageous HD prices.
Hopefully this one'll have long legs like most DS games seem to have. The game is so frustrating when you're just trying to beat a level, but screwing around with secondary solutions is just so much fun.
On a more positive note Demon's Souls is selling well (at least for an Atlus game). They are doing a second run, good for them.
http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97902
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
They've only released this so far: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/10/welcome-to-the-playstation-nation/
As for the Oddworld games, yeah that news broke a week or so back. I never got around to playing Munch or Stranger so I'll probably pick up both on Steam. If they're coming to the PSN though, I'd probably wait a bit just so I can use a controller.
:^:
It's not very good.
Stranger's Wrath is a hell of a lot better.
A mere 15 blocks of space, but that didn't matter because the only games I had were Final Fantasy VII and WCW Nitro.
I miss the good old days.
I was just looking at my primary PSX memory card the other day.
It's pretty much
FF IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
Chrono Cross-multiple files
Legend of Mana
Bomberman Party
THPS2
and a couple of other things
Memory card 2 is like
Megaman 8
some alternate FF saves
and Armored Core.
My memory cards are all intact, but I've lost most access to most of my PSX saves because my computer doesn't have a serial port anymore.
The best memory card I ever had was one I found, actually. I was taking the trash out in my old apartment complex, threw it in the dumpster, and lying on the ground right next to the dumpster was one of those memory cards that holds an ungodly amount of blocks. So I grabbed it and brought it inside...someone had vested hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours into Front Mission 3, Final Fantasy Tactics, FFVII-IX, etc.
I think it's so weird to just be able to toss that away. I still have all my memory cards. That's like...a digital representation of large portions of my life, man.