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Given more time, memory cards might have become the new baseball card collection to be thrown out or given away by a parent that didn't know any better...
Do not engage the Watermelons.
I'm one of the biggest defendants of DD on these forums and even I think that individual game card vouchers are about as stupid as you can get. If you want DD, you're probably going to purchase digitally, but in the cases where you don't (say, you have some credit at a specific store or you're buying a gift for someone), you're better off just purchasing a general purpose PSN card.
So no, I don't think sales of game card vouchers are even slightly indicative of actual DD sales.
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MS has (had?) individual XBLA game cards for sale. I can still find them at Target, or I used to, but I expect they aren't big sellers. Plus, they don't have price reductions. The last time I saw one, a Worms card was $10. And I can get that for $5 through the marketplace.
Given the nature of the beast, title specific cards available for sale (as opposed to being freebies included in the packaging for something else) aren't the best use of resources.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
Do you need to provide a carrot to the retailers? For general purpose retailers like Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Toys'R'Us, I imagine they're fine with the Go - it's a high margin item that doesn't take up a lot of shelf space. And for specialty gaming stores, the Go is a direct attack against their livelihood so no matter what you do there's not a whole lot you can do to change the fact that they hate you (just look at the rigged poll on Game Informer's website where 3 of the 4 choices are anti-PSP Go and it automatically votes for you and gives you one of the negative choices).
According to this article - http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23425 - Gamestop only accounts for about a fifth of the new game market (excluding DD). Losing Gamestop's support is hardly fatal.
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Wow.. That was... Disappointingly sane.
lolsony is on life support :shock:
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
Some will fall and some will live, will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the games will water the meadows of Finance!
Nothing really unexpected.
Soul Calibur PSP is another game I have no idea how it got greenlit. Mutliplayer on handheld systems almost never takes off, and it's pretty much the entire point of fighting games.
I can't see the tournament scene ever picking up Broken Destiny.
Sometimes people just wanna play fighting games on the go.
How well did that do?
*With a lead on the price drop, the PS3 only surpassed the Wii's sales by a small margin. This has not deterred the usual websites to declare the Wii dooooooommmmeeeddd!
*Mario & Luigi 3 did much better than I thought it would. I figured it would be a marginal success on the fact that Mario still sells really well, but there wasn't much promotion behind it, so it's numbers are crazy good.
*Obviously the Beatles beat out Guitar Hero, I would have been surprised if they hadn't. I mean The Beatles are basically the Miley Cyrus of that generation. :winky: Either way GH5 is also a great game, so hate on the company, hate on Kotick, but stop hating on a product that is of high quality and fun to play. Why can't everyone adopt the attitude that you can like both Rock Band and Guitar Hero and not have to illogically hate one or the other?
*I will say though on the GH5 front....they had a head start and gave away GH: Stupid Fat Wolfgang Edition for free....so the fact that they were still beaten must hurt Activision a bit, especially after claiming that they were beating them 4:1.
*Batman: AA has done amazing stuff, so I hope Rocksteady takes that as a reason to start working on a sequel, and by golly, put Ra's and Mr. Freeze in it this time. On the other side of the coin, sadface to the crappy Marvel: UA game selling so well.
*DS rules all, we might as well just start bowing to the new ruler of the universe.
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If I see Rock Band: Miley, I will know who to kill.
2.2 million according to wikipedia. Probably true.
It's probably good enough seeing that namco is doing a PSP version for tekken 6.
They do; "Are you enjoying your shiny new console? Good. Just popping it to say all the upcoming games for it have been postponed for 9 months."
Good lord, that's a lot more than I expected! Does that 2.2 million include sales of the PS3 port as well?
All psp.
Tekken is one hell of a franchise.
Mr. Sony has to be tearing his hair out over his frustratingly portable son failing out of school so many times. He's even spent a ton of resources lining up third-party exclusives from huge franchises. Oh well; like Threepio, I'll just wait to scavenge the fire-sale bins and pick up a PSP Go for $80 one day.
EDIT: Also, I realize that I'm in a very specific slice of users, but another massive reason I haven't bought anything for the PSP in a while is because I'm on a custom firm and Sony's locked me out of buying games on the PSN store, as well as new UMDs. I'm holding off for a while to see if there's any advancement in the scene; I'm tempted to go legit for a while, since I can just Pandora my way back, but I'm in the peculiar situation where I'm prevented from buying new stuff, both digitally and at retail, but it could take me about 10 minutes to find and acquire PSP software through less reputable means.
EDIT2: And Jesus H. Christ, scraping just above 3k for Motorstorm: Arctic Edge? I can't say I'm surprised, since it was just kind of pooped onto the marketplace, but I was really looking forward to that one and the videos look awesome. I don't know how Wipeout has done in terms of PSP sales, but I've felt racers were a great PSP strength.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/19/piracy-discourages-future-pixeljunk-psp-port-plans/
Since when have custom firmware PSP's been locked out of the PSN?
Allforce: You may want to word your posts better. It read like you were saying Q Games is going out of business, which won't be happening anytime soon.
Well, I can access the store, but the Half Minute Hero demos required a greater firmware than what I currently have, and I assume things like Motorstorm and whatever are along the same lines. The version.txt trick might work but I haven't tinkered with it too much. There are some workarounds, but none seem to jive well with the Mac I have at home.
As for Pixeljunk Monsters Deluxe not selling very well, I have to think that the price had a lot to do with it. I can purchase Defense Grid or Plants vs. Zombies for $10 a piece and those are both incredible tower defense games. Why should PJMD cost twice as much? Sure, I'll pick it up sometime because I'm a tower defense junkie but at $10 or even $15, it would have been a day 1 purchase for me. EDIT: Same thing with Persona PSP. I can buy FF7 for $10, Wild Arms 2 & Suikoden for $6. Tell me again why a partially remade version of a game that was their contemporaries costs $40?
And for Dead Space Wii, I imagine length played a huge part in why it didn't do so well. RE:UC was worth buying at full price because not only was it a good game, but it was a lengthy one. All the reviews I've read of Dead Space Wii say that it's the kind of game you can finish in a day or two and there aren't a whole lot of reasons to go back to it.
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That's just mean. Poor PSP
Also top 20:
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
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Also, they extended it until this Sunday, if anyone hasn't done it yet.
I think hype in general is a nonentity with the PSP's software lineup. Even with all of the buzz about the Go, both positive and negative, it's still harder to shit a unicorn out of your ass than try to spark genuine discussion about the PSP's games. :? And all of the ads have been hardware focused; Sony crows to the heavens when they release a new iteration of the hardware, but software releases slip by all of the time. Outside of Dissidia, which naturally has a huge hype-hungry fanbase.
Actually yes, you need a carrot to the retailers when you sell a product that's not tied to the really high-margin games. The Go cuts them off from that revenue stream, and not just Gamestop. Sony runs the risk of annoying, well, pretty much every retailer.
In other news, Q Games (those dudes who shoehorn the word "Pixeljunk" in the name of all their games for no apparent reason) is getting pissed at the PSP. Reason? Piracy.
http://psp.ign.com/articles/103/1036691p1.html
Is it just me or do they always seem to fuck up with the currency?
Bwahahahaha
Nintendo has a very large amount of assets in the United States, since the yen was weak and the dollar was strong.
This works most of the time, except when our dollar weakens and the Yen gets stronger.
I know that I buy the music games on my 360 due to the easy nature of a harddrive. Maybe that played a bigger factor this time?
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Yeah I don't really pay attention to price drops and the like, since I own all major consoles.