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Video game sales thread October: all done here.
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It needs to be pointed out that last months NPD contained a week of post price drop sales. Someone in the last thread calculated how many were sold pre and post drop and there was a significant rise in sales in the one week. Compare the numbers to August where the Wii only sold 277k, so the drop has spurred a large increase of sales, and it was only a $50 drop.
At the moment Gamestation is refusing to honour price matching on COD with the super stores.
I dont really blame them in this case, I figured the super stores would do it at 40 rather than losing out on millions of pounds of profit but £26 for MW2 is just ridiculous.
September 5 October 4.
I'm impressed by the Wii beating out the DS.
Also I'm surprised/impressed that the 360 can do this well against the $300 PS3. I expected more of the PS3s gains to come out of the 360s hide, I guess.
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Says you. I found the game to be amazing, and wish it would have sold better, so that I can play against a larger variety of people online.
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
The opening parts are really fun, just that after the first obviously worked on opening, the game really loses focus, thats why the demo didn't show the focus less sections, and thats why the sales are where they are word of mouth killed the game I'm sure.
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EDIT: And the really sad thing isn't Brutal Legend not making the top 10, but Half-Minute Hero not making the top 10. Sure, I'm not actually surprised (it's the very definition of niche), but rarely have I played such a fun and unique game.
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Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
I dunno borderlands is a different demo much more likely to get hurt by mw2 then brutal legend was (you also forgot dragons age.)
Also the game didn't really know what it wanted to be, that said 200k sales isn't really a death knell, hard to say what kind of legs it will have considerinng the word of mouth is really polar.
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....ouch.
I just happen to be in the group that was pleasantly surprised to find a well managed console RTS.
The single player is great, but when it's over, it's over.
The multiplayer is what keeps me around, though as we found out tonight, finding games that are more than 1v1 seems to be a bit challenging.
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
And fuck sake it would be nice to see a decline of some of these games dj hero? I mean seriously.
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what were brutal legends numbers?
This is for the PC edition, right? And not some magical collection of people really late to the XBL party?
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Seriously, what did this game do to piss off you guys?
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
Dude, wahts funny about that? Its a genuinely original game that tries something a bit different.
Kind of like how Psychonauts, while decently humorous is a damn abortion of a platformer. Guy should stick to straight adventure games.
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Wii
October: 506.9/4=126.73 a week
September: 462.8/5=92.56 a week
It's about as original as any game that touts itself as being original. The really original ones don't have to say a word.
All about dis.
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Which really original ones are these? The ones that don't sell or the ones that don't exist?
Also does anyone have the numbers for Demon Souls? I heard Atlus was doing a second print run of it, so i figure it must have done at least decently.
Atlus published it over here, so it'll be low but will probably meet or exceed expectations. They are good like that.
Not true, I only laugh at the ones I despise.
You won't see me hating on Forza for example, and that's in the process of tanking right now.
Hang on, really? This makes the numbers really interesting. Compare this:
September
NDS 524.2K
PS3 491.8K
Wii 462.8K
360 352.6K
PSP 190.4K
PS2 146.0K
To this:
October
PlayStation 2 117.8K
PlayStation 3 320.6K
PSP 174.6K
Xbox 360 249.7K
Wii 506.9K
Nintendo DS 457.6K
Knowing that October has one less week, the DS more or less held steady while PSP sales actually dropped a bit. During the release of the Go. Holy shit.
The PS3 dropped a bit but is still doing much better considering its usual four-week average pre-price drop was in the low 200k range. The 360 held more or less steadily and is doing decently.
But the Wii actually surged. Wow. Wonder what was the cause? Or maybe the $50 price drop caused more of a slow burn?
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Ah, so the ones that sell even worse.
The combined costs of those three games wouldn't have exceeded Brutal Legend's.
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Katamari, for one. Didn't even have any advertising or people going "we're really excited about what we have to offer because we feel it's something quite new for the players blah blah blah."
In the mailbag of the Giant Bomb podcast someone asked if maybe Schafer who seems to have more talent in storytelling rather than game design should focus his energies in other fields, such as animation. Food for thought.
In BL's case, the big loser is Activision... they footed most of the bill and got jack squat.
The popular innovative games certainly exist. They're things like Doom, Half Life, Devil May Cry, Guitar Hero, ect... The problem is once these innovative games become popular, they're turned into franchises or at the least copied by other companies. So if you're looking for an innovative game that isn't copied (like it sounds like you are) of course it's not going to be one that was popular enough to sell well.