I don't get it. If Italy, Spain etc., are small time, Germany is PC land, France has surrendered to Nintendo and the 360 is holding it's own in the UK, how the hell is Europe supposed to save Sony?
Some of the European sales threads in GAF near the gen's start were downright infuriating because people there were spewing absolutely idiotic things, but we couldn't prove that they were being idiots simply because we didn't have numbers.
A little information is a dangerous thing, and all that.
They were hilarious though.
2 Million PS3's sold in Spain and Italy? A Month? :P
01 (01) [PC] Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (Eidos)
02 (02) [360] Grand Theft Auto IV (Take 2)
03 (03) [PS3] Grand Theft Auto IV (Take 2)
04 (05) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
05 (04) [PS2] Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Activision)
06 (11) [PS2] Singstar Svenska hits Schlager (SCE)
07 (__) [PS2] FIFA 2008 (Electronic Arts)
08 (07) [PC] World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (Vivendi Games)
09 (__) [360] Race Driver Grid (Codemasters)
10 (__) [PC] Crysis (Electronic Arts)
11 (12) [PC] The Sims 2 FreeTime (Electronic Arts)
12 (08) [PC] The Sims 2 Kitchen and Bath Interior Design Stuff (Electronic Arts)
13 (10) [PC] World of Warcraft (Vivendi Games) 14 (17) [PC] Warcraft III Frozen Throne (Vivendi Games)
15 (09) [PC] Counter-Strike 1: Anthology (Electronic Arts) 16 (16) [PC] Warcraft III Reign Of Chaos (Vivendi Games)
17 (14) [WII] Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Activision)
18 (13) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
19 (07) [360] FIFA 2008 (Electronic Arts)
20 (20) [PS2] UEFA EURO 2008 (Electronic Arts)
Bolded for what the hell, Sweden, what the hell.
I guess that there's a lot of Swedes, that like me, had their TFT discs break, but didn't know that you can play TFT with the RoC disc or that you actually don't even need the disc to play anymore because of an update or that it's possible to register your CD-key online and download the game anytime you want.
Or maybe Swedes are just fucked up.
WCIII customs, particularly DOTA, are extremely popular in Sweden. It's like Koreans and StarCraft.
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01 (01) [PC] Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (Eidos)
02 (02) [360] Grand Theft Auto IV (Take 2)
03 (03) [PS3] Grand Theft Auto IV (Take 2)
04 (05) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
05 (04) [PS2] Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Activision)
06 (11) [PS2] Singstar Svenska hits Schlager (SCE)
07 (__) [PS2] FIFA 2008 (Electronic Arts)
08 (07) [PC] World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (Vivendi Games)
09 (__) [360] Race Driver Grid (Codemasters)
10 (__) [PC] Crysis (Electronic Arts)
11 (12) [PC] The Sims 2 FreeTime (Electronic Arts)
12 (08) [PC] The Sims 2 Kitchen and Bath Interior Design Stuff (Electronic Arts)
13 (10) [PC] World of Warcraft (Vivendi Games) 14 (17) [PC] Warcraft III Frozen Throne (Vivendi Games)
15 (09) [PC] Counter-Strike 1: Anthology (Electronic Arts) 16 (16) [PC] Warcraft III Reign Of Chaos (Vivendi Games)
17 (14) [WII] Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Activision)
18 (13) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
19 (07) [360] FIFA 2008 (Electronic Arts)
20 (20) [PS2] UEFA EURO 2008 (Electronic Arts)
Bolded for what the hell, Sweden, what the hell.
I guess that there's a lot of Swedes, that like me, had their TFT discs break, but didn't know that you can play TFT with the RoC disc or that you actually don't even need the disc to play anymore because of an update or that it's possible to register your CD-key online and download the game anytime you want.
I’ll tell you what happens in Demon’s Souls when you die. You come back as a ghost with your health capped at half. And when you keep on dying, the alignment of the world turns black and the enemies get harder. That’s right, when you fail in this game, it gets harder. Why? Because fuck you is why.
01 (01) [PC] Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (Eidos)
02 (02) [360] Grand Theft Auto IV (Take 2)
03 (03) [PS3] Grand Theft Auto IV (Take 2)
04 (05) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
05 (04) [PS2] Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Activision)
06 (11) [PS2] Singstar Svenska hits Schlager (SCE)
07 (__) [PS2] FIFA 2008 (Electronic Arts)
08 (07) [PC] World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (Vivendi Games)
09 (__) [360] Race Driver Grid (Codemasters)
10 (__) [PC] Crysis (Electronic Arts)
11 (12) [PC] The Sims 2 FreeTime (Electronic Arts)
12 (08) [PC] The Sims 2 Kitchen and Bath Interior Design Stuff (Electronic Arts)
13 (10) [PC] World of Warcraft (Vivendi Games) 14 (17) [PC] Warcraft III Frozen Throne (Vivendi Games)
15 (09) [PC] Counter-Strike 1: Anthology (Electronic Arts) 16 (16) [PC] Warcraft III Reign Of Chaos (Vivendi Games)
17 (14) [WII] Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Activision)
18 (13) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
19 (07) [360] FIFA 2008 (Electronic Arts)
20 (20) [PS2] UEFA EURO 2008 (Electronic Arts)
Bolded for what the hell, Sweden, what the hell.
I guess that there's a lot of Swedes, that like me, had their TFT discs break, but didn't know that you can play TFT with the RoC disc or that you actually don't even need the disc to play anymore because of an update or that it's possible to register your CD-key online and download the game anytime you want.
Or maybe Swedes are just fucked up.
WCIII customs, particularly DOTA, are extremely popular in Sweden. It's like Koreans and StarCraft.
I'm pretty sure what lowlylowlycook was originally referring to, is the the expansion sold more copies than the main game.
R 14 (17) [PC] Warcraft III Frozen Throne (Vivendi Games)
15 (09) [PC] Counter-Strike 1: Anthology (Electronic Arts) 16 (16) [PC] Warcraft III Reign Of Chaos (Vivendi Games)
Bolded for what the hell, Sweden, what the hell.
I think its pretty obvious that sweedes like their DotA
The fact that this dude has some incredibly popular club song now makes me laugh every fucking time cause all I see is this video and start thinking about Warcraft.
I don't get it. If Italy, Spain etc., are small time, Germany is PC land, France has surrendered to Nintendo and the 360 is holding it's own in the UK, how the hell is Europe supposed to save Sony?
Because Sony defines Europe as everything that's not America or Japan
I don't get it. If Italy, Spain etc., are small time, Germany is PC land, France has surrendered to Nintendo and the 360 is holding it's own in the UK, how the hell is Europe supposed to save Sony?
Because Sony defines Europe as everything that's not America or Japan
Also, everywhere is Wii-land. I think Sony is referring to being 2nd place in a lot of European countries (outside of the UK). The question is whether or not that's enough of a userbase and the benefit outweights the challenges of Europe (lots of little countries requiring translation, seperate marketing/advertising focuses, etc.).
You people never seen that before? I thought everyone had, but maybe that's just because that song and a previous one he made were really popular in Denmark for a while.
You people never seen that before? I thought everyone had, but maybe that's just because that song and a previous one he made were really popular in Denmark for a while.
Previous song (also somewhat game related): Boten AnnaBoten Anna
The story behind Basshunter is pretty neat, actually.
You people never seen that before? I thought everyone had, but maybe that's just because that song and a previous one he made were really popular in Denmark for a while.
Previous song (also somewhat game related): Boten AnnaBoten Anna
The story behind Basshunter is pretty neat, actually.
You people never seen that before? I thought everyone had, but maybe that's just because that song and a previous one he made were really popular in Denmark for a while.
The story behind Basshunter is pretty neat, actually.
WHAT THE FUCK X2
Did this guy just write a song about IRC?
THE FUCK?!?
Anyone can write a song about IRC. That's not the truly sad thing. The sad, terrible, and frightening truth is that someone paid money to record a song and make a video about IRC.
You people never seen that before? I thought everyone had, but maybe that's just because that song and a previous one he made were really popular in Denmark for a while.
The story behind Basshunter is pretty neat, actually.
WHAT THE FUCK X2
Did this guy just write a song about IRC?
THE FUCK?!?
Anyone can write a song about IRC. That's not the truly sad thing. The sad, terrible, and frightening truth is that someone paid money to record a song and make a video about IRC.
The rewrote the lyrics and this has been in the UK top ten for over a month.
The new single will in fact be ‘All I Ever Wanted’ which you will probably know as the music behind Dota. Basshunter has re-sung the vocals in English with brand new lyrics especially for the UK release!
You people never seen that before? I thought everyone had, but maybe that's just because that song and a previous one he made were really popular in Denmark for a while.
The story behind Basshunter is pretty neat, actually.
WHAT THE FUCK X2
Did this guy just write a song about IRC?
THE FUCK?!?
Anyone can write a song about IRC. That's not the truly sad thing. The sad, terrible, and frightening truth is that someone paid money to record a song and make a video about IRC.
No no no. The crazy thing is that it was the number 1 single in 3 countries.
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Am I the only one that loves to go to GAF and laugh at all the people that are like "OMG WII KILLS GAMING!" every month when the numbers come out?
Such fucking idiots.
The thing about neogaf NPD threads is that I don't pay enough attention to who is who so I can't really track of who is serious, who is being ironic and who is trolling.
Sometimes I think that the second group makes up a majority of all the posts that aren't "Wow at Wii number "
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You people never seen that before? I thought everyone had, but maybe that's just because that song and a previous one he made were really popular in Denmark for a while.
The story behind Basshunter is pretty neat, actually.
WHAT THE FUCK X2
Did this guy just write a song about IRC?
THE FUCK?!?
Anyone can write a song about IRC. That's not the truly sad thing. The sad, terrible, and frightening truth is that someone paid money to record a song and make a video about IRC.
No no no. The crazy thing is that it was the number 1 single in 3 countries.
Goddamn, now the DotA song is stuck in my head. It'll probably be there for the rest of the day. THANKS GUYS.
You people never seen that before? I thought everyone had, but maybe that's just because that song and a previous one he made were really popular in Denmark for a while.
The story behind Basshunter is pretty neat, actually.
WHAT THE FUCK X2
Did this guy just write a song about IRC?
THE FUCK?!?
Anyone can write a song about IRC. That's not the truly sad thing. The sad, terrible, and frightening truth is that someone paid money to record a song and make a video about IRC.
No no no. The crazy thing is that it was the number 1 single in 3 countries.
A friend of mine from Norway made an attempt to explain it for their country. Every year, the graduating class has a sort of rite of passage where they have certain things associated with that class, and the song is usually the silliest one they can find. Boten Anna came out, and it was latched onto because it was that bad, and they shot it up to number 1. So it's kinda about graduating class pride and kinda making fun of the song itself that it got to number 1, or something like that.
As for Basshunter, when I was in the Netherlands 'Boten Anna' must have been played every hour. Someone told me the song was about a boat, I think I preferred it that way.
As for Basshunter, when I was in the Netherlands 'Boten Anna' must have been played every hour. Someone told me the song was about a boat, I think I preferred it that way.
There's a danish parody of the song that actually is about a boat. No, I'm not going to see if I can find it.
If you look at the Blu-ray player market, you haven't seen the acceleration everybody expected (since the demise of HD DVD). It's not as much about whether all the content is in a Blu-ray format or a HD DVD format. You have to look at how fundamentally compelling the difference is between a progressive scan DVD player and the picture that it can produce and what you get on a high-definition player. The reality is there is some difference, but most people look at it and say, "I am not going to pay extra for that."
There is nothing to even talk about [Blu-ray Xbox 360 plans] right now with regard to the next generation. That is so far out that there isn't anything to talk about.
Shacknews is reporting, via "a reliable source," that once Star Wars: The Force Unleashed drops in mid-September, LucasArts will pinkslip another 100 employees and quit internal development.
Force Unleashed is the first internally developed 360 and PS3 title for LA, and the first LA-developed title since Republic Commando for the Xbox in 2005. There is, as Yoda might say, another ...
That would be the untitled Indiana Jones third-person actioner, and according to Shacknews, the remainder of its work, left after The Force Unleashed hits the street, will be outsourced. Shacknews notes that past and present development partners include TT Games, Day 1, BioWare, Pandemic and, reaching way back, Totally Games (X-Wing, TIE Fighter).
If you look at the Blu-ray player market, you haven't seen the acceleration everybody expected (since the demise of HD DVD). It's not as much about whether all the content is in a Blu-ray format or a HD DVD format. You have to look at how fundamentally compelling the difference is between a progressive scan DVD player and the picture that it can produce and what you get on a high-definition player. The reality is there is some difference, but most people look at it and say, "I am not going to pay extra for that."
There is nothing to even talk about [Blu-ray Xbox 360 plans] right now with regard to the next generation. That is so far out that there isn't anything to talk about.
Shacknews is reporting, via "a reliable source," that once Star Wars: The Force Unleashed drops in mid-September, LucasArts will pinkslip another 100 employees and quit internal development.
Force Unleashed is the first internally developed 360 and PS3 title for LA, and the first LA-developed title since Republic Commando for the Xbox in 2005. There is, as Yoda might say, another ...
That would be the untitled Indiana Jones third-person actioner, and according to Shacknews, the remainder of its work, left after The Force Unleashed hits the street, will be outsourced. Shacknews notes that past and present development partners include TT Games, Day 1, BioWare, Pandemic and, reaching way back, Totally Games (X-Wing, TIE Fighter).
If that happens Lucasarts is dead to me.
Um, I think if that happens LucasArts will be dead in general.
Shacknews is reporting, via "a reliable source," that once Star Wars: The Force Unleashed drops in mid-September, LucasArts will pinkslip another 100 employees and quit internal development.
Force Unleashed is the first internally developed 360 and PS3 title for LA, and the first LA-developed title since Republic Commando for the Xbox in 2005. There is, as Yoda might say, another ...
That would be the untitled Indiana Jones third-person actioner, and according to Shacknews, the remainder of its work, left after The Force Unleashed hits the street, will be outsourced. Shacknews notes that past and present development partners include TT Games, Day 1, BioWare, Pandemic and, reaching way back, Totally Games (X-Wing, TIE Fighter).
If that happens Lucasarts is dead to me.
Um, I think if that happens LucasArts will be dead in general.
This doesn't sound good for the Force Unleashed. I mean if the game turned out fuck awesome LA wouldn't be firing everyone right? I just don't understand why this studio has struggled so hard over the years. I mean you have more money than god and some of the most compelling licenses out there, you pretty much have to be trying to fuck up to fail.
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They were hilarious though.
2 Million PS3's sold in Spain and Italy? A Month? :P
WCIII customs, particularly DOTA, are extremely popular in Sweden. It's like Koreans and StarCraft.
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I think its pretty obvious that sweedes like their DotA
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
I'm pretty sure what lowlylowlycook was originally referring to, is the the expansion sold more copies than the main game.
The fact that this dude has some incredibly popular club song now makes me laugh every fucking time cause all I see is this video and start thinking about Warcraft.
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Because Sony defines Europe as everything that's not America or Japan
Also, everywhere is Wii-land. I think Sony is referring to being 2nd place in a lot of European countries (outside of the UK). The question is whether or not that's enough of a userbase and the benefit outweights the challenges of Europe (lots of little countries requiring translation, seperate marketing/advertising focuses, etc.).
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What. The. Fuck.
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Oh right back to the top again.
Previous song (also somewhat game related): Boten AnnaBoten Anna
The story behind Basshunter is pretty neat, actually.
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Such fucking idiots.
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WHAT THE FUCK X2
Did this guy just write a song about IRC?
THE FUCK?!?
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Anyone can write a song about IRC. That's not the truly sad thing. The sad, terrible, and frightening truth is that someone paid money to record a song and make a video about IRC.
The rewrote the lyrics and this has been in the UK top ten for over a month.
No kidding, it's hysterical. Here's that version:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IgFwiCApH7E
I want the dota song to come over here unchanged. I would never stop laughing, ever.
EDIT: HOLY SHIT LOL
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No no no. The crazy thing is that it was the number 1 single in 3 countries.
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The thing about neogaf NPD threads is that I don't pay enough attention to who is who so I can't really track of who is serious, who is being ironic and who is trolling.
Sometimes I think that the second group makes up a majority of all the posts that aren't "Wow at Wii number
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The reactions to the 188k 360/PS3 number was still priceless. Everyone expects the Wii to sell a ton so that's less interesting.
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Goddamn, now the DotA song is stuck in my head. It'll probably be there for the rest of the day. THANKS GUYS.
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June more so.
Here more than GAF actually with the Deacon vs TSR bet.
I'm still unsure whether TSR was talking about the US for NPD numbers or just Japan and the Mediacreate numbers..
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Well the outcome there is preordained.
But you see a lot more people talking about buying a PS3 for MGS4 than you did for buying consoles for GTA. So there could be a decent bump at least.
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A friend of mine from Norway made an attempt to explain it for their country. Every year, the graduating class has a sort of rite of passage where they have certain things associated with that class, and the song is usually the silliest one they can find. Boten Anna came out, and it was latched onto because it was that bad, and they shot it up to number 1. So it's kinda about graduating class pride and kinda making fun of the song itself that it got to number 1, or something like that.
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[360] 200k
[NDS] 405k
[PS2] 105k
[PS3] 185k
[PSP] 176k
[WII] 750k
As for Basshunter, when I was in the Netherlands 'Boten Anna' must have been played every hour. Someone told me the song was about a boat, I think I preferred it that way.
There's a danish parody of the song that actually is about a boat. No, I'm not going to see if I can find it.
[NDS] 425k
[PS2] 95k
[PS3] 185k
[PSP] 140k
[WII] 900k
My first attempt at this... I recall talk of a huge wii shipment this month, so with wiifit I'm thinking wii will sell like crack cakes.
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I have been saying the same thing this entire time.
Um, I think if that happens LucasArts will be dead in general.
This doesn't sound good for the Force Unleashed. I mean if the game turned out fuck awesome LA wouldn't be firing everyone right? I just don't understand why this studio has struggled so hard over the years. I mean you have more money than god and some of the most compelling licenses out there, you pretty much have to be trying to fuck up to fail.