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Official Sept 2008 NPD Results
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Psychotext
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You don't know fanboys very well. :lolLostconfused said:
Gully State said:
When people ask this, I ask them: what should Sony do?
Cut Price? They can't. They've already lost 3 billion dollars getting the PS3 out the door. You can't just keep bleeding massive amounts of money.
Furthermore, the entire company is hurting -- it's still profitable, mind you, but profits were cut in half YoY last quarter, and the continued economic recession won't benefit their high end, high margin electronic luxury products like HDTVs and digitical cameras, let alone the low margin products like Blu Ray.
The money has already been spent. There isn't any more. The PS3 has to stand on its own two feet now, and that means no price cuts until it's actually a fiscally responsible decision.
Private Hoffman
Banned
DMeisterJ said:
Yeah, it will based upon what I've seen and played.
Count Dookkake
Member
GPsych said:
Sony: We do what Wii can't. Like letting you run around and do cool stuff.
speculawyer
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manueldelalas said:
The PS3 isn't going to have a year.
Just repeat after me "The playstation brand is strong. The playstation brand is strong."
Allan Holdsworth
Member
Wario Land Shake and Kirby Super Star Deluxe numbers, please.
GitarooMan
Member
I'm sure this has been mentioned, but here's people's answer so they can stop whining about why the Wii gets less third-party big budget "core" game development in the West.
speculawyer
Member
Hope that they'll at least break even on the PS3 after all is said & done.Opiate said:
HK-47 said:
It was really just the level of desperation in the guy's tone - it was like he was telling a story about being homeless and losing his job or something. Particularly when he was telling the clerk about Wall-E. It was like someone had captured the guy and forced him to play it nonstop for two years. The Wii was killing him!!! :lol
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viciouskillersquirrel
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Honestly, price cuts in the past haven't produce sustained console sales for second or third placed consoles at all. The Xbox and Gamecube both got several pricecuts over the course of their lifetimes, but it didn't really help at all. Especially not the Gamecube.MassiveAttack said:
I don't think the problem is one of price. Price helped establish perceptions in the beginning, but these associations with each brand now seem to have been set in stone. I think the problem is simply one of demand.
Count Dookkake
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GitarooMan said:
I'd wait and see what happens next month.
Rather weaker numbers than I expected from the 360, the system is really affordable now, I'm really surprised it didn't pick up way more than it did. Still good numbers, but was thinking quite a bit higher. It should hopefully do much better come finally holiday tally.
Sony is lucky to have the PS2 and PSP sales to compliment the PS3. I would hope this is a clear indication to hit with a solid price drop sometime soon, though they would like to not do such until next year. I think they need to bite the bullet a little harder and drop the price on the machine ahead of schedule, otherwise it's going to get smoked come final holiday tallies. The software is really getting there, there's big movies hitting blu-ray, a price drop would probably push a bit of people over the edge to pick up a PS3 that maybe on the fence.
Nintendo can seemingly do no wrong, other than to the hardcore gamers. Machine's selling like crazy still, though there's really no big hardcore releases, so it has to be the gotta have it hip-casuals and parents buying for way younger kids yet.
Sony is lucky to have the PS2 and PSP sales to compliment the PS3. I would hope this is a clear indication to hit with a solid price drop sometime soon, though they would like to not do such until next year. I think they need to bite the bullet a little harder and drop the price on the machine ahead of schedule, otherwise it's going to get smoked come final holiday tallies. The software is really getting there, there's big movies hitting blu-ray, a price drop would probably push a bit of people over the edge to pick up a PS3 that maybe on the fence.
Nintendo can seemingly do no wrong, other than to the hardcore gamers. Machine's selling like crazy still, though there's really no big hardcore releases, so it has to be the gotta have it hip-casuals and parents buying for way younger kids yet.
GitarooMan
Member
I'm sure the LTD ratio of PS3/360 to WII for the game will be more than big enough so the point still stands.dyls said:
Lostconfused
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Psychotext said:
I thought i was one. Maybe i was wrong, i wonder if i should be happy now.
GitarooMan
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The game scored essentially the same on all three platforms so that excuse and/or damage control doesn't work.HK-47 said:
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Kagari said:
Vesperia did not.
70k omg bomba
except...
tales of the world <50k
tales of legendia <75k
tales of the abyss <75k
tales of phantasia <50k
Of course, Tales of Symphonia Wii is going to bend Vesperia over backwards (Tales of Symphonia, >400k)
2 Minutes Turkish
Banned
dyls said:
But let's be honest, as good as the good Wii games are, the ratio of gold to shit is pretty bad.
It's kind of become a victim of it's own success when it comes to the shovelware.
GitarooMan said:
Considering that the Wii version was pretty clearly a late add on, I'd say Lucas Arts is probably pleased.
Did you say the same thing when another Star Wars game actually did the best on Wii?
Paracelsus
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jj984jj said:70K in 1.25 months! Not bad for a Tales game at all.
Go tell that to Higuchi and his "vision".
Psychotext
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Clearly not enough of one. Train harder!Lostconfused said:
_Alkaline_
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Threi said:
:lol
<3 both of you.
Private Hoffman
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Zophar said:
I think LittleBigPlanet will do incredibly well
All I'm saying is that KZ2 will definitely be a hit. It's in a class of its own, high above the rest, IMHO.
Those expecting KZ1 redux prepare to eat crow.
GarthVaderUK
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Microsoft said:
Hurrah!
GitarooMan
Member
As I said above, denigrating the Wii version is meaningless since it scored essentially the same across all platforms (and even scored higher at IGN).schuelma said:
