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Forums - Sales Discussion - The Offical August 2007 NPD Thread (data to be released 6:30pm 9/13/2007)

@super etecoon

No I shall not, I forgot to put (if the 40gb is released at $399.99*which is nearley impossible*) Look Im tired right now dont tell me to do anything I will change whatever you want tomorrow.



 

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Hus said:
Dolla Dolla said:

If sonycowboy is right, it won't be a pretty month for sony fans

And some of you won't like the gifs that are about to happen ...


you are a good troll.


Reality is the biggest troll of them all.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

FishyJoe said:
The Canadian numbers usually show significant Nintendo preference. Expect Nintendo's lead to be even bigger percentage wise in Canada.

The price drop for the Xbox Premium in Canada was Cnd $100  or  ~USD $95 so the Wii's overwhelming preference in Canada might not be as big as in other months if the price cut had an impact (even a short one).



Soriku said:
@sienar

Already started.

 Jupp, it started 9 weeks ago and ended 3 weeks ago. Will it start again, though?

 

 



So I hope people stop saying that VGC is being anti-sony biased and intentionally undertracking PS3. If anything, this shows its being overtracked.

I think this and some other issues with tracking is caused by just the overall low number of sales. The smaller the number sold, the more that VGC's small sample base can cause data to skew too high or too low based on normal fluctuations in number of buyers.



darconi said:
So I hope people stop saying that VGC is being anti-sony biased and intentionally undertracking PS3. If anything, this shows its being overtracked.

I think this and some other issues with tracking is caused by just the overall low number of sales. The smaller the number sold, the more that VGC's small sample base can cause data to skew too high or too low based on normal fluctuations in number of buyers.

Unfortunately, these facts will be quickly forgotten. I expect Diomedes to completely block this information from his mind. 



leo-j said:
@super etecoon

No I shall not, I forgot to put (if the 40gb is released at $399.99*which is nearley impossible*) Look Im tired right now dont tell me to do anything I will change whatever you want tomorrow.

 lol...ok Leo.  Maybe you should add that qualifier tomorrow, stat.  By the way...this post and the post I made preceeding this post are completely in jest and in no way a real attack against Leo-J, his lawyers, or anyone who espouses his signature predictions.  They are merely a form of public entertainment and this author does not assume resposibility if said post should cause anger or hostility.

In other words /sarcasm. 



super_etecoon said:

this post and the post I made preceeding this post are completely in jest and in no way a real attack against Leo-J, his lawyers, or anyone who espouses his signature predictions.


good stuff right there. 



WOW! I am very,very surprised the Wii held to the top spot. I really thought the DS would take it's throne back.

LOL! How sad for the PS3. 

Nice increase for the 360. Should have another increase this month but i doubt that big.



WiiFit will be 2008 #1 selling game in NORTH AMERICA!  
End of '08 Predictions: Wii - 48m X360 - 25m  PS3 - 19m
Wii monthly NA sales will top 400k every month in '08. *Jan sales ruined it. Grrrr!*
WiiFit will top 1m in sales in its first month of release in North America.
MGS4 will NOT be released in '08. *Darn it!* FF13 will NOT be released in '08.
Rockband Wii will top 600k in first month sales in North America.
WiiFit will pass the PS3 WW sales by Xmas '09.

super_etecoon said:
leo-j said:
@super etecoon

No I shall not, I forgot to put (if the 40gb is released at $399.99*which is nearley impossible*) Look Im tired right now dont tell me to do anything I will change whatever you want tomorrow.

lol...ok Leo. Maybe you should add that qualifier tomorrow, stat. By the way...this post and the post I made preceeding this post are completely in jest and in no way a real attack against Leo-J, his lawyers, or anyone who espouses his signature predictions. They are merely a form of public entertainment and this author does not assume resposibility if said post should cause anger or hostility.

In other words /sarcasm.


 qualifiers are ridiculous... it's like saying:

PS3 will sell over 100 mln in its life time ... if PS3 can sell over 90 mln.

i recall the '05 nba finals (or 04 or 03?)  when the pistons were playing the dysfunctional lakers.  one commentator's prediction was: "the lakers are gonna sweep the pistons... if they don't, i expect it to be a close series."

well, in the end, the pistons won 4-1.  so he was... plain wrong.

anyway, enough digression.  forget qualifiers.  you're making a prediction, for crying out loud.  if you need qualifiers, don't bother predicting.  we're not doing math here, probability of such and such happening if such and such happens... etc etc etc.

that's why i love JohnLucas predictions so much--one number, one date.  period.  the way it should be.



the Wii is an epidemic.