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Well today I was bored so I decided to do something really cool........ make a new thread!!! So anyways I was just looking back at 2006-2011 sales. And WOW i noticed some big changes!!! So here are the 10 most surprising moments of 2006-2011!! Please list your own and make up your own 10 as well.

10. DS selling 170 million!! No one could have guessed back then it would sell more than the PS2.

9. Halo 3 selling more than GTA 4 on one console. Grand theft auto was the biggest thing ever back in the PS2 days. No one saw it getting overtraken by anything.

8. Wii outselling the 360 and PS3. It was predicted to be last.

7. Uncharted from getting a 133,078 week 1.And getting 3.6 million total ! While Uncharted 2 has 4.6 million and still selling. 

6. Sony didn't put George Hotz in jail sue him for like $100 million. I heard a lot of people talking stuff like that outisde of VGC.

5. Gears launched really well despite having the PS3 launch in the same week.

4. GT5 prologue being the best selling sony game until GT5 laucnhed.(Why do so many PS3 owners buy like only 1 sony game other than Uncharted and God of war) Polyponydigital.com

3.By 2008-2009 PSP getting low sales in America despite it being really hyped and doing well.

2. COD 4 getting great sales. One of the best selling games this gen.

1. Call of duty 3 that launched in 2006 which had an opening of 88k in 2006 for PS3 and 4.4 million for black ops! For the Xbox 360 COD 3 got 274k and Black ops getting 5.8 million 360.



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How did the PSP fail?  It sold 70mil consoles and is still selling.  And i don't ever remember it being the most hyped, never heard anything about it back in the day.

 

And once the prices were announced for the systems it was clear the wii was going to do great in sales, $250 vs $600.



PSP failed? 70 million, most successful non-Nintendo handheld EVER.


You lost ALL credibility with that.



repost this thread in about 2 years and number one will be ps3 overtaking 360 in sales. OGZ



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How did the PSP fail?  It sold 70mil consoles and is still selling.  And i don't ever remember it being the most hyped, never heard anything about it back in the day.

 

And once the prices were announced for the systems it was clear the wii was going to do great in sales, $250 vs $600.

Nope people prediicted the Wii to be last. Just like Gamecube.



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In random order

- FFXIII going multiplatform
- The popularity of Kinect
- The popularity of COD MW and games after it..
- Bungie joining Activision
- Duke Nukem Forever getting released
- The great sales of all the consoles/handhelds...(and it is not over yet)..
- Companies getting bankrupt
- Rare fails to deliver
- Wii fit popularity
- The Rabbids
- Devs leaving 'their' company Itagaki...  the guy who created Megaman..
- DQX announced for Wii
- Monster Hunter's popularity..
- Announcement of Avatars for x360/home for PS3..

This are a bit more than moments but were for me atleast the kind of stuff that we/I will think about when I think about this generation;..



 

NiGHTS getting a revival that everyone ignored.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

10. Halo 3 selling 3.8mil week one on an 11mil userbase console.

9. Xbox 360 more than doubling original xbox sales and its pretty safe to say it will more than triple xbox sales.

8. Nintendo wii becoming nintendo's best selling home console ever.

7. Call of Duty becoming by far the biggest franchise on the xbox 360. (360 owners like their addicting fps multiplayer progression)

6. Call of Duty becoming by far the biggest franchise on the playstation 3(Considering no other fps games have great sales other than resistance 1)

5. Brain Age Week one sales 145k, game is a flop?. Brain age lifetime sales 20mil

4. Success of motion control this gen on all three consoles.

3. Wii Fit's huge success. A balance board and exersising game for 100$ selling over 20million copies... twice!?!?!?

2. All three consoles on their way or already sold over 75mil. All will be ahead of the best selling console 3 generations ago.

1. 6. A dog caring simulator outselling pokemon on a nintendo handheld.



COD turning to shit yet sales keep going up , After the masterpiece that was COD4 , all other cods have been awful .

 



In no particular order

  • Final Fantasy going multiplatform
  • Xbox success
  • COD Success
  • The amount of 3rd party support for PS360
  • Xbox Slim
  • Kinect/Move
  • PSP's nose dive
  • Nintendo's success
  • Price of consoles being so high in the 5th/6th year of consoles

Probably some others I can't think of