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LittleBigPlanet will eclipse Fable II in copies sold due to the fact that it's getting bundled in Europe and Japan. It will also probably sell more systems due to heavier marketing, more mass appeal, and once again the fact that it's getting bundled.



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fable=2m lifetime
little big planet=can't predict



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KylieDog said:
I don't think you can measure how many consoles will sell due to software.


How would you measure? Look at how many PS3s/360s sell one week, then see how much they increase next week when the games are released? There are a whole bunch of reasons why a console may sell more the week of the release, you cannot put that down to a new game out alone.

What if a console sold less the week those games are released? You'd count backwards?


I think it is an unrealistic question if you want an honest answer.

 

Um... it's pretty simple... If you see a sudden spike of a game and HW sales in one week over another, you can easily assume that the software was a HW pusher... Infinite Undiscovery, and Tales of Vesperia HAS PROVEN to push X360 in Japan... The fact that LBP will be BUNDLED will undoubtly sell more PS3 than Fable 2 will do for the X360. The fact that X360 also selled well on the week that Vesperia was out was also because Japan had a SPECIAL EDITION VESPERIA X360 Bundle. Also, another exmpale would be the MGS4 PS3 bundle. It pushed high PS3 sells.



KylieDog said:
errorrrr said:
KylieDog said:
I don't think you can measure how many consoles will sell due to software.


How would you measure? Look at how many PS3s/360s sell one week, then see how much they increase next week when the games are released? There are a whole bunch of reasons why a console may sell more the week of the release, you cannot put that down to a new game out alone.

What if a console sold less the week those games are released? You'd count backwards?


I think it is an unrealistic question if you want an honest answer.

 

Um... it's pretty simple... If you see a sudden spike of a game and HW sales in one week over another, you can easily assume that the software was a HW pusher... Infinite Undiscovery, and Tales of Vesperia HAS PROVEN to push X360 in Japan... The fact that LBP will be BUNDLED will undoubtly sell more PS3 than Fable 2 will do for the X360. The fact that X360 also selled well on the week that Vesperia was out was also because Japan had a SPECIAL EDITION VESPERIA X360 Bundle. Also, another exmpale would be the MGS4 PS3 bundle. It pushed high PS3 sells.

 

 

...or the week before there could have been a shortage, a fresh stock rolled out in time for those games releases, there are dozens of variables.  Obviously those games will cause sales, but it is impossible to guage exactly how many increased sales are because of those games.  Who is to say another previously released game won't drop in price in one store chain and make people rush out that week also, as one example.

The answer might be ambiguous when it's a standalone game... but when a game is BUNDLED with a hardware... it's pretty noticeable.. you know they dont' just bundle a couple thousand consoles...

 



Skeeuk said:
i dont think fable 2 to be a system seller, halo 3 wasnt, gta4 wasnt, i see no reason why fable 2 will do it.

lbp will on the other hand be a system seller, but i feel its a kind of title that will have very good legs and will keep selling.

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Okok....u own a 360, u were here during halo 3 launch and what were u looking at. So by ur opinion nothing is a system seller then. If halo 3 wasn't a system seller nothing is. Wow SDF are really trying to hype LBP. First MGS4 now LBP. It seems that Skeeuk is the most ignorant SDF fanboy. anyone who says Halo 3 wasn't a system seller is well........what are u smoking btw?



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OT: I think Fable 2 will outsell LBP badly. Legs on LBP will be bigger but in the end it will hit perhaps 2million while F2 will hit 4Mil



LBP will beat Fable 2 so badly the developers will be confused into releasing fable 1.



Initially fable 2 should lead to a bigger hardware spike. Overall LBP should sell more hardware in the long term.



Imperial said:
LBP will beat Fable 2 so badly the developers will be confused into releasing fable 1.

 

Will you tell me where I can find the drugs that make one so delusional?



Imperial said:
LBP will beat Fable 2 so badly the developers will be confused into releasing fable 1.

 

\Fanboy mode -counter attack\ Right, LBP will beat Fable 2 like HALO 3 did for MGS4 \return to normal \

 

Seriously, it can't be compared, LBP is directed to a very large audience, while Fable 2 (no matter what Molyneux says) remains an experimental game to me.

 

LBP then.



 

Evan Wells (Uncharted 2): I think the differences that you see between any two games has much more to do with the developer than whether it’s on the Xbox or PS3.