TWRoO said:
TheGangsterBoss said:
TWRoO said:
@predictsales.
I thought perhaps you were merely misinformed, but now I realise there isn't much point explaining to you why you are wrong because you are an ignorant fool... However I must at least try.
I found the article posted on GameSpot for you as you didn't want to link it yourself, the article gives reference to numbers from Take2 themselves, which is the publisher of the game as I am sure you know.... The publisher of a game doesn't give out any numbers from sales trackers, so they do not state sales figures.
What they do give out (which is what is in that article) is the number of copies they have sold to retailers, which while the companies refer to them as sold (because to them they are sold) they are not yet sold to gamers therefore sales trackers like NPD, Media Create, Famitsu, Chart Track, GfK and VGChartz do not count them.
In fact, on their fiscal report (see me make a helpful link: http://www.shareholder.com/visitors/DynamicDoc/document.cfm?CompanyID=TTWO&documentID=2150&PIN=&resizeThree=no&Scale=100&Keyword=type%20keyword%20here&Page=17 )
It says exactly that, on page 17 "sales to our five largest customers...(blah)...Wal-Mart, GameStop and Best Buy"
Regarding the GTAIV opening week, yes the combined sales of Ps3 and 360 version have the largest opening day and week 1 sales of all time, but that doesn't mean much when a game with a much smaller opening like Mario Kart is going to surpass the total sales of GTAIV by January. And will continue to accelerate away from GTAIV for the rest of it's life.
Regarding Mario Kart sales.... actually the LTD in America for VGChartz is currently a couple of 100k below that of NPDs figures. And as someone already said, if you are going to use shipped figures for GTA:SA, perhaps you should use the shipped figures for Mario Kart Wii, which were over 6.5 million (ie nearer 7 than 6) nearly 3 months ago.
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But when June ended, Nintendo had sold 6.5 copies, which means shipped. Then, the game must have sold at most 4 or 5 million worldwide. So it definitely hasn't gone to 7 million from then to this time, but perhaps Nintendo has shipped 8 million copies to date, that would leave Mario Kart Wii at like 6 million sold, not 7 million, which VGChartz claims. So no, it is not going to outsell Grand Theft Auto IV by January, but keep beliving it.
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I presume you are predictsales again (alts will be banned, but I can reply while you are here at least)
You are correct, when Nintendo had sold 6.5 million copies, less than that would have been sold to gamers, not quite to the extent of 2 million (even worldwide there would not be 2 million copies in stock) but VGC has just over 6 million for that point, so about 400k copies on shelves (which is quite a lot for a game that was very hard to find in both America and Europe at the time)
But my point was that you were comparing VGC sold figures of Mario Kart, to the shipped figures of GTA:SA.... which means GTA:SA did not sell 12 million copies in it's first 5/6 months, in fact, once again VGC shows it lower for that point, by about 600k.
GTA games have massive debut weeks, but they do not have the long lasting selling power that Mario Kart does, which is why Mario Kart catches up over time (and should pass GTAIV in January if not before)
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