LBP is a SURESHOT Week "1" Million Seller WW!!

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NYANKS said:
People can delude themselves all they want, but everyone knows had the game not been sold wrongly by retailers, the Week 1 number would be ~400k. If people like Maynard wanna drag this stupid argument out, fine. The only reason people care is because fanboys are gonna say later that the launch was crappier than it actually was. That's it really.

 

Unfortunately, we don't go by what "woulda" happened. The Wii "woulda" sold a million units this week if it wasn't supply constrained. It's Nintendo's fault that it was supply constrained. It's Sony's fauld that LBP was delayed, it's Sony's fault that such a thing happened.

Now, let me explain my stance here:

The week zero numbers count in the overall sales of the game, obviously. However, since they were sold in a different week besides launch week, and because the game had extra available time on the market than any other game would have for a single week of sales, it is unfair to all games, to attempt to combine two completely different weeks of sales and call it the "real" assumed week 1 sales.

Because, they aren't real. That isn't reality. Two weeks time on the market cannot be one week on the market. It would be giving the game an unfair advantage. LBP and Sony SHOULD NOT be rewarded for completely screwing the pooch on the launch of their game. Adding 2 weeks and calling it week 1 is an attempt to conveniently sweep their mistake under the rug. We will not accept it. By we, I me you, and I. You might disagree with me now, but you cannot accept making such a dire mistake under the motivation of fanaticism.

Example: Movies often have limited releases around the country, sometimes months before the actual release. When the movies are released, the movie companies never try to pad the opening weekend numbers, by adding the limited release figures to them. It's illegal. It's immoral, and it's a lie. There is no way to know if those people, who saw the show on limited release would have seen the show on opening weekend. There is no way to determine what "woulda" happened without the limited release. The limited release also allows for extra playtime, where more people could watch the movie, in said time, thus further padding the advantage of lying about opening weekend boxoffice, by adding in these limited release numbers. If a movie was seen by someone earlier than opening weekend, then it wasn't seen ON opening weekend.

If LBP was sold EARLIER than opening week, then it wasn't sold ON opening week.

What "woulda" happened is just something somebody made up who was trying to artifically inflate the sales statistics.

 

If you're gonna try to reply, make sure to read the whole post. It's chock full of iron-clad logic.