GI.biz: TOP Selling Games of 2010 - Halo Reach #1, FFXIII #2, GT5 #10!!

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Demotruk said:

binary solo said:
How does Mass Effect 2 get to be a dark horse and #7 top seller? Is there some suggestion it will unexpectedly jump to #3 best seller? It could swap places with Bioshock 2, if Bioshock 2 doesn't get any love on the PS3.

Funny lists.

All the lists contain inconsistencies, so they can't be consensus lists. They must just be based on pure voting of site members none of whom are Wii owners or real students of the game industry, and most of whom are 360 / PC fans. This really makes it a popularity contest and not one based on analysis of historical or projected sales data.

Because different people voted it into each list. It's the seventh most named to be the top seller next year (and those people are either idiots, or they don't pay attention to game sales, which is fine for them if they're not designers or publishers I guess), and it was voted as a dark horse likely by other people who had a more reasonable view of it's sales.

 

It is truly stunning that not a single Nintendo game made it onto the list. You'd think this was the only site where people knew NSMB was going to be a mega-hit.

How many sites do you know that track game sales like VGC?

Leaving the absence of Wii aside just look at the WW sales of GT5P vs Mass Effect and Bioshock. GT5P, a Game that isn't even a full feature game sold the most, yet those folks voted GT5 into 10th position and Bioshock and ME2 into 6th and 7th. Seems like they were voting on worldwide sales, yet they were using American thinking: " let's see...all games sell more or less like they do in America, except for soccer games vs American sports games, 'cause the world outside America is soccer mad so I better put Fifa up there".