happydolphin said:
I'll update the thread title. It's hard to keep it short and to the point.
I've already said as much...
I never said as much.
You understand this is a VG sales forum, yeah? Dear god.
I'm comparing it to what things were before, with lots of big sellers releasing at 100k+ each week on the HD twins. That's what I'm comparing it too. I've also already said as much, have you read the thread?
I never talked about a decline. That wasn't my question. I was trying to understand what retail SW sales were causing the good performance of PS3 HW sales, i.e. system sellers. As it were, I was looking in the wrong place, others have already mentioned that to me, but you likely didn't read the thread. You are very demanding though, I'd like you to know. It's hard to live in a forum where people are always complaining about things... |
1. That would be nice, I prefer titles to match the thread subject.
2.. Then why have a poll? The question you are asking can not simply be answered through a poll, lest you check every option.
3. I wasn't trying to counter a claim you made regarding year over year sales. I was simply questioning why you felt the sales of the PS3 merited a discussion thread when the sales are not particularly out of place with expectations. It seems you are placing too much emphasis on individual week sales that it seems like that is the focus point of this thread.
4. Again, because you highlight this last particular week you have it read off as if sales are out of the ordinary.
5. Okay, I understand that. If that's the question you are looking to answer then you very well won't find the answer, at least not a simply one. It seems you are trying to attribute SW sales to HW sales. The PS3 has a large install base, new SW can sell quite a bit without any added HW. Plenty of those games are multiplatform as well. It is really hard to conclude that any software this late in the game is a system seller. System sellers are more relevant and easier to measure at the beggining of a console's lifetime. HW sales today could simply be for other features or the large selection of games, as an example maybe MGS4 or Uncharted 1 is a system seller for someone this week. Things are not so easily tied up into new SW as the majority of SW is purchased by pre existing HW owners. The 10 to 1 SW to HW ratio isn't a good indicator towards system sellers either at this stage in the game. New owner tend to have less SW than long time owners.
6. I wasn't claiming you did talk of decline, but your OP is confusing. The problem is that you are trying to tie SW to HW as a determining factor to eachother. The common saying that SW sells HW is true but it can't be used as a means of analysis way down the road of a consoles lifecycle. A new SW can sells thousands but not contribute to a single HW sale. I did read the thread, I even read it over again to figure out what was going on. It seems this discussion is just filled with confusion and cheap back and forth attacks. It is hard to tell what exactly is going on or what is to be acheived, but since I realized you are trying to figure out something that doesn't exist it is making more sense now. I'm only demanding when people make confusing threads.
Essentially the PS3 is selling at its current rate because of a combination of everything. The system itself, its various markets, SW backlog, marketing, sales, new SW (to some extent), etc. etc. If you are trying to identify a system seller its best to observe a HW increase the week of a big release. Since you expected HW sales to go down, from what I can tell, did you even see if HW sales went up for those titles you mentioned? PS3 sales have been on a slight decline or relatively static for the last few months.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
