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crissindahouse on 10 December 2012
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pezus said:
crissindahouse said:
pezus said:
sales2099 said:
LBP didnt flop........but LBP 2 did, LBP Vita did, LBP PSP did, LBP karting did.

How did you miss those games?!?!?!

So what do you think about Forza games pre-bundling? Flops?

lbp 2 isn't a flop but there is a big difference in sales. forza 3 sold much more without bundles as lbp2 with and forza 4 without bundles sold as much as lbp2 with bundles and it will obviously also sell more without bundle as lbp2 did with.

pezus said:

Also week 0 should NOT just be added to week 1 and call that week 1. Lol, that is ridiculous. Do you assume everyone that bought it was in the know about its official release date?

with first day sales much higher as second day sales or even the whole first week i would assume that (that's what i only know about few games, no clue if it's the same with all)

1. A big difference by a few hundred K. LBP2 hadn't stopped selling when it got that bundle and it got the bundle when it had similar sales to Forza 4 this year pre-bundle. The Forza 4 bundle obviously sells more because they're both in America where 360 sells a lot more during the holidays.

2. That doesn't mean everyone is in the know, just that many are in the know. A lot of the buyers walk into a store and see a game newly released that they like and buy it, especially a title as kid friendly as LBP. You're counting two weeks of sales together only because its street date was broken, but that isn't accurate. Quite a few of the week 0 sales could be added to week 1, sure, but certainly not all or close to it.

1. hmmm don't know but i thought forza 4 got bundled with ~2.5 m and forza 3 with 3m or something and lbp2 after 1.7m. maybe i'm wrong but that would be a "big" difference percentual. and like i said, i don't think lbp2 is a flop so ok discuss this with sales i shut up now.

2. don't know what you think how many people just grab a game in the first week without knowing about the release but like i said, first day sales are always way higher (the games i know about) which means many people who buy it day 1 know about it  and it's not as if all of the guys who buy it only day 2 or 3 don't know about it, that are just guys who wait for the weekend.

i mean, really, with advertisement an internet and whatever i would say 90% of people who buy a game in the first week knew about the release.

maybe you can take even 50k away of the 450k but that would be still not a release for only one device many people would call a huge flop would they? and with that this thread is about something which nobody would say (or very few)

and about psabr, like i said to jay once, i don't even think this will be a flop but if i'm correct this thread was made to show how people are maybe wrong about psabr and i think this example doesn't work.