UK Charts WEEK ENDING 5 September 2015

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KiigelHeart said:

binary solo said:

You probably don't really understand what impressive means. Any time something does better than it ever did before it is impressive, it doesn't matter if the past performance was modest or excellent. Outperforming what you did previously is always impressive unless you are going from dismal to merely poor.

Heh you just made up your own definition for "impressive". And no, doing 5 sit-ups is not impressive even if you did only 4 a year before.

You conveniently ignore the caveat to make a useless retort.

If you were only physically capable of doing 4 sit ups a year ago and you can now do 5 that is impressive, your physical capacity for doing sit ups has increased 25%. Consider a stroke victim for instance, making improvements in physical capacity of what would normally be considered as slight is impressive. Sure if you are capable of doing 100 sit ups but you only did 4 last year and did 5 this year that's pathetic on both counts. What's impressive is relative to ones own capacity, if you exceed what you were previously capable of then that is generally an impressive achievement. If you want some absolute comparison then nothing is impressive unless it beats CoD / GTA opening weeks. 

If Usain Bolt runs 100M in 10 seconds flat that's not impressive, because it's running less than his best. If I run 100M is 20 seconds, trying my hardest, last year and this year I do it in 15 seconds, that's impressive because i have significantly improved on my personal best achievement. 

Hence for the topic at hand, previously the capacity for MGS sales was set with MGS2, that means MGS3 and 4 failed to improve on that week 1 performance (I've no idea about LTD for each of these games) and thus did not expand the capacity for sales.  It could be reasonably surmised that MGS5 would not exceed MGS2 based on opening week sales for MGS3 and 4. MGS5 exceeding MGS2 sales, by a substantial margin (almost 37%), is therefore an impressive achievement. What isn't particularly impressive is the fact that the Xbox share of MGS5 is about 2% lower than the Xbox share of Ground Zeroes. But what may be impressive about MGS5 on Xbox is that it could become the best selling MGS game on Xbox. It needs to beat MGS2: Substance.

Also, just to be clear, when I first saw the more or less confirmed MGS5 number I wasn't particularly impressed, until I was reminded that it is the best opening week for any MGS game in the UK, so I became impressed.