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Shadow1980 said:
DonFerrari said:

From what I remember FF VII was at least one game that totally changed the sales pattern of PS1.

That was a rare exception. FFVII did indeed open the floodgates for the PS1 in the U.S., and was arguably as important for the PS1 as SMB was for the NES, Sonic for the Genesis, and Halo for Xbox. There are system-sellers, then there are brand-makers, games so important they're arguably responsible for making a particular console brand a commercial success and a household name. Since there are no monthly U.S. sales figures for the Genesis and thus I can't say for sure about the effects of Sonic on Genesis hardware, FFVII is the only known game released after launch to cause a system with weak or otherwise unimpressive baseline sales (the PS1 was trailing the N64 during the Jan.-Aug. 1997 period in the U.S.) to suddenly reverse course and have very strong sales going forward, and even then that was mostly in the U.S. Its effect appears to have been smaller in Japan (where the PS1 was already starting to build up a significant audience in 1996). In Europe the PS1 appears to have already started to improve before FFVII, as shipments started to rapidly increase well before FFVII released in the region, though without actual sales data (because shipments ≠ sales and can only give us an upper limit on LTD sales) we can't say for sure.

 

DonFerrari said:

Well if you don't have precise numbers for a region on some time maybe some extrapolation based on the others could do =]

If you'll excuse a rough estimate for the PS4's final U.S. & Europe tallies for 2017 (the actual final bar shouldn't be more than a couple of pixels off, though):

Note that Sony stopped breaking down PS2 shipments by region after Q1 2007.

For your first answer... That is why I say to people in VGC you can either count any SW as system seller (because almost any game will have someone that bought the console to play that game) or you only consider those very rare cases you pointed... all the others are system sellers as part of the pack of good games.

Every time I see the graphics with Wii I think what a beast it was and how soon it died. This year mark the year PS4 shall start recovering a little of the gap in the USA (won't pass Wii imho), nice bounce back for PS2 in Europe mid life, will be almost impossible for PS4 to pass it over there, and Japan just show how bad console sales have become =[

About that other one with continuous line for total shipment/sale when you have time please, want to see the curve tendency.



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http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

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