dunno but everyone on every other site is saying 1.3 Million is surprisingly a lot for LBP
why are people disappointed on this sitE?
| DMeisterJ said: Too many factors to call this comment either way. He could be talking about connected to online, since he says 'playing'. That means that if you don't have an internet connection, and bought the game, you're not counted. They also could not be counting bundles. (On a side-note, FishyJoe, it doesn't matter how they'd want to say it, we have to go on what was said, not speculation). Things against that could be used copies of the game. If someone is playing a used copy online, then they 'played' it, or if someone borrowed a copy they 'played' it too. But if people who borrowed or bought used didn't have online, then they didn't 'play' it. I think that until someone actually says the words 'sold' or 'shipped', there is no real discussion to be had here, simply speculation on what was meant. So for the time being, we should take VGCs 1.7 million or whatever as it is. |
Not really that many factors at all. Why would they release anything but the largest number for a game? Occam's razor should come into effect here. The simplest answer is they have shipped 1.3 million copies, and VGchartz over-tracked it by a lot. This is neither the first, nor last time this will happen. I think RE4 Wii is still somewhere around 300k over shipped figures given by capcom.
Gnizmo said:
Not really that many factors at all. Why would they release anything but the largest number for a game? Occam's razor should come into effect here. The simplest answer is they have shipped 1.3 million copies, and VGchartz over-tracked it by a lot. This is neither the first, nor last time this will happen. I think RE4 Wii is still somewhere around 300k over shipped figures given by capcom. |
Yeah, but he didn't say 'shipped' so...
IGN says
"Says 1.3 million people playing LBP. 300,000 levels online Brief demo."
Sounds to me like 1.3 million people who have gone online with the game
| GripnRip said: IGN says "Says 1.3 million people playing LBP. 300,000 levels online Brief demo." Sounds to me like 1.3 million people who have gone online with the game |
it's not a quote, it's what ign wrote. Other sites are reporting he said sold. No sites show the exact wording.
currently playing: Skyward Sword, Mario Sunshine, Xenoblade Chronicles X
he said 1.3 million playing lbp i guees online.
is there no video feed or something?
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DMeisterJ said: Yeah, but he didn't say 'shipped' so... |
And Microsoft said they "sold" 28 million 360s recently. You can argue all the semantics you want, but thats just not the way PR works. You give the best figures you can, and say it in the way that makes it sound the best. 1.3 million people playing LBP sounds a helluva lot better than 1.3 copies of the game shipped to retailers.
But to go down the semantic path I could also point out he never said 1.3 million people playing on the PSN. He could be assuming at least 4 people per PS3 are playing it and thus only about 400k copies of LBP have been sold! And yes, this assumption is just as silly as yours.
hmmm a very complicated situation.
I do think LBP could be overtracked, but not by more than 100k-200k.
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