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Reasonable on 04 February 2010
kowenicki said:
Reasonable said:
Barozi said:
Americas Preorders Chart, 23rd Jan 2010:

Mass Effect 2 - 475,782
MAG: Massive Action Game - 245,491

I knew the preorder charts were too high for MAG
Still a good start.

I suspect the Beta gathered MAG most of its buyers, while some who placed pre-orders didn't like the Beta and cancelled.  I'm not sure the pre-order totals get decremented as well as incremented.

Either that or the number was way high, but it's actually closer to final sales than ME2 pre-orders, so I think it's more likely at a point it looked like MAG had accumulated 250 K pre-orders but no-one was decrementing the 50K who changed their mind and cancelled.

 


Well of course, but it would have been a lot more than 50k that cancelled their pre-orders, unless we think that every one sold was pre-ordered..... which I suppose is possible.

It's more of a hunch to be honest.  I look at an FPS in US with current PS3/360 install and the fact it's clear a lot of the core FPS players are on 360, and I figure sales will be low, particularly for something like MAG that is in many ways a niche online FPS.  I therefore figure that a large percentage (not all of course) of buyers would have been on the Beta and liked it, formed clans, etc. or passed on word of mouth to some friends (driving the percentage of non Beta purchases is my guess).

I'm assuming that in US you can switch a pre-order if you do it early enough - i.e. I've decided I don't want MAG after all I'll have a bit of Mass Effect 2 instead

The number could just have been too high, but that implies all the pre-order numbers are pretty unreliable.  I'm therefore considering what might have caused the impression of higher pre-orders than the final position - for example people cancelling pre-orders and switching them because they didn't like the Beta or word of mouth about it.

I'm actually surprised MAG got around 200K allowing for percentage error.  I thought it would be less initially with the game having legs if it got a strong, deveoted following.



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forest-spirit on 04 February 2010
StevenKreg said:


SWEET! XBOX back on top in the good ole USA... thats all I care about, that we support our American product. I could care less what it sells in Japan.

Go XBOX... sony fanboys may say that its coming back strong and XBOX is doomed... but if they look around, at their neigbors, their schoolmates, people they work with... us Americans have the (se)Xbox and they are welcome to jump on their playstation and play against foreigners any time while we are kicking ass in english!

What the heck are you talking about!?



Smeags on 04 February 2010
StevenKreg said:


SWEET! XBOX back on top in the good ole USA... thats all I care about, that we support our American product. I could care less what it sells in Japan.

Go XBOX... sony fanboys may say that its coming back strong and XBOX is doomed... but if they look around, at their neigbors, their schoolmates, people they work with... us Americans have the (se)Xbox and they are welcome to jump on their playstation and play against foreigners any time while we are kicking ass in english!

America! F*&% yeah!



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sully1311 on 04 February 2010
StevenKreg said:


SWEET! XBOX back on top in the good ole USA... thats all I care about, that we support our American product. I could care less what it sells in Japan.

Go XBOX... sony fanboys may say that its coming back strong and XBOX is doomed... but if they look around, at their neigbors, their schoolmates, people they work with... us Americans have the (se)Xbox and they are welcome to jump on their playstation and play against foreigners any time while we are kicking ass in english!


wow. you do no the 360 sells in europe as well. where there are "foreigners"



GodOfWar_3ever on 04 February 2010
StevenKreg said:


SWEET! XBOX back on top in the good ole USA... thats all I care about, that we support our American product. I could care less what it sells in Japan.

Go XBOX... sony fanboys may say that its coming back strong and XBOX is doomed... but if they look around, at their neigbors, their schoolmates, people they work with... us Americans have the (se)Xbox and they are welcome to jump on their playstation and play against foreigners any time while we are kicking ass in english!

Yes ! America is the world ! 



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dolemit3 on 04 February 2010
GodOfWar_3ever said:
StevenKreg said:


SWEET! XBOX back on top in the good ole USA... thats all I care about, that we support our American product. I could care less what it sells in Japan.

Go XBOX... sony fanboys may say that its coming back strong and XBOX is doomed... but if they look around, at their neigbors, their schoolmates, people they work with... us Americans have the (se)Xbox and they are welcome to jump on their playstation and play against foreigners any time while we are kicking ass in english!

Yes ! America is the world ! 

No, it's only 40% of it as far as videogaming is concerned.



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Currently playing on Xbox360: Final Fantasy XIII

Currently playing on NDS: Chrono Trigger

Gamerace on 04 February 2010
StevenKreg said:


SWEET! XBOX back on top in the good ole USA... thats all I care about, that we support our American product. I could care less what it sells in Japan.

Go XBOX... sony fanboys may say that its coming back strong and XBOX is doomed... but if they look around, at their neigbors, their schoolmates, people they work with... us Americans have the (se)Xbox and they are welcome to jump on their playstation and play against foreigners any time while we are kicking ass in english!


Sad.

 

OT: I'd said NMH2 is underperforming.  A sequel should be more frontloaded so it's expected it'd outdo it's predecessor's first week but it really hasn't outsold it by much.  Leg's will likely be shorter too as NMH2 has far more competition than the original did.  (Madworld, TvsC, Red Steel 2, FF:CC:CB, MH3, etc.)



 

GodOfWar_3ever on 04 February 2010
dolemit3 said:
GodOfWar_3ever said:
StevenKreg said:


SWEET! XBOX back on top in the good ole USA... thats all I care about, that we support our American product. I could care less what it sells in Japan.

Go XBOX... sony fanboys may say that its coming back strong and XBOX is doomed... but if they look around, at their neigbors, their schoolmates, people they work with... us Americans have the (se)Xbox and they are welcome to jump on their playstation and play against foreigners any time while we are kicking ass in english!

Yes ! America is the world ! 

No, it's only 40% of it as far as videogaming is concerned.

Meh, that irrelevant ! According to the Awesome StevenKreg foreigners who's native language isn't English ans doesn't live in America is irrelevant, So America is 100% of the Video Game market !

 



aragod on 04 February 2010
dolemit3 said:
GodOfWar_3ever said:
StevenKreg said:


SWEET! XBOX back on top in the good ole USA... thats all I care about, that we support our American product. I could care less what it sells in Japan.

Go XBOX... sony fanboys may say that its coming back strong and XBOX is doomed... but if they look around, at their neigbors, their schoolmates, people they work with... us Americans have the (se)Xbox and they are welcome to jump on their playstation and play against foreigners any time while we are kicking ass in english!

Yes ! America is the world ! 

No, it's only 40% of it as far as videogaming is concerned.

Yes, but only because noone bothers to monitor anything else with the exception of Japan and badly covered Europe. The day Chinese and Indian start buying original video games in majority, it won't be even 4%.



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CommonMan on 04 February 2010
StevenKreg said:


SWEET! XBOX back on top in the good ole USA... thats all I care about, that we support our American product. I could care less what it sells in Japan.

Go XBOX... sony fanboys may say that its coming back strong and XBOX is doomed... but if they look around, at their neigbors, their schoolmates, people they work with... us Americans have the (se)Xbox and they are welcome to jump on their playstation and play against foreigners any time while we are kicking ass in english!

Disolitude?



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