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Maynard_Tool on 11 February 2010

Still with the mag thing? Just pay attention to Trentton... He did not say "MAG has sold around 500K units" There's a reason why he said it that way.... Spin :O



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http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=63437&page=1

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kutasek on 11 February 2010
Kasz216 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
im sorry... i didn't realize that this game was downloadable

It isn't.  It's a basic point to show that when they quote from "Ids" Sony is often off by a LOT.

If they are quoting server numbers... they're surely overquoting their sales.

Additionally... I'm guessing Beta testers get to keep their info?

I like turtles.



Deviation59 on 11 February 2010
JerCotter7 said:
Uncharted overtracked?

Uncharted was bundled for a bit around the time it became a Greatest Hits title. NPD doesn't count bundles, VGChartz does.



leo-j on 11 February 2010
Maynard_Tool said:
Still with the mag thing? Just pay attention to Trentton... He did not say "MAG has sold around 500K units" There's a reason why he said it that way.... Spin :O

he said over half a million though, and 500k is half a million



 

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Maynard_Tool on 12 February 2010
leo-j said:
Maynard_Tool said:
Still with the mag thing? Just pay attention to Trentton... He did not say "MAG has sold around 500K units" There's a reason why he said it that way.... Spin :O

he said over half a million though, and 500k is half a million

Did he say "MAG has sold over half a million"?



03/10/09 HUGE day in my life:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=63437&page=1

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NoCtiS_NoX on 12 February 2010

So now what? MAG already sold 470K.



nightsurge on 12 February 2010

"More than 40 million registered Playstation Network accounts have been established"

I know 99% of you will take this the complete wrong way, but for that 1% out there that isn't heavily Sony biased, I feel that this figure is nearly pointless.

1. It represents 3 platforms worth of users: PS3, PSP, and PC forums.
2. It is free so many many people make multiple accounts (for different regions, different games, etc.) See MW2 on PS3 for example. The leader boards are filled with people who have like 20 accounts each and just made the accounts to stat glitch.
3. This does not report "active accounts" like Xbox Live stats are for. This means that any account on PSN even if it hasn't been used in months (like mine since I sold my PS3) or never will be used again is still counted in the total.



Max King of the Wild on 12 February 2010
nightsurge said:
"More than 40 million registered Playstation Network accounts have been established"

I know 99% of you will take this the complete wrong way, but for that 1% out there that isn't heavily Sony biased, I feel that this figure is nearly pointless.

1. It represents 3 platforms worth of users: PS3, PSP, and PC forums.
2. It is free so many many people make multiple accounts (for different regions, different games, etc.) See MW2 on PS3 for example. The leader boards are filled with people who have like 20 accounts each and just made the accounts to stat glitch.
3. This does not report "active accounts" like Xbox Live stats are for. This means that any account on PSN even if it hasn't been used in months (like mine since I sold my PS3) is still counted in the total.


I actually think the 99% really doesn't care about how many handles there are.



Max King of the Wild on 12 February 2010
NoCtiS_NoX said:
So now what? MAG already sold 470K.


Hilarious looking back and seeing some comments eh?



nightsurge on 12 February 2010
Max King of the Wild said:
nightsurge said:
"More than 40 million registered Playstation Network accounts have been established"

I know 99% of you will take this the complete wrong way, but for that 1% out there that isn't heavily Sony biased, I feel that this figure is nearly pointless.

1. It represents 3 platforms worth of users: PS3, PSP, and PC forums.
2. It is free so many many people make multiple accounts (for different regions, different games, etc.) See MW2 on PS3 for example. The leader boards are filled with people who have like 20 accounts each and just made the accounts to stat glitch.
3. This does not report "active accounts" like Xbox Live stats are for. This means that any account on PSN even if it hasn't been used in months (like mine since I sold my PS3) is still counted in the total.


I actually think the 99% really doesn't care about how many handles there are.

Even better then!  Still, I guess just for the % that likes to make PSN numbers vs. Xbox Live numbers then.