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theprof00 on 24 March 2010
Millennium said:
theprof00 said:
Millennium said:
More likely, it's simply that most GoW fans got a PS3 long ago, much closer to launch. This also happened with GTA4, FFXIII, Halo 3, and all the other HD exclusives (and, to be fair, most Wii exclusives too).

There are no system-sellers anymore; people have stopped buying consoles that way. Now they buy the consoles early on -almost like investments- and wait for their favorite games to come out. This is great for initial hardware sales, and it also gives early games a unique advantage in that gamers need something to tide them over: witness the sales of Disgaea 3, for example, as compared to its predecessors. But it also means that tracing system sales to individual games is almost impossible nowadays.

you mean how all of those saw spiked sales in excess of 150k units over a couple of weeks?

If by "in excess of 150k units over a couple of weeks" you mean "in excess of 150k units for one week," then yes. Even the mighty Halo 3 only bumped 360 hardware sales by about 250k units over three weeks before it faded right back into the normal sales curve. 250k units sold is not a "system-seller".

Dude, it's 250k over a couple weeks and adds value over time. The sales a system makes is based on its games. The better and more attractive the games, the higher the console continues to sell. I don't know what you are comparing it to, but if your definition of system seller starts at wii fit or NSMB then you have a very narrow definition of the word.

PS: the difference between 360 and PS3 is about 5.6M. Sales inflated by 250k is just about 5% of that difference. That's really quite a large amount.



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Bamboleo on 24 March 2010
BHR-3 said:
NiKKoM said:

Do you guys in the US have bundles like us in Europe?

no

For this bundles, you people need to understand that "europe" most of the times means: Germany, France, Spain, Norway and Finland.

The other 45 countries "are not" europe.

I'm european and I won't see this bundle for sure lol



Squilliam on 24 March 2010
Pharaoh said:
you know why? Because we(americans) are stupid. We don't see value and are uneducated. GOW deserves better than us.

Speak for yourself, not your country.



Tease.

joeorc on 24 March 2010
Alic0004 said:
wow, good catch joeorc. As long as we're talking about how they allocate PS3s around the world, expanding into a new market has got to make it that much harder to replenish stock elsewhere.

yea, at least until the new launch event is over with.



I AM BOLO

100% lover "nothing else matter's" after that...

ps:

Proud psOne/2/3/p owner.  I survived Aplcalyps3 and all I got was this lousy Signature.

joeorc on 24 March 2010
bugrimmar said:
^ huh? i live in the philippines and i bought my PS3 here two years ago. wtf? there's been a ps3 here since it launched in america. what the hell?

yes you could indeed get them there but in small quantity's , that was where the slim was previewed as a matter of fact there was even broke the street date for the slim there. though upto this point it was not officialy released there. this month on the other hand .this month is. the official launch of the PS3 there. which mean's more PS3's will be released there.

 



I AM BOLO

100% lover "nothing else matter's" after that...

ps:

Proud psOne/2/3/p owner.  I survived Aplcalyps3 and all I got was this lousy Signature.

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RVDondaPC on 24 March 2010

There are no single system sellers anymore maybe(GT5 possibly). But Games like GOWIII are straws that break the camels back for sure. Someone might have been interested in trying out the Uncharteds and MGS4 and then GOWIII came out and it gave them enough to say they are going to buy a PS3 now and play all three franchises that they've been wanting to play.



rafichamp on 24 March 2010

shortages



lolage on 25 March 2010

They must have shortages, since it sold less than the week before.