JamaicameCRAZY said:
What exactly constitutes huge. 10 million plus? For being on this site for awhile your starting to sound like those uneducated people that believe every game is a flop if it doesnt do halo, gt, wii sports type numbers.
Playstations games do just fine sales they meet and exceed their expectations and warrent sequels.
Who is exactly saying that their sales will be huge? What games are you saying are not doing well? I dont honestly understand why you made this thread i havent seen anyone saying any of the things you are implying, is it just to poke fun at the station not having many 5, 7, or any 10+ million sellers. To me this thread has no merit.
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I didn't say they didn't sell fine. They sell well for the plaform inspite of all the hyperbole so hence the term Little Big Playstation.
eggs2see said:
What? Ok well i'll answer the part i understand, yea your right i shouldn't have said both, but originally i was only going to say GT5 and the PS3, then i realized you were attacking PS3 fans also, so i added that. Sorry for not proof reading my post, i forgot it was being graded.
Oh and stop playing, every1 in here knows your a x360 fanboy and this is a blatant (yet another, sigh) attack on GT5 and on the PS3.
Ok we get it, it's sales are crap, especially compared to the Wii.
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You've been weighed measured and found wanting! No just kidding. 
Im not an Xbox 360 fanboy. If anything im more a Wii fanboy than an Xbox 360 fanboy at this point. 
The sales aren't crap, they just don't meet up to the list war hyperbole which gets thrown around.
JamaicameCRAZY said:
Ok i know you are talking in terms of individual sales of games but IF sony was lacking in terms of games sales it would show up in its attach ratio.
Then why is its attach ratio above the wii's?
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1,716,008 (-10%) |
479,150,539 |
6.76 |
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1,419,730 (-27%) |
552,182,098 |
4.27 |
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1,363,790 (-28%) |
239,692,970 |
6.90 |
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1,145,652 (-26%) |
349,182,784 |
8.78 |
Obviously Sony hasnt had the crazy sellers but a lot of great sellers that people are buying. Since it is not lacking its sales are fine.
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The attach ratio of individual games is more important when talking about how individual games do. Nintendo exclusive attach rates are far superior to Sony exclusive attach rates. For instance Mario Kart has an attach rate of 30% and Wii Fit is pretty close though im not sure how the sales split is now that Wii Fit+ is out and Wii Sports has over 40% attach rate in Japan where its sold. These are the huge titles.
ultima said:
So what is this absolute definition of how big a game is?
If you're using how well a game sells to determine its "size" (big, huge, etc.), then you've just assigned an arbitrary definition to the term, using your own personal subjective cues. You seem to care a lot more about a game's sales than you do about its quality; that's why you're defining a big game to be one that sells a shitload. Some care more about quality (production value, fun factor, etc.) than they do about sales. They, on the other hand, would define a big game to be one that has great graphics, terrific voice acting, etc.
And on your reproductive organ example, that's a perfect example of equivocation. You proved nothing with it.
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The absolute definition is of course how well it sells. You can either use attach rate per console or overall sales to determine this.
As for quality, what is quality to be exact? Is it good graphics, sound, 30+GB on a Blu Ray disc and lots of violence? Games like Mario Kart and Wii Sports are obviously some of the highest quality games because people enjoy them. Whether you enjoy them or not doesn't make their quality diminished in any way shape or form.
Kinect! 
who needs video games!
