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sinha on 29 November 2007

So the final result of this is that 360 hardware goes from 255k up to 299k... but 360 software doesn't change at all?
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that at least 7 of those 44 thousand people bought Mass Effect and/or Rock Band.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

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naznatips on 29 November 2007
sinha said:
So the final result of this is that 360 hardware goes from 255k up to 299k... but 360 software doesn't change at all?
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that at least 7 of those 44 thousand people bought Mass Effect and/or Rock Band.

We have no better data on software.  Here is a good idea:  Let's not just randomly update data without any new sources.  We have no idea what could change in software when NPD hits.  For that matter, NPD could completely contradict what Microsoft just said since they took their estimates from their leading retailers.  It's best to wait.



tokilamockingbrd on 29 November 2007
naznatips said:
sinha said:
johnsobas said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=212314

apparently 360 outsold PS3 2:1. If that is true then the PS3 numbers are very good, perhaps very slightly overtracked. It would be 155k, obviously there is Canada but probably only has a few thousand considering there is no black friday.

 According to that, "360 software outsold PS3 and Wii software combined."

 Vgchartz has

Wii: 2,521,741

PS3: 943,709

-------------------

Total: 3,465,450

 

360: 2,369,203

 

Difference: 1,096,247

 

And apparently it OUTSOLD them combined, not sold the same as, so the actual difference is some number greater than that.


Well now that they made that claim I have to doubt their data.  That's never happened (or even come close to happening) in the last few months.  I call bullshit on that.  I can't imagine they would even have access to retail sales data of Sony and Nintendo software.  So yeah, now I wonder if they made up the first claim too. 


Good call on the BS.... There is no way that could be right, Doesn't NBC have connections with Microsoft? Maybe they are trying to give it some hype...



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naznatips on 29 November 2007

tokilamockingbird if you read further into the topic you'll see that that Gafer who said that misinterpreted the article. Microsoft actually claimed they outsold both combined in October in Software, which is true.



Lost tears of Kain on 29 November 2007

NPD wont be completely accurate either, so who knows



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sinha on 30 November 2007
naznatips said:
sinha said:
So the final result of this is that 360 hardware goes from 255k up to 299k... but 360 software doesn't change at all?
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that at least 7 of those 44 thousand people bought Mass Effect and/or Rock Band.

We have no better data on software. Here is a good idea: Let's not just randomly update data without any new sources. We have no idea what could change in software when NPD hits. For that matter, NPD could completely contradict what Microsoft just said since they took their estimates from their leading retailers. It's best to wait.


Sigh, I was just making a joke, not suggesting the data arbitrarily be changed.  My real opinion of 360 software being undertracked this week (which it probably is to some extent) is in this thread, as I'm sure you already know.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

celine on 30 November 2007
Dolla Dolla said:
celine said:
TheSource said:

Interesting times ahead....did you guys notice the VGC citation here:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/126377.asp


Actually no ... where ?


From article: Sources: Microsoft earnings report, disclosing 13.4 million unit sales through Sept.; Nintendo earnings report (PDF) showing 13.2 million units sold through Sept.; e-mail from Sony spokesman, reporting 5.6 million sales to date. Note: Reports based on other data have shown the Wii already taking the lead.

The link is to a site that uses VGC data


Darn, I didn't see that little note  



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Kasz216 on 30 November 2007
tokilamockingbrd said:
naznatips said:
sinha said:
johnsobas said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=212314

apparently 360 outsold PS3 2:1. If that is true then the PS3 numbers are very good, perhaps very slightly overtracked. It would be 155k, obviously there is Canada but probably only has a few thousand considering there is no black friday.

 According to that, "360 software outsold PS3 and Wii software combined."

 Vgchartz has

Wii: 2,521,741

PS3: 943,709

-------------------

Total: 3,465,450

 

360: 2,369,203

 

Difference: 1,096,247

 

And apparently it OUTSOLD them combined, not sold the same as, so the actual difference is some number greater than that.


Well now that they made that claim I have to doubt their data.  That's never happened (or even come close to happening) in the last few months.  I call bullshit on that.  I can't imagine they would even have access to retail sales data of Sony and Nintendo software.  So yeah, now I wonder if they made up the first claim too. 


Good call on the BS.... There is no way that could be right, Doesn't NBC have connections with Microsoft? Maybe they are trying to give it some hype...

 

Well MSNBC is a newstation.  MS=Microsoft.  Still as above, that was taken wrong.  I don't think there is bias there, but it's a better claim then someone claiming Fox News was bias for Msoft when MSNBC is one of their competitors.